CLASS254 Lecture 7: Class 7
1 Dec 2016
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History and development: mycenaean expansion, the age of the early. Tholos tombs 1550-1500 bce: late helladic i, tholos tombs distributed over large area, major centres: iolkos, orchomenos, thebes, athens, mycenae, sparta(?) History and development the great palace fortresses 1500-1200 bce: the mycenaean citadel over time in the late helladic: 1500-1200 bce, three major building phases. History and development, the great palace fortresses 1500-1200 bce. They become the predominant way of burial in the later. Men: weaponry: armor and boar"s tusk helmets" (remember the wall paintings on thera!) Linear b: the mycenaeans took over the script of the minoans, the language was a different one: it was an early form of greek, the mycenaeans: social organization. Linear b tablets at the palace at pylos. )= basileus: lower class workers and serfs. The rooms, which sometimes have altars and benches are interpreted as shrines.
