ARHI 201 Lecture 8: lecture8 Aegean Culture
16 Dec 2016
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Many cultures belong to aegean civilization: crete: minoan, cyclades: cycladic, peloponnesus/mainland greece: mycenae, tiryns (mycenaean) Heinrich schliemann: discovered troy (of homer) & mycenae were real. Mycenaean culture: very wealthy business man, taught himself greek, trying to locate ancient sites only based off descriptions of location in myths. Travelled there and looked around for descriptions found in myths. Sir arthur evans (english archaeologist: discovered knossos, crete around 1900, minoan culture on island of crete. 2000 bce: ended the cycladic culture very suddenly, most of the artifacts/buildings have been destroyed and disappeared into the. Island of thera: no written material found (cid:894)either did(cid:374)"t sur(cid:448)i(cid:448)e or (cid:374)e(cid:448)er e(cid:454)isted(cid:895, myth of atlantis. First time we see art made of marble. Incisions on joints: theorists believe that they were laid out to fit into 3 overlapping circles, marble was covered with bright paints to emphasize their surface rather than the 3d features. Someone may have died and this could be a representation of a mourner)
