ARTH 2150 Lecture 4: ARTH 2150 Lecture 4.docx

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Art History
• Course: ARTH 2150
• Professor: Andrew Sherwood

Document Summary

Troy/ilion modern day hissarlik on a tel. *schliemann german who started excavations to prove troy (puts modern archeology on the map, brings myth ideas to life) Dardanelles on the straight of the modern day dardanelle (old hellespont) Anatolia highlands of turkey (central and eastern), so much influence and contact on the less advanced greeks. Minoan crete civilization, survives the bronze age collapse. Evans follows after schliemann and excavates the most important minoan site of knossos. Troy is a great place for trade and civilization on the black sea. The wealth of troy is most likely based on taxes. The location of troy is located on a natural plateau and over the course of it"s lifetime (3,000 years) it is destroyed 9 major times. Each time, because of its strategic location, it is rebuilt. They rebuilt on top of the destruction before, building up of an artificial hill (tel) looking down into the plain.