CLAS 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Anax, Planned Economy, Phoenician Alphabet

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Classical Studies
• Course: CLAS 1000
• Professor: John Walsh

Document Summary

Classics lecture #3: the greeks before history, 12,000-1200 bc continued. Built palace at knossos: a complex, maze like palace. The most advanced house on the mainland was the house of the tiles. Palace centres served as a command economy (goods grown on the island then distributed them to the people)-knossos most well known. There are a variety of ways to spell greek words for instance knossos this is an english translation and cnossus is the latin translation. Marine and floral themes in their pottery. Marine life and flowers dominate artistic impulse of minoans. Pottery used to hold grain and food. Via pottery they decided to express images of the natural world. See evidence that they lived on the island relatively at peace with each other. Around 1600 bc it seems minoans are under stress and declining. A volcanic eruption is said to have attributed to their decline. North of crete an island blew up the island is called thera-1600bc.