CLAS 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Aegean Civilizations, Minos, Bronze Age

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

Document Summary

The greek bronze age: origins and collapse (ii) mycenaean. The first evidence of the use of bronze is in the cyclades islands, (melos, naxos, syros) From the decline of the mainland resulted in the incline of crete. 2000-1600: where a great civilization flourished and where minoan culture grew. King minos eponymous king giving his mane to an entire culture. King minos is mentioned in homer"s iliad and the odyssey. [crete ca 2000-1600, bce, knossos, phaistos, malia, kato and gourania] Knossos (cnossus): inverted columns and lots of bull art, knossos is where the knossos palace is that archeologists tried to restore and did so very enthusiastically. Minoan art mainly marine, plant, and nature figures. Minoan art, men were almost always painted brown whereas women were always painted white. Sets of pottery bulls head art was used in ceremony"s most likely. Priest of lilies: leading an animal (gryphon) possibly wearing a loin cloth. Minoan hegemony controls the mainland and agean islands.