CLAS 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Cycladic Culture, Tyrant, Minoan Civilization

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

Document Summary

The greeks before history, 12000-1200 bc: the dark age, 1200-800 bc. Some ime around 40000 people have been in existence in greece(greek peninsula) During this ime there was a neolithic migraion, lood of people from the east, went into the western part of europe. At this point they wove stories about monsters. Ca 3000bc: the introducion of bronze, huge leap forward. Greeks did not invent, transmission from the east was the reason they were introduced to the act of creaing bronze. Cycladic culture: irst form of greek culture form through a civilizaion. From cycladic culture spreads too the greek mainland: lyrna. Island of crete that the most noteworthy part of the early bronze age greek culture takes place (3000-1600[1200]) Minos the tyrant, where the name was derived from. Greeks were used too the idea of gods raping women to impregnate them.