CLAS 1000 Lecture Notes - Aegean Civilizations, Minoan Civilization, Language Shift

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Around 3600 bc technological change on crete - combining of copper and tin to create bronze, good for tools. Both minoans and mycenaean cultures end abruptly - many theories. Dorians dominated greek peninsula - evidence - cultural shift, shift to worshiping men rather than women, language shift. Gap where we"re not sure what happened because no literary evidence -culture declined but iron became popular. Poseidon who consented on one condition - he would sacrifice his most prized bull. Minos attempts to deceive him by sacrificing a lesser bull . Poseidon decides to punish minos through his wife pasiphae - he made her in love with the bull minos would not sacrifice. a child to the minotaur on crete. The child is hidden in the centre of a labyrinth to be hidden. There was conflict between the mainland and crete. She gave birth to minotaur (mino"s bull) , with the head of a bull and the body of.

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