CLAS104 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Helladic Period, Minoan Religion, Mycenaean Greece
8 Dec 2016
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Stone age bronze age in greece, crete, islands. Migration from east (fr asia minor into greece) minoan civilization of crete. Designated diff. labels according to geographical area: Late bronze age on mainland mycenaean age. Dominant influence of minoans on mainland civilization. Mycenaean invasion and control of the island: minoan religion reflect sense of religion. No walls indicates its confident security depended upon ships and sea. Sophistication of minoan art/architecture (ie: bull in ritual, snake goddess, significance of double ax: earthquakes. Mycenaean age: middle helladic, invasion from north and east, indo-europeans were first greeks. Spoke greek: brought with them the worship of zeus (supreme god of the sky, eventually created mycenaean civilization, learned from the minoans: painting, palaces, pottery, kingdom at mycenae. Cyclopean walls so huge and monumental, said to be built my cyclopes. Linear b: clay tablets w/ inscribed writing, names of deities of classical greece: zeus and hera, poseidon, hermes, athena, artemis, eileithyia, dionysu,
