CLAS201 Lecture 3: CLAS 201 – January 10th

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Classical Studies
• Course: CLAS201
• Professor: Ronald Kroeker

Document Summary

Clas 201 january 10th, 2016 readings pg, 35 51. The shaft graves and tombs: there are two grave circles at mycenae, most of them being shaft graves. Large stone chambers, shaped somewhat like beehives, Greek was the language of the mycenaean"s. The mycenaean"s had adapted the cretan linear a script to their own greek language for the same purpose as the. Mycenaean"s were ruling crete by at least the fifteenth century (bc: under the rule of mycenae, however, cretan society and culture did not change much. The years of glory (1400 1200 bc): mycenaean civilization reached its peak in the final centuries of the. The decorative feature of the mycenaean palaces closely followed that of the minoan palaces. The mycenaean centers were much smaller and less well built. They were usually located on a commanding hill. The mycenaean"s also accomplished building complexes of roads, connecting several of the palatial centres.