CLA160H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Balkans, Lion Gate, Tiryns
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Bronze age & iron age greece: bronze age: c. 3000 c. 1200 b. c. In this course, we are only concerned with the last few hundred years. Materially sophisticated, identifiable mainly for its burials rather than sites of living. Called mycenean because one of its major centres is in mycenae (very end of balkan (cid:498)mycenaean bronze age(cid:499) c. (cid:883)(cid:889)(cid:882)(cid:882) c. 1200 b. c. (cid:498)citadel thing(cid:499) easily defensible site peninsula) Only way in the lion gate (greeks thought only giants could wrestle stones used for the gate into position) Myceneans were somewhat influenced by much longer established, much wealthier. These citadels are mostly in the peloponnese civilizations to the east (e. g. minoans) with monumentalized centres of activity. Myceneans had chariots but it(cid:495)s not sure if chariots could actually be used because the landscape of greece is not favourable for chariot fighting. Other centre in the peloponnese is pylos. Preserved by accident because clay writings were thrown away after used so survived even when the palaces burned down.
