CLA160H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Death Mask, Minos, Bull-Leaping
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Topics: timeline, ages , epic hesiod, ages of mankind , minoans, mycenaeans. Prehistoric greeks mycenaeans linear b script sequence from linear a linear b used for bronze age early form of greek. Historically linear b found in crete and mycenaean greece surprise that it was used to record pre-greek script first hypothesis had been that mycenaeans were not greek either. Uncertain how mycenaeans took over crete crete was not very heavily fortified - perhaps unexpected. Greeks originally indo-europeans enter greek peninsula around the 2nd millennium b. c. People already living in greek mainland they and the indo-european people coalesced into the mycenaeans. Depends of when the civilization began to use each metal depending on the civilization, an age could begin at different times. Hesiod uses earlier ages to describe his own age. Decline from most precious metal to least precious. Hesiod"s description of the heroic age between the silver and bronze ages.
