Classical Studies 2301A/B Lecture 2: Lecture 2 - Background and Context
24 Apr 2014
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To render accessible to a multitude of men the inspection of a small number of objects": this was the problem to which the architecture of temples, theatres and circuses responded. With spectacle, there was a predominance of public life, the intensity of festivals, sensual proximity. In these rituals in which blood flowed, society found a new vigor and formed for a moment a single great body. The modern age poses the opposite problem: to procure for a small number, or even for a single individual, the instantaneous view of a great multitude. ". East at: the early and middle bronze age was dominated by a civilization that we call minoan we call it. Minoan because it was centered on crete and greek myth tells us that the legend king of crete was. Minos: minoan civilization was remarkably advanced, but we know little about it.
