HIST 3150 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Cycladic Culture, Knossos, Minoan Civilization
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Disincive they come from a period with no text or informaion about them. They were made from mud brick that did not preserve as well. Cycladic cultures were very inluenial on more modern arists like picasso. A lot of cycladic igures were buried in graves but were looted by grave robbers. We know very litle about the cycladic culture. The greeks did not have a concept of the minoan past and a poor understanding of them. Minoan did not come from a greek source, the word minoan describes the non- greek populaion that lived in crete. Polukrates is the irst hellene we know who ever atempted to control the sea, except, of course, for minos of knossos and anyone who might have ruled the sea before minos. Coin of knossos: coins are property of civic propaganda. No one studies the minoans unil arthur evans because of the signiicance of his inds.
