CLAS 305 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Michael Ventris, Sacred Bull, Minos
23 Aug 2016
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Religion: that which binds man to superior beings, secure the bonds through ritual. Re - again in latin and ligare -to bind in latin. Cult: cult is to cultivate, honor and worship gods. Demeter, goddess of the grain, highly honored by cults) The indo europeans were an aggressive, war-like mother race which began to migrate as early as 5,000 bc. Both the ancient greeks and romans are branches of indo-europeans. The greeks brought their divinities down from the north, they quickly conquered. Mainland greeks created navies and merchant fleets and fanned out. Has no large walls- perhaps because of the natural protection of the islands isolation and extensive army. The minoans, when encountered by the greeks, they were an already well established civilization (working in bronze, bull worship and snake goddess) Toreador fresco from cnossos with bull-leaping (1550 bc) Evidence of the coalescing of minoan and greek culture.
