CLAS 370 Lecture Notes - Cycladic Culture, Minos, Minoan Civilization
16 Oct 2011
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Cycladic culture of cycladic islands, minoans (based on crete), helladic culture (mycenaean) Come from late neolithic and early bronze age. Many have been found over long stretches of time. Female figurines that seem to be produced over and over. Steatopygous type figurine: means she has a fat butt: possibly pregnant, cycladic version of venus figurine. Breasts are not exaggerated, genital area is sketched out, arms are crossed under the breasts. Don"t really know what they are, so we assume religious. Possible that they are mother goddesses, or icons of fertility. Mostly talking about crete, though minoans traded beyond the island and possibility of colonisation of the cycladic islands. 3000-1450 bce; establishment of culture in 3000, flourished around 2000bce. Wealth and power measured by series of palace complexes around the island: most significant is knossos, knossos always capital of crete and most important place on crete in greek myth.
