CLST 200 Lecture Notes - Ancient Greek Temple, Megaron, Demigod

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Much poorer community but uses the typical shape of an oval house. In the 11th century people started living there again: the rest of the house are rectangular. The paved circle looks like a central half of a megaron: maybe its an echo of the mycenaean past or a meeting place, possibly an ancestor of the greek temple style. It"s made of wood and it"s kind of a temple and the entrance of the rectangle. Those that are close to the coast and the trading community takes off more quickly economically when trade starts to pick up. Evidence of burials around the old mycenaean site. Cults to achilles start to appear around mycenaean sites: achilles was being seen as a demi-god. People of the dark age followed those tombs: they regard them as part of their own history. The trading world: the 10th century it starts to pick up. Starts with the phoenicians: settles in 3 areas.

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