ARH 2050 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Sumer, Funerary Art, Cyclopean Masonry
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Study guide: ancient aegean art: the minoans and. Evans named the people who had constructed it minoans after their mythological king: minotaur, creature half bull and half man inhabiting a vast labyrinth, heinrich schliemann , german businessman and a pioneer of field archaeology. He was an advocate of the historical reality of places mentioned in the works of homer. Schliemann was an archaeological excavator of hissarlik, now presumed to be the site of troy, along with the mycenaean sites. Mycenae and tiryns: cyclopean walls, gigantic, vast and rough, massive. Cyclopean masonry is a method of stone construction using large, irregular blocks without mortar: labyrinth, an intricate combination of passages; a maze. What explanation can you give for the fact that the palace at knossos is not fortified: the knossos palace was complex in elevation as well as plan. Around the palace proper were mansions and villas of the minoan elite.
