CLA 2323 Chapter minoans and mycenaean: minoans mycenaeans prof notes
12 Dec 2017
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The minoans were not greeks but are important to early greek history as serving as a model that was copycatted by the early greeks: the minoan civilization of circa 1500 b. c. became a model for the more-warlike mycenaean society. In that process, the worship of the minoan mother goddesses or at least of certain individual minoan goddesses became a permanent part of greek religion. The mycenaean civilization of mainland greece: circa 1600 1200 b. c. In 1876 a. d. , wealthy retired german businessman and amateur archaeologist heinrich schliemann began excavating at the site of mycenae (greek muk nai) in the peloponnese in southern mainland greece. 130 and 202, in regard to his digging at ancient troy, only. Schliemann was a life-long admirer of the ancient greek poet homer"s poems iliad and odyssey. Schliemann wanted to prove that the poems were based on fact and that mycenae could have supported homer"s mythical image of a powerful.
