HIST 1001 Chapter : Minoan And Mycenaean Greece
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9/23/2013 3:15:00 am: discovery of new civilizations, homer and schliemann, minoan civilization, mycenaean civilization. Heinrich schliemann- a self educated german, dream was to find the city of troy, he funds a big dig to find the city of troy, Sir arthur evans- found the city on knossos, found millions of clay tablets with writing. Mycenaean- graves where found by schliemann, was older than the city of troy, Linear a- older than b, only found on crete, minoans, Linear b- the language behind it is greek. Michael ventris- 20 year old who breaks the code of linear b, ti-ri-po-de - tripod. Archaic age, 750-550 bc: characteristics, poets and pre-socrates. Poets of archaic greece: sappho, hesiod, "theogony" and "work and days, homer, "iliad" and "odyssey, aret . Pre-socratics of archaic greece: thales of miletus, c. 624-548 bc, all is water , anaximander, student of thales, pythagoras of samos.
