Ancient Aegean Flashcards
period
bronze age
Geography
Aegean Sea, Asia Minor, Levant, Crete, Cyclades, Peloponnese
Cultures
Cycladic, Trojan, Minoan, Mycenaean, Indo-European, Sea-Peoples
labryinth
a maze-like structure
a maze-like structure
labryinth
megaron
the great hall (show off how wealthy you are)
the great hall (show off how wealthy you are)
megaron
cyclopean
type of masonry made with massive irregular blocks
type of masonry made with massive irregular blocks
cyclopean
tholos
A type of funerary structure; constructed from a stone-reinforced hollowed out hill
A type of funerary structure; constructed from a stone-reinforced hollowed out hill
tholos
Minos
Legendary king of Crete; commissioned the construction of the Labyrinth of the Minotaur.
Legendary king of Crete; commissioned the construction of the Labyrinth of the Minotaur.
Minos
Minotaur
a monster with the body of a man and the head and tail of a bull
a monster with the body of a man and the head and tail of a bull
Minotaur
Linear A
Minoan writing
we can’t read it
Minoan writing
we can’t read it
Linear A
Linear B
Mycenaean writing
we can read some of it
Mycenaean writing
we can read some of it
Linear B
Homer
Legendary Greek bard, credited with authoring the Iliad and Odyssey.
Legendary Greek bard, credited with authoring the Iliad and Odyssey.
Homer
Illiad & Odyssey
Epic written by Homer
Odysseus is the protagonist (king of Ithaca)
Epic written by Homer
Illiad & Odyssey
Myth & Legend
I guess Illiad & Odyssey
Made people assume there was a bronze age civilization here
History & Archaeology
Illiad
great civilizations: Schliemann found Troy, Evans found the labyrinth
The “Great Catastrophe”
volcanic explosion, poisoning everything
Great Catastrophe happened 200 years later
possibly from lack of resources (fighting for what little there was and dying from lack of resources)
lead to population shift
“Greek Dark Age”
Minoans
Crete
Arthur Evan rediscovered the nation
little known about them: trade economy
what we think: matriarchal, egalitarian society
totally guessing and totally wrong: chthonic pantheon, peaceful
Mycenaeans
conquerors, took over Minoans (diminished at this point)
Schliemann rediscovers them
we know: Patriarchal, conquest economy, hierarchical society, war-like
think:celestial pantheon
Comparing Minoans and Mycenaeans
Vincent Scully polarized the Minoans and Mycenaeans. If Mycenaeans had one trait, the Minoans had the opposite of it. That was straight up wrong.
