Exam 1: Ancient Aegean Cultures Flashcards
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Cultures
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- Cycladic
- Minoan
- Mycenaean
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Cycladic
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- Cyclades islands (Greece)
- famous for figures: 4-8 inches
- stories told in dactylic pentameter
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Cycladic Figurines
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- most were probably decorated but wore off
- found in gravesides; laying down position or w/ a harp
- almost always female
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Minoan
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- Crete
- palace sites
- bulled were sacred animals, as well as snakes (snake goddess)
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Minoan Palace of Knossos
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- royal family (immediate and extended family) {household}
- running water and drain system (santiation/ living comfort high quality for time period)
- queens megaron and drain system = decorated
- light wells and bull fresco
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Fresco
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Painted onto wet plaster so paint bonds to wall
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Large Bull Paiting (Minoan)
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- colors denote gender (typical)
- darker = male
- lighter = female
- both have active public role
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Mycenaean
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- mainland Greece
- the royal citadel - fortified, build out of blocks w/o mortar
- Lion Gate: post and lintel
- Up on hill/ walls - fortified (unlike Minoan)
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Mycenaean Beehive Tomb
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- tholos
- treasury of Atreus
- elite dead
- corbeled vaults: stones created into domes, skill fit stones perfectly
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Corbeled Vaults
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- rocks carefully cut until meet in middle
- no mortar
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Mask of Atreus
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- golden mask found in tomb
- not rue ide who he was, but great importance
- Agamenon
- death mask
- associated w/ many people (King Atreus) but don’t know
- Greek mythology: everyone is interrelated
