Quiz 1 Flashcards
1751
James Stuart and Nicholas Revett go to Athens
1810
Lord Byron goes on Grand Tour
Lord Elgin
Turkish Ambassador 1799-1803
The Elgin Marbles
Friezes extracted from the Parthenon, bought form Elgin by the British government.
Greek Triad
Grapes (wine), olives, and bread
3000-1200 BCE
The Bronze Age
Cyclades
Small Island Archipelago in the Aegean Sea
Pelasgians
Who the Greeks consider the people who were there before them
Acheans
Name Greeks give themselves
Hellenes
Name greeks give themselves
Neolithic Age
5200BCE - 3200BCE
1900
ARTHUR EVANS leads Cretan excavation at Knossos
3000BCE-1900BCE
Minoan Pre-Palatial Period
Knossos
Central Minoan Palace
Mallia
Minoan Palace
Phaistos
Minoan Palace
Tholos
Beehive tombs found in Crete and Mycenae
Ayio Kyriaki
Tholos Tomb
Moni Odigritias
Tholos Tomb with Egyptian artifacts
1900BCE-1650BCE
Proto-Palatial Period
1650-1450
Neo-Palatial Period
1450BCE-1350BCE
Post-Palatial Period
Hisarlik
The mound Calvert believed to be Troy
1864
Calvert find evidence of Hellenistic Greeks
1868
Schliemann visits Hisarlik
1870-1873
Schliemann’s Excavations
1873
Priam’s Treasure
1930s
Carl Blegen Excavations begin, identifies several different Troys