The Aegean Flashcards
Cycladic Civilization
3000-1600 BCE
Female Cycladic Figures
Cycladic, 2500 BCE, marble
Minoan Civilation
2000-1450 BCE
The Palace at Knossos
1600-1400 BCE Minoan
Bull Jumping Fresco
1500 BCE, reconstructed, Minoan
Knossos
Snake Goddess
1600 BCE, faience, Minoan
Knossos
The Flotilla Fresco
1500 BCE Minoan
Thera
Beaked Jug
1800 BCE, Kamares ware, Minoan
Octopus Vase
1500 BCE, terracotta, Minoan
Mycenaean Civilization
1600-1100 BCE
Aerial View of Mycenae, Greece
1600-1200 BCE, Greece Mycenaean
Lion Gate
1300 BCE, limestone relief, Mycenaean
Tholos Tomb
(Treasury of Atreus) 1300 BCE, Mycenaean
Mask of Agamemnon
1500 BCE, gold, Mycenaean
Rhyton
An ancient drinking or pouring vessel made from pottery, metal, or stone, and sometimes designed in a human or animal form
Megaron
From the greek word for “large”. The central audience hall in a Minoan or Mycenaean palace or home.
Kamares Ware
have a black background and normally white, red, or blue designs. Ceramic of the minoan period
Corbel, corbel vault
a bracket that projects from a wall to aid in supporting weight. The projection of one course, or horizontal row, of a building material beyond the course below it.
In a vault the corbel eventually meet to form the highest point of the vault.
Casemate
A chamber or compartment within a fortified wall, usually used for the storage of artillery and munitions.
Heraldic Pose
A pose where two figures are mirror images of one another, sometimes flanking a central object. (Lions Gate)
Tholos
A building with a circular plan, often with a sacred nature.
Labyrinth
a complicated irregular network of passages or paths in which it is difficult to find one’s way; a maze
Homer’s Iliad and the Odyssey
Cyclopes/Cyclopaean
One eyed creatures
Minotaur
monster shaped half like a man and half like a bull, confined in the labyrinth built by Daedalus for Minos, and given a periodic tribute of youths and maidens as food until slain by Theseus.
King Minos
Ruler of Minoan civilization?
