Vocabulary - Module 2 Flashcards
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Cycladic Islands
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-A group of small islands between Greece and Asia Minor. - flourished simultaneous to the third-millennium Egyptian civilization.
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Cyclopean
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Huge boulders, which were used to construct the Mycenaean citadels (“Cyclopean walled construction”)
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Homer
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Great Greek epic poet who in the 8th century BC recorded the legends of Odysseus (The Odyssey) and the Iliad
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Minos and Minotaur
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name or the title of the ruler of Minos on Crete
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Minoan column
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- Originally of wood, painted red, with a plain shaft (without fluting) and topped by a simple rounded capital or echinus. I - Tapers in reverse to the custom of the Egyptians, Greeks, and Romans with a narrow base widening toward the top
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Mycenae (Mycenaean)
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City in Greece of the second millennium BC and Mycenaeans were archaic Greeks
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Niello
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painting in metals - Gold and silver are cold-hammered out into designs
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Tholos and dromos
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a beehive tomb and long processional way,
