CLCV 1002 Lecture 2: The Minoans part I
24 Sep 2016
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Graduated from oxford with a history degree. He was looking to publish unidenti ed minoan texts. Linear a > he thought was earlier. Linear b > thought it derived from linear a. Little corridors, which looks like a maze. Allowed a woman to mate with a bull. Had a child half bull half man > minotaur. The minotaur is put inside a maze. Athens sends people into the maze as tribute for the minotaur. Theseus manages to nd the minotaur and kill it. Dionysos god of wine, falls in love with her and marries her: theseus > his dad commits suicide king of athens. The bull was the symbol for knossos: evans > published his ndings. Made connections with the mediterranean world through his ndings. Was one of the rst to use photographs to capture things drawings couldn"t (in. Vessels made from stone, ostrich eggs etc . Evans reconstructed the throne room based on a picture.
