CLCV 1002 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Dorian Invasion, Borax, Tiryns

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Classical Civilization
• Course: CLCV 1002
• Professor: Gahan J.J.

Document Summary

Art and architecture of the mycenaean greece (1500 - 1000) {cont. } Agamemnon: the stones are made in a style known as ashlar. Cyclopean walls: the walls are thought to have been constructed by cyclopes (cyclops), because of their size, the walls are made of large limestone that is roughly cut and spaces filled with smaller stone as needed. Inside the are remains of houses and other structures. Grave circle a: the stele (stelai) {grave markers} have been taken away to the national museum, the two separate walls have a double layer of stones between them that stops them from falling in on each other. Fixed heath of megaron and column bases. It is a storage of water, that is filled by a spring that is located outside of the walls. Palace, cyclopean walls, treasury of atreus: c. 1300s (following the mycenaean departure from knossos: the earliest tholoi, however date to just after the shaft grave of the 16th century (1500s)