CLA 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Lion Gate, Knossos, Mycenaean Greece
10 Dec 2014
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Reading: c/f 36-52, 56-7 & the videos listed below. Zeta is for zeus (pronounced sd as in wisdom) End of minoan civilization: all palaces were destroyed and only one (knossos) was rebuilt. After destruction, evidence of greek speaking people from the mainland appears on crete2. Late bronze age mainland = late helladic, heroic (hesiod), mycenaean (1600-1200 bce: time of the creation of a lot of the myths (jason and the argo-naughts and many others) Heinrich schliemann: looked for the grave of agamemnon in mycenae in grave circle a, so he excavated. Probably from egypt and amber probably form elsewhere so they had a large trade system: children buried where covered in gold foil, gold diadems, gold medallions, gold lion head, ivory from syria, lapis lazuli form afghanistan. Treasury of atreus : would have originally held bodies and grave goods (like the gold, but were all plumdered.
