CLA 2323 Lecture 2: Mycenaeans, Minoans, Homer, and the Olympic Gods
20 Sep 2016
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The first blossoming of the greeks in the bronze age. This is the foundation of greek mythology, it is the reason greek myth occurs. Kings were imitating in some part the kingdom of egypt: there are other cities besides mycenae where this same civilization was flourishing (ex. Pylos, thebes, or iolcus*: every one of the cities mentioned above play a role in greek. Highly successful in warfare, trade, and sea-fare: evident as some of the treasure found in tombs is not greek in origin, trade was also evident as you needed to have bronze in the bronze. Age (bronze is an alloy created by combining copper and tin) There is a lot of copper in the eastern mediterranean, but there is no tin, thus they would need to trade. It is the last great bronze age civilization (sumerian, hittite, egyptian,
