CLA 2323 Lecture 2: LECTURE 2 -GREEK

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Classical Studies
• Course: CLA 2323
• Professor: Efharis Kostala

Document Summary

Bronze age (3000-1100 bc: minoan, mycenaean. The minoan and mycenaean civilizations dominated the. The minoan civilization started from the island of crete. The mycenaeans were from main land greece. Highly organized palace economy: the center of activity was a palace. So we cant read the language of the documents that they left behind. We don"t have a lot of written evidence from this civilizations but we do have a lot of material evidence: religion centered on earth spirits, especially female divinities. After this civilization collapsed we have the rise of the. We do have written documents from the mycenaean civilization because they are written in greek. But these aren"t literature, they are trading accounts. Minoan: not greek speakers, worshipped fertility spirits, especially female divinities. Mycenaean: strong military character (palaces now have huge walls, lots of weapons, ware scenes, more violence, greek speakers, chief god: the sky god zeus.