ARTS 3850 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Minoan Eruption, Heinrich Schliemann, Cyclopean Masonry
Document Summary
Advocate of the historical reality of places mentioned in homer"s works. English archaeologist, excavated palace of knossos on crete, and developed concept of minoan civilization. Also defined cretan scripts linear and and b. Homer is best known as the author of the iliad and the odyssey. He was believed by the ancient greeks to have been the first and greatest of the epic poets. Europe, he is central to the western canon. King minos" wife had a son with a bull belonging to poseidon, who was a minotaur. Minotaur in the middle of a labyrinth, and to satisfy minotaur"s want to ****ing eat people, king required 14 men and women form athens as a sacrifice. 1900-1700 bce, structures occupied during neolithic period, but then built over with a succession of bronze age structures. 1700-1450 bce, rebuilding at knossos and other palaces considered new palace period b/c scholars consider this highest point of minoan civilization.
