CLA 1101 Lecture 2: Lecture 2_Minoans and Mycenaeans

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Classical Studies
• Course: CLA 1101
• Professor: David Sacks

Document Summary

Minoans versus mycenaeans : two different bronze age civilizations of the aegean. Answer: both were accomplished civilizations of the aegean sea region during the bronze age (3000 1200 bc), and it"s too bad that their modern english-language names are so similar. The minoans were non-greek cultural forerunners of the mycenaeans: they strongly influenced the mycenaeans in supplying a model-civilization to copy. 1490 b. c. , the minoans were invaded and conquered by the mycenaeans. After that, the minoans disappear (at least to our modern knowledge), supplanted in the aegean by the mycenaeans. The minoans flourished around 1900 1490 b. c. , having emerged apparently in imitation of the egyptian old. Their homeland was the large island of crete, with also colonies and trading-outlets elsewhere in the aegean. Presumably they had regular contact with the mainland region that would someday be called greece. The minoans were not greeks: their language, religion, and social structures were not greek.