CLA230H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Anax, Moses Finley, Craft Production
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Ver(cid:455) differe(cid:374)t (cid:272)ase fro(cid:373) mi(cid:374)oa(cid:374)s (cid:449)e (cid:272)a(cid:374) read li(cid:374)ear b te(cid:454)t. So we have quite a lot of rich data from mycenaean society. These te(cid:454)ts (cid:449)ere(cid:374)t i(cid:374)te(cid:374)ded to (cid:271)e preser(cid:448)ed for lo(cid:374)g periods of ti(cid:373)e (cid:448)er(cid:455) te(cid:373)porar(cid:455) for(cid:373) of preser(cid:448)atio(cid:374) Means that these texts tell us very little about events even months or years before permanent preservation. Also tell us nothing about how they developed. No te(cid:454)tual e(cid:448)ide(cid:374)(cid:272)e e(cid:374)tirel(cid:455) re(cid:272)o(cid:374)stru(cid:272)ted fro(cid:373) ar(cid:272)haeologi(cid:272)al data. Most mycenaean sites are from the very end of the late bronze age. Most of those architectural forms, massive sites (tholos tombs, etc), developped very late in the bronze age. Most of what we know about mycenaean society originates with heinrich schliemann. First and most important discoveries at mycenae were shaft graves. Actually the earlier of the grave circles (a and b) Used for (cid:373)a(cid:455)(cid:271)e a (cid:272)e(cid:374)tur(cid:455) a(cid:271)out a doze(cid:374) (cid:271)urials.
