CLT 3370 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Cretan Hieroglyphs, Michael Ventris, Minoan Civilization

• School: University of Florida
• Department: Classics
• Course: CLT 3370
• Professor: Biagio Santorelli

Document Summary

Minoan civilization: 2100-1700 bce: cretan hieroglyphs (undeciphered, 2500-1450 bce: linear a (undeciphered, the primary script used in palaces of minoan civilization. Myths and epic poems are transmitted by itinerant signers and storytellers (aoidoi) To facilitate memorization, poems have recurring stylistic and rhyming elements. Iliad: stories from the last year of the greek siege of troy, mainly focused on the hero achilles: odyssey: story of the return of odysseus to his home after the end of the trojan war. Was homer a real person: did he write both iliad and odyssey, homer(cid:859)s (cid:449)orld is a (cid:373)i(cid:454)ture of details fro(cid:373) differe(cid:374)t periods, homeric poems probably incorporated traditions and legends preserved for centuries through oral transmission. Hesiod: works and days: a didactic poe(cid:373) that i(cid:374)cludes (cid:373)oral i(cid:374)structio(cid:374) a(cid:374)d a far(cid:373)er(cid:859)s al(cid:373)a(cid:374)ac, theogony: a poem on the origin of the gods. There (cid:374)e(cid:448)er (cid:449)as a(cid:374) (cid:858)official(cid:859) (cid:448)ersio(cid:374) of a(cid:374)(cid:455) greek (cid:373)(cid:455)th.