mycenae and bronze age greece
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Mycenae and Bronze Age Greece. GRK 102, 3/23/2010. Questions/Comments. “Mask of Agamemnon” authenticity: debated date: too early/late Mycenae’s end. . . Who? Why?. Myths. . . Who created? Why? When?. Iliad 2.569, 576-7. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Mycenae and Bronze Age GreeceGRK 102, 3/23/2010
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Questions/CommentsMask of Agamemnonauthenticity: debateddate: too early/lateMycenaes end...Who?Why?Myths...Who created?Why?When?
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Iliad 2.569, 576-7 [ . . . ]
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Time Line: Prehistoric Greecebased on Ancient Greece, 1999, Oxford
PeriodEvents3000-2100 Early Bronze AgeVillage organization2100-1600 Middle Bronze Age2100-1900 Arrival of proto-Greeks from Northwest? Anatolia?1600-1150 Late Bronze Age1600 Palace cultures emerge (Mycenae, Tiryns, Pylos, Thebes, etc.)1500-1450 Mycenaeans occupy Crete1250-1225 Trojan War (??)1200-1100 Palace systems collapse
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Lion Gate, Mycenae
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Megaron (great hall), Pylos
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Women (fresco), Pylos, 1200s BCE
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Armor from Dendra (Argolid). Boars tusk helmet. Late 1400s BCE
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Praying psi goddess figurine. Mycenae.
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Tholos tomb, Mycenae.
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Tholos tomb entrance (reconstructed), Mycenae.
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Mask of Agamemnon, Mycenae, 1500s BCE
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palace wanax (king)demos (village) basileus (chieftain)demos (village) basileus (chieftain)demos (village) basileus (chieftain)Palace Society: Redistributive EconomyProduce to palace, where stored; then redistributed back to villages.
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Linear-B clay tablet. Prehistoric Greek writing.
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Note use of for . (kwe) = (and). - = fem. gen. plur. = (not prays but claims). = possession-holding (as if possession + to have). : later = useful, so that on which use is paid.A Linear-B Inscription
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Fall of Palace Societiesinvasion by Dorians??Sea Peoples (Mediterranean marauders)?systems collapse (economic/political)?combination?
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