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Chapter 4 – Prehistoric Aegean

Chapter 4 – Prehistoric Aegean

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Chapter 4 – Prehistoric Aegean

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Minoan

• Known culture to have large palaces

• Principal palaces sites on Crete are @Knossos, Phaisotos, Kato & Mallia

• Religion part of Minoan Life

• Minotaur – Creature half bull half man = Thesus defeated Minotaur

• labryinth created by King Minos

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Cycladic Art

• 2500 BCE• Marble

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Male Lyre Player – 2700 BCE

• Playing for deceased in the afterlife

• Geometric shapes

• @ graves

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Minoan -Architecture

• Largest Palace @ Knossos• King Minos- Minotaur• Place has several rooms,

Thick walls, drainage, • Columns• Terracotta piping• Greek Doric Order ( of

columns)

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Minoan PaintingsBull Leaping from the Palace of Knossos -

1450 -1400 BCE Fresco• Bull- sweeping lines• Human figures are stylized • Minoan Pinched waists• Full profile eye

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Miniature Ships Fresco-Akotiri, Thera- 1650 BCE Fresco

• Akrotiri frescos decorated

• the walls of houses

• Dolphins

• Movement

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Spring Fresco – 1650 BCE Cyclades –Fresco

Island/Breeze

• Nature• Realism?

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Kamares ware Jar – Crete – 1800BCE

• Crete potters fashioned sophisticated shapes

• Creamy white and reddish brown

• Fishnet

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Marine Style Jar – 1500BCE

• Tentacles of the octopus reach out over the curving surface

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Harvesters Vase – Crete, Greece 1500 BCE

• Crowd singing, riot • Old age profile • Scenes of harvesting

were common also in Egyptian art

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Snake Goddess – Knossos, Greece 1600 BCE

• Fertility symbol

• Reminiscent of Egyptian and Near East

• Feline on her head

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Young god from Palaikastro ( Crete) 1500-1475 BCE

Ivory, Gold, rock crystal • Costly cult image• Miniature details of

veins• Could be a god rather

than a mortal• Black from fire

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Mycenaean Art – Citadel at Tiryns, Greece 1400-1200BCE

• “Citadels Giants Built”• Homer knew of Tiryns• Cyclopean masonry• Heavy walls – 20ft of

thickness• Long Gallery

Corbelled vault

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Corbeled Gallery

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Kings Hall

• http://www.grisel.net/tiryns.htm

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Lions Gate –1300-1250BCE Greece

Monstrous guardian figures at entrance to palace tombs and sacred places

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Treasury of Atreus, Mycenae, Greece 1300-1250 BCE

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Treasury of Atreus, 1300-1250

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Funerary Mask from Grave Circle ABeaten Gold, 1600-1500BCE

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Inlaid dagger blade with Lion Hunt -1600-1500 Bce

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Female Head from Mycenae, Greece 1300-1250 BCE Painted Plaster

• Facial Paint tattoos of figures of women

• Cult statue

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Warrior Vase – 1200 BCE