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The Aegean Sea Bronze Age Vocabulary Megaron • Labyrinth Ashlar masonry Buon fresco • Faience • Relieving triangle Corbelled arch • Krater • Atrium Arthur Evans • Heinrich Schliemann Homer/Iliad and Odyssey King Minos Aegean Sea Cycladic Islands • Mycenae Knosos, Crete

The Aegean Sea Bronze Age Vocabulary Megaron Labyrinth Ashlar masonry Buon fresco Faience Relieving triangle Corbelled arch Krater Atrium Arthur Evans

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Page 1: The Aegean Sea Bronze Age Vocabulary Megaron Labyrinth Ashlar masonry Buon fresco Faience Relieving triangle Corbelled arch Krater Atrium Arthur Evans

The Aegean Sea Bronze Age

Vocabulary• Megaron• Labyrinth• Ashlar masonry• Buon fresco• Faience• Relieving triangle • Corbelled arch• Krater• Atrium

• Arthur Evans• Heinrich Schliemann• Homer/Iliad and

Odyssey• King Minos• Aegean Sea• Cycladic Islands• Mycenae• Knosos, Crete

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•Cycladic Islands-southeast of Greece

•Mycenaeans-Mycenae on Greek mainland

•Flourished between 1600-1100 BCE

•Minoans-Island of Crete

•Flourished between 2000-1500 BCE

•Heinrich Schliemann-1870s excavations of Mycenae

•Sir Arthur Evans-excavations of Crete 1899-1932

The Aegean Bronze Age

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Cycladic, Folded Arm Figures, 2500 BCE

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Cycladic, Lyre Player, 2700-2500 BCE

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Minoan Art

•Present on the island of Crete, south of Mainland Greece since around 3000 BCE

•Dominated the Aegean during the first half of the 2nd millennium-approximately 2000-1500 BCE

•Minos

•Arthur Evans

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Minoan, The Palace at Knossos, Crete, 1800-1300 BCE

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•26,000 square yards

•Megaron•Labyrinth

Plan of the Palace at Knossos, 1800-1300 BCE

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Labrys, from the island of Crete

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Interior view of the atrium at the Palace at Knossos

•Ashlar masonry•Atrium

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Minoan, Toreador Fresco, Palace of Knossos, 1750-1450 BCE

Buon Fresco

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Minoan, Throne room from Palace at Knossos, late 15th century BCE

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Hagia Triada Sarcophagus, 1450-1400 BCE

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La Parisienne, Ca. 1400 BCE

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Minoan, Snake Goddess, 1800-1550 BCE

•Faience•Flounce

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Mycenaean Art•Mycenaeans arrived in Greece at an unknown time from an unknown location

•Flourished and dominated the Aegean during the second half of the 2nd millennium-approximately 1500-1200 BCE

•Discovered by Heinrich Schliemann

•Mycenaeans highly influenced Minoan Culture including inhabiting the island

•Period and region involved with the legendary Trojan War

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Mycenaean, Lions’ Gate, 1300-1200

BCE

•Relieving triangle

•Corbelled arch

•Cyclopean Masonry

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Mycenae, Grave Circle A

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Mycenaean, Treasury of Atreus, ca. 1250 BCE

• Tholos

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Interior detail, Treasury of Atreus

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Repoussé

Mycenae, Funerary Mask (Mask of Agamemnon)from Grave Circle A, 1550-1500 BCE

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Mycenaean, Vaphio Cups, ca. 1500 BCE

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Minoan, Octopus Jug, 1500 BCE

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Mycenaean, Octopus

Stirrup Jar, ca. 1200 BCE

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Warrior Vase, 1200 BCE

Krater

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Harvester Vase, 1500 BCE

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Dagger Blade, 1580 BCE