CLAS 1000: ANCIENT GREEK TIMELINE
44 Cards in this Set
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Early Bronze Age
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3000 BC
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Incursions of Indo-Europeans into Greece
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2100 BC
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Middle Bronze Age
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2000-1600 BC
obscure to modern scholars
social regression
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Mycenaean (Late Bronze Age)
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1600-1100 BC
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Trojan War
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C. 1250 (during Late Bronze age/Mycenaean)
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Dark Age
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1100-750 BC
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Archaic Period
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750-480 BC
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Iliad composed
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C. 750 BC
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Peleus
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Achilles father, forces Thetis to marry him and bear a child. His child is to be stronger than him, that's why they chose a human to mate with a god.
In Greek mythology, Peleus was a hero whose myth was already known to the hearers of Homer in the late 8th century BC.
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Thetis
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Achilles mother, goddess. Very powerful. Helps her son with battle in Troy. Tells him he will die. Forced to marry Peleus (a human)
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Poleis (polis sing.)
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smal Greek city-states
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the Greek Problem
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a set of conditions where greek thinkers struggled
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Discord
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Goddess who wasn't invited to Thetis and Peleus' wedding. Threw an apple that read "to the fairest". Gods made Paris choose and bribed him with Helen
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demokratia
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direct democracy of Greeks
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Hellenes
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what Greeks called themselves
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Hesiod
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poet from 700 BC
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Mediterranean Triad
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core of Greek diets; bread, olives and wine
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pederasty
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"boy love"
Pederasty or paederasty is a (usually erotic) relationship between a young man and a pubescent boy outside his immediate family.
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Neolithic Revolution
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New stone age
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Indo-Europeans
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group that invaded ancient greece, started a new language that is root of most european languages
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Cycladic figurines
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marble and paint, contemporary, Early Bronze age
2800-2300 B.C.
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Knossus
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Knossos (alternative spellings Knossus, Cnossus, Greek , currently refers to the main Bronze Age archaeological site a modern port city on the north central coast of Crete.
-palace in Crete
-inhabited by Minoans
-never invaded my Indo-Euros
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Arthur Evans
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(1851-1941)
-escavated Knossus
-ruins of huge palace (2 football fields)
-found tablets with writings, couldn't dicyfer
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Santorini
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Santorini, classically Thera (), and officially Thira (Greek: ), is an island in the southern Aegean Sea, about southeast from Greece's mainland.
- collapsed into sea from volcano and caused huge earthquake that destroyed first palace in Knossus
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Minoans
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first inhabitants of Crete
naturalistic
peaceful
taken over by Mycenaeans
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Myths about Minoans
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-Minos is born from Zeus and Europe
-Gods punish him
-wife mates with a bull
-minotaur is born (half bull half man)
-prisoner in Labyrinth
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Mycenaeans
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-took over Crete
-evidence in burning of first palace
-no fortifications (must've been powerful) until 1350
-war-like
-many symbols of bulls (fertility)
-difference in language on tablets (linear B)
-cycladic art
-Late Bronze Age (1650)
-Agamem. is from here
- 1200 Damage to Myce…
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linear A
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-minoan, cant be decyfered
-lists for economic purposes
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Akrotiri
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in santorini, almost destroyed by volcano
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xenia
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relationship/friendship of hospitality passed down generations
ex: Typhodes and Diomedes
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other Greek Resources
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honey, some grains, almonds, figs... not a lot of meat
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secondary products revolution
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a shift toward raising animals as much fro traction, milk, wool, as for meat
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Grave Circles
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usually noble people
worried about keeping spirits inside city, but needed to protect inside fortifications
A- inside
B- outside
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Heinrich Schleimann
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- first to discovery Troy
- bussinessman with a passion for archaeology
- destroyed many artifacts
- married Greek woman Sophia
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Lions Gate
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-mycenae 1300-1250 BC
-symbol of power for visitors
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Megaron
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-large room in Mycenaean Palaces
-room for king/advisors
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Linear B
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-decoded by Michael Ventris
-clay but burned in fire and hardened
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Hissarlik
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Hisarlik, often spelled Hissarlik, is the modern name for the site of ancient Troy, also known as Ilion, and is located in what is now Turkey (historically Anatolia).
Discovered by Schleiman
7 different layers of Troy- 2nd level is troys city
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Pausanias
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author 2nd century AD
wrote about Agamem and his 5 companions being buried in Grave Circle A together
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Proto-Geometric
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The Protogeometric style is a pottery type associated with the Greek Dark Ages. After the collapse of the Mycenaean-Minoan Palace culture and the ensuing Greek Dark Ages, the Protogeometric style emerged around the mid 11th century BCE as the first expression of a reviving civilization.
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Geometric
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progressed from Proto
more designs and motifs
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wanakes (sing. wanax)
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kings
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Tholos Tombs/Treasure Atreus
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Huge tomb with dome in Mycenae
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Late Geometric
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had people at funerals grieving
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CLAS 1000: ANCIENT GREEK TIMELINE