The Aegean c. 3000-1100 BCE

Cycladic Civilization

Cyclades

Cycladic Civilization (c. 3000-11th century BCE)

Female Cycladic Idol, from Amorgosc.2700-2300 BCEEarly Bronze Age

Figurine of a woman, from a grave in Syros, (Cyclades)Greece, (c. 2500-2300 BCE)

Male Cycladic flute player from Keros c.2700-2300 BCEEarly Bronze Age

Male Lyre Player, from Keros (Cyclades)Greece, c. 2700-2500 BCE.

Minoan Civilization

(c.3000-1100)

Reconstructionof the Palace of Knossosc. 1600-1400 BCE

Reconstructed porticos of the north entrance passage with fresco

Architect Dedalos It had such complexity that no one placed in it could ever find its exit.

Minoan Woman or goddess, from the palace at Knossos, Crete, Greece, c. 1450-1400 BCE

Toreador Fresco, from Knossos, Crete. (c. 1500 BCE)Minoan Civilization

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The Queen’s megaron, Palace of Minos,

Knossos, Crete,

c. 1600-1400BCE

Minoan period

View of the “Throne Room” Palace of Minos,

Knossos, Crete (c.1600-1400 BCE) Minoan

Theran Volcano Eruption 1628 BCE. Major climatic change from Greenland to Egypt.

Landscape with swallows (Spring Fresco), from Delta 2, Akrotiri, Thera, Cyclades, Greece, c. 1650 BCE

Snake Goddess, from Knossos, Crete c. 1600 BCEMinoan

Upper Part of the Harvester Vase, from Hagia Triada, Crete(c. 1650-1450) BCEMinoan

Octopus Vase, from Palaikastro, Crete, (c. 1500) BCEMinoan

Ship Fresco, from Akrotiri, Thera, (c. 1500-1650) BCETheran

Papyrela, boats made from papyrus

Boxing Children, from Akrotiri, Thera, (c. 1650-1500) BCEMinoan/ Theran

Mycenaean Civilization (c. 3000-1100 BCE)

1300-1200 BCE - Trojan War (?)750-700 BCE - Homer writes Iliad &Odyssey

Crocus Gatherer, from Thera,Pre 1500 BCETheran

Goddess from the Citadel of Mycenae,(c. 1200 BCE)Mycenaean

Inlaid dagger blade with lion hunt, from Grave Circle A, Mycenae, Greece, c. 1600-1650,.

Mask of Agamemnon, from Mycenaeanc. 1500 BCE, Mycenaean

Minoan and Mycenaean cups,from Vapheio.(c. 16th Century BCE)Minoan or Mycenaean or both

c. 1340 BCE

c. 1250 BCE

c. 1200 BCE

Great Ramp

Warrior Vase houseGrave Circle ALions’ Gate

megaron

House of Commons

Postern Gate

Cyclopean walls, 25 feet wide, 30 feet high

Three Methods of Spanning

passagewaysa.Post and Lintel

b.Corbelled Arch

c.Round Arch, already Popular in the Near East.

Treasury of Atreus Entrance c. 1300-1200 BCE

Inside the Atreus Tomb, cyclopean, roofed with corbelled vault built up with regular courses or layers of ashlar, perfectly cutblocks of stones smoothly moving inward and carefully calculated to meet in a single capstone, top most stone that joins sides and meets in the center forming a peak.

Entrance to nine Tholoi. Ancient tombs in the citadel at Mycenae

Lion Gate, Mycenae1300 BCE,Mycenae