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Minos and the Heroes of Homer: The Art of the Prehistoric Aegean

Minos and the Heroes of Homer: The Art of the Prehistoric Aegean. The Prehistoric Aegean. Homer. The Iliad. Heinrich Schliemann. Mycenae. Troy. The prehistoric Aegean is divided into three geographic areas: Cycladic Islands (so called because they circle around Delos) Cycladic Art

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Minos and the Heroes of Homer: The Art of the Prehistoric Aegean

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  1. Minos and the Heroes of Homer: The Art of the Prehistoric Aegean

  2. The Prehistoric Aegean

  3. Homer The Iliad

  4. Heinrich Schliemann

  5. Mycenae Troy

  6. The prehistoric Aegean is divided into three geographic areas: Cycladic Islands (so called because they circle around Delos) Cycladic Art Early, Middle, Late Crete Minoan Art Early, Middle, Late The Greek Mainland Helladic Art Early, Middle, Late (Mycenaean)

  7. Cycladic Art

  8. Cycladic Figurine of a Woman Syros, Greece 2500-2300 BC Marble 1’ 6” high

  9. Cycladic Male Lyre Player Keros, Greece 2700-2500 BC Marble 9” high

  10. Minoan Art (Crete)

  11. The Palace at Knossos, Crete, 1700-1400 BC

  12. The Palace at Knossos, Crete, 1700-1400 BC

  13. Plan of the Palace at Knossos, Crete, 1700-1400 BC

  14. Stairwell in the Residential Quarter of the Palace at Knossos Knossos, Crete 1700-1400 BC

  15. Stairwell in the Residential Quarter of the Palace at Knossos Knossos, Crete 1700-1400 BC

  16. Bull-leaping The Palace of Knossos, Crete 1450-1400 BC, Fresco, @ 2’ 8” high

  17. Bull-leaping (detail)

  18. Griffin Fresco in the “Throne Room” at Knossos

  19. Boxing Fresco at Knossos

  20. Miniature Ships Fresco From Room 5, West House, Akrotiri, Thera (Cycladic Islands) 1650 BC Fresco, @ 1’ 5” high

  21. Miniature Ships Fresco from Room 5, West House, Akrotiri, Thera (Cycladic Islands) 1650 BC Fresco, @ 1’ 5” high

  22. Spring Fresco Akrotiri, Thera (Cycladic Islands) 1650 BC, Fresco, @ 7’ 6” high

  23. Spring Fresco Akrotiri, Thera (Cycladic Islands) 1650 BC, Fresco, @ 7’ 6” high

  24. Kamares ware

  25. Kamares Ware (Jar) From Phaistos, Crete 1800-1700 BC @ 1’ 8” high

  26. Minoan Vase in the Kamares Style from Phaestos 1800 BCE

  27. Kamares Ware from the Palace at Phaestos 1800 BCE

  28. Minoan Krater with Plastic Decoration 1800 BCE

  29. Minoan Krater with Applied Floral Decoration 1800 BCE

  30. Minoan Jar in the Marine Style “Octopus Jar” Palaikastro, Crete 1500 BC @ 11” high

  31. Minoan Vase in the Marine Style Crete 1500 BC

  32. Harvester Vase Hagia Triada, Crete 1500 BC Steatite Greatest Diameter @ 5”

  33. Snake Goddess Palace at Knossos 1600 BC Faience @ 1’ 1 1/2” high

  34. Helladic Art

  35. "The Greeks appear apt to regard with greater wonder foreign sights than sights at home. For whereas distinguished historians have described the Egyptian pyramids with the minutest detail, they have not made even the briefest mention of the treasury of Minyas and the walls of Tiryns, though these are no less marvellous." [Pausanias, Description of Greece 9.36.5]

  36. Citadel of Tiryns Greece 1400-1200 BC

  37. Citadel of Tiryns Greece 1400-1200 BC

  38. Citadel of Tiryns Greece 1400-1200 BC

  39. Citadel of Tiryns Greece 1400-1200 BC

  40. Corbeled passageway in the walls of the citadel at Tiryns

  41. Three methods of spanning a passageway: a. post and lintel b. corbeled arch c. arch

  42. Aerial View of Mycenae, Greece

  43. Mycenae, Greece 1300-1250 BC

  44. Cyclopian Walls at the Lion’s Gate to Mycenae

  45. Lion Gate Mycenae, Greece, 1300-1250 BC Limestone, relief panel @ 9’ 6” high

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