Timetable of Early Greek History

1. Timetable of Early Greek History • Sketch of Early Greece and the Aegean • Stone Age • Paleolithic Period (before 70,000 B. C.) • Neolithic Period (ca. 6000-3000 B. C.) • Early Bronze Age (3000-2000 B. C.) Early Minoan Early Cycladic Early Helladic • Middle Bronze Age (2000-1600 B. C.) Middle Minoan Middle Cycladic Middle Helladic • Late Bronze Age (1600-1100 B. C.) • Late Minoan Late Cycladic Late Helladic (Mycenaean)

3. Explanation on geographical terms • Bronze Age the term based on time • Geographical areas where major civilizations have been found:-Minoan (for Crete) -Cycladic (for the islands) Helladic or Mycenaean (for late Helladic) for mainland Greece

4. Minoan Civilization, flourishes in Crete 2500-1500BC • Mycenaean Age 1600-1200 B.C. • c 1450 Minoan civilization in Crete destroyed. • Trojan War occurs c. 1250

5. Cycladic Art

10. Palace of Knossos (Crete, Minoan Civilization)

11. Knossos, Crete. Painted ca. 1500 B.C., fragments of this fresco were discovered and the fresco was restored by Sir Arthur Evans in the Palace of Minos at Knossos on the island of Crete during the early years of the 20th century

14. Mycenaean • Called like that by the city of Mycenae • After 1400 BC, Cretan (Minoan civilization) eclipsed (possibly a natural disaster, earthquake, archeology reveals signs of destruction). • Some scholars attribute downfall of Crete to a Mycenaean invasion. • Heinrich Schliemann was the first to excavate Mycenae (1876)> link between traditional myths as narrated in Homeric poems and actual places named in the poems like Mycenae.

15. Lion Gate at MYCENAE

17. Dark Ages, the “Mediaeval” times of antiquity begins c. 1200 until 800 B.C. • ARCHAIC period begins c. 800 BC • Olympic games instituted in 776 BC • HOMER AND HESIOD

18. Early vase painting • Black-figured technique • "The Francois Vase “signed" by Ergotimos (potter) and Kleitias (painter)  is an Attic Black-figure Krater from Chiusi, c.575 bce and   26" height.Museo Archaeologico, Florence • Was broken to 638 pieces by a museum guard in 1900 and restored.

21. Crane dance on topBattle between Lapiths and Centaurs

24. CLASSICAL GREECE • Lyric Poetry: Poetry that was performed with the accompaniment of some type of music, often danced. Alone or in group, the person in a social context always. • Historically the classical period begins with the Persian Wars 480

25. Early Greek Poetry (=Archaic Poetry) • EPIC • LYRIC

26. EPIC POETS • Tradition of HOMER

27. TRADITION OF HESIOD

28. Classical Poetry

29. Drama (Tragedy-Comedy-Satyr Play) CLASSICAL GENRE 5th and 4th c. BCE

30. So, when do our sources date? • Archaic Greece (8th-6th century BC) • Classical Greece (5th-4th) • Hellenistic (3rd-2nd) • Roman Period (2ndBC -3rd century AD)

32. Delphi theater

34. Classical Vase painting- red figured vases

35. From the Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY, Calyx-krater, ca. 515 B.C.; red-figureGreek, AtticSigned by Euxitheos as potter; signed by Euphronios as painterTerracotta; H. 18 in. (45.69 cm)Obverse: body of Sarpedon lifted by Sleep and Death