CL 28 - Classical Mythology
Greek Chronology, Culture and Religion

Chronological Chart , Historical Outline

WORD LIST
Peloponnese (Argolid), Attica (Athens), Boeotia (Thebes), Thessaly, Macedonia and Thrace
Crete, the Cyclades
Mount Olympus
Chronology
Prehistory
Troy and the Trojan War
Mycenae
Homer - the Iliad and the Odyssey
legend, epic
Heinrich Schliemann
Arthur Evans
Minoan Civilization
thalassa
Mycenaean Civilization
pantheon
Linear B
Iron Age
Panhellenic
Kouros / Kore
Patriarchal religion
Great Goddess
Precincts, Temenos
Sacrifice
Libation offering
Procession
Vow, votive

Images

• Map of Minoan Crete. R.J.A. Talbert, Atlas of Classical History. London, 1985. p. 4
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• Early Corinthian olpe, 610 - 600. Above: serpent between lions; below: panther-birds. Simon, Erika. Die Griechischen Vasen. Hirmir Verlag, Munich: 1981. Color Plate X
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• Achilles and Ajax (gaming) play a board game. Detail of Attic Black-figure belly amphora signed by Exekias, ca. 530. Names, expletives, and kalos (ONESITORIDES) inscription around figures. Achilles (R) calls "four" while Ajax (L) calls "three". Side B. H. 61 cm. Simon, Erika. Die Griechischen Vasen. Hirmir Verlag, Munich: 1981. Color Plate XXV
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• Overlifesize bronze portrait head of Alexander from a statue based on the heroic "Alexander with the Lance" by Lysippos (?). Rhodian / Pergamene "baroque" influences (?). Frontal view. H. 15.12 in. Private collection, Switzerland. The Search for Alexander: An Exhibition (various authors). Boston, 1980. Catalog #9
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• Aerial view of Athenian Acropolis, including Propylaea and Parthenon.
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• The Toreador Fresco or Bull Leaper. Bull leaping with dancer. Fresco from a small court in the east. From Knossos Palace, Crete. c. 1500 BC. Archaeological Museum, Herakleion.
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• "Snake Goddess" Enamelled Terracotta. From palace at Knossos, Crete. Herakleion Museum.
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• Death of Sarpedon. Detail of Hypnos (Sleep) and Thanatos (Death) carrying away the body of Sarpedon as Hermes (center) looks on. Names between figures. Attic Red-Figure kalyx krater signed by Euxitheos as potter and Euphronios as painter. Ca. 510 BCE. H. 45.8 cm.
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• Lion Gate entrance to the Mycenaean citadel, ca. 1250 BC. View from north. Detail of lintel and pedimental sculpture. Photo CD: Art of the Aegean (AEG-000-11)
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• Mycenaean tablet with Linear B script, ca. 1400 BCE., from Pylos. Carratelli, G. P., ed. The Greek World: Art and Civilization in Magna Graecia and Sicily. New York: Rizzoli, 1996. p. 38
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• Greece. Topographical map of Greece and the Aegean Sea. Oxford Essential World Atlas 1994. p. 21.

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