Mycenae

FranchthiCave

Crete

CycladicIslands

Troy

Minoan and Mycenaean Greece

Franchthi Cave in Southern Greece

40,000 BCE Seasonal Habitation12,000 BCE End of Ice Age (Paleolithic Pd)

Hunter Gatherers6,000 BCE (Neolithic Pd): Domesticated Animal,

Pottery and Bead Industry

Cycladic Idols 3000-2000 BCE

Cycladic Idol3000-2000 BCE

Cycladic Idols

Flute Player(left)

Harp Player(right)

Cycladic Bear (Island of Syros)2300-2100 BCE

Neolithic cup before the use of the potter’s wheel (c.2200 BCE)

Neolithic 3700-3300 BCE(above)

Neolithic “Sauce Boats”2500-2200 BCE

Grey Minyan Ware First Wheel Made Potteryon Mainland Greece ca 2200 BCE

Palace at Knossos(top left & bot. right)

Pasiphae and theMinotaur (her son by By King Minos) (left)

Bull’s Head Rhyton(cup) from Knossos(above, right)

Sir Arthur Evans(1851-1941) openedExcavation on Crete

Palace at Knossos (Crete)ca 2000-1700 BCE

Knossos Royal Bedroom1600-1400 BCE (above, left)

Minoan Statuettes from Knossos ca 1600 BCE (left)

Minoan 1500-1450 (above)

Cycladic ca.2000-1550 BCE

Minoan ca.1550-1500(below)

Minoan Gold Bee Pendant1700-1550 BCE

Minoan Mistress of Animals1700-1550 BCE

Linear B Script

Mycenae Lion Gate c.1250 BCE

Palace Column Base

Walled Citadel of Mycenae

Palace Column Capitals

Early Mycenaean VaseExported to Knossos (Crete) ca 1450 (below)

Minoan Vase ca 1400Mycenaean influence

View from the Citadel of Mycenae

Mycenae from the Air

Masks and a Dagger BladeFrom Grave Circle A 1550-1500 BCE

Mycenaean Dagger Blades

Mycenaean TholosTombs 14th century

Mycenaean Figurines

Mycenaean Hedge-hog 16th-15th cent.

Mycenaean Stirrup Jars

Three MycenaeanCups and a Pitcher(oinochoe)

Minoan 1600-1500(bottom center)

Mycenaean (top left &right, bottom right)

Mycenaean Crater (above)13th Century

Mycenaean Crater (right)12th Century

Heinrich (above) and Sophie (right)SchliemannGold vessel from Troy (left)

Medieval German WoodcutsImages of Troy

Chiron and the Young Achilles(19th cent. engraving by Henri Daumier)

SubmycenaeanVases ca 1100-950 BCE