FAH207 Glossary Terms

Cyclades: Islands "circling around" Delos
Minoan Culture (Crete/Cycladic)
Mycenaean Culture (Helladic, Mainland Greece)
Early, Middle, and Late Bronze Age

Relative vs. Absolute Chronology

Small statue in form of human or animal

Parian, Naxian, etc from Paros or Naxos
nomeclature based on islands

Knossos: Labyrinth/Minotaur/ Daedalus built it
unearthed by Sir Arthur Evans
used it to make relative chronology.... EM (1-111), MM LM etc.

Early Greek
unearthed by Evans at Knossos, deciphered by Michael Ventris

Grave circle A and B shaft graves outside Lion Gate

citadel had cyclopean walls of massive stones, impressive

Trow VII in 1200 BCE is the destruction layer

(Protogeometric) and Geometric Period (1100-700 BCE)
Heroon: house shrine of a hero
Apse: semicircular ending of an architural structure
cremation and sacrificial burial
tumulus: burial mound
***we talking about an early temple prototype

Colonnade surrounding all sides of a building

Gate and cemetary in Athens (right outside city)

In fulfillment of a vow
votive offering

8th c.

Urban Land, subarea
Agora (market place)
Acropolis (religious, ancient)
sanctuaries, esp. panhellenic sanctuaries
agon=competition
arete=excellence
Athletic games (olympian and pythian)

From Attica, the area around Athens

Also called a cycle, refers mostly to Homer (illiad and odyssey) and lit recounting the Trojan War

Liquid storage vessel