First published at 13:21 UTC on October 28th, 2020.
Lecture 3: The second great Bronze Age culture of Greece takes its name from the site of Mycenae, excavated first by Heinrich Schliemann. Taking Homer as his guide, Schliemann uncovered the traces of a powerful warrior society. Unlike the Cretan pal…
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Lecture 3: The second great Bronze Age culture of Greece takes its name from the site of Mycenae, excavated first by Heinrich Schliemann. Taking Homer as his guide, Schliemann uncovered the traces of a powerful warrior society. Unlike the Cretan palaces, the site of Mycenae and other sites of the same period—Tiryns, Gla, and Orchomenos, for example—were protected by massive walls of Cyclopean masonry. Grave goods from Mycenaean sites point to a warrior élite whose trading contacts reached to Crete and beyond, to Egypt and Syria.
At many of these sites, tablets in a script known as Linear B were found. In 1954 Michael Ventris demonstrated that the language of Linear B was a form of Greek. This discovery was of enormous importance, since it helped to establish, after more than fifty years of debate, the relationship between the civilization of Minoan Crete and the Mycenaeans.
Suggested Reading
Traill, D.A. (1993) Excavating Schliemann. Illinois Classical Studies, Supplement 4. Atlanta: Scholar's Press.
Lecture 4: https://www.bitchute.com/video/8gA97g7ROEqV/
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