TERMS
Homer - legendary Aegean bard
King Minos
Minotaur
True Fresco - painting in wet stucco wall coating
before it dries
Corbeled vault
Tholos
Krater - wide-mouth ceramic bowl for mixing wine and
water
Iliad
Labyrinth
Fresco secco - painting on dry stucco wall coating
Cyclopean masonry
Megaron
Repousse
SLIDES
Cycladic 3000 - 1200 BCE
Female figure, Marble, 18” ca. 2500 - 2300 BCE
Male lyre player, Marble, from Keros, 9” ca. 2700 - 2500 BCE
Minoan 3000 - 1200 BCE
Plan of the palace of Knossos, Greece ca. 1700 - 1400 BCE
Stairwell in the residential quarter of the palace of Knossos, Greece ca. 1700
- 1400 BCE
Minoan woman (La Parisienne, Fresco fragment, Knossos, 10” ca. 1450 -
1400 BCE
Bull-Leaping (Toreador Fresco), Fresco, Knossos, 2’ 8” ca. 1450
- 1400 BCE
Queen’s Megaron, Fresco, Knossos ca. 1700 - 1400 BCE
Beaked Jug, Kamares Ware ca. 1800 BCE
Octopus Jar, Marine Style, Palaikastro, 11” ca. 1500 BCE
Harvester Vase, Steatite, Hagia Triada, 5” ca. 1500 BCE
Snake Goddess, Faience, Knossos, 131/2” ca. 1600 BCE
Mycenaean 1700 - 1200 BCE
Lion Gate, Limestone, Mycenae, relief panel 9’ 6” ca. 1300 - 1250
BCE
Vault of the tholos of the Treasury of Atreus, Mycenae, 43’ ca. 1300 -
1250 BCE
Funerary mask, Beaten gold, Grave Circle A, Mycenae, 1’ ca. 1600 - 1500
BCE
Inlaid dagger w/ lion hunt, Bronze, gold, silver, niello, Cir A 9" ca.
1600 - 1500 BCE
Warrior Vase, Mycenae, 1’ 4” ca. 1200 BCE
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