1) The document summarizes prehistoric Aegean cultures including the Minoans of Crete and the Mycenaeans. 2) The Minoans were known for their large palaces at sites like Knossos and had an advanced civilization with complex architecture, art, and religion centered around figures like the Minotaur. 3) The Mycenaeans built massive fortified citadels and palaces, as seen at sites like Tiryns and Mycenae, defended by monumental stone lions gate carvings, and buried their rulers in treasuries with gold funerary masks.

1. Chapter 4 – Prehistoric Aegean

2. Minoan Known culture to have large palaces Principal palaces sites on Crete are @Knossos, Phaisotos, Kato & Mallia Religion part of Minoan Life Minotaur – Creature half bull half man = Thesus defeated Minotaur labryinth created by King Minos

3. Cycladic Art 2500 BCE Marble

4. Male Lyre Player – 2700 BCE Playing for deceased in the afterlife Geometric shapes @ graves

5. Minoan -Architecture Largest Palace @ Knossos King Minos- Minotaur Place has several rooms, Thick walls, drainage, Columns Terracotta piping Greek Doric Order ( of columns)

8. Minoan Paintings Bull Leaping from the Palace of Knossos -1450 -1400 BCE Fresco Bull- sweeping lines Human figures are stylized Minoan Pinched waists Full profile eye

9. Miniature Ships Fresco-Akotiri, Thera- 1650 BCE Fresco Akrotiri frescos decorated the walls of houses Dolphins Movement

10. Spring Fresco – 1650 BCE Cyclades –Fresco Island/Breeze Nature Realism?

11. Kamares ware Jar – Crete – 1800BCE Crete potters fashioned sophisticated shapes Creamy white and reddish brown Fishnet

12. Marine Style Jar – 1500BCE Tentacles of the octopus reach out over the curving surface

13. Harvesters Vase – Crete, Greece 1500 BCE Crowd singing, riot Old age profile Scenes of harvesting were common also in Egyptian art

14. Snake Goddess – Knossos, Greece 1600 BCE Fertility symbol Reminiscent of Egyptian and Near East Feline on her head

15. Young god from Palaikastro ( Crete) 1500-1475 BCE Ivory, Gold, rock crystal Costly cult image Miniature details of veins Could be a god rather than a mortal Black from fire

16. Mycenaean Art – Citadel at Tiryns, Greece 1400-1200BCE “ Citadels Giants Built” Homer knew of Tiryns Cyclopean masonry Heavy walls – 20ft of thickness Long Gallery Corbelled vault

17. Corbeled Gallery

19. Kings Hall http://www.grisel.net/tiryns.htm

20. Lions Gate – 1300-1250BCE Greece Monstrous guardian figures at entrance to palace tombs and sacred places

22. Treasury of Atreus, Mycenae, Greece 1300-1250 BCE

23. Treasury of Atreus, 1300-1250

24. Funerary Mask from Grave Circle A Beaten Gold, 1600-1500BCE

25. Inlaid dagger blade with Lion Hunt -1600-1500 Bce

26. Female Head from Mycenae, Greece 1300-1250 BCE Painted Plaster Facial Paint tattoos of figures of women Cult statue

27. Warrior Vase – 1200 BCE