Minoan and Mycenaean Greece

Troy
Mycenae
Franchthi
Cave
Cycladic
Islands
Crete
Minoan and Mycenaean Greece
Franchthi Cave in Southern Greece
40,000 BCE Seasonal Habitation
12,000 BCE End of Ice Age (Paleolithic Pd)
Hunter Gatherers
6,000 BCE (Neolithic Pd): Domesticated Animal,
Pottery and Bead Industry
Cycladic Idols 3000-2000 BCE
Cycladic Idol
3000-2000 BCE
Flute Player
(left)
Harp Player
(right)
Cycladic Idols
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 Pottery
on Mainland Greece ca 2200 BCE
Palace at Knossos
(top left & bot. right)
Pasiphae and the
Minotaur (her son by
By King Minos) (left)
Bull’s Head Rhyton
(cup) from Knossos
(above, right)
Sir Arthur Evans
(1851-1941) opened
Excavation on Crete
Palace at Knossos (Crete)
ca 2000-1700 BCE
Knossos Royal Bedroom
1600-1400 BCE (above, left)
Minoan Statuettes from Knossos
ca 1600 BCE (left)
Cycladic ca.
2000-1550
BCE
Minoan ca.
1550-1500
(below)
Minoan 1500-1450 (above)
Minoan Mistress of Animals
1700-1550 BCE
Minoan Gold Bee Pendant
1700-1550 BCE
Linear B Script
Palace Column Capitals
Mycenae Lion Gate c.1250 BCE
Walled Citadel of Mycenae
Palace Column Base
Early Mycenaean Vase
Exported to Knossos
(Crete) ca 1450 (below)
Minoan Vase ca 1400
Mycenaean influence
View from the Citadel of Mycenae
Mycenae from the Air
Masks and a Dagger Blade
From Grave Circle A 1550-1500 BCE
Mycenaean Dagger Blades
Mycenaean Tholos
Tombs 14th century
Mycenaean Figurines
Mycenaean Hedgehog 16th-15th cent.
Mycenaean Stirrup Jars
Three Mycenaean
Cups and a Pitcher
(oinochoe)
Mycenaean (top left &
right, bottom right)
Minoan 1600-1500
(bottom center)
Mycenaean Crater (above)
13th Century
Mycenaean Crater (right)
12th Century
Heinrich (above) and Sophie (right)
Schliemann
Gold vessel from Troy (left)
Medieval German Woodcuts
Images of Troy
Submycenaean
Vases ca 1100950 BCE
Chiron and the Young Achilles
(19th cent. engraving by Henri Daumier)