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Finding information: 1. Archaeology 2. Linguistic developments 3. Written sources

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2nd millenium BC… …long before Homer and Hesiod (c. 8th c. BC) Minoans and Mycenaeans King Minos Theseus and the Minotaur

After 2000 BC Start of construction of Palace of Knossos ElysiumRhadamanthus BC Minoan culture at peak c BC Crete coming under Mycenaean control c BC Final destruction of Knossos Palace

Mycenae c BC Mycenaeans come to Greece 16th c. BC Mycenaeans are major force in Greece esp. Peloponnese “Shaft graves” (up to 16th c. BC) “Tholos (beehive) graves” (from 15th c. BC)

13th c. BC: Mycenaeans strengthening fortifications Migration of “Sea Peoples” Trojan War: Helen, Menelaos, Paris End 12th c. BC Mycenaean domination of region gone, Dark Ages begin

Thucydides (c BC) Athenian, serves as commander in N. Greece during Peloponnesian War ( BC) until dismissed and exiled (424 BC) Writes History of the Peloponnesian War, covering c BC Creator of scholarly history?