1. Minos and the Heroes of Homer: The Art of the Prehistoric Aegean

2. The Prehistoric Aegean

3. Homer The Iliad

4. Heinrich Schliemann

5. Troy Mycenae

6. The prehistoric Aegean is divided into three geographic areas: Cycladic Islands (so called because they circle around Delos) Cycladic Art Early, Middle, Late Crete Minoan Art Early, Middle, Late The Greek Mainland Helladic Art Early, Middle, Late (Mycenaean)

7. Cycladic Art

8. Cycladic Figurine of a Woman Syros, Greece 2500-2300 BC Marble 1’ 6” high

9. Cycladic Male Lyre Player Keros, Greece 2700-2500 BC Marble 9” high

11. Minoan Art (Crete)

12. The Palace at Knossos, Crete, 1700-1400 BC

14. Plan of the Palace at Knossos, Crete, 1700-1400 BC

15. Stairwell in the Residential Quarter of the Palace at Knossos Knossos, Crete 1700-1400 BC

16. Stairwell in the Residential Quarter of the Palace at Knossos Knossos, Crete 1700-1400 BC

17. Bull-leaping The Palace of Knossos, Crete 1450-1400 BC, Fresco, @ 2’ 8” high

18. Bull-leaping (detail)

19. Griffin Fresco in the “Throne Room” at Knossos

20. Boxing Fresco at Knossos

21. Miniature Ships Fresco From Room 5, West House, Akrotiri, Thera (Cycladic Islands) 1650 BC Fresco, @ 1’ 5” high

22. Miniature Ships Fresco from Room 5, West House, Akrotiri, Thera (Cycladic Islands) 1650 BC Fresco, @ 1’ 5” high

23. Spring Fresco Akrotiri, Thera (Cycladic Islands) 1650 BC, Fresco, @ 7’ 6” high

24. Spring Fresco Akrotiri, Thera (Cycladic Islands) 1650 BC, Fresco, @ 7’ 6” high

25. Kamares ware

26. Kamares Ware (Jar) From Phaistos, Crete 1800-1700 BC @ 1’ 8” high

27. Minoan Vase in the Kamares Style from Phaestos 1800 BCE

28. Kamares Ware from the Palace at Phaestos 1800 BCE

29. Minoan Krater with Plastic Decoration 1800 BCE

30. Minoan Krater with Applied Floral Decoration 1800 BCE

31. Minoan Jar in the Marine Style “Octopus Jar” Palaikastro, Crete 1500 BC @ 11” high

32. Minoan Vase in the Marine Style Crete 1500 BC

35. Harvester Vase Hagia Triada, Crete 1500 BC Steatite Greatest Diameter @ 5”

37. Snake Goddess Palace at Knossos 1600 BC Faience @ 1’ 1 1/2” high

38. Helladic Art

39. "The Greeks appear apt to regard with greater wonder foreign sights than sights at home. For whereas distinguished historians have described the Egyptian pyramids with the minutest detail, they have not made even the briefest mention of the treasury of Minyas and the walls of Tiryns, though these are no less marvellous." [Pausanias, Description of Greece 9.36.5]

40. Citadel of Tiryns Greece 1400-1200 BC

41. Citadel of Tiryns Greece 1400-1200 BC

42. Citadel of Tiryns Greece 1400-1200 BC

43. Citadel of Tiryns Greece 1400-1200 BC

44. Corbeled passageway in the walls of the citadel at Tiryns

45. Three methods of spanning a passageway: a.post and lintel b. corbeled arch c.arch

46. Aerial View of Mycenae, Greece

48. Mycenae, Greece 1300-1250 BC

49. Cyclopian Walls at the Lion’s Gate to Mycenae

50. Lion Gate Mycenae, Greece, 1300-1250 BC Limestone, relief panel @ 9’ 6” high

51. Lion Gate Mycenae, Greece, 1300-1250 BC Limestone, relief panel @ 9’ 6” high

52. Back of Lion Gate Mycenae, Greece, 1300-1250 BC Limestone, relief panel @ 9’ 6” high

53. Treasury of Atreus Mycenae, Greece 1300-1250 BC

54. Vault of the Tholos of the Treasury of Atreus Mycenae, Greece 1300-1250 BC @ 43’ high

57. Funerary Mask from Grave Circle A Mycenae, Greece 1600-1500 BC Beaten Gold @ 1’ high

58. Repousse’ Technique

59. Warrior Vase Mycenae, Greece 1200 BC @ 1’ 4” high

60. Mycenaean Pottery 14 th to 13 th Centuries BCE