1. Background to Homer

2. GREEK TIMELINE Palace Empires: Minoan (Crete): c
GREEK TIMELINE Palace Empires: Minoan (Crete): c BCE Mycenaean (Peloponnesus): c BCE Decline and Fall: Trojan War: c BCE raids of the “Sea Peoples”: 1000s BCE Dark Age: c BCE Homer: approx. 750 BCE? Classical Period: BCE Philosophers: Socrates, Plato, Aristotle Playwrights: Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes Transformative Figures: Herodotus, Pericles, Hippocrates Wars in the 400s: Greece against Persia, then Athens against Sparta Alexander the Great dies in 323 BCE

3. Map of Ancient Greece

4. Authors’ Map of Greece

5. Minoan palace, Knossos, Crete

6. Minoan (Cretan) bull

7. Minoan cup bearers

8. Minoan ivory figurine-- bull leaping

9. Minoan bee ornament

10. Minoan snake woman/goddess

11. Minoan queen’s megaron, Knossos

12. Mycenae Citadel

13. Mycenae: Atreus Treasury

14. Mycenae, beehive dome

15. Mycenae: Three Deities

16. Mycenaean grave circle

17. Troy: excavation phases

18. Troy: archaeological site

19. Heinrik Schleimann

20. Dark Age bard, 700 BCE

21. Dark Age clay head, Sparta, 700 BCE

22. Dark Age centaur

23. Dark Age: bier detail

24. Ithaca

25. Ithaca

26. The world of the Odyssey recreated by Bibi Saint-Pol, based on Provensen map

27. Athena statue, Piraeus

28. Mourning Athena, Acropolis museum Athens, 5th C. BCE

29. The two figures are labeled ATHENAIA and POSEIDON
The two figures are labeled ATHENAIA and POSEIDON. The inscription down the middle reads AMASIS MEPOIESEN ("Amasis made me"). 6th century BCE.

30. Poseidon

31. Poseidon

32. Odysseus

33. Odysseus, Sperlonga

34. Archaic statue of Penelope

35. Vase painting, Penelope at the loom, with Telemachus

36. Telemachus, with Mentor?

37. The Sirens, Athenian vase, c. 5th century BCE

38. Hermes holding Dionysus, by Praxiteles, 4th century BCE

39. Hermes

40. Menelaus reclaiming Helen from Troy

41. Vase painting of Helen

42. Helen of Troy, by Evelyn de Morgan, 1898

43. Homer (?)