Lecture 5: Minoan Crete

Minos

Thucydides

thalassocracy

Kamares ware

Knossos

throne room

pithos / pithoi

Pre-Palace (3000-1900 BC)

Old Palace (1900-1700 BC)

New Palace (1700-1450 BC)

Post Palace (1450-1000 BC)

faience

Linear A

pictograms

Phaistos Disk

peak sanctuary

horns of consecration

double axe

votive

rhyton

Ayia Triadha sarcophagus

Thera