Ancient Greek Civilization

example, the Athenian dramatist Euripides wrote a tragedy entitled The Trojan Women, which takes place im ...

Timeline 1 Overview of ancient Greek civilization. “According to the Egyptians, the reign of King Cheops la ...

wrote their accounts of the life and teaching of Jesus, not in their native Aramaic but in Greek, because ...

eliminates the problem of dating events that occurred before “year one” by starting with the creation ...

Map 1 Modern Greece and its neighbors. For this reason, the land shown in map 2 has no boundaries marked. That ...

Map 2 Physical map of the Mediterranean region. The most notable feature of the Greek landscape is the degree ...

sheep, goats, swine, donkeys, mules, and, in a few locations, cattle and horses), and very widely scattere ...

Plutarch (above), in which meat was prepared without the use of fire? What do the bribes offered to Paris ...

Antiquity À-la-carte (awmc.unc.edu/wordpress/alacarte, accessed March 29, 2016) is a web-based GIS interface ...

1 THE GREEKS AND THE BRONZE AGE Cycladic Civilization Minoan Civilization The Greeks Speak Up The Emergence of Myc ...

people of North America or “Magdalenian culture” in connection with the inhabitants of the Dordogne region of ...

Timeline 2 The Bronze Age. Figure 4 The word for “night” in some Indo-European and non-Indo-European languag ...

know very much about who these people were or how long they had occupied the land that they ...

Map 3 Bronze Age Greece. Cycladic Civilization Cycladic civilization arose around 3200 BC; that is, at abo ...

Figure 5 Marble Cycladic figurine, front and side views; height 21 cm, ca. 2400–2100 BC. Source: Phoenix Anci ...

strict formulas. The most significant feature of Cycladic sculpture is its two-dimensionality: It seems almost to ...

“And then I saw Minos, the glorious son of Zeus, holding a scepter made of gold and dispensing justice a ...

Figure 6 Plan of the Minoan palace at Cnossus, ca. 1600–1500 BC. Reprinted with the permission of Cambridge ...

that scientists have been able to detect evidence of volcanic ash from the eruption as far away ...

Figure 8 Detail of fresco from Akrotiri, Thera (Santorini), ca. 1700 BC. Museum of Prehistoric Thera. Sourc ...