EULA

List of Figures

Foreword

Figure  1   Lucas   Cranach the Elder   (1472–1553),    The Judgment    of  Paris,  oil on  wood;   102 ×   

cm, ca. 1528.

Figure  2   Attic   black-figure    tripod-jar  showing Hermes  (center)    leading Athena, Hera,   and

Aphrodite   to  Paris   (right) for judgment;   height  14  cm, ca. 570 BC. Paris,  Musée   du  Louvre, CA

616 C.

Figure  3   Print   of  The Judgment    of  Paris,  a   book    stamp   for Fritz   Waerndorfer designed    by

Koloman Moser,  Austria,    1903;   30.5    ×   25.4    cm. London, Victoria    and Albert  Museum, E.1209–

1965,   given   by  Mr. Peter   G.  Wentworth-Shields.

Chapter 

Figure  4   The word    for “night” in  some    Indo-European   and non-Indo-European   languages.

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

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

of  Cambridge   University  Press   from    O.  Dickinson,  The Aegean  Bronze  Age (Cambridge  1994),

fig.    5.26.

Figure  7   ASTER   image   of  Santorini   (Thera) taken   on  November    21, 2000    from    NASA’s  Terra

spacecraft.

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

Thera.

Figure  9   Linear  B   tablet  Ue  611 from    Mycenae,    ca. 1200    BC. The four    lines   of  text    read    (from   left

to  right):

Figure  10  Plan,   drawn   by  Heinrich    Sulze,  of  the Mycenaean   palace  at  Tiryns, thirteenth  century

BC.

Figure  11  Bronze  dagger  blade   inlaid  in  gold,   silver, and niello  from    the tomb    IV  at  Mycenae,

now in  the National    Archaeological  Museum, Athens; length  22.9    cm, 1650–1600   BC.

Figure  12  Limestone   STELE   (grave  marker) from    Grave   Circle  A   at  Mycenae,    with    scene   of

warfare or  hunting;    height  1.33    m,  1650–1600   BC. Athens, National    Archaeological  Museum,

1428.

Figure  13  Middle  Minoan  ceramic jar from    Phaistos,   Crete;  height  50  cm, seventeenth or

eighteenth  century BC. Archaeological  Museum  of  Herakleion. Source: ©   2015    Marie   Mauzy   /

Scala,  Florence.

Figure  14  Interior    of  tholos  tomb    at  Mycenae,    called  the “Treasury   of  Atreus,”    thirteenth  century

BC. Source: ©   Peter   Eastland    /   Alamy   Stock   Photo.

Figure  15  “Treasury   of  Atreus,”    plan    and sections,   drawn   by  Piet    de  Jong.

Figure  16  Fragment    of  fresco  from    Mycenae,    showing dog-headed  demons  in  procession; width   of