Troy Mycenae Cycladic Islands Franchthi Cave Crete Minoan and Mycenaean Greece Franchthi Cave in Southern Greece 40,000 BCE Seasonal Habitation 12,000 BCE End of Ice Age (Paleolithic Pd) Hunter Gatherers 6,000 BCE (Neolithic Pd): Domesticated Animal, Pottery and Bead Industry Cycladic Idols 3000-2000 BCE Cycladic Idol 3000-2000 BCE Flute Player (left) Harp Player (right) Cycladic Idols Cycladic Bear (Island of Syros) 2300-2100 BCE Neolithic cup before the use of the potter’s wheel (c.2200 BCE) Neolithic 3700-3300 BCE (above) Neolithic “Sauce Boats” 2500-2200 BCE Grey Minyan Ware First Wheel Made Pottery on Mainland Greece ca 2200 BCE Palace at Knossos (top left & bot. right) Pasiphae and the Minotaur (her son by By King Minos) (left) Bull’s Head Rhyton (cup) from Knossos (above, right) Sir Arthur Evans (1851-1941) opened Excavation on Crete Palace at Knossos (Crete) ca 2000-1700 BCE Knossos Royal Bedroom 1600-1400 BCE (above, left) Minoan Statuettes from Knossos ca 1600 BCE (left) Cycladic ca. 2000-1550 BCE Minoan ca. 1550-1500 (below) Minoan 1500-1450 (above) Minoan Mistress of Animals Minoan Gold Bee Pendant 1700-1550 BCE 1700-1550 BCE Linear B Script Palace Column Capitals Mycenae Lion Gate c.1250 BCE Walled Citadel of Mycenae Palace Column Base Early Mycenaean Vase Exported to Knossos (Crete) ca 1450 (below) Minoan Vase ca 1400 Mycenaean influence View from the Citadel of Mycenae Mycenae from the Air Masks and a Dagger Blade From Grave Circle A 1550-1500 BCE Mycenaean Dagger Blades Mycenaean Tholos Tombs 14 th century Mycenaean Figurines Mycenaean Hedge- hog 16th-15th cent. Mycenaean Stirrup Jars Three Mycenaean Cups and a Pitcher (oinochoe) Mycenaean (top left & right, bottom right) Minoan 1600-1500 (bottom center) Mycenaean Crater (above) 13th Century Mycenaean Crater (right) 12th Century Heinrich (above) and Sophie (right) Schliemann Gold vessel from Troy (left) Medieval German Woodcuts Images of Troy Submycenaean Vases ca 1100- 950 BCE Chiron and the Young Achilles (19th cent. engraving by Henri Daumier).