Background to Homer. GREEK TIMELINE Palace Empires: Minoan (Crete): c. 2700-1370 BCE Mycenaean (Peloponnesus): c. 1600-1100 BCE Decline and Fall: Trojan.

Background to Homer

GREEK TIMELINE

Palace Empires:Minoan (Crete): c. 2700-1370 BCE

Mycenaean (Peloponnesus): c. 1600-1100 BCE

Decline and Fall: Trojan War: c. 1100 BCE

raids of the “Sea Peoples”: 1000s BCEDark Age: c. 1000-750 BCEHomer: approx. 750 BCE?

Classical Period: 480-323 BCE

Philosophers: Socrates, Plato, AristotlePlaywrights: Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, AristophanesTransformative Figures: Herodotus, Pericles, Hippocrates

Wars in the 400s: Greece against Persia, then Athens against SpartaAlexander the Great dies in 323 BCE

Map of Ancient Greece

Authors’ Map of Greece

Minoan palace, Knossos, Crete

Minoan (Cretan) bull

Minoan cup bearers

Minoan ivory figurine--bull leaping

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Minoan bee ornament

Minoan snake woman/goddess

Minoan queen’s megaron, Knossos

Mycenae Citadel

Mycenae: Atreus Treasury

Mycenae, beehive dome

Mycenae: Three Deities

Mycenaean grave circle

Troy: excavation phases

Troy: archaeological site

Heinrik Schleimann

Dark Age bard, 700 BCE

Dark Age clay head, Sparta, 700 BCE

Dark Age centaur

Dark Age: bier detail

Ithaca

Ithaca

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

Athena statue, Piraeus

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

The two figures are labeled ATHENAIA and POSEIDON. The inscription down the middle reads AMASIS MEPOIESEN

("Amasis made me"). 6th century BCE.

Poseidon

Poseidon

Odysseus

Odysseus, Sperlonga

Archaic statue of Penelope

Vase painting, Penelope at the loom, with Telemachus

Telemachus, with Mentor?

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

Hermes holding Dionysus,by Praxiteles, 4th century BCE

Hermes

Menelaus reclaiming Helen from Troy

Vase painting of Helen

Helen of Troy, by Evelyn de Morgan, 1898

Homer (?)