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Cycladic Harp-Player (2700-2300BCE)

Paleolithic and Neolithic

Communities

The Franchthi Cave

18000BCE - 3200BCE,

Pottery from

Neolithic

Dimini (5300-

3300BCE),

Early Helladic Cemetery at

Tsepi (3000 – 2000BCE),

Rekhmire Tomb (ca.1400BCE) in Egypt,

left ) Cycladic Figurine from Naxos, Plastiras Type,3200-2800BCE, 

middle ) Cycladic Figurine, Spedos type, 2600-2500BCE

right ) Cycaldic Figurine from Crete, Koumasa Type, 2800-2200BCE,

Harvester Vase,

Hagia Triada,

1500BCE,

King’s Throne at Knossos - restored by Emile Gilliéron and Piet de Jong,

Fresco of the Dolphins, Knossos –

Minoan Religion

Snake Goddesses,

Crete, ca.1600BC.

Gold Signet ring from

Knossos, 1450BCE,

Bull-leaping Fresco, Knossos,

Minoan Bull Leapers

top ) Minoan Bull-Leaper1750-1400BCE Bronze, Knossos

botttom) Gold Ring with Minoan, Bull-Leaper, 1450-1375BCE, Knossos,

Grandstand Fresco at Knossos (ca. 1500BCE),

Hagia Triada

Sarcophagus

ca. 1400BCE,

The ‘Mask of Agamemnon’, Gold, Mycenae, 1500BCE, ‘Mask of Agamemnon’ (Mycenae, 1500 BCE) —

Spring

Fresco

Akrotiri,

ca. 1650BCE,

Flotilla

Fresco

detail from

Akrotiri,

ca.1650BC,

North Wall Frieze

from West House,

Akrotiri, ca.

1650BCE,

Boar Hunt

Fresco

Tiryns,

ca. 13th

century BCE,

Mycenean Soldiers on the Warrior Vase ca.1200BCE,

Mycenaean armor in Hittite art

left ) Mycenaean gold leaf breastplate, inimitation of bronze at Royal Shaft Grave V at Mycenae (ca.1500BC)

right ) Similar breast protection on this Mycenaean warrior inscribed on a Hittite clay vessel from ca. 1350BC found in Bogazkoy,

Lion Gate

Mycenae,

‘Treasury of Atreus’ Tholos Tomb (1300-1250BCE) at Mycenae,

Mycenaean Wealth

Cups from Mycenae.

Ca., 1500BCE,

Mycenaean Wealth

Lion Hunt dagger from shaft grave IV,

Mycenae

1550-1500BCE,

Mycenaean Writing

Linear B – Deciphered by Michael Ventris in 1952 (building on work

of Alice Kober),

Warrior

Fresco

Pylos

ca. 1250BCE

Reconstruction

by Piet de Jong,

Pendants made of gold, lapis lazuli and glass

depict Egyptian goddess Hathor.

Palace of Nestor at Pylos, ca. 1400BCEm\,

Tomb of the

Griffin Warrior

Gold ring

depicting bull-

leaping.

Ca., 1450BCE,

Tomb of the

Griffin

Warrior

Gold ring

depicting

women before

a shrine

ca. 1450BCE,

Tomb of the

Griffin Warrior

Agate stone from Pylos depicting a man looming over a lion.

Pylos.

Ca. 1630- 1440BCE,

Protogeometric Amphora from the Ceramicus cemetery in Athens, Ca. 975-950BCE,

The Sea

Peoples

Peleset Prisoners – Stone relief at

Ramses III’s

temple at

Medinet Habu

(Egypt),

Early Iron Age sites

in Greece

a) Nichoria Chieftain’s House

ca. 1050BCE,

Iron Age sites in

Greece

b) Lefkandi

Heroön ca., 975BCE,

Lefkandi Centaur

(Cheiron?)

Found in grave site at

Lefkandi

– ca.900 BCE,

 Nestor’s Cup - Found at Pithekoussai in Italy ca. 720 BCE

“I am the cup of Nestor good for drinking.

Whoever drinks from this cup, desire for beautifully

crowned Aphrodite will seize him instantly.”,

The Blinding

of the Cyclops

Sperlonga

Museum of

Archaeology.

Italy,

Tablet with instructions for the deceased in the Underworld. 350-300BCE,

• Siren Vase:

Detail of Red-

Figure Stamnos.

480BCE.

• British Museum,

London.,

Athena born from the head of Zeus, with Eileithyia

(goddess of childbirth).Black-figured amphora.

550BCE. Louvre Museum, Paris,

Early 6th century BCE Black

Figure Kylix showing Eris

(=Strife),

1. The Development of Pan-Hellenic Games

i) Early Olympia – Western Peloponnesian Rural Cult

Animal Figurines Dedicated at Olympia

2. The Iconography of the Festival of Zeus

West Pediment - Lapiths and Centaurs,

2. The Iconography of the Festival of Zeus

East Pediment - Zeus, Pelops and Oinomaos,

2. The Iconography of the

Festival of Zeus

Metopes – Heracles Cleaning the

Stables of Augeas (King of Elis),

Isonomia – The Democratic Discourse of Equality

i) Rules and Objectivity,

5. Isonomia – The Democratic Discourse of Equality

iii) The hysplex and the hoplitodromos

Temple of Apollo at Delphi,

The Omphalos. Marble Late 1st century CE,

Early Cult Activity at Delphi (12c. BCE)

Late Myceanean

Terracotta Female

Figurines from the

sanctuary of Athena

Pronaia at Delphi.

Stylised clay grave

offerings from chamber

tombs in the sanctuary

repurposed and

dedicated when temple

of Athena built in 7th

century BCE,

 Aigeus, the mythical king of Athens, seeks an oracle from

Themis, seated on a tripod in the sanctuary at Delphi.

• Red figure Kylix by the Kodros

painter (ca 440 BE)

Cult of Apollo Pythios ca. 900BCE, with a

village established by 860BCE and cult

dedications increasingly thereafter.

Oracular dedications to Apollo increase

dramatically in 7th century BCE, with

dedications from around the Greek world

and beyond.,

• Apollo welcomes Dionysus at

Delphi, above the omphalos.

• Red figure krater by the Kadmos

Painter.

• Early 4th century BCE, visual play between order (Apollo) and ecstatic (Dionysus), showing religious complexity and tolerance for paradox.

Tholos in the Sanctuary of Athena Pronaia, 

Sphinx of Naxians, originally atop a tall column. Dedicated to Sanctuary ca. 560BCE.,

Athenian Treasury Delphi

Delphi and the Pythian Games

Mousikoi Agones –

Attic Red Figure Krater. 5th century BCE. Hermes leads Persephone forth from the underworld to be greeted by Hekate and her mother Demeter,

Marble Votive Relief found at Eleusis – Showing (L-R) Demeter, Triptolemos and

Persephone. Date 440BCE

Marble Pinax of Persephone and Hades found in Sanctuary of Persephone in Locri, Sicily.

Early 5th century BCE,

Ninnion Tablet. Red Clay. Circa 370BCE. Found at Eleusis – Only known represention of Eleusinian Procession and Initation Rites

Odysseus summoning the shades. Lucanian Red-Figure Calyx-Crater. 390BCE.,