Image identification CLCIV 101 midterm umich

1. Cnossus storage room

2. Minoan

3. Cnossus/Crete

4. Palace economy - product stored in palace then redistributed

1. Ship procession, minoan economy

2. Minoan

3. Akrotiri (island off of Greece)

4. Illustrates Minoan economy - trade in the sea (Thalassocracy)

1. Bees pendant

2. Minoan

3. Mallia

4. shows metalwork, artistry of the time

1. 'Parsienne' ?

2. Minoan

3. idk

4. idk

1. Minoan snake goddess

2. Minoan

3. Crete?

4. Talk about Minoan religion

1. Fresco of Minoan bull jumping

2. Minoan

3. Cnossos/Crete

4. importance of bulls/nature in general to minoans. Could also talk about maze/labyrinth and minotaurs

1. Lions gate at Mycenae

2. Mycenaean

3. Mycenae

4. Importance of fortifications/protecting the city. Talk about the military focus of the Mycenaens

1. Dagger blade

2. Mycenaean

3. Mycenae

4. Importance of warfare to this society. Also talk about full body shields

1. Linear A clay tablet

2. Minoan

3. Crete

4. Minoan writing is NOT greek

(this is the only pic of Linear A, every other tablet is Linear B)

1. Linear B clay tablet

2. Mycenaean

3. Crete

4. Mycenaeans wrote in greek! Contents are mostly palace records, not private, but only bureaucratic use of writing

1. Dipylon Vase

2. Dark ages ('renaissance')

3. Greece? idk

4. writing says 'whoever of the dancers dances most delicately, to him this [prize will be given]?'

talk about the alphabet

1. Bard playing the lyre (multiple pics that look very similar)

2. Mycenaean

3. Pylos

4. illustrates concept of oral poetry. Poetry was performed not read, no fixed text.

1. Mask of Agamemnon

2. Mycenaean

3. Mycenae

4. discovered by Heinrich Schliemann, made of gold, idk

1. Warrior's vase

2. Late Mycenaean

3. Mycenae

4. shields in late Mycenaean time and dark ages are round instead of the full body ones from earlier in the Mycenaean time period

1. Boar's tusk helmet

2. Mycenaean

3. Crete (other boar tusk helmets are from Mycenae)

4. high value (not as productive as metal helmets). Signature of Mycenaean warfare

1. Boar hunt fresco

2. Mycenaean

3. Tiryns (close to Mycenae)

4. way to assert dominance? no fukin clue

1. Blinding of Polyphemus from the Odyssey

2. Archaic

3. idk, probably Greece

4. shows discrepancies in the homeric poems; the heroes fight with bronze, but the poet knows iron (uses it as a metaphor)

1. Priam begging Achilles for the body of Hector (red-figure vase)

2. Archaic

3. Athens (pretty sure)

4. from the Iliad, idk

1. Euphronios, Hermes directing Sleep and Death as they bear Sarpedon (krater)

2. Archaic

3. Greece probably

4. Shows how gods cannot control human fate/destiny

1. Cloebis and Biton statues

2. Archaic

3. Delphi

4. 2nd happiest people, blessed w an early death

1. Neoptolemus kills Priam who is a suppliant on Zeus altar

2. Archaic

3. Greece probably

4. Neoptolemus breaks the rules by disrespecting (killing) a suppliant, not a good thing to do (miasma, nemesis)

1. Killing (sacrifice) of a boar on a red-figure cup

2. Archaic

3. Greece probably

4. Anything w animal sacrifice = most important practice in greek religion, 'offering' to the gods, followed by communal eating

1. Hoplite helmet

2. Archaic

3. Greece probably

4. Soldiers have a bronze helmet, long heavy spear, short sword, hoplon. Idk significance

1. The Chigi Vase

2. Archaic period

3. idk probably Greece

4. illustrates concept of Hoplite warfare

1. Archaic Tetradrachm (silver coin)

2. Archaic

3. Athens

4. One of the first uses of coins, minted by Pisitratus, illustrates some of the reforms in Athens

1. Scene from the life in the palaistra (crater by Euphornius)

2. Archaic

3. greece probably

4. illustrates the palaistra, idk

1. Female athlete (spartan?)

2. Archaic

3. Greece, probably Sparta

4. shows the increased level of freedom for spartan women compared to other greek women. They trained in athletics, dancing, and music

1. Relief of the North Stairs of the Apadana (Darius)

2. Archaic?

3. Persepolis

4. Illustrates the act of Proskynēsis towards Darius, Persian tradition

1. Greek Satyr (Attic red-figure cup)

2. Archaic

3. Attica?

4. idk

1. Dionysus (amphora by Cleophrades painter)

2. Archaic

3. Greece idk

4. good illustration of the defining features/appearance of Dionysus