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Minoan Palace

1. Knossos, Crete

2. 1900-1450 BCE

3. Purpose: Center for religious ceremonies and administration

4. Structure: Featured a central courtyard for ceremonies; filled with frescoes indicating assemblies

5. Significance: Highlights the focus on religious practices in Greek society

Mycenaean Palace

1. Pylos

2. 1450-1200 BCE

3. Purpose: Similar to Minoan, used for religious and storage needs.

4. Structure: Included a Megaron (main hall with a hearth and throne) and fortifications for defense

5. Significance: Reflects both religious and militaristic aspects of Mycenaean society to protect themselves 

Linear B tablets

1. Pylos, Mycenae, Thebes

2. 1450-1550 BCE

3. Purpose: Earliest form of Greek writing 

4. Content: Records of offerings to gods (e.g., Zeus, Hera) and phonetic syllables of the first writing system 

5. Significance: Provides insight into Greek culture and communication methods

“Chief’s House”

1. Nichoria

2. 10th-9th century BCE (proto-gemetric)

3. Purpose: Indicates social standings post-collapse of palaces

4. Structure: Home of elites with ascribed status ( passed down or handed to them by gods vs Big Man who had to achieve through war or conquest)

5. Significance: Demonstrates the importance of inherited status in society

The Toumba (or “Heroon”)

1. Lekfandi

2. 1050-900 BCE (Proto-geometric)

3. Purpose: Burial site for the wealthy and powerful

4. Features: Included luxuries and imported goods(horses, jewelry)  serving as shrines

5. Significance: Illustrates how the elite were honored similarly to heroes

Cup of Nestor

1. Pithekoussai

2. 735 BCE

3. Purpose: Artifact referenced in the Iliad

4. Significance: Highlights contradictions between literary representation and actual artifacts; reflects evolving writing styles.

5. Evolving writing styles from phoneecias 

Plan of Megara Hyblaia

1. Sicily

2. 8th century BCE

3. Apokia was founded (a settlement away from home)

4. Colonies sending out other colonies 

5. Settlement 

6. Developments of greek expansion 

7. Exploring territories (largest colonies greek development) 

Mantiklos Apollo

1. Thebes

2. 700-650 BCE

3. Purpose: Votive statue to Apollo

4. Style: Daedalic, geometric shapes rather than humanistic forms

5. Significance: Represents the relationship between Greeks and their gods (asking for a favor in return for dedication)

Warrior panoply

1. Argos

2. 720 BCE

3. Purpose: burying weapons and armor with the warriors 

4. Features: 

5. Significance: 

6. Guest friendship or hospitality 

Law on the Iteration of the kosmos

1. Dreros, Crete

2. 650 BCE

3. Purpose: First written law in city-states limiting officials' power

4. Feature: Kosmos and how they are officials who have some form of authority in city states however they have a term limit which has never been seen in any law writings

5. Significance: Introduces concepts of term limits and accountability in governance.

Lydian Coinage

1. Lydia

2. 6th-7th century BCE

3. Purpose: Facilitated trade in Ancient Greece.

4. Features: Coins made from local minerals with seals (lion) indicating value.

5. Significance: Advances in trade technology and economic practices.

Hearth Temple

1. Dreros, Crete

2. 750 BCE

3. Purpose: First temple structure in Greece.

4. Features: Small structures housing statues of gods.

5. Significance: Marks a new way of honoring god/goddesses 

Temple of Artemis

1. Ephesus

2. 560 BCE

3. Purpose: Large temple structure

4. Features: Numerous columns and distinctive architectural elements(moldings) brightly painted 

5. Significance: Represents evolution in temple design(ionic  order)

Phrasikleia kore

1. Merenda in East Attica

2. 540 BCE

3. Purpose: First dedicated female statue found in a sanctuary

4. Feature: clothing/ The are used as sanctuary decoration or as funerary monuments

5. Significance: More humanistic representation and reflects the status of women.

Kroisos kouros

1. Attica

2. 530 BCE

3. Purpose: Statue of a young man

4. Features: naked man(heroism)  in a power stance 

5. Significance: Displays a shift towards more realistic human forms in art

6. Horrible death 

Plan of the Panhellenic Sanctuary

1. Olympia

2. 8th century BCE

3. Purpose: Venue for festivals and the Olympic Games

4. Feature: temple, treasuries, panelophina pelos (chariot race)

5. Significance: Symbolizes Greek unity and social stratification through economic participation.

Old Bouleuterion

1. Athens

2. 500 BCE

3. Purpose: Meeting place for the council of 500

4. Features: large structure used to fit all these people with one center stage 

5. Significance: Reflects the development of a new democratic structure in governance

6. Doic order (not temple) 

Ostraca from the Athenian agora

1. Athens

2. 508-507 BCE

3. Purpose: Method for ostracism to prevent tyranny

4. Significance: Introduces a system of checks and balances in governance.

Great Code of Gortyn

1. Crete

2. 500 BCE

3. Purpose: The EXTENSIVE legal law comes from Gortyn that is written in a curved wall

4. Features: Divorce, ownership of people, inheritance, marriage of heiress 

5. Significance: Evolution of law and how law now includes women

Tumulus at Marathon

1. Marathon

2. 490 BCE

3. Purpose: Memorial for soldiers who died in battle.

4. Significance: Honors bravery and reflects societal values following the Persian Wars.

5. These men received an Aristocratic burial for elites but they deserve to be celebrated in a heroic way. 

6. The Persians war only changed Greek and the society as it allowed Greece to become more powerful and build up.