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Heroic Age
Greek civilization began in Crete
o Rugged mountainous island located sixty miles south of mainland Greece
3000 BC
o a remarkable culture had developed
Minoan
o Established by 3000 BC
o Peaceful
o name for this civilization
o after legendary king Minos of Crete
supposedly sacrificed twelve young men and women each year to
feed a half man, half bull monster
called the Minotaur
Mycenaean culture
1. Flourished between 1500 and 2000 B.C. on the Greek mainland
2. Known as Heroic Age
o greek civilization began in crete
rugged mountainous island located sixty miles south of mainland
greece
Minoan civilization
mycenaean culture- 1500-1200 bc
aggressive and enterprising
king agamemnon - 1250bc- expedition of the city of troy in asia minor
homer immortalized the heros of this trojan war in the iliad four
centuries later
The Epic Age
earliest surviving works of Greek poetry are two epics
o known as Iliad and Odyssey
o both attributed to a blind storyteller
Homer
Greeks developed a script for their language known as the alphabet based
on the Phoenicians
called a polis
ruled by a king
institutions