121  Clash of Cultures (Powell Ch. 2) 

——|———————||————|——|——--<CE>—————|———————| 3M

            2m                         1m                                           1m                2m                 (you are here)

            Mid to late                                Classical

            Bronze Age                             480-323

              Mycenean Age                                Hellenistic (after Alexander, d.324)

    (ca. 1600-1200—to Fall of Troy)                             Roman

                                    Dark Age  (Dorians and 'Sea Peoples')

                                                 12-800

                                                            Archaic (8-ca500)

 

 

Myceneans (Achaeans)

Indo-European

bronze weapons & tools

sky-god

borrowed script, Linear-B …..[exx tu  vine leaf, and za  ankh or female symbol]

vs.  Indigenous

(non-IE)

largely Neolithic

earth mother   

(none) 

and Minoans

(non-IE)

advanced arts & seafaring

earth mother

'Linear-A'

 

 

Questions re. Greek society:  (from p.33)

polis  (citizenship)

oikos

Greek marriage and sexuality