Web07/09/2017 · The Mycenaean civilization flourished in the late Bronze Age from the 15th to the 13th century BCE, and their artists would continue the traditions passed on to them from Minoan Crete. Pottery, frescoes, and goldwork skillfully depicted scenes from nature, religion, hunting, and war.Developing new forms and styles, Mycenaean art would …

WebThe Etruscan civilization (/ ɛ ˈ t r ʌ s k ən /) was developed by a people of Etruria in ancient Italy with a common language and culture who formed a federation of city-states. After conquering adjacent lands, its territory covered at its greatest extent, roughly what is now Tuscany, western Umbria, and northern Lazio, as well as what are now the Po Valley, …

WebThe Greek Dark Ages is the period of Greek history from the end of the Mycenaean palatial civilization, around 1100 BC, to the beginning of the Archaic age, around 750 BC.. Archaeological evidence shows a widespread collapse of Bronze Age civilization in the Eastern Mediterranean world at the outset of the period, as the great palaces and cities …

WebThe figure who came to be known as Atropos had her origins in the pre-Greek Mycenaean religion as a daemon or spirit called Aisa. Much of the Mycenaean religion survived into classical Greece , but it is not known to what extent classical religious belief is Mycenaean, nor how much is a product of the Greek Dark Ages or later.

WebAncient Greek theatre was a theatrical culture that flourished in ancient Greece from 700 BC. The city-state of Athens, which became a significant cultural, political, and religious place during this period, was its centre, where the theatre was institutionalised as part of a festival called the Dionysia, which honoured the god Dionysus. Tragedy (late 500 BC), …

WebThe Vedic religion refers to the religious beliefs of some of the Vedic Indo-Aryan tribes, the aryas, who migrated into the Indus River valley region of the Indian subcontinent after the collapse of the Indus Valley Civilization. The Vedic religion, and subsequent Brahmanism center on the myths and ritual ideologies of the Vedas, as ...

WebMycenaean, Any member of a group of warlike Indo-European peoples who entered Greece from the north starting c. 1900 bc and established a Bronze Age culture on the mainland and nearby islands. Their culture was dependent on that of the Minoans of Crete, who for a time politically dominated them. They threw off Minoan control c. 1400 and were dominant in …

WebKnossos, also spelled Cnossus, city in ancient Crete, capital of the legendary king Minos, and the principal centre of the Minoan, the earliest of the Aegean civilizations (see Minoan civilization). The site of Knossos stands on a knoll between the confluence of two streams and is located about 5 miles (8 km) inland from Crete’s northern coast. Excavations were …

WebEn las excavaciones de Cnosos (), Evans descubrió miles de tablillas de arcilla, cocidas accidentalmente por incendios del palacio.Bautizó esta escritura como «lineal B», puesto que lo estimó más avanzado que el lineal A. [5] En 1953 se produjo el desciframiento del lineal B ―identificado como un tipo de griego antiguo― por Michael Ventris y John …

WebPhoenicia (/ f ə ˈ n ɪ ʃ ə, f ə ˈ n iː ʃ ə /) was an ancient thalassocratic civilization originating in the Levant region of the eastern Mediterranean, primarily located in modern Lebanon. The territory of the Phoenician city-states extended and shrank throughout their history, and they possessed several enclaves such as Arwad and Tell Sukas (modern Syria). The core …