SIR AUTHUR EVANS

-His excavations on the island of Crete revealed a concurrent civilization that he dubbed the "Minoans" after the legendary King of Knossos

-He carefully published his findings in the exhaustive text The palace of Minos at Knossos

Heinrich Schliemann

-Put jewels on wife, made wrong assumption of Troy...and he was the first to dig extensively at the site of Mycenae

-The Bronze Aged people that lived on the mainland of Greece called the "Mycenaens" after this site active ca. 1600-1100 BCE...but this wasn't the only Bronze Civilization in Greece

The Cyladic Culture

-Much earlier ca. 3000-2000 BCE

-No writing whatsoever

-No large towns

-Only a relative chronology is possible

-Valuable volcanic obsidian

-Abundant Marble

Example of Contrapposto

Red shows tensed muscles

Blue shows relaxed muscles

Left = Doric Order

Middle = Ionic Order

Right = Corinthian Order