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Page 1: Background to Homer. GREEK TIMELINE Palace Empires: Minoan (Crete): c. 2700-1370 BCE Mycenaean (Peloponnesus): c. 1600-1100 BCE Decline and Fall: Trojan

Background to Homer

Page 2: Background to Homer. GREEK TIMELINE Palace Empires: Minoan (Crete): c. 2700-1370 BCE Mycenaean (Peloponnesus): c. 1600-1100 BCE Decline and Fall: Trojan

GREEK TIMELINE

Palace Empires:Minoan (Crete): c. 2700-1370 BCE

Mycenaean (Peloponnesus): c. 1600-1100 BCE

Decline and Fall: Trojan War: c. 1100 BCE

raids of the “Sea Peoples”: 1000s BCEDark Age: c. 1000-750 BCEHomer: approx. 750 BCE?

Classical Period: 480-323 BCE

Philosophers: Socrates, Plato, AristotlePlaywrights: Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, AristophanesTransformative Figures: Herodotus, Pericles, Hippocrates

Wars in the 400s: Greece against Persia, then Athens against SpartaAlexander the Great dies in 323 BCE

Page 3: Background to Homer. GREEK TIMELINE Palace Empires: Minoan (Crete): c. 2700-1370 BCE Mycenaean (Peloponnesus): c. 1600-1100 BCE Decline and Fall: Trojan

Map of Ancient Greece

Page 4: Background to Homer. GREEK TIMELINE Palace Empires: Minoan (Crete): c. 2700-1370 BCE Mycenaean (Peloponnesus): c. 1600-1100 BCE Decline and Fall: Trojan

Authors’ Map of Greece

Page 5: Background to Homer. GREEK TIMELINE Palace Empires: Minoan (Crete): c. 2700-1370 BCE Mycenaean (Peloponnesus): c. 1600-1100 BCE Decline and Fall: Trojan

Minoan palace, Knossos, Crete

Page 6: Background to Homer. GREEK TIMELINE Palace Empires: Minoan (Crete): c. 2700-1370 BCE Mycenaean (Peloponnesus): c. 1600-1100 BCE Decline and Fall: Trojan

Minoan (Cretan) bull

Page 7: Background to Homer. GREEK TIMELINE Palace Empires: Minoan (Crete): c. 2700-1370 BCE Mycenaean (Peloponnesus): c. 1600-1100 BCE Decline and Fall: Trojan

Minoan cup bearers

Page 8: Background to Homer. GREEK TIMELINE Palace Empires: Minoan (Crete): c. 2700-1370 BCE Mycenaean (Peloponnesus): c. 1600-1100 BCE Decline and Fall: Trojan

Minoan ivory figurine--bull leaping

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Page 9: Background to Homer. GREEK TIMELINE Palace Empires: Minoan (Crete): c. 2700-1370 BCE Mycenaean (Peloponnesus): c. 1600-1100 BCE Decline and Fall: Trojan

Minoan bee ornament

Page 10: Background to Homer. GREEK TIMELINE Palace Empires: Minoan (Crete): c. 2700-1370 BCE Mycenaean (Peloponnesus): c. 1600-1100 BCE Decline and Fall: Trojan

Minoan snake woman/goddess

Page 11: Background to Homer. GREEK TIMELINE Palace Empires: Minoan (Crete): c. 2700-1370 BCE Mycenaean (Peloponnesus): c. 1600-1100 BCE Decline and Fall: Trojan

Minoan queen’s megaron, Knossos

Page 12: Background to Homer. GREEK TIMELINE Palace Empires: Minoan (Crete): c. 2700-1370 BCE Mycenaean (Peloponnesus): c. 1600-1100 BCE Decline and Fall: Trojan

Mycenae Citadel

Page 13: Background to Homer. GREEK TIMELINE Palace Empires: Minoan (Crete): c. 2700-1370 BCE Mycenaean (Peloponnesus): c. 1600-1100 BCE Decline and Fall: Trojan

Mycenae: Atreus Treasury

Page 14: Background to Homer. GREEK TIMELINE Palace Empires: Minoan (Crete): c. 2700-1370 BCE Mycenaean (Peloponnesus): c. 1600-1100 BCE Decline and Fall: Trojan

Mycenae, beehive dome

Page 15: Background to Homer. GREEK TIMELINE Palace Empires: Minoan (Crete): c. 2700-1370 BCE Mycenaean (Peloponnesus): c. 1600-1100 BCE Decline and Fall: Trojan

Mycenae: Three Deities

Page 16: Background to Homer. GREEK TIMELINE Palace Empires: Minoan (Crete): c. 2700-1370 BCE Mycenaean (Peloponnesus): c. 1600-1100 BCE Decline and Fall: Trojan

Mycenaean grave circle

Page 17: Background to Homer. GREEK TIMELINE Palace Empires: Minoan (Crete): c. 2700-1370 BCE Mycenaean (Peloponnesus): c. 1600-1100 BCE Decline and Fall: Trojan

Troy: excavation phases

Page 18: Background to Homer. GREEK TIMELINE Palace Empires: Minoan (Crete): c. 2700-1370 BCE Mycenaean (Peloponnesus): c. 1600-1100 BCE Decline and Fall: Trojan

Troy: archaeological site

Page 19: Background to Homer. GREEK TIMELINE Palace Empires: Minoan (Crete): c. 2700-1370 BCE Mycenaean (Peloponnesus): c. 1600-1100 BCE Decline and Fall: Trojan

Heinrik Schleimann

Page 20: Background to Homer. GREEK TIMELINE Palace Empires: Minoan (Crete): c. 2700-1370 BCE Mycenaean (Peloponnesus): c. 1600-1100 BCE Decline and Fall: Trojan

Dark Age bard, 700 BCE

Page 21: Background to Homer. GREEK TIMELINE Palace Empires: Minoan (Crete): c. 2700-1370 BCE Mycenaean (Peloponnesus): c. 1600-1100 BCE Decline and Fall: Trojan

Dark Age clay head, Sparta, 700 BCE

Page 22: Background to Homer. GREEK TIMELINE Palace Empires: Minoan (Crete): c. 2700-1370 BCE Mycenaean (Peloponnesus): c. 1600-1100 BCE Decline and Fall: Trojan

Dark Age centaur

Page 23: Background to Homer. GREEK TIMELINE Palace Empires: Minoan (Crete): c. 2700-1370 BCE Mycenaean (Peloponnesus): c. 1600-1100 BCE Decline and Fall: Trojan

Dark Age: bier detail

Page 24: Background to Homer. GREEK TIMELINE Palace Empires: Minoan (Crete): c. 2700-1370 BCE Mycenaean (Peloponnesus): c. 1600-1100 BCE Decline and Fall: Trojan

Ithaca

Page 25: Background to Homer. GREEK TIMELINE Palace Empires: Minoan (Crete): c. 2700-1370 BCE Mycenaean (Peloponnesus): c. 1600-1100 BCE Decline and Fall: Trojan

Ithaca

Page 26: Background to Homer. GREEK TIMELINE Palace Empires: Minoan (Crete): c. 2700-1370 BCE Mycenaean (Peloponnesus): c. 1600-1100 BCE Decline and Fall: Trojan

The world of the Odyssey recreated by Bibi Saint-Pol, based on Provensen map

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c5/Homer_world_map-en.svg

Page 27: Background to Homer. GREEK TIMELINE Palace Empires: Minoan (Crete): c. 2700-1370 BCE Mycenaean (Peloponnesus): c. 1600-1100 BCE Decline and Fall: Trojan

Athena statue, Piraeus

Page 28: Background to Homer. GREEK TIMELINE Palace Empires: Minoan (Crete): c. 2700-1370 BCE Mycenaean (Peloponnesus): c. 1600-1100 BCE Decline and Fall: Trojan

Mourning Athena, Acropolis museum Athens, 5th C. BCE

Page 29: Background to Homer. GREEK TIMELINE Palace Empires: Minoan (Crete): c. 2700-1370 BCE Mycenaean (Peloponnesus): c. 1600-1100 BCE Decline and Fall: Trojan

The two figures are labeled ATHENAIA and POSEIDON. The inscription down the middle reads AMASIS MEPOIESEN

("Amasis made me"). 6th century BCE.

Page 30: Background to Homer. GREEK TIMELINE Palace Empires: Minoan (Crete): c. 2700-1370 BCE Mycenaean (Peloponnesus): c. 1600-1100 BCE Decline and Fall: Trojan

Poseidon

Page 31: Background to Homer. GREEK TIMELINE Palace Empires: Minoan (Crete): c. 2700-1370 BCE Mycenaean (Peloponnesus): c. 1600-1100 BCE Decline and Fall: Trojan

Poseidon

Page 32: Background to Homer. GREEK TIMELINE Palace Empires: Minoan (Crete): c. 2700-1370 BCE Mycenaean (Peloponnesus): c. 1600-1100 BCE Decline and Fall: Trojan

Odysseus

Page 33: Background to Homer. GREEK TIMELINE Palace Empires: Minoan (Crete): c. 2700-1370 BCE Mycenaean (Peloponnesus): c. 1600-1100 BCE Decline and Fall: Trojan

Odysseus, Sperlonga

Page 34: Background to Homer. GREEK TIMELINE Palace Empires: Minoan (Crete): c. 2700-1370 BCE Mycenaean (Peloponnesus): c. 1600-1100 BCE Decline and Fall: Trojan

Archaic statue of Penelope

Page 35: Background to Homer. GREEK TIMELINE Palace Empires: Minoan (Crete): c. 2700-1370 BCE Mycenaean (Peloponnesus): c. 1600-1100 BCE Decline and Fall: Trojan

Vase painting, Penelope at the loom, with Telemachus

Page 36: Background to Homer. GREEK TIMELINE Palace Empires: Minoan (Crete): c. 2700-1370 BCE Mycenaean (Peloponnesus): c. 1600-1100 BCE Decline and Fall: Trojan

Telemachus, with Mentor?

Page 37: Background to Homer. GREEK TIMELINE Palace Empires: Minoan (Crete): c. 2700-1370 BCE Mycenaean (Peloponnesus): c. 1600-1100 BCE Decline and Fall: Trojan

The Sirens, Athenian vase, c. 5th century BCE

Page 38: Background to Homer. GREEK TIMELINE Palace Empires: Minoan (Crete): c. 2700-1370 BCE Mycenaean (Peloponnesus): c. 1600-1100 BCE Decline and Fall: Trojan

Hermes holding Dionysus,by Praxiteles, 4th century BCE

Page 39: Background to Homer. GREEK TIMELINE Palace Empires: Minoan (Crete): c. 2700-1370 BCE Mycenaean (Peloponnesus): c. 1600-1100 BCE Decline and Fall: Trojan

Hermes

Page 40: Background to Homer. GREEK TIMELINE Palace Empires: Minoan (Crete): c. 2700-1370 BCE Mycenaean (Peloponnesus): c. 1600-1100 BCE Decline and Fall: Trojan

Menelaus reclaiming Helen from Troy

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Page 41: Background to Homer. GREEK TIMELINE Palace Empires: Minoan (Crete): c. 2700-1370 BCE Mycenaean (Peloponnesus): c. 1600-1100 BCE Decline and Fall: Trojan

Vase painting of Helen

Page 42: Background to Homer. GREEK TIMELINE Palace Empires: Minoan (Crete): c. 2700-1370 BCE Mycenaean (Peloponnesus): c. 1600-1100 BCE Decline and Fall: Trojan

Helen of Troy, by Evelyn de Morgan, 1898

Page 43: Background to Homer. GREEK TIMELINE Palace Empires: Minoan (Crete): c. 2700-1370 BCE Mycenaean (Peloponnesus): c. 1600-1100 BCE Decline and Fall: Trojan

Homer (?)

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