Q: Was there a Trojan War? Compare the literary with the archaeological evidence. "...in that matter of Wilusa over which we were at enmity." Despite the continuing debate‚ the literary and archaeological evidence indicates that there was a Trojan War. The reality of this war however‚ was not the epic conflict as narrated by Homer‚ but more likely part of an ongoing enmity between the Mycenaean ’s and the Hittites. Troy was a wealthy city‚ well placed at the mouth of the Hellespont in the
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life of Electra. In Sophocles’s version‚ the play opens with Orestes learning his fate from the Pythian Oracle; he must revenge his father’s death unarmed and alone. He sends his pedagogue Pylades‚ as a spy‚ to learn about the situation in Mycenae. Electra mourns for her father’s death. She is unable to avenge her father’s murders without the help of Orestes‚ her brother. She is also mad about how her mother and her lover waste her father’s riches and desecrate his name. Her half-sister
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Troy. . According to Homer‚ the aforementioned coalition consisted of leaders from distinct areas of the Mycenaean world including Pylos‚ Tiryns‚ and Thebes (The Iliad Book II ). These rulers were characterized as being subordinate to Agamemnon of Mycenae‚ a figure which can be viewed as the supreme allied commander of Mycenaean forces in the struggle against Troy- a leader whose clout over his neighbors was amplified in times of war (Palmer 1961). However‚ the Trojans ’ struggle was not hopeless.
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Essay #1 The Palace of Knossos‚ a Minoan mud brick and timber structure on a shallow stone foundation‚ featuring a central courtyard‚ was constructed on an acropolis. It was a place for rulers to reside‚ shrines for religious ceremonies to be worshipped‚ the industrial production of objects‚ and administrative duties. Ample hallways‚ stairways‚ chambers‚ and light wells supplemented the ambitiously built structure. There were plenty of columns to mark he four awe inspiring entrance passages
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Aegean Art and Architecture Several closely related but distinct cultures developed on islands and peninsular adjacent to the Aegean in the third and second millennia BCE. The Cycladic culture was named for the islands forming an irregular circle north of Crete. The culture on the mainland is called Helladic. Together these separate cultures forms the civilization known as Aegean. Until the second half of the nineteenth century‚ much of the civilization was known from the Iliad and the Odyssey
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in his life. An example of her hatred is when she made sure that Heracles was to not be given his birthright‚ “when Hercules was about to be born‚ Zeus declared among the gods that the descendant of Perseus then about to be born would reign over Mycenae‚ and Hera out of jealousy persuaded the Ilithyias to retard Alcmena’s delivery‚ and contrived that Eurystheus‚ son of Sthenelus‚ should be born a seven-month child.” This family relationship can be classified as a evil stepmother hating her new stepson
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cowardly cousin Aegisthus‚ Agamemnon portrays him as cold and arrogant while his wife is a more sympathetic character and is reasonably justified in her actions. Agamemnon is the son of Atreus‚ nephew of Thyestes‚ brother of Menelaus and king of Mycenae. Prior to the tale in question‚ Agamemnon travels to Troy to rescue his brother’s wife
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dominate the shores and islands of the Aegean Sea | Crete | Largest and most populous of the Greek isle | Mycenaeans | Was a cultural period of Bronze Age Greece taking its name from the archaeological site of Mycenae in northeastern Argolis‚ in the Peloponnese of southern Greece | Mycenae my-see-nee | An Archaeological site in Greece‚ located about 90 Km southwest of Athens‚ in the north-eastern Peloponnese Argos is 11 km south | Dorians | One of the four major Greek into which the Ancient Greeks
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Schliemann The Terrible Father of Archaeology A terrible father impacts his child in one of two ways‚ either the child grows up to mirror the father or the child learns from the fathers mistakes and becomes a much better parent as a result. Hienrich Schliemann was a war profiteer. After getting rich he wanted to be taken seriously by the scientific community so he turned to archaeology. A stubborn man‚ a compulsive liar‚ a teller of tall tales‚ and a con artist he caused irreparable damage to
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which made him kill his wife and children. In horror and remorse at what he did‚ Hercules was about to kill himself. But he was told by the oracle at Delphi that he should purge himself by becoming the servant of his cousin Eurystheus‚ king of Mycenae. Eurystheus‚ urged by Hera‚ planned as a punishment the 12 impossible tasks‚ the "Labors of Hercules." The Twelve Labors The first task was to kill the lion of Nemea‚ a lion that could not be hurt by any weapon. Hercules knocked out the lion with
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