The Early Aegean (3000 - 700 BC)

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General
Aegean Prehistoric Archaeology. Jeremy B. Rutter
Aegean Art slides. University of Oklahoma
Ceramic History Tutorials: Crete & Mycenae. Victor Bryant
Jewellery in the Prehistoric Aegean. Hellenic Silver- and Goldsmith Centre (ELKA)
The Origins of Greek Art in the Louvre

Cycladic (3d millennium)
Cycladic Art in the Getty Museum
Cycladic Art in the Metropolitan Museum of New York
Cycladic Art. Wikipedia
Museum of Cycladic Art in Athens

Crete / Minoa (1st half of 2d millennium)
Knossos and the Iraklion Museum. Dilos.com
Minoa, Mycenae, and the Greek Dark Ages. Richard Hooker
Minoan Snake Goddess. Chris Witcombe
The Palace of Knossos 3D Virtual Reality tour. British School at Athens

Troy / Maecenae (2d half of 2d millennium)
Helladic Greece. Richard Baldwin
Hesiod, The Homeric Hymns, and Homerica (tr. Hugh G. Evelyn-White). Project Gutenberg
The Iliad and the Greek Bronze Age. John Porter
The Iliad and The Odyssey (tr. Samuel Butler). Internet Classics Archive
Map of the Late Aegean Bronze Age. University of Oregon
The Trojan War. Wikipedia
Was There a Trojan War? Manfred Korfmann

Geometric Period (early 1st millennium)
Geometric Art in Ancient Greece. The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Geometric Art. Wikipedia

Image Links (click inside)

1. Cycladic (3000 - 2000 BC)

Harp Player

Female Figure

Plastiras Figurine

Cycladic Jug

2. Minoan (2000 - 1400 BC)

Knossos Palace

Snake Goddess

Phaistos Disc

Throne Room

Bull-leaping

Dolphins

Boxing Boys

3. Mycenaean (1500 - 1100 BC)

Octopus Jar

Triad

Stirrup Jar

Beaked Jug

Kylix

"Agamemnon"

Vapheio Cups

4. Geometric Period (900 - 700 BC)

Krater 750-700

Pyxis 750-735

Pyxis c. 800

Bell Idol c. 700

Bronze Horse 8c

[last updated: July 23, 2013]

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