Chapter Summary

After reading Chapter 4, you should be able to:

• Compare Cycladic culture with Minoan and Mycenaean culture.

• Identify all the works and define the terms in the chapter.

• Relate the myths associated with Minoan and Mycenaean cultures.

• Describe the Minoan painting style, Minoan architecture, and Minoan pottery.

• Compare Minoan post and lintel to that of Persia.

• Give the evidence for contacts between Egypt and Crete, and between Crete and Mycenae.

• Discuss the Theran frescoes.

• Draw and label the plan of the Mycenaean megaron.

• Describe Mycenaean architecture, especially the tholos and the Lion Gate.

• Locate Mycenae, Thera, the Cyclades, Crete, and Knossos on a map.