Study Notes - Update 2/3/98

In class, we have been discussing Bronze Age architecture; unfortunately, none of our texts highlights this era's buildings. However, you can find some examples (perhaps you have already). Below are those that I've found in two of our texts:

from Ancient Greece by Thomas Martin.....
figure title period provenance
3 West House Middle/Late Cycladic Akrotiri, Thera 
4 Houses and Streets Middle/Late Minoan Gournia, Crete
5 Throne Room (Palace of Minos) Middle/Late Minoan Knossos, Crete
 

Gournia: MM/LM town site overlooking the Bay of Mirabello.
 

 

Gournia: Top of site; court at middle right............ Gournia: Houses & Streets (notice steps)


from Sinclair Hood's The Arts in Prehistoric Crete
figure title period provenance
77 Grave Circle A (Citadel) Late Helladic Mycenae
82 Lion Gate (Citadel) Late Helladic III Mycenae