Aegean Civilisation in the Bronze Age

compulsory

1st cycle

The main aim of the lecture is to introduce most important cultures and social and political structures, which were developed during the Bronze Age in the Aegean. It will be stressed the role played by the Mycenaean culture for the development of European civilization. There will be also discussed the main archaeological sites of the Aegean Bronze Age.

Year 2

The lecture focuses on cultural processes going on in the Aegean during the Bronze Age: beginning of Minoan culture, its classical phase and down, relationships with Mycenaean culture, significant of Mycenaean culture for the beginnings of European civilization, an exchange and trade of Aegean with other regions of the Near East and Europe, also with the northern and central part of the continent.

Lewartowski K., Ulanowska A., Archeologia egejska. Grecja od paleolitu po wczesną epokę żelaza, Warszawa 1999. Dickinson O., The Aegean Bronze Age, Cambridge 1994. Press L., Kultura wysp cykladzkich w epoce brązu, Warszawa 1986. Harding A., The Mycenaeans and Europe, London 1984.

Class participation, in-class presentations, exam.