• Exploring Mycenaean Greece – Culture, Kingdoms and the Historical Context of the Trojan War

  • Jan 25 2024
  • Length: 1 hr and 31 mins
  • Podcast

Exploring Mycenaean Greece – Culture, Kingdoms and the Historical Context of the Trojan War

  • Summary

  • In this video we'll journey back to the late Bronze Age and explore Mycenaean Civilization in Greece and the wider Aegean world. We'll also delve into the historical events that may have led to armed conflicts between Mycenaeans and Hittites and that may have ultimately served as the basis for Homer's great epics, the Iliad and the Odyssey.

    Contents:

    00:00 Contents and Introduction
    02:43 Helladic Chronology Explained
    03:42 Discovery of Mycenaean Culture
    05:35 Geography of Greece
    07:28 Early Mycenaeans
    10:58 “Mycenae, Rich in Gold”
    13:32 Linear B
    16:54 Mycenaean Society and Material Culture
    21:21 Mycenaean Palatial Centers and Major Kingdoms
    23:39 Orchomenos
    25:30 Gla
    26:00 Thebes
    27:00 Athens
    29:10 Tiryns
    29:49 Pylos
    31:15 Daily Life, Food and Economy
    36:41 Importance of Bronze
    38:08 Warfare and Weapons
    40:25 Hunting and Horses
    41:47 Roads
    42:26 Religion
    45:28 Minoans and Maritime Trade
    48:07 Earthquake on Thera
    49:26 Mycenaeans on Crete
    52:22 Mycenaean Political Unity?
    53:31 Ahhiyawa and the Hittites
    55:31 Attarissiya of Ahhiya
    57:55 The Assuwan Confederacy
    1:00:10 Piyamaradu and the Tawagalawa Letter
    1:05:16 Alaksandu of Wilusa (Troy)
    1:08:29 Ahhiyawa and Tudhaliya IV
    1:11:20 Are Mycenaean Greece and Ahhiyawa the Same?
    1:13:07 Mycenaean Trade with the World
    1:15:08 The Uluburun Shipwreck
    1:18:01 Fear and Dread
    1:23:15 Desperate Times, Desperate Measures
    1:25:53 Possible Theories for the Fall of Mycenaean Civilization
    1:27:24 End of an Era
    1:28:54 Thank You and Patrons


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