1. Where are the Cycladic Islands?

2. What cataclysmic event destroyed most of the Cycladic mainland in 1623 B.C.?

3. What 2 pieces of evidence do we have that implies contact between the Aegeans and the ancient Egyptians?

4. What were the main trades (jobs) of those in the ancient Aegean?

5. Is dating works from the Aegean a problem? Why or why not?

6. What were the three main cultures of the Aegean?

7. Discuss the stylistic attributes of the female Cycladic idol figure.

8. Discuss the stylistic attributes of the male Cycladic idol figure.

9. What was the Palace of Minos on Knossos? What was its legend?

10. Discuss the significance of bull imagery in the Palace of Minos at Knossos.

11. What were the magazines at the Minos palace used for?

12. Describe t he appearance and function of t he Queen's Magaron.

13. How did the Palace of Minos provide illumination?

14. Discuss the rhyton shaped like a bull's head in stylistic terms. Its function?

15. Discuss the significance of the Toreador Fresco from Knossos.

16. What is the difference between buon fresco and fresco secco?

17. What is the origin of the designs on the Kamares ware jugs?

18. Discuss stylistically the Octopus Vase.

19. What were the primary dieties of the Aegean people?

20. What is the significance of the "Landscape with Swallows" fresco from Knossos?

21. What is a citadel?

22. What is the difference between a shaft grave and a tholos?

23. How does the precence of the Mycenaen tholos suggest contact with the Egyptians?

24. What is the origin of the name of the Cyclopian wall?

25. Discuss the stylistic significance of the "Lion Gate."

26. Discuss stylistically the golden funeral mask from Mycenae.

27. Discuss the process for creating designs in the daggers from Mycenaen shaft graves.

28. How does t he Mycenaen "Warrior Vase" suggest a stylistic difference from the Minoans?

29. Discuss the process for creating works of gold like t he funeral mask and the Vaphio cups.

30. What is the significance of the "Three Dieties" sculpture from Mycenae? What does it suggest?