Ideas of Socrates

Ideas of Socrates

Ancient Greek helmets replicas

Ancient Greek helmets

Penthesilea

Achilleus and Penthesilea, British Museum

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Penthesilea

Mycenaean Pottery

The pottery of the Mycenaean civilization (1550-1050 BCE), although heavily influenced by the earlier Minoans based on Crete, nevertheless, added new pottery shapes to the existing range and achieved its own distinctive decorative style which was strikingly homogenous across Mycenaean Greece. Mycenaean wares typically display stylized representations of marine and plant life and show a fondness for minimalistic linear designs, a trend which would go on to influence the early pottery of Archaic and Classical Greece from the 9th century BCE.  
Mycenaean pottery