Beyond words

1. Beyond words GymnasioEfkarpias Thessaloniki Greece

2. Aegean Art Communication and transmission of Ideas and values through an art 5000 years old

3. Periods of Ancient Greece (B.C) AphroditeofMilos, 130-100 B.C.Milos Marble Kouros, 590-580 B.C. Attic Marble Standing female figure, 2600–2400 B.C.Cycladic Marble Hermes ofPraxiteles, 343 B.C. Olympia Marble Male figure, 7500–6800 B.C. ChoirokitiaCyprus Krater, 750-730 B.C.Attic Terracotta Steatopygous female figure, 4500–4000 B.C. Cycladic Marble Mesolithic Period 8000-7000 Neolithic Period 7000-3200 Aegean civilizations 3200-1100 Dark Ages 1100-900 Geometric Period 900-700 Archaic Period 700-480 Classical Period 480-323 Hellenistic Period 323-31

4. Aegean Civilizations: more than 2000 years of evolution Kouros, 590-580 b.c. Attic Marble 1600 B.C. The Santorini’s Volcanic eruption 3200 B.C. 1050 B.C. CycladicCivilization, 3200 – 1050 B.C. MinoanCivilization, 3000 – 1100 B.C. MycenaeanCivilization, 1600 – 1100 B.C.

5. The Location Mycenaean Civilization Cycladic Civilization Minoan Civilization

6. CycladicCivilization (3200-1050 B.C.) Cycladic Civilization

10. ‘Frying pan' potteryvessels (2800-2300 B.C.)

11. Seated figurine 'the cup-bearer‘marble(3200- 2800 B.C.) 

12. Cycladic female idol(2800-2300 B.C.)

13. Cycladic sculpture(3.200 – 1.100 B.C.)

14. Violin-shaped figurines(3200- 2800 B.C.) 

15. Eruption of Santorini (Thera) 1627-1600 B.C. • Produced a 60 m thick layer of white tephra that overlies the soil. • produced colossal tsunamis , 35 to 150 m tall that devastated the north coast of Crete. • caused a drop in global temperatures for the next years . • The eruption devastated the nearby settlement at Akrotiri, which like Pompeii was entombed in a layer of pumice and ash.[

16. Akrotiri

19. Items found in Akrotiri

20. The jewellery, a dragonfly from the Goddess of Thera (Santorini).

21. Υμνεί τον ερχομό της Άνοιξης και πιθανότατα ο χώρος, στον οποίο βρέθηκε, ήταν χώρος ιερός, κάτι στο οποίο συνηγορεί και το γεγονός ότι έξω από αυτό, προς στην ανατολή, βρέθηκαν σκεύη ιεράς σημασίας TheSpringFresco

22. The Spring Fresco (detail)

23. The Spring Fresco (detail)

24. Room Beta 1 Room Beta 1 “Antelopes”

25. The Fisherman The boxing boys

26. Saffron gatherers (detail)

27. μπλε χρώμα. Saffrongatherers(detail)

28. Οι Πάπυροι "SeaDaffodils" Room 1

29. Παπυροειδή φυτά(λεπτομέρεια) "SeaDaffodils" (detail)

30. Minoan Civilization (1100 B.C.) Minoan Civilization

31. Knossos, “Minos Palace” :1300 rooms, three separate liquid management systems, one for supply, one for drainage of runoff, and one for drainage of waste water.

32. Dolphin mural at the palace of Knossos

33. Detail of the dolphin frescoes

35. Ζωγραφική αναπαράσταση της καθημερινής ζωής των Μινωιτών

36. Part of the Palace And the fresco inside

37. Knossos:Griffin couchant facing throne

38. Fresco from the "Palace of Minos”(detail)

41. Minoan Prince

42. Knossos, Bull Leaping or Toreador Fresco

43. Three Minoan women

44. Minoan Pottery

45. Bees of Malia Minoan Jewellery Golden Earring

46. A Bull Rhyton

47. MycenaeanCivilization (1600-1100 B.C.) Mycenaean Civilization

48. Mycenaea: Lion's Gate

49. Mycenaean Tomb

50. Mycenaean Tomb Mask