ÿþ<html> <head> <title> WHKMLA : Biographies : Pre-Classical Greece </title> <!-- copyright Alexander Ganse, 2004-2006 --> </head> <body bgcolor="lightblue" text="black" link="blue" vlink="red" alink="brown"> <style> <!-- A{ font-weight: bold; font-size: 10pt; font-face: arial; } --> </style> <DIV align ="center"> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD align = "center" valign = "center"> <A HREF = "../../index.html"> <img src = "../../whkmla2.jpg" border = "0"></a></TD></TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width = "150" height = "36" align = "center" valign = "center"> <font size = "2" face = "arial"><B> Timeline </b></font></TD> <TD width = "36" height = "36" align = "center" valign = "center"> <A HREF = "../../timelines/wh/tlpreclas.html"> <img src = "../../region/arrowleft.gif" width = "36" height = "36" border = "0"> </a></TD> <TD align = "center" valign = "center"> <A HREF = "../../timelines/whchapters.html"> <img src = "../../region/banners/banbiography.jpg" border = "0"> </TD> <TD width = "36" height = "36" align = "center" valign = "center"> <A HREF = "../../histdic/wh/hdpreclas.html"> <img src = "../../region/arrowright.gif" width = "36" height = "36" border = "0"> </a></TD> <TD width = "100" height = "36" align = "center" valign = "center"> <font size = "2" face = "arial"><B> Historical Dictionary </b></font></TD></TR></TABLE> <font size = "3" face = "arial"><B><i>First posted on May 30th 2004, last revised on August 30th 2006 </i></b></font><BR><BR><BR><BR> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD align = "center" valign = "center" width = "900"> <font face = "Times Roman" size = "5"><B> Biographies : Pre-Classical Greece </B></font> <BR> <font face = "Times Roman" size = "2"><i> http://www.zum.de/whkmla/biographies/wh/biopreclas.html </i></font> </B></font></TD></TR></TABLE> <BR><BR> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD align = "left" valign = "center" width = "150"> <font face = "Times Roman" size = "2"> <A NAME = "achilles">Achilles</A> <BR><BR><BR><BR><BR> <A NAME = "agamemnon">Agamemnon</A> <BR><BR><BR> <A NAME = "doerpfeld">D&ouml;rpfeld, Wilhelm</A> <BR><BR><BR> <A NAME = "evans">Evans, Arthur John</A> <BR> <A NAME = "hector">Hector</A> <BR><BR> <A NAME = "homer">Homer</A> <BR><BR><BR><BR><BR> <A NAME = "minos">Minos</A> <BR><BR><BR><BR> <A NAME = "patroclus">Patroclus</A> <BR><BR> <A NAME = "priamos">Priamos</A> <BR><BR><BR><BR> <A NAME = "schliemann">Schliemann, Heinrich</A> <BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR> <A NAME = "ventris">Ventris, Michael</A> <BR><BR> </font></TD> <TD align = "left" valign = "center" width = "500"> <font face = "Times Roman" size = "2"> Greek hero whose adventures are reported in the <A HREF = "../../histdic/wh/hdpreclas.html#iliad">Iliad</A>; lover of Patroclus. When Hector <BR> killed Patrocles, Achilles challenged and killed Hector, and then desecrated the latter's <BR> body, angering god Apollo who took bow and arrow and shot Achilles at the only spot <BR> where he was vulnerable - his heel. Also spelled Akhilleus. Figure of legendary rather <BR> than historical significance. <BR> Greek hero, King of <A HREF = "../../histdic/wh/hdpreclas.html#mycenae">Mycenae</A>, most prominent figure among the Greeks who ventured <BR> out with the object to conquer <A HREF = "../../histdic/wh/hdpreclas.html#troy">Troy</A>. Figure or legendary rather than historical <BR> significance. <BR> born in 1853 in Barmen, Prussian Rhine Province. Developed scientific methods in <BR> archaeology; in 1882 joined Heinrich Schliemann with his excavation project at <A HREF = "../../histdic/wh/hdpreclas.html#troy">Troy</A>. <BR> died in 1940. see article from <A HREF = "http://www.lib.duke.edu/lilly/artlibry/dah/dorpfeldw.htm">Dictionary of Art Historians</A> <BR> born in 1851, British archaeologist; excavated at Knossos between 1899 and 1935. <BR> Trojan hero, son of Priamos; killed Patroclus, was in turn killed by Achilles. Figure of legendary rather than historical significance. <BR> legendary Greek poet who is credited with having written both the <A HREF = "../../histdic/wh/hdpreclas.html#iliad">Iliad</A> and the <BR> Odyssey. Written down in the 8th century B.C., the Iliad and Odyssey contain oral <BR> tradition (<A HREF = "../../histdic/wh/hdpreclas.html#oralliterature">oral literature</A>) which reaches back several centuries; some scholars assume, <BR> that they were written down by several persons, who in collective memory are referred <BR> to as Homer. <BR> legendary king of <A HREF = "../../histdic/wh/hdpreclas.html#crete">Crete</A>, father of the Minotaur, a beast half human, half bull, who was <BR> so ferocious that he was locked up in a maze. When Sir Arthur Evans excavated the <BR> palace of <A HREF = "../../histdic/wh/hdpreclas.html#knossos">Knossos</A>, which, seen from a birds-eye perspective, looks like a maze, the <BR> name <A HREF = "../../histdic/wh/hdpreclas.html#minoanciv">Minoan Civilization</A> seemed appropriate. <BR> according to the <A HREF = "../../histdic/wh/hdpreclas.html#iliad">Iliad</A>, best friend, and, most likely, lover of Achilles. He was killed by <BR> Trojan hero Hector. Figure of legendary rather than historical significance. <BR> legendary King of <A HREF = "../../histdic/wh/hdpreclas.html#troy">Troy</A>, father of Hector, Paris, Cassandra. Heinrich Schliemann, when <BR> finding a number of gold objects while excavating Troy, called them <A HREF = "../../histdic/wh/hdpreclas.html#priamostreasure">"Priamos' <BR> Treasure"</A>; they are much older than the time when the Greeks conquered Troy. <BR> Priamos is a figure of legendary rather than historical significance. <BR> born in 1822 in Mecklenburg; as a high school student he memorized both the <A HREF = "../../histdic/wh/hdpreclas.html#iliad">Iliad</A> and <BR> Odyssey - in their Greek original. Mastered 18 languages. After having made a fortune <BR> in the Russia trade, he retired from his business, decided to devote his life to his <BR> passion; studied archaeology for 3 months (in Paris), then went to Istanbul and <BR> obtained permission to excavate <A HREF = "../../histdic/wh/hdpreclas.html#troy">Troy</A> (the existence of which at that time was largely <BR> doubted). Began to excavate Troy in 1871. Was rather an amateur archaeologist; in <BR> 1882 he hired Wilhelm D&ouml;rpfeld, who developed the techniques of archaeology <BR> during the process of excavating Troy. Schliemann also excavated <A HREF = "../../histdic/wh/hdpreclas.html#mycenae">Mycenae</A>, Tiryns, <BR> Orchomenos. He died in 1890. <BR> born in 1922, British architect and classical scholar of Greek descent, in the early <BR> 1950es he deciphered <A HREF = "../../histdic/wh/hdpreclas.html#linearb">Linear B</A>. 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