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Chapter 20 - Aegean Architecture in the Second Palace Period

from Part IV - Aegean Art in the Second Palace Period

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 May 2022

Jean-Claude Poursat
Translated by
Carl Knappett
Jean-Claude Poursat
Affiliation:
University of Clermont-Ferrand
Carl Knappett
Affiliation:
University of Toronto
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Summary

The period of the second palaces on Crete is one of intense architectural activity, both on Crete and on the main Aegean islands. We know more of Minoan and Cycladic architecture from this period than from the entire preceding period. The fact that most sites were destroyed once and for all c.1450 bc, without reoccupation, has facilitated their study. New building programmes testify to the level of economic prosperity; they also tally with the transformations we have already highlighted in social and administrative organisation.

True innovations in building techniques and plans are actually few in comparison to the preceding period: but the architects of the palaces and major villas invent a new monumental style and formalise the innovations of the Middle Bronze Age.

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The Art and Archaeology of the Aegean Bronze Age
A History
 , pp. 139 - 168
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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Further Reading

Bretschneider, 2007: Bretschneider, J., Driessen, J., Van Lerberghe, K., Power and Architecture: Monumental Public Architecture in the Bronze Age Near East and Aegean, Leuven.Google Scholar
Cadogan, 1976: Cadogan, G., Palaces of Minoan Crete, London.Google Scholar
Davis, 1986: Davis, J., Keos V. Ayia Irini Period V, Athens.Google Scholar
Graham, 1962: Graham, J. W., The Palaces of Crete, Princeton, NJ.Google Scholar
Hood, 2020: Hood, S., The Masons’ Marks of Minoan Knossos, Volume 1: Text; Volume 2: Illustrations, edited by Bendall, Lisa Maria, Athens.Google Scholar
Palyvou, 2005: Palyvou, C., Akrotiri Thera: An Architecture of Affluence 3,500 Years Old, Philadelphia, PA.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Shaw, 2009: Shaw, J., Minoan Architecture: Materials and Techniques, Padova.Google Scholar
Shaw, 2015: Shaw, J., Elite Minoan Architecture: Its Development at Knossos, Phaistos, and Malia, Philadelphia, PA.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

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