On Jul 3, 2010, at 5:02 PM, Somebody Somebody wrote:
> ...Was there a decline in Greek art between the fall of Mycenea and
> the rise of Athens?...
But was there any gap between "the fall of Mykenai" and the "rise of Athens?" Not if you believe Homer, the direct or indirect source of everything we know of Mykenai and Troy. The famous "catalog of ships" includes a substantial contingent of Athenian ships sent by the King of Athens, Eurystheos. For various reasons of their own invention conventional scholars (without evidence) put a 4+ century "Dark Age" between the flourishing of the two cities. But to do this they have to ignore the fact, known for well over half a century now, that Mykenaeans and Athenians spoke and wrote the same language--Greek.
Shane Mage
This cosmos did none of gods or men make, but it always was and is and shall be: an everlasting fire,
kindling in measures and going out in measures."
Herakleitos of Ephesos