Name: "Minoans, Mycenaeans,Trojans:Forgotten Age of Ancient Greece"Zoom-Rietveld-Nov13
Start: 2025-11-13T20:00:00-08:00
End: 2025-11-13T22:00:00-08:00

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Join us on Zoom for a Salon lecture "Of Minoans, Mycenaeans, and Trojans: The Forgotten Age of the Ancient Greeks" for Ipso Facto by Dr. James Rietveld on Thursday, November 13, 8 pm.
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The splendor of the Minoan civilization is almost proverbial.
They were sophisticated in their organization, brilliant in their trade, egalitarian in their gender roles, playful in their games, passionate in their spirituality, and believed in the ideal of art for art’s sake.
For them, making something beautiful could be an end in itself and Nature was to be venerated!
Then one day, with a mighty volcanic explosion, it was all over.
No wonder legends concerning Atlantis find their origins with the Minoans!
The Mycenaeans who replaced them were patriarchal warriors, as brutal as the Minoans were peaceful.
Yet then another disaster occurred, an apocalypse so devastating that entire civilizations were wiped off the map about the Mediterranean and Near East.
Soon the Mycenaeans too became the stuff of legends, spun into the stories by traveling bards. The Iliad and the Odyssey became their legacy!
Together we will unravel the often-untold story of the early age of the Ancient Greeks and offer up some staggering conclusions based upon the most recent discoveries.
This lecture will be posted on the Dr. James Rietveld Salon Lecture You Tube channel, where you can also watch previous lectures: [dr.jamesrietveldsalonlectu2903](https://www.youtube.com/@dr.jamesrietveldsalonlectu2903?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTAAAR1deliIGwpr9dPrGeHVWxdeOPe2d-Uh7GXzEKHnrWnG_VQks4MUHOlesK0_aem_ZmFrZWR1bW15MTZieXRlcw "https://www.youtube.com/@dr.jamesrietveldsalonlectu2903?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTAAAR1deliIGwpr9dPrGeHVWxdeOPe2d-Uh7GXzEKHnrWnG_VQks4MUHOlesK0_aem_ZmFrZWR1bW15MTZieXRlcw")
Dr. James Rietveld is a professor at CSU, Fullerton and Cal Poly Pomona, CA of History, Anthropology, Religion with a PHD from Claremont School of Religion, is author of two books, and can be seen on History channel's "Crazy Rich Ancients."

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