The Beautiful Women of Bronze Age Europe

Thanks for watching. Please do hit "like" on the video, it really helps me out! If you enjoy videos like this please support the channel on Patreon: www.patreon.com/dandavisauthor Check out my Bronze Age fantasy novels on Amazon: amzn.to/3xngwz5

Archeologist: Why did Minoan women have bare breast? Archeologist 2: It must have been for ritual purposes! Me: It gets hot in Crete sometimes. Maybe they didn't want sweaty boobs. get defenestrated by archeologists

Every Aegean Bronze Age video you make is a must watch

Sounds like lots of women across the Bronze age world really liked how the Minoans did things, stylewise. And why not, they were stunning! Also I find it amusing and very endearing that even so long ago, people probably wanted to look fashionable and beautiful looked to a society they saw as a cultural leader for examples.

It never ceases to amaze me just how much we can see our modern lifestyles through these artifacts from thousands of years ago. A woman with a mirror, dressing herself to make herself as beautiful as possible, accentuated by bright colors amazing jewelry? I could be talking about someone alive today, or one of these women from Crete. Some behaviors just seem to transcend time and culture, really amazing.

I’ve always been annoyed and distracted when I watch depictions of pre historic people where they are shown as filthy matted haired smeared with dirt and grime, random furs hanging off them any old way and just generally messy. No animals allow themselves to be dirty and messy for hygienic reasons and also to give away their scents. The idea that earlier humans would neglect themselves in this way doesn’t track.This has been a pet peeve of mine for a while.

humans and physical attraction, an age old tradition that each generation thinks it invented. Love your work and I am grateful you publish it.

“We will return to the subject of bared breasts later.” What a great way to keep us listening! LOL

Please do more of these! I love being able to visualize what people looked like when I read historical fiction, so this is just right up my alley. Well done 👏

I have ADD and dyslexia your videos and amazing learning tool. I am in my 50s and I finally learned so much about history and become a real history off because of your videos. Thank you so much for sharing all your wisdom to especially for someone like myself who is always had difficulty reading and learning now I know so much more about the world history again thank you.

Re: red painted dots on the women's faces - Tunisian brides still adorn their faces this way in traditional weddings. Maybe this is a look women have always been partial to? It appears through the ages all over the world. It does look hot.

Fantastic video as always Dan! Looking forward to the one on men's styles. I do talks at events on historical cosmetics in the medieval world and to fully grasp cosmetics practices it's REALLY hard to not "start at the beginning...." and give the patrons a 3 hour long lecture because it really does all go back to this time period!

Peter pringle does a lot of historic music like the epic of gilgamesh sung in babylonian. But one of his older songs is actually an ancient egyptian love song were the writer praises the "Ample hips" of his "sister without equal" It's kind of comforting to know that the more we've changed, the more we've stayed the same.

Wow, I knew that dress style was popular in Minoan civilization, but I didn't know it extended to the broader Greek Aegean and the Mycenaeans as a whole.

I know this might sound childish, but hear me out. I am an art Historian and as such I notice patterns and similarities between artworks. I haven't had the time to do much research on this, so this is a preliminary theory, but I think the rosettes on the Mycenaean plaster face goddess are meant to represent the nipple on the breast. If you look at the fresco seen at 10:24 and compare it to 19:06, they are painted the same way, a thicker dot in the center surrounded by smaller dots. Now, this makes sense to me as the breast is by which a mother feeds their child and so has a very important function. Breasts and "child rearing" hips have been emphasized on artworks depicting females for millenia. It would make sense to me that a mother goddess or fertility goddess would wear the design of the most important body part that facilitates the feeding/child care part of procreation. This being said, I am also aware that a majority of the frescos associated with the Minoans and similar groups are touched up. Most of the original paint is gone. The ransom, jagged chunks are what's left and what's been painted in is interpretation, meaning that from the little bit of research I was able to do while listening to this video, the painted nipple may just be an interpretation and I'm making connections that don't exist. It's still absolutely fascinated to get a glimpse at those before us and absolutely infuriating that we'll never know for sure.

My favorite ancient look is probably Minoan people, although I’m very inspired by the braids on mummies! Scythian warrior braids are my go to style-way better than boring old plaits

19:59 is pretty much the ideal of today's aesthetics, at least in the western world. She is so beautiful, just classic and very impressive because we speak about thousands of years. The epitome of classic beauty.

The human Odyssey is more than just the story of war, conquest and economic progress but also of daily personal desires and pleasures. Thank you for the reminder.

I'm more of a sing-me-the-wrath-of-achilles-sorta guy but I must admit that it was a truly fascinating episode. The place of mirrors in minoan society seems so relatable given the place of instagram and the like nowadays.

Another great video! The Minoan women's dresses looked amazing. It's such a shame that with the rise of the Urnfield tradition of cremations we were denied an insight into late Bronze Age/ Early Iron Age fashion in Central & Western Europe. Something similar happened with the shift between Pagan and Christian burials in Early Medieval Britain. There is a wealth of information for the Saxons in comparison to the Britons for example. If only we had Minoan & Mycenaean style frescoes for Central & Western Europe during that era - what an amazing insight that would be! As for the suggestion at the end of the video, an overview of Bronze Age male fashion would be great.