Knossos Mycenae Troy

Author : Natale Barca
Publisher : Oxbow Books
Page : 471 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2023-03-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781789259483

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Knossos, Mycenae, Troy by Natale Barca Pdf

This work puts a particular emphasis on the mixing and osmosis of the first Mediterranean civilizations, with particular reference to the Minoan, Cycladic, Mycenaean, and Trojan, and on the causes of their decline, which are to be identified in a jumble of natural and human causes, and in a long-lasting, slow, but irreversible crisis. It takes into account that the Mediterranean Dimension of the Bronze Age is a garden in which many legends flourished, clearly distinguishing between myth and history, and always bearing in mind that legends are not to be taken literally (nonetheless, they often have a grain of truth). It does not aim to provide an exhaustive report but to compose a broad and evolutionary picture, in which the facts and their connections, which are deducible from archaeological evidence or from the accounts of ancient historians, find their place, in their consequentiality. Its originality lies not in the choice of the subject, but in the way of treating it. The author introduces and explains, in order to be read, and perhaps to get excited. Another characterizing element of Knossos, Mycenae, Troy is the wide use of the ‘historical present’ that is made there to represent events and construct the text, to reduce the reader’s distance from the narrated events, and facilitates their approach to them. This book aims to provide the reader with an overall picture of the cultures that laid the foundations of Western civilization, which is not generic, but rather detailed and updated, and which has scientific solidity.

Author : Natale Barca
Publisher : Oxbow Books
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2023-03-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781789259490

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Knossos, Mycenae, Troy by Natale Barca Pdf

This work puts a particular emphasis on the mixing and osmosis of the first Mediterranean civilizations, with particular reference to the Minoan, Cycladic, Mycenaean, and Trojan, and on the causes of their decline, which are to be identified in a jumble of natural and human causes, and in a long-lasting, slow, but irreversible crisis. It takes into account that the Mediterranean Dimension of the Bronze Age is a garden in which many legends flourished, clearly distinguishing between myth and history, and always bearing in mind that legends are not to be taken literally (nonetheless, they often have a grain of truth). It does not aim to provide an exhaustive report but to compose a broad and evolutionary picture, in which the facts and their connections, which are deducible from archaeological evidence or from the accounts of ancient historians, find their place, in their consequentiality. Its originality lies not in the choice of the subject, but in the way of treating it. The author introduces and explains, in order to be read, and perhaps to get excited. Another characterizing element of Knossos, Mycenae, Troy is the wide use of the ‘historical present’ that is made there to represent events and construct the text, to reduce the reader’s distance from the narrated events, and facilitates their approach to them. This book aims to provide the reader with an overall picture of the cultures that laid the foundations of Western civilization, which is not generic, but rather detailed and updated, and which has scientific solidity.

Author : Robert Byrne
Publisher : Lorenz Educational Press
Page : 12 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1969-09-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780787784089

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Troy, Crete, & Mycenae (eBook) by Robert Byrne Pdf

Troy, Crete, & Mycenae contains 12 full-color transparencies (print books) or PowerPoint slides (eBooks), 4 reproducible pages, and a richly detailed teacher's guide. Among the topics covered in this volume are the geography of the ancient Aegean world, Troy and the wooden horse, the siege of Troy, the graves, tombs, and treasures of Mycenae, the Cretan religion, Cretan frescoes, Cretan writing, and the palace of Knossos.

Author : Robert Byrne
Publisher : Milliken Publishing Company
Page : 10 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1969-09
Category : Civilization, Aegean
ISBN : 1558635157

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Troy, Crete, & Mycenae by Robert Byrne Pdf

Color Overheads Included! Troy, Crete, & Mycenae contains 12 full-color transparencies, 4 reproducible pages, and a richly detailed teacher's guide. Among the topics covered in this volume are the geography of the ancient Aegean world, Troy and the wooden horse, the siege of Troy, the graves, tombs, and treasures of Mycenae, the Cretan religion, Cretan frescoes, Cretan writing, and the palace of Knossos.

Author : Robert Wilson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 54 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : History
ISBN : 0528822020

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The Destruction of Troy by Robert Wilson Pdf

Discusses the excavations of Heinrich Schliemann at Troy and other Aegean sites; presents the mythology connected with Agamemnon; and speculates on the decline of the Mycenaean civilization.

Author : H. E. L. Mellersh
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Civilization, Mycenaean
ISBN : 1566191947

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The Destruction of Knossos by H. E. L. Mellersh Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 54 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0153123435

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Troy & Knossos, Library Book Ancient Civilization by Anonim Pdf

Author : Nanno Marinatos
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2014-12-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9780857725165

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Sir Arthur Evans and Minoan Crete by Nanno Marinatos Pdf

Before Sir Arthur Evans, the principal object of Greek prehistoric archaeology was the reconstruction of history in relation to myth. European travellers to Greece viewed its picturesque ruins as the gateway to mythical times, while Heinrich Schliemann, at the end of the nineteenth century, allegedly uncovered at Troy and Mycenae the legendary cities of the Homeric epics. It was Evans who, in his controversial excavations at Knossos, steered Aegean archaeology away from Homer towards the broader Mediterranean world. Yet in so doing he is thought to have done his own inventing, recreating the Cretan Labyrinth via the Bronze Age myth of the Minotaur. Nanno Marinatos challenges the entrenched idea that Evans was nothing more than a flamboyant researcher who turned speculation into history. She argues that Evans was an excellent archaeologist, one who used scientific observation and classification. Evans's combination of anthropology, comparative religion and analysis of cultic artefacts enabled him to develop a bold new method which Sir James Frazer called 'mental anthropology'. It was this approach that led him to propose remarkable ideas about Minoan religion, theories that are now being vindicated as startling new evidence comes to light. Examining the frescoes from Akrotiri, on Santorini, that are gradually being restored, the author suggests that Evans's hypothesis of one unified goddess of nature is the best explanation of what they signify. Evans was in 1901 ahead of his time in viewing comparable Minoan scenes as a blend of ritual action and mythic imagination. Nanno Marinatos is a leading authority on Minoan religion. In this latest book she combines history, archaeology and myth to bold and original effect, offering a wholly new appraisal of Evans and the significance of his work. Sir Arthur Evans and Minoan Crete will be essential reading for all students of Minoan civilization, as well as an irresistible companion for travellers to Crete.

Author : Peter Hicks
Publisher : Raintree
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Crete (Greece)
ISBN : 0817245235

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Troy and Knossos by Peter Hicks Pdf

Describes the Aegean civilizations and the archaeological efforts to excavate the ancient cities of Troy and Knossos.

Author : George Emmanuel Mylonas
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : IND:30000061243998

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Mycenae by George Emmanuel Mylonas Pdf

An excerpt from the preface by the writer, Professor E. Mylonas - Director of the Excavations at Mycenae."Thirty years of excavation have brought about the need for a Guide book such as this, which contains the latest results of the archaeologists' work at Mycenae. The illustrations and the many plans it contains will, I hope, make easy the study of the ruins which at first glance seem labyrinthine. In Part I of the Guide I give a full description of the remains on the acropolis of Mycenae; in Part II, an account of the tombs and houses to be found outside the acropolis. In Part III, I offer a concise account of the history and legends of Mycenae, of the excavations and of the excavators whose work has made possible the study of the Mycenaean civilization. In this way a rounded picture of the site and its historic role in the affairs of Greece may be obtained from reading the Guide and inspection of the site. It is hoped that the visit to the City of Agamemnon will prove a memorable experience for the reader."

Author : Rodney Castleden
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2005-03-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134227822

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The Mycenaeans by Rodney Castleden Pdf

Following on from Rodney Castleden's best-selling study Minoans, this major contribution to our understanding of the crucial Mycenaean period clearly and effectively brings together research and knowledge we have accumulated since the discovery of the remains of the civilization of Mycenae in the 1870s. In lively prose, informed by the latest research and using a full bibliography and over 100 illustrations, this vivid study delivers the fundamentals of the Mycenaean civilization including its culture, hierarchy, economy and religion. Castleden introduces controversial views of the Mycenaean palaces as temples, and studies their impressive sea empire and their crucial interaction with the outside Bronze Age world before discussing the causes of the end of their civilization. Providing clear, easy information and understanding, this is a perfect starting point for the study of the Greek Bronze Age.

Author : T. B. L. Webster
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2014-06-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317694519

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From Mycenae to Homer by T. B. L. Webster Pdf

This book, first published in 1958, aims to describe Greek art and poetry within this ambiguous period of ancient history (often referred to as the Greek ‘Dark Ages’), and to explore the possibilities of learning about Mycenaean civilisation from its own documents and not only from archaeology. Specifically, Webster utilises Michael Ventris’ decipherment of Linear B in 1952 – which proved that Greek was spoken in the Mycenaean world – to determine the general contours of aesthetic development from Mycenae to the time of the written composition of the Homeric epics. Because they record Mycenaean civilisation in Mycenaean terminology, while Homer was writing in Ionian Greek at the beginning of the polis civilisation, they show how much in Homer is in fact Mycenaean. Further, where it is clear that these Mycenaean elements cannot have survived until Homer’s time, they tell us something about the poetry which connected the two.

Author : Louise Schofield
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Civilization, Mycenaean
ISBN : 0892368675

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The Mycenaeans by Louise Schofield Pdf

For almost three thousand years, the Mycenaeans, ancestors of the classical Greeks, lay lost and forgotten beneath the soil of Greece. In 1876, however, a German businessman, Heinrich Schliemann, in his search for the great Mycenaean king Agamemnon and other heroes of the Trojan War, made an astounding discovery in Mycenae: inside the monumental Lion Gate he discovered shaft graves belonging to a warrior elite, many of whom were buried wearing striking gold funerary masks and armor. In this authoritative new survey, Schofield examines these initial discoveries and other material evidence from Mycenaean culture, including painted pottery, documents in Linear B script, and the remains of fortress-palaces, all of which have yielded important information about the social hierarchies, religion, and military and trading activities of this wealthy and sophisticated culture. The author also considers the factual basis for the Mycenaeans' legendary links with the Trojan War and the various explanations for the eventual decline of their civilization.

Author : John T Hooker
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2014-03-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317751212

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Mycenaean Greece (Routledge Revivals) by John T Hooker Pdf

Mycenaean Greece, first published in 1976, investigates from an historical point of view some of the crucial periods in the Greek Bronze Age. The principal subject is the so-called ‘Mycenaean’ culture which arose during the sixteenth century BC, as assimilation of the previous ‘Helladic’ culture of mainland Greece with some of the developments of Minoan Crete. Many of the material aspects of the Mycenaean civilisation are examined, as are the extent of Mycenaean expansion overseas and the eventual destruction of Mycenaean sites which marked the end of their civilisation. The author also considers the evidence relating to the religious beliefs of the Mycenaeans and their social, political and economic organisations, and he relates the Mycenaean culture to the later civilisation of Archaic and Classical Greece. There is an Appendix containing a list of Mycenaean sites, with reference to excavation reports, and a full bibliography.

Author : K. A. Wardle,Diana Wardle
Publisher : Bristol Classical Press
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015056256525

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The Mycenaean World by K. A. Wardle,Diana Wardle Pdf

A concise introduction to the ancient Greek civilisation of Mycenae.