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Author : John Chadwick
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1976-03-25
Category : History
ISBN : 0521290376
John Chadwick summarizes the results of research into Mycenaean Greece.
Author : K. A. Wardle,Diana Wardle
Publisher : Bristol Classical Press
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015056256525
A concise introduction to the ancient Greek civilisation of Mycenae.
Author : Thomas F. Tartaron
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2013-05-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781107067134
In this book, Thomas F. Tartaron presents a new and original reassessment of the maritime world of the Mycenaean Greeks of the Late Bronze Age. By all accounts a seafaring people, they enjoyed maritime connections with peoples as distant as Egypt and Sicily. These long-distance relations have been celebrated and much studied; by contrast, the vibrant worlds of local maritime interaction and exploitation of the sea have been virtually ignored. Dr Tartaron argues that local maritime networks, in the form of 'coastscapes' and 'small worlds', are far more representative of the true fabric of Mycenaean life. He offers a complete template of conceptual and methodological tools for recovering small worlds and the communities that inhabited them. Combining archaeological, geoarchaeological and anthropological approaches with ancient texts and network theory, he demonstrates the application of this scheme in several case studies. This book presents new perspectives and challenges for all archaeologists with interests in maritime connectivity.
Author : Cynthia W. Shelmerdine
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 524 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2008-08-04
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781107494626
This book is a comprehensive up-to-date survey of the Aegean Bronze Age, from its beginnings to the period following the collapse of the Mycenaean palace system. In essays by leading authorities commissioned especially for this volume, it covers the history and the material culture of Crete, Greece, and the Aegean Islands from c.3000–1100 BCE, as well as topics such as trade, religions, and economic administration. Intended as a reliable, readable introduction for university students, it will also be useful to scholars in related fields within and outside classics. The contents of this book are arranged chronologically and geographically, facilitating comparison between the different cultures. Within this framework, the cultures of the Aegean Bronze Age are assessed thematically and combine both material culture and social history.
Author : Alberto Bernabé,Miguel Herrero de Jáuregui,Ana Isabel Jiménez San Cristóbal,Raquel Martín Hernández
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 658 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2013-06-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9783110301328
This book contributes to the understanding of Dionysos, the Greek god of wine, dancing, theatre and ecstasy, by putting together 30 studies of classical scholars. They combine the analysis of specific instances of particular dimensions of the god in cult, myth, literature and iconography, with general visions of Dionysos in antiquity and modern times. Only from the combination of different perspectives can we grasp the complex personality of Dionysos, and the forms of his presence in different cults, literary genres, and artistic forms, from Mycenaean times to late antiquity. The ways in which Dionysos was experienced may vary in each author, each cult, and each genre in which this god is involved. Therefore, instead of offering a new all-encompassing theory that would immediately become partial, the booknarrows the focus on specific aspects of the god. Redefinition does not mean finding (again) the essence of the god, but obtaining a more nuanced knowledge of the ways he was experienced and conceived in antiquity.
Author : Margaretha Kramer-Hajos
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2016-08-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107107540
Kramer-Hajos examines the Euboean Gulf region in Central Greece to explain its flourishing during the post-palatial period, focusing on the interactions between this 'provincial' coastal area and the core areas where the Mycenaean palaces were located.
Author : Rodney Castleden
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2005-03-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134227815
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 : Reynold Alleyne Higgins
Publisher : Thames & Hudson
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Art
ISBN : 0500203032
The magnificent works of ancient Crete, Mycenae, and the Cycladic Islands are awe-inspiring in their richness and variety. Frescoes, jewelry, sculpture, gold funeral masks, ivories, and countless other beautiful artifacts--all the significant works of art and architecture that are our legacy from those great civilizations in the third and second millennia BC are described and illustrated in Dr. Higgins's distinguished survey. This fully revised and updated edition includes greater coverage of the breathtaking frescoes from Akrotiri on the island of Thera. Other recent findings are also illustrated and described in detail, such as the unique ivory figure from Palaikastro, objects from the palace of Mallia, and the intriguing discovery of Minoan frescoes in Egypt.
Author : George Emmanuel Mylonas
Publisher : Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : Civilization, Mycenaean
ISBN : UOM:39015031777108
The Description for this book, Mycenae and Mycenaean Age, will be forthcoming.
Author : Sigrid Deger-Jalkotzy
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 640 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2006-07-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9780748627295
The period between the collapse of the Mycenaean civilization around 1200 BC and the dawning of the classical era four and half centuries later is widely known as the Dark Age of Greece, not least in the eponymous history by A. M. Snodgrass published by EUP in 1971, and reissued by the Press in 2000.In January 2003 distinguished scholars from all over the world gathered in Edinburgh to re-examine old and new evidence on the period. The subjects of their papers were chosen in advance by the editors so that taken together they would cover the field. This book, based on thirty-three of the presentations, will constitute the most fundamental reinterpretation of the period for 30 years. The authors take issue with the idea of a Greek Dark Age and everything it implies for the understanding of Greek history, culture and society. They argue that the period is characterised as much by continuity as disruption and that the evidence from every source shows a progression from Mycenaean kingship to the conception of aristocratic nobility in the Archaic period. The volume is divided into six parts dealing with political and social structures; questions of continuity and transformation; international and inter-regional relations; religion and hero cult; Homeric epics and heroic poetry; and the archaeology of the Greek regions. Copiously illustrated and with a collated bibliography, itself a valuable resource, this book is likely to be the essential and basic source of reference on the later phases of the Mycenaean and the Early Greek Iron Ages for many years.
Author : Thomas F. Tartaron
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2013-05-27
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781107002982
This book is a new analysis of maritime life among the Mycenaean Greeks (ca. 1600-1100 BC). Whereas long-distance trade with Egypt or Cyprus has received much attention, the locations of Mycenaean harbors are virtually unknown and local maritime networks have been largely ignored. The main purpose of the book is to provide concepts and methods for recovering lost harbors and short-range maritime networks, using information from ship construction, coastal paleoenvironments, oral histories, texts including Homer, and archaeological fieldwork. The book is intended for all those with interests in maritime connectivity in the past.
Author : Ione Mylonas Shear
Publisher : INSTAP Academic Press
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2004-12-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781623030810
During the last few decades, there has been great interest in the problems of defining the extent and nature of kingship in the Mycenaean world. Questions concerning the degree of economic and religious power held by the king have been given special emphasis. This book surveys the conclusions drawn by individual scholars studying the Linear B tablets, contrasts their theories with our knowledge of the Mycenaean kingdoms as derived from the archaeological record, and finally compares this evidence with possible reflections in the oral tradition, specifically in the Iliad and Odyssey. This approach leads to the suggestion that the king in the Mycenaean period had only limited power over the society and its economy. Although the king appears to have controlled a large segment of the economy, it is argued here that other individuals and family groups within the kingdom also had a certain degree of economic independence.
Author : Michael Ventris,John Chadwick
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 622 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0521085586
Author : Jonathan M. Hall
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2013-08-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781118301272
A History of the Archaic Greek World offers a theme-based approach to the development of the Greek world in the years 1200-479 BCE. Updated and extended in this edition to include two new sections, expanded geographical coverage, a guide to electronic resources, and more illustrations Takes a critical and analytical look at evidence about the history of the archaic Greek World Involves the reader in the practice of history by questioning and reevaluating conventional beliefs Casts new light on traditional themes such as the rise of the city-state, citizen militias, and the origins of egalitarianism Provides a wealth of archaeological evidence, in a number of different specialties, including ceramics, architecture, and mortuary studies
Author : Dudley Moore
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2015-09-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781443881456
This book provides an introduction to the complex world of the ancient societies of the Aegean, offering general insights into the Aegean civilisations of the Minoans, the Mycenaeans, the Trojans of the Bronze Age, and the later Classical Greeks. With regard to the latter, the book explores their history against the might of Persia and the strife and tribulations between their own Greek city states – particularly Athens and Sparta. It also shows how Classical Greece made use of the Homeric heroes of the Mycenaean period in its literature and drama to reflect upon its own ancient heritage.