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Author : Peter Hicks
Publisher : Raintree
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Crete (Greece)
ISBN : 0817245235
Describes the Aegean civilizations and the archaeological efforts to excavate the ancient cities of Troy and Knossos.
Author : Natale Barca
Publisher : Oxbow Books
Page : 471 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2023-03-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781789259483
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 : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1969-09-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780787784089
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 : Cathy Gere
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2010-09-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780226289557
In the spring of 1900, British archaeologist Arthur Evans began to excavate the palace of Knossos on Crete, bringing ancient Greek legends to life just as a new century dawned amid far-reaching questions about human history, art, and culture. With Knossos and the Prophets of Modernism, Cathy Gere relates the fascinating story of Evans’s excavation and its long-term effects on Western culture. After the World War I left the Enlightenment dream in tatters, the lost paradise that Evans offered in the concrete labyrinth—pacifist and matriarchal, pagan and cosmic—seemed to offer a new way forward for writers, artists, and thinkers such as Sigmund Freud, James Joyce, Giorgio de Chirico, Robert Graves, and Hilda Doolittle. Assembling a brilliant, talented, and eccentric cast at a moment of tremendous intellectual vitality and wrenching change, Cathy Gere paints an unforgettable portrait of the age of concrete and the birth of modernism.
Author : H. E. L. Mellersh
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Civilization, Mycenaean
ISBN : 1566191947
Author : Robert Wilson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 54 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : History
ISBN : 0528822020
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 : Robert Byrne
Publisher : Milliken Publishing Company
Page : 10 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1969-09
Category : Civilization, Aegean
ISBN : 1558635157
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 : Nanno Marinatos
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2014-12-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9780857725165
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 : Joachim Latacz
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2004-10-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780191555701
In this book Joachim Latacz turns the spotlight of modern research on the much-debated question of whether the wealthy city of Troy described by Homer in the Iliad was a poetic fiction or a memory of historical reality. Earlier excavations at the hill of Hisarlik, in Turkey, on the Dardanelles, brought no answer, but in 1988 a new archaeological enterprise, under the direction of Manfred Korfmann, led to a radical shift in understanding. Latacz, one of Korfmann's closest collaborators, traces the course of these excavations, and the renewed investigation of the imperial Hittite archives they have inspired. As he demonstrates, it is now clear that the background against which the plot of the Iliad is acted out is the historical reality of the thirteenth century BC. The Troy story as a whole must have arisen in this period, and we can detect traces of it in Homer's great poem.
Author : Lolita Nikolova,Marco Merlini,Alexandra Comsa
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2016-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9783110500820
'Western-Pontic Culture Ambience and Pattern: In Memory of Eugen Comsa' is dedicated to the memory of Eugen Comsa, an archaeologist whose work created the foundation of the Northern Balkan prehistory and was essential for the contemporary view of the prehistory of the North-western Pontic region. This edited volume brings together researchers in the field of Circumpontic archaeology from the Neolithic to the Iron Age period. The content of the volume is offered to students and scholars who seek a deeper understanding of the prehistory of the Western Pontic region, in particular the Balkans in their Eurasian context and more broadly to enhance the scholarly collections of academic, educational, public and private libraries throughout the world.
Author : Richard J.A. Talbert
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2002-09-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134966530
From the Bronze Age to the reign of Constantine, the Atlas of Classical History provides a comprehensive series of maps, diagrams, and commentary designed to meet the needs of classical scholars, as well as general readers. Over 135 maps of the Greek and Roman worlds clearly mark the political affiliations of the cities and states, major military events, trade routes, artistic, cultural and industrial centers, and colonization and exploration.
Author : Arnold C. Brackman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0442260989
Original ed. published in 1974 by Mason & Lipscomb, New York. Includes index. Bibliography: p. 233-240.
Author : Michael Wood
Publisher : Random House
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2015-05-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781448141456
For thousands of years we have been enthralled by tales of Troy and its heroes. Achilles and Hector, Paris and the famed beauty Helen remain some of the most enduring figures in art and literature. But did these titanic characters really walk the earth? Was there ever an actual siege of Troy? In this extensively revised edition, historian Michael Wood takes account of the latest dramatic developments in the search for Troy. His wide-ranging study of the complex archaeological, literary and historical records has been brought up-to-date. Detailing the rediscovery in Moscow of the so-called jewels of Helen and the re-excavation of the site of Troy begun in 1988, which continues to yield new evidence about the historical city, In Search of the Trojan War takes a fresh look at some of the most excited discoveries in archaeology. A dazzling and exhaustive analysis. Washington Post This beautifully illustrated book vividly evokes themes that are central to our civilizations quest for its past. The New York Times Book Review
Author : David A. Traill
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UVA:X006035925
Drawing on letters, diaries and other original material in Athens, a re-evaluation of German archaeologist Heinrich Schliemann, who claimed to have found the ancient city of Troy in 1868.
Author : Rodney Castleden
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2006-06-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781781596890
“A most insightful treatment of the seemingly mythic events that make up part of the foundation of Western history . . . an excellent book.” —The NYMAS Review Thirty-three hundred years ago, Agamemnon, king of Mycenae in Greece, attacked the city of Troy in western Anatolia. The bloody siege that followed gave rise to one of the most famous legends of the ancient world, and the search for the truth behind the legend has intrigued scholars ever since. In this fascinating new investigation, Rodney Castleden reconsiders all the evidence in order to establish the facts and give a historical basis to the most potent myth of ancient warfare.
