The Mycenaean world / John Chadwick.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Chadwick, John, 1920-1998.

Contributor:

The Library of Chaim Potok (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Civilization, Mycenaean.

Penn Provenance:

Potok, Adena (donor) (Potok Collection copy)

Potok, Chaim (autograph) (Potok Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xvii pages, 1 unnumbered page, 201 pages, 5 unnumbered pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge ; London ; New York : Cambridge University Press, [1976]

Summary:

In 1952 the decipherment of the Linear B script suddenly revealed the Greekness of Mycenaean Greece. Now, after new discoveries and more than 20 years of intensive work, scholars are able to interpret the written documents and reconstruct from them a vivid picture of life in this remote period, in a way which is impossible from archaeology alone. John Chadwick, who assisted Ventris in the original decipherment, has played a major part in these advances. He now summarizes the results of recent research and in so doing opens the door to a new world, Mycenaean Greece seen through the eyes of its inhabitants. The tablets may be only, as he describes them, 'the account books of anonymous clerks', but from these prosaic documents he shows how we can infer a bronze industry, foreign slave-women, or even human sacrifice. Not least important is the comparison of the newly available data with the Homeric account, much to the detriment of Homer's credibility as a witness.

Contents:

The hellenization of Greece

The documentary evidence

Mycenaean geography

The people of the tablets

The social structure and the administrative system

Religion

Agriculture

Craft, industry and trade

Weapons and war

Homer the pseudo-historian

The end of the Mycenaean world

Notes:

"First published 1976."

Map on lining papers.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-196) and index.

Local Notes:

Potok Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Adena Potok.

Potok Collection copy: dust jacket retained.

Potok Collection copy has autograph of "Chaim Potok 1977".

ISBN:

0521210771.

0521290376

OCLC:

1958204