Ancient Greece : from the Mycenaean palaces to the age of Homer / edited by Sigrid Deger-Jalkotzy and Irene S. Lemos.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Deger-Jalkotzy, Sigrid, 1940-

Lemos, I. S. (Irene S.)

Series:

Edinburgh Leventis studies ; 3.

Edinburgh Leventis studies ; 3

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Iron age--Greece--Congresses.

Iron age.

History.

Antiquities.

Greece--Antiquities--Congresses.

Greece.

Greece--Civilization--To 146 B.C--Congresses.

Civilization.

Greece--History--Geometric period, ca. 900-700 B.C--Congresses.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

xxiii, 695 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2006]

Summary:

This book is the most fundamental reinterpretation of Ancient Greek history, culture, and society in thirty years. The authors refute the traditional view of the Greek Dark Age with evidence of a steady progression from Mycenaean kingship to the conception of aristocratic nobility in the Archaic period.

Contents:

Part I Political and Social Structures

1 The formation of the Mycenaean palace / James C. Wright 7

2 Wanaks and related power terms in Mycenaean and later Greek / Thomas G. Palaima 53

3 Mycenaean palatial administration / Cynthia W. Shelmerdine 73

4 The subjects of the wanax: aspects of Mycenaean social structure / John T. Killen 87

5 [characters not reproducible] and [characters not reproducible] in the Homeric poems / Pierre Carlier 101

6 Kin-groups in the Homeric epics (Summary) / Walter Donlan 111

Part II Continuity - Discontinuity - Transformation

7 The Mycenaean heritage of Early Iron Age Greece / Oliver Dickinson 115

8 Coming to terms with the past: ideology and power in Late Helladic IIIC / Joseph Maran 123

9 Late Mycenaean warrior tombs / Sigrid Deger-Jalkotzy 151

10 The archaeology of basileis / Alexander Mazarakis Ainian 181

11 From Late Bronze Age to Early Iron Age copper metallurgy in mainland Greece and offshore Aegean Islands / Maria Kayafa 213

12 Ethne in the Peloponnese and central Greece / Catherine Morgan 233

Part III International and Inter-Regional Relations

13 Gift Exchange: modern theories and ancient attitudes / Beate Wagner-Hasel 257

14 Basileis at sea: elites and external contacts in the Euboean Gulf region from the end of the Bronze Age to the beginning of the Iron Age / Jan Paul Crielaard 271

15 Aspects of the 'Italian connection' / David Ridgway 299

16 From the Myceanaen qa-si-re-u to the Cypriote pa-si-le-wo-se: the basileus in the kingdoms of Cyprus / Maria Iacovou 315

17 Phoenicians in Crete / Nicholaos Chr. Stampolidis, Antonios Kotsonas 337

Part IV Religion and Hero Cult

18 From kings to demigods: epic heroes and social change c. 750-600 BC / Hans van Wees 363

19 Religion, basileis and heroes / Carla Antonaccio 381

20 Cult activity on Crete in the Early Dark Age: Changes, continuities and the development of a 'Greek' cult system / Anna Lucia D' Agata 397

Part V The Homeric Epics and Heroic Poetry

21 The rise and descent of the language of the Homeric poems / Michael Meier-Brugger 417

22 Homer and Oral Poetry / Edzard Visser 427

23 Some remarks on the semantics of [characters not reproducible]v[alpha xi] in Homer / Martin Schmidt 439

24 Historical approaches to Homer / Kurt A. Raaflaub 449

Part VI The Archaeology of Greek Regions and Beyond

25 The palace of Iolkos and its end / Vassiliki Adrimi-Sismani 465

26 Early Iron Age elite burials in East Lokris / Fanouria Dakoronia 483

27 Athens and Lefkandi: a tale of two sites / Irene S. Lemos 505

28 The Early Iron Age in the Argolid: Some new aspects / Alkestis Papadimitriou 531

29 The world of Telemachus: western Greece 1200-700 BC / Birgitta Eder 549

30 Knossos in Early Greek times / J. N. Coldstream 581

31 Praisos: political evolution and ethnic identity in eastern Crete c.1400-300 BC / James Whitley 597

32 The gilded cage? Settlement and socioeconomic change after 1200 BC: a comparison of Crete and other Aegean regions / Saro Wallace 619

33 Homeric Cyprus / Vassos Karageorghis 665.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0748618899

0748618902

OCLC:

61176681

Publisher Number:

9780748618897