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Ancient Greece : from the Mycenaean palaces to the age of Homer / edited by Sigrid Deger-Jalkotzy and Irene S. Lemos.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Deger-Jalkotzy, Sigrid, Author.
- Series:
- Edinburgh Leventis studies ; 3.
- Edinburgh Leventis studies ; 3
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Iron age--Greece--Congresses.
- Iron age.
- Greece--Antiquities--Congresses.
- Greece.
- Greece--Civilization--To 146 B.C--Congresses.
- Greece--History--Geometric period, ca. 900-700 B.C--Congresses.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xxiii, 695 pages) : illustrations, maps
- Place of Publication:
- Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, c2006.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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 known as the Dark Age of Greece. This book constitutes the fundamental reinterpretation of this period. It serves as a reference on the later phases of the Mycenaean and the Early Greek Iron Ages.
- Contents:
- COVER; CONTENTS; CONTRIBUTORS AND EDITORS; ABBREVIATIONS; INTRODUCTION; 1 THE FORMATION OF THE MYCENAEAN PALACE; 2 WANAKS AND RELATED POWER TERMS IN MYCENAEAN AND LATER GREEK; 3 MYCENAEAN PALATIAL ADMINISTRATION; 4 THE SUBJECTS OF THE WANAX: ASPECTS OF MYCENAEAN SOCIAL STRUCTURE; 5 ?? AND ?? ßIN THE HOMERIC POEMS; 6 KIN-GROUPS IN THE HOMERIC EPICS (SUMMARY); 7 THE MYCENAEAN HERITAGE OF EARLY IRON AGE GREECE; 8 COMING TO TERMS WITH THE PAST: IDEOLOGY AND POWER IN LATE HELLADIC IIIC; 9 LATE MYCENAEAN WARRIOR TOMBS; 10 THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF BASILEIS
- 11 FROM LATE BRONZE AGE TO EARLY IRON AGE COPPER METALLURGY IN MAINLAND GREECE AND OFFSHORE AEGEAN ISLANDS; 12 ETHNE IN THE PELOPONNESE AND CENTRAL GREECE; 13 GIFT EXCHANGE: MODERN THEORIES AND ANCIENT ATTITUDES; 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; 15 ASPECTS OF THE 'ITALIAN CONNECTION'; 16 FROM THE MYCENAEAN QA-SI-RE-U TO THE CYPRIOTE PA-SI-LE-WO-SE: THE BASIL
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based upon print version of record.
- ISBN:
- 9786610538331
- 9781280538339
- 1280538333
- 9780748627295
- 0748627294
- OCLC:
- 304072259
- Publisher Number:
- 9780748627295
- 9780748618897
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