Towards the borders of the Bronze Age and beyond : Mycenaean long distance travel and its reflection in myth / Jörg Mull.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mull, Jörg, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Excavations (Archaeology)--Greece--Mycenae (Extinct city).

Excavations (Archaeology).

Civilization, Mycenaean.

Bronze age--Greece--Mycenae (Extinct city).

Bronze age.

Mycenae (Extinct city)--Economic conditions.

Mycenae (Extinct city).

Economic history.

Greece--Mycenae (Extinct city).

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (160 pages) : color illustrations

Place of Publication:

Leiden : Sidestone Press, [2022]

Summary:

The Late Bronze Age from about 1600 to 1150 BCE was a time of unprecedented economic activity in human history based on the supply and production of the eponymous alloy bronze on an almost industrial scale. The supply networks for copper and tin during this period stretched over large parts of western Eurasia and included long distance maritime transport. The palatial centres of Mycenaean Greece were positioned at a unique geographical interface between the cul.

Contents:

Intro

Abstract

Acknowledgements

Preface

Introduction

References to Time and Dates in the Bronze Age

The Historical and Archaeological Framework of Travel and Mobility in the Bronze Age

The Economic Background of Bronze Age Long Distance Travel

Shipbuilding in the Bronze Age

Evidence for Mycenaean Long Distance Journeys in the LBA

Reflections of Mycenaean Long Distance Travel in the Mythological Record

8.1 Definitions, Structures and Functions of Myth

8.5 The Historicity of Greek Travel Myths

Conclusions and Vantage Point

8.4 The Content and Narrative Style of Greek Travel Myths

Quests and Journeys in the LBA

8.3 Genealogies

Mythical Timekeeping

8.2 Myth and History

8.2.1 Approaches to the Historicity and the Origins of Myths

8.2.2 The Transmission Processes During the 'Dark Ages'

8.2.3 Transposition and Re-Interpretation of Myth during the Archaic Age of Greek Colonial Expansion

8.2.4 Epic Poetry, Canonization and Local Variants

8.2.5 Early Geography and the 'Historization of Myth' in the Archaic, Classical and Hellenistic Periods

Mycenaean Contacts with the Civilizations in the Eastern Mediterranean

9.1 Mycenaean Contacts with Anatolia

9.1.1 Archaeological and Historical Evidence of Mycenaean Contacts with Anatolia

9.4 Mycenaean Contacts with Egypt

9.4.1 Pictorial, Historical and Archaeological Evidence of Mycenaean Contacts with Egypt

9.4.2 Reflections in Greek Myths

9.3 Mycenaean Contacts with Cyprus

9.3.1 Archaeological Evidence of Mycenaean Contacts with Cyprus

9.3.2 Reflections in Greek Myths

9.2 Mycenaean Contacts with the Levant

9.2.1 Archaeological Evidence of Mycenaean Contacts with the Levant

9.2.2 Reflections in Greek Myths

9.1.2 Reflections in Greek Myths

Mycenaean Contacts with the Central and Western Mediterranean

10.1 Evidence of Mycenaean Journeys to Italy and Sicily

10.1.1 Archaeological Evidence

10.3 Mycenaean Contacts with the Iberian Peninsula

10.3.1 Archaeological Evidence

10.3.2 Reflections in Greek Myths

10.2 Evidence of Mycenaean Contacts with Sardinia

10.2.1 Archaeological Evidence

10.2.2 Reflections in Myths

10.1.2 Reflections in Myths

Mycenaean Journeys to the Black Sea Area

11.1 The Historical, Archaeological and Epigraphic Evidence of Mycenaean Contacts with the Black Sea Area

11.2 Reflections of Mycenaean Journeys to the Black Sea Area in Greek Myths

The Mysterious Countries 'Beyond'

12.1 The Far South and East

The Ethiopians, the Red Sea and the Indian Ocean

12.3 'Hyperborea'

The Mysterious 'Far North'

12.3.1 The Archaeological Evidence of Contacts from Mycenaean Greece with Northern Europe

12.3.2 The Mythical Record of Mycenaean Contacts with Northern Europe

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

12.2 The Far West - 'The Isles of the Blessed'

Other Format:

Print version: Mull, Jörg Towards the Borders of the Bronze Age and Beyond

ISBN:

9789464260793

9464260793

OCLC:

1314613904

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