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Architecture and politics in Mycenaean Greece : stoneworking, labor, and regional ties in the late Bronze Age / Nicholas G. Blackwell.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Blackwell, Nicholas G., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Architecture, Mycenaean--Political aspects.
- Architecture, Mycenaean.
- Stone carving--Political aspects--Greece--Mycenae (Extinct city).
- Stone carving.
- Geopolitics--Mediterranean Region--History.
- Geopolitics.
- Bronze age--Greece--Mycenae (Extinct city).
- Bronze age.
- Mycenae (Extinct city)--Politics and government.
- Mycenae (Extinct city).
- Greece--Foreign relations--To 146 B.C.
- Greece.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xxvi, 377 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour), maps (black and white), digital, PDF file(s)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2026.
- Summary:
- In Late Bronze Age Greece, Mycenaean authorities commissioned impressive funerary monuments, fortifications, and palatial complexes, reflecting their advanced engineering and architectural skills. Yet the degree of connectivity among Mycenaean administrative centres remains contested. In this book, Nicholas Blackwell explores craft relationships by analysing artisan mobility and technological transfer across certain sites. These labour networks offer an underexplored perspective for interpreting the period's geopolitical dynamics. Focusing on iconic monuments like the Lion Gate relief, the refurbished Grave Circle A, and the Treasury of Atreus, Blackwell reconsiders the topographical and political evolution of Mycenae and the Argolid in the 14th-13th centuries BCE.
- Contents:
- Tools, stoneworker mobility, and the Argolid
- Building memory : Mycenae's stonework as visual manipulation of the past
- Creating wonder : Mycenae's stonework as spectacle and power statements
- Mycenae's relationship with Tiryns and other citadels in the Argolid : stonework, politics, and interculturalism
- Beyond the Argolid : stoneworking connections between Mycenae-Tiryns and Boeotia
- Conclusions : Mycenaean political dynamics from a stonework perspective
- Epilogue : memory and legends associated with the Argolid and Boeotia.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on May 8, 2026).
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-009-73957-3
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