Cambridge University Press, 2017. — xvi + 347 p. — ISBN: 978-1-107-19752-7. Neopalatial Crete – the ‘Golden Age’ of the Minoan civilization – possessed Palaces, exquisite artefacts, and iconography with preeminent females. While lacking in fortifications, the island was cloaked with ritual symbolism, an elaborate bureaucracy logged transactions, and massive storage areas...
Frederick A. Praeger, 1963. — 240 p. — (Ancient Peoples and Places, Vol. 33). Troy is one of the most glamorous of all the ancient cities. It was the ardent faith and unquenchable enthusiasm of Heinrich Schliemann, the great German archaeologist, that converted legend — immortalized by Homer — into history when, between 1870 and 1890, he uncovered the actual site. A few years...
Sheffield Academic Press, 2001. — 181 p. — (Sheffield Studies in Aegean Archaeology). — ISBN 1-84127-341-4. State-formation and the emergence of civilization have been two of the major arenas of debate in Aegean prehistory for the last twenty five years. The process of urbanization has therefore been at the forefront of scholarly debate. Bronze Age towns, however, have largely...
Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 1983. — 110 p. — (Archaeology, History and Classical studies). — ISBN: 0-907849-50-4. The Ashmolean Museum is well known to possess the most representative collection of Minoan antiquities outside Crete, a major part of which came to the Department of Antiquities from excavations made over a number of years from 1900 onwards by Sir Arthur Evans, who...
Routledge, 2006. — 225 p. — ISBN: 9-78-0-415-34955-0. In The Trojans and their Neighbours the secrets of Troy – one of the most iconic cities in ancient history – are unearthed. Once the lost site of the mythological battle which unfolded in Homer’s Iliad , the discovery of ancient Troy at Hislarlık has revealed a living, breathing city with a history spanning 4,000 years....
Routledge, 1998. — 225 p. — ISBN: 0-415-16539-3. Atlantis Destroyed examines the legend of the famed lost continent of Atlantis, whose description is found in Plato’s Timaeus and Critias. Plato’s legend of Atlantis has become notorious among scholars as the most absurd lie in literature. Atlantis Destroyed explores the possibility that the account given by Plato is historically...
Pen & Sword Military Classics, 2006. — 165 p. — ISBN 1-84415-175–1. 3300 years ago Agamemnon, king of Mycenae in Greece, attacked the city of Troy in western Anatolia. The bloody siege that followed gave rise to one of the most famous legends of the ancient world, and the search for the truth behind the legend has intrigued scholars ever since. In this fascinating new...
Routledge, 1993. — 210 p. — ISBN: 0-415-08833-X. Thoroughly researched, Rodney Castleden's "Minoans: Life in Bronze Age Crete" here sues the results of recent research to produce a comprehensive new vision of the peoples of Minoan Crete. Since Sir Arthur Evans rediscovered the Minoans in the early 1900s, we have defined a series of cultural traits that make the ‘Minoan...
Routledge, 1990. — 204 p. — ISBN: 0-415-03315-2. Knossos, like the Acropolis or Stonehenge, is a symbol for an entire culture. The Knossos Labyrinth was first built in the reign of a Middle Kingdom Egyptian pharaoh, and was from the start the focus of a glittering and exotic culture. Homer left elusive clues about the Knossian court and when the lost site of Knossos gradually...
Routledge, 2005. — 296 p. — (Peoples of the Ancient World). — ISBN: 0-203-01468-5. Following on from Rodney Castleden's best-selling study "Minoans", this major contribution to our understanding of the crucial Mycenaean period clearly and effectively brings together research and knowledge we have accumulated since the discovery of the remains of the civilization of Mycenae in...
Routledge, 2005. — 296 p. — (Peoples of the Ancient World). — ISBN: 0-203-01468-5. Following on from Rodney Castleden's best-selling study "Minoans", this major contribution to our understanding of the crucial Mycenaean period clearly and effectively brings together research and knowledge we have accumulated since the discovery of the remains of the civilization of Mycenae in...
C.H.Beck, 2004. — 128 s. Der Gründungsmythos unseres Kontinents ist unauflöslich mit der sagenumwobenen griechischen Insel Kreta verbunden: In Gestalt eines weißen Stiers entführt der verliebte Göttervater Zeus die phönizische Königstochter Europa über das Meer und setzt sie erst wieder an der Küste Kretas ab. Sie gebiert ihm drei Söhne – Minos, Rhadamanthys und Sarpedon –, die...
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2014. — 264 p. — ISBN: 978-0691140896. In 1177 B.C. marauding groups known only as the "Sea Peoples" invaded Egypt. The pharaoh's army and navy managed to defeat them, but the victory so weakened Egypt that it soon slid into decline, as did most of the surrounding civilizations. After centuries of brilliance, the civilized world of the...
Oxford University Press, 2012. — 1055 p. — (Oxford Handbooks). — ISBN10: 0199873607. — ISBN13: 978-0199873609. The Greek Bronze Age, roughly 3000 to 1000 BCE, witnessed the flourishing of the Minoan and Mycenean civilizations, the earliest expansion of trade in the Aegean and wider Mediterranean Sea, the development of artistic techniques in a variety of media, and the...
Oxford University Press, 2013. — 242 p. — (Very Short Introductions). Homer's tale of the abduction of Helen to Troy and the ten-year war to bring her back to Greece has fascinated mankind for centuries since he related it in The Iliad and The Odyssey. More recently, it has given rise to countless scholarly articles and books, extensive archaeological excavations, epic movies,...
Rev. and expanded 2nd ed. — Los Angeles, CA: Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, University of California, 2007. — x, 254 p. : ill., maps, plans. — (Cotsen Institute of Archaeology at UCLA 60). This revised and expanded edition of the classic 1999 edited book includes all the chapters from the original volume plus a new, updated, introduction and several new chapters. The current...
Archaeopress, 2003. — 363 p. — (BAR International Series; 1196). — ISBN: 1-84171-561-1. Mycenaean influence was exerted on the islands of the south-eastern Aegean through the improvement of both people and ideas through migration, colonisation and invasion. This study explores Mycenaean influence through analysing the burial record of islands in the south-west and in particular...
The University of Chicago Press, 2009. — 288 p. — ISBN: 978-0-226-28953-3. In the spring of 1900, British archaeologist Arthur Evans began to excavate the palace of Knossos on Crete, bringing ancient Greek legends to life just as a new century dawned amid far-reaching questions about human history, art, and culture. With Knossos and the Prophets of Modernism, Cathy Gere relates...
Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2006. — 202 p. — (Wonders of the World). — ISBN: 0-674-02170-3. Mycenae, the fabled city of Homer’s King Agamemnon, still stands in a remote corner of mainland Greece. Revered in antiquity as the pagan world’s most tangible connection to the heroes of the Trojan War, Mycenae leapt into the headlines in the late nineteenth...
Cambridge University Press, 2008. — xii + 223 p. — ISBN: 978-0-521-87038-2. Homer’s epics reflect an eighth-century BC world of warrior tribes that were fractured by constant strife; aside from its fantastic scale, nothing is exceptional about Troy’s conquest by the Greeks. Using a fascinating and innovative approach, Professor Gottschall analyzes Homeric conflict from the...
London: Routledge & K. Paul, 1976. — 324 p. Mycenaean Greece, first published in 1976, investigates from an historical point of view some of the crucial periods in the Greek Bronze Age. The principal subject is the so-called 'Mycenaean' culture which arose during the sixteenth century BC, as assimilation of the previous 'Helladic' culture of mainland Greece with some of the...
Heidelberg: CMS Heidelberg, 2018. xiv, 402 p. ISBN: 9783000608322 In this monograph, the seals, seal impressions, and sealed objects from the Bronze Age site of Akrotiri on Thera are presented scientifically for the first time. The book first looks at the archaeological contexts and examines the seals and seals, taking typological and iconographic aspects into account. It turns...
Bethesda, Maryland: CDL Press, 2010. — 172 p. — ISBN 978-1-934309-27-8. "The study at hand presents a new evaluation of the data and our understanding of the political landscape in Greece during the Late Bronze Age, especially during the fourteenth and thirteenth centuries BC. Over the last several years there has been a flood of new publications on this topic, in popular...
Księgozbiór DiGG, 2010. — 272 s. Wojna Trojańska Aleksandra Krawczuka to pozycja zahaczająca o literaturoznawstwo, historię, mity. Autor w zajmujący sposób oprowadza czytelnika po Iliadzie Homera, opowiada o kolejnych bohaterach poematu, bogach, półbogach i ludziach. Przedstawia historię i badania snując gawędę o starożytności.
Brill Academic Pub, 2023. — 531 p. — (Brill's Companions to Classical Studies / Warfare in the Ancient Mediterranean World 6). Aegean prehistory was born out of the search for the Trojan War. Since the time of Heinrich Schliemann, new forms of evidence have come to light and innovative questions have arisen, including examinations of warfare as a concept. This volume...
Translated from the German by Kevin Windle and Rosh Ireland. — Oxford University Press, 2004. — 342 p. — ISBN 0–19–926308–6. In this book Joachim Latacz turns the spotlight of modern research on the much-debated question of whether the wealthy city of Troy described by Homer in the Iliad was a poetic fiction or a memory of historical reality. Earlier excavations at the hill of...
Austin: University of Texas Press, 2010. — 202 p. — ISBN: 978-0-292-72193-7. Ever since Sir Arthur Evans first excavated at the site of the Palace at Knossos in the early twentieth century, scholars and visitors have been drawn to the architecture of Bronze Age Crete. Much of the attraction comes from the geographical and historical uniqueness of the island. Equidistant from...
London, U.K.: Routledge, 2017. — 296 p. — (British School at Athens - Modern Greek and Byzantine Studies Series, Vol. 3). Since its rediscovery in the early 20th century, through spectacular finds such as those by Sir Arthur Evans at Knossos, Minoan Crete has captured the imagination not only of archaeologists but also of a wider public. This is shown, among other things, by...
London, U.K.: Routledge, 2017. — 296 p. — (British School at Athens - Modern Greek and Byzantine Studies Series, Vol. 3). Since its rediscovery in the early 20th century, through spectacular finds such as those by Sir Arthur Evans at Knossos, Minoan Crete has captured the imagination not only of archaeologists but also of a wider public. This is shown, among other things, by...
Cambridge University Press, 2017. — 366 p. In this book, Sarah Murray provides a comprehensive treatment of textual and archaeological evidence for the long-distance trade economy of Greece across 600 years during the transition from the Late Bronze to the Early Iron Age. Analyzing the finished objects that sustained this kind of trade, she also situates these artifacts within...
Brill Academic Pub, 2013. — 467 p. — (History and Archaeology of Classical Antiquity 358) This book revises our understanding of Mycenaean society through a detailed analysis of individuals attested in the administrative texts from the Palace of Nestor at Pylos in southwestern Greece, ca. 1200 BC. It argues that conventional models of Mycenaean society, which focus on...
Routledge, 2014. — 390 p. Women in Mycenaean Greece is the first book-length study of women in the Linear B tablets from Mycenaean Greece and the only to collect and compile all the references to women in the documents of the two best attested sites of Late Bronze Age Greece - Pylos on the Greek mainland and Knossos on the island of Crete. The book offers a systematic analysis...
Oxbow Books, 2010. — 256 p. — (Papers from the Langford Conference, Florida State University, Tallahassee, 22-24 February 2007). This volume brings together an international group of researchers to address how Mycenaean and Minoan states controlled the economy. The contributions, originally delivered at the 2007 Langford Conference at Florida State University, examine the...
Harper & Brothers, 1881. - 902 p. The Results of Researches and Discoveries on the Site of Troy and Throughout the Troad in the Years 1871-72-73-78-79. With Maps, Plans, and About 1800 Illustrations
C. Scribner's sons, 1885. - 520 p. Heinrich Schliemann (1822-1890) was a businessman and self-taught archaeologist who is best known for discovering the legendary city of Troy. Inspired by his belief in the veracity of the Homeric poems, Schliemann turned his attention to uncovering other cities mentioned in the Iliad. This volume provides an account in English of his...
With Maps, Plans, and about 1800 Illustrations. — Harper & Brothers, 1881. — 902 p. Heinrich Schliemann (1822-1890) was a businessman and self-taught archaeologist who is best known for discovering the site of the ancient city of Troy. First published in 1880, this volume contains an account of Schliemann's second excavation at Troy in 1878-1879 and places his earlier...
Philadelphia, PA: INSTAP Academic Press, 2014. — xviii, 84, 6, 7 p. : maps, plates. — (Prehistory Monographs 45). This study outlines the state of our present knowledge concerning the Mycenaean settlements in Messenia and examines the evidence for reconstructing the political geography of the “Kingdom” of Pylos. The progress of archaeological exploration in Messenia is reviewed...
Laterza, 2009. — 320 p. — ISBN: 9788842081302. Nel 1200 a.C. una città d’oro si ergeva all’ingresso dello stretto dei Dardanelli, tra l’ambra dei campi di grano, in bella vista su una pericolosa linea di sangue che divideva due imperi rivali. Troia ‘la ventosa’ sorgeva proprio lì, sull’unico punto di passaggio tra il mar Egeo e il mar Nero. Quella posizione strategica era tutta...
Simon & Schuster, 2006. — 258 p. — ISBN: 978-0-7432-9362-4. The Trojan War is one of history's most famous conflicts, a ten-year-long war waged over the beautiful Helen. For more than two thousand years this story has been a source of artistic inspiration. But is it true? In The Trojan War historian and classicist Barry Strauss explores the myth and the reality behind the war,...
Simon & Schuster, 2006. — 258 p. — ISBN: 978-0-7432-9362-4. The Trojan War is one of history's most famous conflicts, a ten-year-long war waged over the beautiful Helen. For more than two thousand years this story has been a source of artistic inspiration. But is it true? In The Trojan War historian and classicist Barry Strauss explores the myth and the reality behind the war,...
New York: Cambridge University Press, 2013. — 341 p. — ISBN: 978-1-107-00298-2. In this book, Thomas F. Tartaron presents a new and original reassessment of the maritime world of the Mycenaean Greeks of the Late Bronze Age. By all accounts a seafaring people, they enjoyed maritime connections with peoples as distant as Egypt and Sicily. These long-distance relationships have...
Brin Mawr, PA: Brin Mawr College, 1986. — 129 p. — ISBN: 0-929524-59-4. On October 19, 1984 the Departments of Greek, Latin and Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology of Bryn Mawr College held a symposium on the Trojan War as part of the celebrations of the Centennial of Bryn Mawr College, 1885-1985. The papers presented on that occasion are published in this volume with...
New York - Phoenix Press, 2004. — 273 p. From the arrival of the Neolithic farmers through the spectacular Minoan civilization of the Bronze Age to the Roman conquest of the first century B.C., this is the story of ancient Crete, as told by an esteemed professor, packaged with an attractive new cover. This fascinating history offers analyses and interpretations of Crete’s...
BBC Books, 2005. — 272 p. — ASIN B00DO8SLKG. For thousands of years we have been enthralled by tales of Troy and its heroes. Achilles and Hector, Paris and the famed beauty Helen remain some of the most enduring figures in art and literature. But did these titanic characters really walk the earth? Was there ever an actual siege of Troy? In this new, extensively revised edition...
BBC Books, 2005. — 272 p. — ASIN B00DO8SLKG. For thousands of years we have been enthralled by tales of Troy and its heroes. Achilles and Hector, Paris and the famed beauty Helen remain some of the most enduring figures in art and literature. But did these titanic characters really walk the earth? Was there ever an actual siege of Troy? In this new, extensively revised edition...
A Plume Book, 1985. — 272 p. — ISBN: 0-452-25960-6. Was there ever an actual seige of the "windy, well-walled" Bronze Age bastion known as Troy? Did Homer's titanic heroes — Agamemnon, Paris, Achilles, and the legendary beauty, Helen — ever inhabit the great palaces of Pylos and Mycenae? Or were the larger-than-life characters of the Iliad merely the fanciful creations of a...
American School of Classical Studies at Athens, 2004. — 172 p. The large-scale, formal consumption of huge quantities of food and drink is a feature of many societies, but extracting evidence for feasting from the archaeological record has, until recently, been problematic. Now new techniques of scientific analysis are being combined with greater theoretical sophistication to...
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