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

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910457303403321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Edinburgh, : Edinburgh University Press, c2006
• ISBN: 1-280-53833-3; 9786610538331; 0-7486-2729-4
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (695 p.)
• Collana: Edinburgh Leventis studies ; ; 3
• Altri autori (Persone): Deger-JalkotzySigrid <1940->; LemosI. S (Irene S.)
• Disciplina: 938.01
• Soggetti: Iron age - Greece; Electronic books.; Greece Antiquities Congresses; Greece Civilization To 146 B.C Congresses; Greece History Geometric period, ca. 900-700 B.C Congresses
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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 ISLANDS12 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
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.