Minoan Crete : an introduction /

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Author / Creator:	Watrous, Livingston Vance, 1943- author.
Imprint:	Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2021. ©2021
Description:	xv, 231 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 26 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Minoans -- Greece -- Crete. Art, Minoan. Bronze age -- Greece -- Crete. Antiquities. Art, Minoan. Bronze age. Civilization. Minoans. Crete (Greece) -- Antiquities. Crete (Greece) -- Civilization. Greece -- Crete.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12615856

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ISBN:	9781108424509 1108424503 9781108440493 1108440495 9781108339292
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	"Along with Mesopotamia, Egypt, and the Levant, Minoan Crete was one of the primary cultures of the prehistoric Mediterranean world. In this book, L. Vance Watrous offers an up-to-date overview of this important ancient society. Using archaeological evidence from palaces, houses, surveys, caves, and mountain shrines, he describes and traces the development of Minoan Crete from the Neolithic era through the Late Bronze Age. Watrous also presents and interprets Minoan art works in a range of media, including fresco paintings, pottery, and seals, and explains how Minoan Crete affected the culture of classical Greece"--
Other form:	Online version: Watrous, Livingston Vance, 1943- Minoan Crete Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York : Cambridge University Press, [2021] 9781108339292

Table of Contents:

Introduction: Minoan Crete
Crete: the island and traditional life
Crete: land of myth and archaeology
Crete before the palaces: earliest prehistory to EM II (130,000-2200 BC)
The rise (EM III-MM IA) and first phase of Minoan palatial civilization (MM IB-II)
The maturity of Minoan Crete: the second palatial period, 1700-1450 BC (middle Minoan III-late Minoan IB)
Minoan overseas connections during the second palace period (1700-1450 BC)
Minoan religion during the first and second palace period
Minoan art in the first and second palatial periods
Crete at the time of the final palaces (LM IIIA) and the postpalatial period, 1400-1050 BC.

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