Ancient Greece : from the Mycenaen palaces to the age of Homer.
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| Imprint: | Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, c2006. |
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| Description: | xxiii, 695 p. ; 25 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Edinburgh Leventis studies ; 3 |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/6114106 |
Table of Contents:
- Contributors and Editors
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part I. Political and Social Structures
- 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. [characters not reproducible] and [characters not reproducible] in the Homeric poems
- 6. Kin-groups in the Homeric epics (Summary)
- Part II. Continuity - Discontinuity - Transformation
- 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 Islands
- 12. Ethne in the Peloponnese and central Greece
- Part III. International and Inter-Regional Relations
- 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 Myceanaen qa-si-re-u to the Cypriote pa-si-le-wo-se: the basileus in the kingdoms of Cyprus
- 17. Phoenicians in Crete
- Part IV. Religion and Hero Cult
- 18. From kings to demigods: epic heroes and social change c. 750-600 BC
- 19. Religion, basileis and heroes
- 20. Cult activity on Crete in the Early Dark Age: Changes, continuities and the development of a 'Greek' cult system
- Part V. The Homeric Epics and Heroic Poetry
- 21. The rise and descent of the language of the Homeric poems
- 22. Homer and Oral Poetry
- 23. Some remarks on the semantics of [characters not reproducible]v[alpha xi] in Homer
- 24. Historical approaches to Homer
- Part VI. The Archaeology of Greek Regions and Beyond
- 25. The palace of Iolkos and its end
- 26. Early Iron Age elite burials in East Lokris
- 27. Athens and Lefkandi: a tale of two sites
- 28. The Early Iron Age in the Argolid: Some new aspects
- 29. The world of Telemachus: western Greece 1200-700 BC
- 30. Knossos in Early Greek times
- 31. Praisos: political evolution and ethnic identity in eastern Crete c.1400-300 BC
- 32. The gilded cage? Settlement and socioeconomic change after 1200 BC: a comparison of Crete and other Aegean regions
- 33. Homeric Cyprus
- Index