The Panagia Houses at Mycenae

The Panagia Houses at Mycenae
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Publisher : UPenn Museum of Archaeology
Total Pages : 276
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ISBN-10 : 0934718849
ISBN-13 : 9780934718844
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Synopsis The Panagia Houses at Mycenae by : Ione Mylonas Shear

Domestic architecture at the site of Mycenae was systematically explored for the first time in a series of investigations sponsored by the Archaeological Society of Athens and Washington University in St. Louis between 1962 and 1966 and again in 1977. The work revealed a block of houses in the area north of the Treasury of Atreus, the so-called Panagia Houses. The author describes the artifacts and reconstructed floor plans, and draws comparisons with other Bronze Age sites. University Museum Monograph, 68

Mycenae and the Mycenaean Age

Mycenae and the Mycenaean Age
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Publisher : Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press
Total Pages : 348
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ISBN-10 : UOM:39015031777108
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Synopsis Mycenae and the Mycenaean Age by : George Emmanuel Mylonas

The Description for this book, Mycenae and Mycenaean Age, will be forthcoming.

Mycenae

Mycenae
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Total Pages : 184
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ISBN-10 : UOM:39015054434876
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Synopsis Mycenae by : Elizabeth Bayard French

Famous from ancient Greek literature as King Agamemnon's capital, Mycenae was the site of almost unbroken excavation during the 20th century, and this continues today. In presenting a full up-to-date account of the site and placing it in its geographical and historical setting, the author concentrates on the great buildings of the citadel--the Lion Gate, the Cult Centre, and the Palace Complex--which flourished during the palatial Period in the 14th and 13th centuries BC. But she also investigates the legends associated with Mycenae and examines the evidence for the pre-palatial and post-palatial periods. Additionally, she is able to incorporate new information on the town and tombs outside the citadel.

Mycenae

Mycenae
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Publisher : National Geographic Books
Total Pages : 0
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ISBN-10 : 9780789212542
ISBN-13 : 0789212544
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Synopsis Mycenae by :

The extraordinary story of the loss and rediscovery of the city that fought Troy, told through archaeology, literature, and poetic black-and-white photography The Mycenaean civilization flourished more than 800 years before the classical Greeks, with a complex society, strong artistic tendencies, and a distinct system of writing. Famous for its lion gate and citadel, Mycenae was long believed to be the city that fought Troy in Homer’s epic, the Iliad. But after flourishing nearly three thousand years ago the society vanished, becoming nothing more than a legend. Mycenae: From Myth to History brings readers into the heart of this mystery, as it was being solved, through lively text, stunning photographs, and an original take on Greek history and mythology. Using the pivotal summer of 1954—a year after Linear B, the mysterious language present on all Mycenaean artifacts, was decoded—as her entry point, author Athina Cacouri reveals the fascinating archaeological history of the site, from the pioneering work of Heinrich Schliemann to the discovery of hundreds of “seal stones,” marked with an unknown language. Cacouri’s text is complemented by the photographs of Robert A. McCabe, whose lens captured the site before it was opened to the general public, giving his atmospheric images a poignant, unmatched immediacy. An original play, commissioned for this volume from renowned American playwright John Guare, sets the mythological stage for the archaeological discoveries to come by recounting the history of the House of Atreus and King Agamemnon’s Trojan War, while commentary on the photographs from archaeologist Lisa Wace French ties those myths to very real discoveries at the site. An essay by Daniel Fallu, detailing the importance of Mycenae’s geology, rounds out this unparalleled survey of one of Greece’s treasured archaeological sites. A multifaceted look at a brilliant civilization and the tireless work that led to its rediscovery, Mycenae is a fast-paced, lushly illustrated exploration of one of the most intriguing mysteries of antiquity that is sure to delight lovers of classical civilization, photography, and travel.

Mycenae

Mycenae
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Total Pages : 524
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ISBN-10 : UIUC:30112050250924
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Synopsis Mycenae by : Heinrich Schliemann

From Stonehenge to Mycenae

From Stonehenge to Mycenae
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Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages : 216
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ISBN-10 : 9781474291910
ISBN-13 : 1474291910
Rating : 4/5 (10 Downloads)

Synopsis From Stonehenge to Mycenae by : John Barrett

This book reconsiders how we can understand archaeology on a grand scale by abandoning the claims that material remains stand for the people and institutions that produced them, or that genetic change somehow caused cultural change. Our challenge is to understand the worlds that made great projects like the building of Stonehenge or Mycenae possible. The radiocarbon revolution made the old view that the architecture of Mycenae influenced the building of Stonehenge untenable. But the recent use of 'big data' and of genetic histories have led archaeology back to a worldview where 'big problems' are assumed to require 'big solutions'. Making an animated plea for bottom-up rather than top-down solutions, the authors consider how life was made possible by living in the local and materially distinct worlds of the period. By considering how people once built connections between each other through their production and use of things, their movement between and occupancy of places, and their treatment of the dead, we learn about the kinds of identities that people constructed for themselves. Stonehenge did not require an architect from Mycenae for it to be built, but the builders of Stonehenge and Mycenae would have shared a mutual recognition of the kinds of humans that they were, and the kinds of practices these monuments were once host to.

The Tomb of Agamemnon

The Tomb of Agamemnon
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Publisher : Harvard University Press
Total Pages : 209
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ISBN-10 : 9780674021709
ISBN-13 : 0674021703
Rating : 4/5 (09 Downloads)

Synopsis The Tomb of Agamemnon by : Cathy Gere

Read the Bldg Blog interview with Mary Beard about the Wonders of the World series(Part I and Part II) 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 century when Heinrich Schliemann announced that he had opened the Tomb of Agamemnon and found the body of the hero smothered in gold treasure. Now Mycenae is one of the most haunting and impressive archaeological sites in Europe, visited by hundreds of thousands of tourists every year. From Homer to Himmler, from Thucydides to Freud, Mycenae has occupied a singular place in the western imagination. As the backdrop to one of the most famous military campaigns of all time, Agamemnon's city has served for generation after generation as a symbol of the human appetite for war. As an archaeological site, it has given its name to the splendors of one of Europe's earliest civilizations: the Mycenaean Age. In this book, historian of science Cathy Gere tells the story of these extraordinary ruins--from the Cult of the Hero that sprung up in the shadow of the great burned walls in the eighth century bc, to the time after Schliemann's excavations when the Homeric warriors were resurrected to play their part in the political tragedies of the twentieth century.

From Mycenae to Constantinople

From Mycenae to Constantinople
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 253
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ISBN-10 : 9781134928941
ISBN-13 : 1134928947
Rating : 4/5 (41 Downloads)

Synopsis From Mycenae to Constantinople by : Richard A Tomlinson

Tomlinson presents studies of selected ancient cities, ranging from the earliest development of urban architecture in Europe to the imperial cities of Rome and Constantinople. It gives an account of their architecture, not merely from the art historical point of view, but as an expression of the social organisation, and political systems employed by the people who lived in them.

From Mycenae to Homer

From Mycenae to Homer
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 380
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ISBN-10 : 9781317694519
ISBN-13 : 1317694511
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Synopsis From Mycenae to Homer by : T. B. L. Webster

This book, first published in 1958, aims to describe Greek art and poetry within this ambiguous period of ancient history (often referred to as the Greek ‘Dark Ages’), and to explore the possibilities of learning about Mycenaean civilisation from its own documents and not only from archaeology. Specifically, Webster utilises Michael Ventris’ decipherment of Linear B in 1952 – which proved that Greek was spoken in the Mycenaean world – to determine the general contours of aesthetic development from Mycenae to the time of the written composition of the Homeric epics. Because they record Mycenaean civilisation in Mycenaean terminology, while Homer was writing in Ionian Greek at the beginning of the polis civilisation, they show how much in Homer is in fact Mycenaean. Further, where it is clear that these Mycenaean elements cannot have survived until Homer’s time, they tell us something about the poetry which connected the two.

The Mycenae Tablets Iv

The Mycenae Tablets Iv
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Publisher : Brill Archive
Total Pages : 66
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Synopsis The Mycenae Tablets Iv by : John Chadwick