Mycenaean World

Name: Mycenaean World
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ISBN: 9780521290371

ISBN-10: 0521290376

ISBN-13: 9780521290371

Edition: 1976

Authors: John Chadwick

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In 1952 the decipherment of the Linear B script suddenly revealed the Greekness of Mycenaean Greece. Now, after new discoveries and more than 20 years of intensive work, scholars are able to interpret the written documents and reconstruct from them a vivid picture of life in this remote period, in a way which is impossible from archaeology alone. John Chadwick, who assisted Ventris in the original decipherment, has played a major part in these advances. He now summarizes the results of recent research and in so doing opens the door to a new world, Mycenaean Greece seen through the eyes of its inhabitants. The tablets may be only, as he describes them, 'the account books of anonymous…

Book details

List price: $43.99
Copyright year: 1976
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 3/25/1976
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 220
Size: 6.69" wide x 9.61" long x 0.47" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English



List of illustrations


Preface



The hellenization of Greece



The documentary evidence



Mycenaean geography



The people of the tablets



The social structure and the administrative system



Religion



Agriculture



Craft, industry and trade



Weapons and war



Homer the pseudo-historian



The end of the Mycenaean world


Bibliography


Index