Mycenaeans

Name: Mycenaeans
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ISBN: 9780892368679

ISBN-10: 0892368675

ISBN-13: 9780892368679

Edition: 2006

Authors: Louise Schofield

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For almost three thousand years, the Mycenaeans, ancestors of the classical Greeks, lay lost and forgotten beneath the soil of Greece. In 1876, however, a German businessman, Heinrich Schliemann, in his search for the great Mycenaean king Agamemnon and other heroes of the Trojan War, made an astounding discovery in Mycenae: inside the monumental Lion Gate he discovered shaft graves belonging to a warrior elite, many of whom were buried wearing striking gold funerary masks and armor. In this authoritative new survey, Schofield examines these initial discoveries and other material evidence from Mycenaean culture, including painted pottery, documents in Linear B script, and the remains of…

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List price: $35.00
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 4/30/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 208
Size: 6.75" wide x 9.50" long x 0.60" tall
Weight: 1.430
Language: English




The discovery of the Mycenaeans



The coming of the Greeks?



The grave circles of Mycenae



The shaft grave era



Minoans, Mycenaeans and the winds of change



Palaces and kingdoms of the Mycenaeans



Trade and foreign relations



The lives of the Mycenaeans



Mycenaean religion



Decline and fall of the Mycenaeans



Myth, legend and the Trojan War