Knossos, Mycenae, Troy : the enchanting Bronze Age and its tumultuous climax /
This work puts a particular emphasis on the mixing and osmosis of the first Mediterranean civilizations, with particular reference to the Minoan, Cycladic, Mycenaean, and Trojan, and on the causes of their decline, which are to be identified in a jumble of natural and human causes, and in a long-las...
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| Language: | English |
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Oxford :
Oxbow Books,
2023.
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| Online Access: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/jj.1011768 |
Table of Contents:
- TimelinePrefaceIntroduction: The geographical context
- 1. The origins of the Minoan civilization
- 2. The geography of Protopalatial Crete
- 3. War weapons and defensive architecture
- 4. Maritime trade5. Religion and worship
- 6. The transition to the Neopalatial Period
- 7. Neopalatial Crete
- 8. Mutual influences
- 9. The volcanic catastrophe of Santorini10. The Proto-Greeks
- 11. The emergence of the Mycenaeans
- 12. The search for raw materials
- 13. Calamity and resilience
- 14. The Mycenaean conquest of Crete15. The Mycenaeans seize mercantile trade from the Minoans16. The pre-colonization of the West
- 17. Kingdoms and city-palaces
- 18. Crete in the age of Minos I
- 19. Minos II
- 20. The catastrophe of Pylos. The Sea Peoples: Part I21. The Trojan War
- 22. Which Troy?
- 23. The decline of the palace-cities
- 24. The Sea Peoples: Part II
- 25. The recovery without the palaces and the final crisis.