The Minoan Thalassocracy Myth and Reality
Author | : Robin Hägg |
Publisher | : Svenska Institutet I Athen |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 1984 |
Genre | : Civilization, Aegean |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Robin Hägg |
Publisher | : Svenska Institutet I Athen |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 1984 |
Genre | : Civilization, Aegean |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Cathy Gere |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2010-09-15 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0226289559 |
In the spring of 1900, British archaeologist Arthur Evans began to excavate the palace of Knossos on Crete, bringing ancient Greek legends to life just as a new century dawned amid far-reaching questions about human history, art, and culture. With Knossos and the Prophets of Modernism, Cathy Gere relates the fascinating story of Evans’s excavation and its long-term effects on Western culture. After the World War I left the Enlightenment dream in tatters, the lost paradise that Evans offered in the concrete labyrinth—pacifist and matriarchal, pagan and cosmic—seemed to offer a new way forward for writers, artists, and thinkers such as Sigmund Freud, James Joyce, Giorgio de Chirico, Robert Graves, and Hilda Doolittle. Assembling a brilliant, talented, and eccentric cast at a moment of tremendous intellectual vitality and wrenching change, Cathy Gere paints an unforgettable portrait of the age of concrete and the birth of modernism.
Author | : Rodney Castleden |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 237 |
Release | : 2002-01-04 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1134880642 |
Thoroughly researched, Rodney Castleden's Minoans: Life in Bronze Age Crete here sues the results of recent research to produce a comprehensive new vision of the peoples of Minoan Crete. Since Sir Arthur Evans rediscovered the Minoans in the early 1900s, we have defined a series of cultural traits that make the ‘Minoan personality’: elegant, graceful and sophisticated, these nature lovers lived in harmony with their neighbours, while their fleets ruled the seas around Crete. This, at least, is the popular view of the Minoans. But how far does the later work of archaeologists in Crete support this view? Drawing on his experience of being actively involved in research on landscapes processes and prehistory for the last twenty years, Castleden writes clearly and accessibly to provide a text essential to the study of this fascinating subject.
Author | : Evi Gorogianni |
Publisher | : Oxbow Books |
Total Pages | : 433 |
Release | : 2016-08-31 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1785702041 |
Beyond Thalassocracies aims to evaluate and rethink the manner in which archaeologists approach, understand, and analyze the various processes associated with culture change connected to interregional contact, using as a test case the world of the Aegean during the Late Bronze Age (c. 1600–1100 BC). The 14 chapters compare and contrast various aspects of the phenomena of Minoanisation and Mycenaeanisation, both of which share the basic underlying defining feature of material culture change in communities around the Aegean. This change was driven by trends manifesting themselves in the dominant palatial communities of each period of the Bronze Age. Over the past decade, our understanding of how these processes developed and functioned has changed considerably. Whereas current discussions on Minoanisation have already been informed by more recent theoretical trends, especially in material culture studies and post‐colonial theory, the process of Mycenaeanisation is still very much conceptualized along traditional lines of explanation. Since these phenomena occurred in chronological sequence, it makes sense that any reappraisal of their nature and significance should target those regions of the Aegean basin that were affected by both processes, highlighting their similarities and differences. Thus, in the present volume we focus on the southern and eastern Aegean, in particular the Cyclades, Dodecanese, and the north-eastern Aegean islands.
Author | : Quentin Letesson |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 416 |
Release | : 2017 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 0198793626 |
Nearly 4,000 years ago some of the very earliest towns of Europe appeared on the Mediterranean island of Crete. In this book we offer new insights into these ancient palaces and towns, as a contribution to a broader understanding of the diverse ways in which humans have made and used ancient built environments.
Author | : Angelos Chaniotis |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 129 |
Release | : 2010-05 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 0199805016 |
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