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Author
Series
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date
1994
Language
English
Description
Oliver Dickinson has written a scholarly, accessible, and up-to-date introduction to the prehistoric civilizations of Greece. The Aegean Bronze Age, the long period from roughly 3000 to 1000 BC, saw the rise and fall of the Minoan and Mycenaean civilizations. The cultural history of the region emerges through a series of thematic chapters that treat settlement, economy, crafts, exchange and foreign contact (particularly with the civilizations of the...
Author
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"This Element provides an overview of Aegeomania: the fascination, sometimes bordering on the obsession, with the Aegean Bronze Age, which manifests itself in the uses of Aegean Bronze Age material culture to create something new in literature, the visual and performing arts, and many other cultural practices. It discusses the role that Aegeomania can play in our understanding of the Aegean Bronze Age and illustrates this with examples from the 1870s...
13) Dawn of the gods
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
©1968
Language
English
Description
In this dramatic study of the beginnings of European history, Jacqueline Hawkes considers the culture of Minoan Crete and Mycenaean Greece, finding in their union the source of Classical Greek culture. The essentially feminine character of Minoan Crete, with its palaces and gardens and its exquisite paintings, sculptures, and ceramics, joins with the essentially masculine vigour of the Mycenaean kingdoms in the splendour of Bronze Age Greece. The...
Author
Series
Alter Orient und Altes Testament volume Bd. 261
Publisher
Ugarit-Verlag
Pub. Date
1999
Language
Deutsch
16) The British consular service in the Aegean and the collection of antiquities for the British Museum
Author
Publisher
Ashgate
Pub. Date
©2009
Language
English
Description
The story of how the British consular service in the Aegean, in the years of the British protectorate of the Ionian Islands (1815-1864), became an agency for the retrieval, excavation and collection of antiquities eventually destined for the British Museum.