Author: Valerios Staēs
Publisher:
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Category : Art objects, Mycenaean
Languages : en
Pages : 254

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Author: Ethnikon Archaiologikon Mouseion (Greece)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art, Mycenaean
Languages : en
Pages : 256

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Author: Kaitē Dēmakopoulou
Publisher:
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Category : Art, Mycenaean
Languages : en
Pages : 294

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Author: T. B. L. Webster
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317694503
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 364

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This book, first published in 1958, aims to describe Greek art and poetry within this ambiguous period of ancient history (often referred to as the Greek ‘Dark Ages’), and to explore the possibilities of learning about Mycenaean civilisation from its own documents and not only from archaeology. Specifically, Webster utilises Michael Ventris’ decipherment of Linear B in 1952 – which proved that Greek was spoken in the Mycenaean world – to determine the general contours of aesthetic development from Mycenae to the time of the written composition of the Homeric epics. Because they record Mycenaean civilisation in Mycenaean terminology, while Homer was writing in Ionian Greek at the beginning of the polis civilisation, they show how much in Homer is in fact Mycenaean. Further, where it is clear that these Mycenaean elements cannot have survived until Homer’s time, they tell us something about the poetry which connected the two.

Author: Karl Baedeker (Firm)
Publisher:
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Category : Greece
Languages : en
Pages : 634

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Author: Sandra Dudley
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136319190
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 306

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Narrating Objects, Collecting Stories is a wide-ranging collection of essays exploring the stories that can be told about objects and those who choose to collect them. Examining objects and collecting in different historical, social and institutional contexts, an international, interdisciplinary group of authors consider the meanings and values with which objects are imputed and the processes and implications of collecting. This includes considering the entanglement of objects and collectors alike in webs of social relations, the creation of value and social change; object biographies and the stories – often conflicting – that objects come to represent; and the strategies used to reconstruct and retell the narratives of objects. The book includes considerations of individual objects and groups of objects, such as domestic interiors, Chinese Buddhist artefacts, novelty tea-pots, Scottish stone monuments, African ironworking, a postcolonial painting and memorials to those killed on the roads in Australia. It also contains chapters dealing with particular collectors – including Charles Bell and Beatrix Potter – and representational techniques.

Author: Ione Mylonas Shear
Publisher: UPenn Museum of Archaeology
ISBN: 9780934718844
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 276

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Domestic architecture at the site of Mycenae was systematically explored for the first time in a series of investigations sponsored by the Archaeological Society of Athens and Washington University in St. Louis between 1962 and 1966 and again in 1977. The work revealed a block of houses in the area north of the Treasury of Atreus, the so-called Panagia Houses. The author describes the artifacts and reconstructed floor plans, and draws comparisons with other Bronze Age sites. University Museum Monograph, 68

Author: Y. SAKELLARAKIS
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789042948907
Category : Civilization, Mycenaean
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Ivory combs of the Late Bronze Age Aegean have not gained the proper attention so far, despite the fact that they belong, together with the pins and pyxis fashioned by the same material, to prestigious toiletry sets documented in the wider area of the Eastern Mediterranean. Although they never became an indispensable accessory for the Mycenaeans, ivory combs indicate prosperity and high status for the male and female burials they furnished, from the exquisite gold-sheathed specimens of Grave Circle A at Mycenae to the later simple ones of the warrior burials in Achaea. The corpus of the 83 Mycenaean combs held at the National Archaeological Museum is the largest of the kind, with specimens covering almost all the Peloponnese and part of Attica, ranging in date from Late Helladic I to Late Helladic IIIC. Aspects of their technology, typology, iconography, context and social significance discussed in the volume, are expected to shed light on yet another important class of Mycenaean craftmanship

Author: British Museum. Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities
Publisher:
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Category : Art, Ancient
Languages : en
Pages : 772

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Author:
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Category : Classical antiquities
Languages : en
Pages : 284

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