Ancient Greece : : From the Mycenaean Palaces to the Age of Homer / / Sigrid Deger-Jalkotzy, Irene Lemos.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-2000
• VerfasserIn: Deger-Jalkotzy, Sigrid,; Lemos, Irene,
• MitwirkendeR: Adrimi-Sismani, Vassiliki,; Ainian, Alexander Mazarakis,; Antonaccio, Carla,; Carlier, Pierre,; Coldstream, J. N.,; Crielaard, Jan Paul,; Dakoronia, Fanouria,; Deger-Jalkotzy, Sigrid,; Dickinson, Oliver,; Donlan, Walter,; D’Agata, Anna Lucia,; Eder, Birgitta,; Iacovou, Maria,; Karageorghis, Vassos,; Kayafa, Maria,; Killen, John T.,; Kotsonas, Antonios,; Lemos, Irene S.,; Maran, Joseph,; Meier-Brügger, Michael,; Morgan, Catherine,; Palaima, Thomas G.,; Papadimitriou, Alkestis,; Raaflaub, Kurt A.,; Ridgway, David,; Schmidt, Martin,; Shelmerdine, Cynthia W.,; Stampolidis, Nicholaos Chr.,; Visser, Edzard,; Wagner-Hasel, Beate,; Wallace, Saro,; Wees, Hans van,; Whitley, James,; Wright, James C.,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2006
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Edinburgh Leventis Studies : ELS
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (640 p.)

GBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup('ISBN:9780748618897);The period between the collapse of the Mycenaean civilization around 1200 BC and the dawning of the classical era four and half centuries later is widely known as the Dark Age of Greece, not least in the eponymous history by A. M. Snodgrass published by EUP in 1971, and reissued by the Press in 2000.In January 2003 distinguished scholars from all over the world gathered in Edinburgh to re-examine old and new evidence on the period. The subjects of their papers were chosen in advance by the editors so that taken together they would cover the field. This book, based on thirty-three of the presentations, will constitute the most fundamental reinterpretation of the period for 30 years. The authors take issue with the idea of a Greek Dark Age and everything it implies for the understanding of Greek history, culture and society. They argue that the period is characterised as much by continuity as disruption and that the evidence from every source shows a progression from Mycenaean kingship to the conception of aristocratic nobility in the Archaic period.The volume is divided into six parts dealing with political and social structures; questions of continuity and transformation; international and inter-regional relations; religion and hero cult; Homeric epics and heroic poetry; and the archaeology of the Greek regions. Copiously illustrated and with a collated bibliography, itself a valuable resource, this book is likely to be the essential and basic source of reference on the later phases of the Mycenaean and the Early Greek Iron Ages for many years."

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- CONTRIBUTORS AND EDITORS -- ABBREVIATIONS -- INTRODUCTION -- Part I POLITICAL AND SOCIAL STRUCTURES -- 1 THE FORMATION OF THE MYCENAEAN PALACE -- 2 WANAKS AND RELATED POWER TERMS IN MYCENAEAN AND LATER GREEK -- 3 MYCENAEAN PALATIAL ADMINISTRATION -- 4 THE SUBJECTS OF THE WANAX: ASPECTS OF MYCENAEAN SOCIAL STRUCTURE -- 5 Avαξ AND IN THE HOMERIC POEMS* βασιλεύς -- 6 KIN-GROUPS IN THE HOMERIC EPICS (SUMMARY) -- Part II CONTINUITY – DISCONTINUITY – TRANSFORMATION -- 7 THE MYCENAEAN HERITAGE OF EARLY IRON AGE GREECE -- 8 COMING TO TERMS WITH THE PAST: IDEOLOGY AND POWER IN LATE HELLADIC IIIC -- 9 LATE MYCENAEAN WARRIOR TOMBS -- 10 THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF BASILEIS -- 11 FROM LATE BRONZE AGE TO EARLY IRON AGE COPPER METALLURGY IN MAINLAND GREECE AND OFFSHORE AEGEAN ISLANDS -- 12 ETHNE IN THE PELOPONNESE AND CENTRAL GREECE -- Part III INTERNATIONAL AND INTER-REGIONAL RELATIONS -- 13 GIFT EXCHANGE: MODERN THEORIES AND ANCIENT ATTITUDES -- 14 BASILEIS AT SEA: ELITES AND EXTERNAL CONTACTS IN THE EUBOEAN GULF REGION FROM THE END OF THE BRONZE AGE TO THE BEGINNING OF THE IRON AGE -- 15 ASPECTS OF THE ‘ITALIAN CONNECTION’ -- 16 FROM THE MYCENAEAN QA-SI-RE-U TO THE CYPRIOTE PA-SI-LE-WO-SE: THE BASILEUS IN THE KINGDOMS OF CYPRUS -- 17 PHOENICIANS IN CRETE -- Part IV RELIGION AND HERO CULT -- 18 FROM KINGS TO DEMIGODS: EPIC HEROES AND SOCIAL CHANGE c.750–600 -- 19 RELIGION, BASILEIS AND HEROES -- 20 CULT ACTIVITY ON CRETE IN THE EARLY DARK AGE: CHANGES, CONTINUITIES AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF A ‘GREEK’ CULT SYSTEM -- Part V THE HOMERIC EPICS AND HEROIC POETRY -- 21 THE RISE AND DESCENT OF THE LANGUAGE OF THE HOMERIC POEMS -- 22 HOMER AND ORAL POETRY -- 23 SOME REMARKS ON THE SEMANTICS OF άvαξ IN HOMER -- 24 HISTORICAL APPROACHES TO HOMER -- Part VI THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF GREEK REGIONS AND BEYOND -- 25 THE PALACE OF IOLKOS AND ITS END -- 26 EARLY IRON AGE ELITE BURIALS IN EAST LOKRIS -- 27 ATHENS AND LEFKANDI: A TALE OF TWO SITES -- 28 THE EARLY IRON AGE IN THE ARGOLID: SOME NEW ASPECTS -- 29 THE WORLD OF TELEMACHUS: WESTERN GREECE 1200–700 -- 30 KNOSSOS IN EARLY GREEK TIMES -- 31 PRAISOS: POLITICAL EVOLUTION AND ETHNIC IDENTITY IN EASTERN CRETE c.1400–300 -- 32 THE GILDED CAGE? SETTLEMENT AND SOCIOECONOMIC CHANGE AFTER 1200 BC: A COMPARISON OF CRETE AND OTHER AEGEAN REGIONS -- 33 HOMERIC CYPRUS -- INDEX