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.)

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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