In a major revisionary approach to ancient Greek culture, Sarah Morris invokes as a paradigm the myths surrounding Daidalos to describe the profound influence of the Near East on Greece's artistic and literary origins.
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[This book] is a work of art which, in richness of subject matter and ideas, as well as in its craft of language and imagery, might be considered worthy of Daidalos himself.... [T]his is a marvelous, thought-provoking book ... packed with epigrammatic sentences and memorable one-liners. -- Susan Sherratt, Antiquity
Morris's impressive control of ancient evidence and modern bibliography on archaeology, history, literature, and mythology enables her to produce a persuasive synthesis.... [T]his is a book to be reckoned with by historians as well as art historians and philologists. -- Peter Krentz, History
Morris, using art and literature, myth and iconography, etymology and textual analysis, builds an enviably comprehensive thesis.... Morris' book establishes itself as a leader in the field. -- Greece and Rome
No brief review can do justice to the originality and breadth of this major work of revisionist scholarship. . . . Gathering an imposing array of linguistic, literary, archaeological, and historical sources from around the Mediterranean, the author has demonstrated the profound, appreciative dependence of the Greeks on the Levantine 'East', beginning in the Late Bronze Age. -- Choice
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IN ILIAD 18.592, Daidalos makes not only his first appearance in the Greek imagination, but also his only one in the corpus of Homeric poetry. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Bronze Age, Near Eastern, Iron Age, Naturalis Historia, Eye of Greece, Black Athena, Stoa Poikile, Inventing the Barbarian, Invention of Athens, Delian League, Idaian Cave, North Syrian, Phoenician Bowls, Studia Phoenicia, Bildwelt Kretas, New York, Athenian Agora, Griechische Historienbilder, Mount Ida, Tektonon Daidala, Early Greek Cult Practice, Metallogenetic Map, Dark Age, Ras Shamra, Greek Renaissance New!
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IN ILIAD 18.592, Daidalos makes not only his first appearance in the Greek imagination, but also his only one in the corpus of Homeric poetry. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Bronze Age, Near Eastern, Iron Age, Naturalis Historia, Eye of Greece, Black Athena, Stoa Poikile, Inventing the Barbarian, Invention of Athens, Delian League, Idaian Cave, North Syrian, Phoenician Bowls, Studia Phoenicia, Bildwelt Kretas, New York, Athenian Agora, Griechische Historienbilder, Mount Ida, Tektonon Daidala, Early Greek Cult Practice, Metallogenetic Map, Dark Age, Ras Shamra, Greek Renaissance New!
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- The Raft of Odysseus: The Ethnographic Imagination of Homer's Odyssey by Carol Dougherty in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- The Greek Achievement: 1550 BC to 600 AD from Mycenea to the Byzantine Empire by Charles Freeman on page 189, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Greece in the Making 1200-479 BC (The Routledge History of the Ancient World) by Robin Osborne in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Black Spark, White Fire: Did African Explorers Civilize Ancient Europe? by Richard Poe on page 204, page 267, and Back Matter
- Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy: Volume XXV: Winter 2003 by David Sedley on page 7, and page 37
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