In 1952 the decipherment of the Linear B script suddenly revealed the Greekness of Mycenaean Greece. Now, after new discoveries and more than 20 years of intensive work, scholars are able to interpret the written documents and reconstruct from them a vivid picture of life in this remote period, in a way which is impossible from archaeology alone. John Chadwick, who assisted Ventris in the original decipherment, has played a major part in these advances. He now summarizes the results of research and in so doing opens the door to a new world, Mycenaean Greece seen through the eyes of its inhabitants. The tablets may be only, as he describes them, 'the account books of anonymous clerks', but from these prosaic documents he shows how we can infer a bronze industry, foreign slave-women, or even human sacrifice. Not least important is the comparison of the newly available data with the Homeric account, much to the detriment of Homer's credibility as a witness.
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An extensively illustrated general account of Greece in the 14th and 13th centuries B.C., as reconstructed from contemporary documents and archives by a leading world authority who presents a vivid picture of a long-obscure era.
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This book is a little dry for a layman's tastes probably, but more than likely only the interested will purchase such a specialized title anyway. The reason for the "dryness"? This book is very conservative, making no convoluted deductions from the evidence, but is actually a concise survey of everything currently known about the mycenaeans (what types of info are preserved on the tablets, what crops and livestock were cultivated, what aspects of the administrative system is known, etc.). The writing style isn't dry, really, just to-the-point as it should be in such a work. Any deep studies of bronze-age Greece should start here.
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- Documents in Mycenaean Greek by John Chadwick in Front Matter, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Greek Myths: Complete Edition by Robert Graves on page 84, and Back Matter
- The Knossos Tablets by John Chadwick in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- Minnesota Messenia Expedition: Reconstructing a Bronze Age Regional Environment by William A. McDonald in Back Matter
- Greece in the Bronze Age by Emily Townsend Vermeule in Back Matter
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- Minoan Life in Bronze Age Crete by Rodney Castleden on 6 pages
- The Knossos Labyrinth: A New View of the `Palace of Minos' at Knossos by Rodney Castleden on 4 pages
- Art, Culture, and Cuisine: Ancient and Medieval Gastronomy by Phyllis Pray Bober in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Ancient Greece: A Political, Social, and Cultural History by Sarah B. Pomeroy on page 40, and Back Matter
- World Mythology by Donna Rosenberg in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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