The Cambridge Companion to the Aegean Bronze Age

Cynthia W. Shelmerdine

Cambridge University Press, Aug 4, 2008 - Art - 452 pages

Background, sources, and methods / Cynthia W. Shelmerdine -- The Early Bronze Age in Greece / Daniel Pullen -- The Early Bronze Age in the Cyclades / Cyprian Broodbank -- Early prepalatial Crete / David Wilson -- Formation of the palaces / Sturt W. Manning -- The material culture / Carl Knappett -- The material culture of neopalatial Crete / John G. Younger and Paul Rehak -- Minoan culture: religion, burial customs, and administration / John G. Younger and Paul Rehak -- Minoan Crete and the Aegean Islands / Jack L. Davis -- Minoan trade / Philip P. Betancourt -- Early Mycenaean Greece / James Clinton Wright -- Mycenaean art and architecture / Janice L. Crowley -- Mycenaean states / Cynthia W. Shelmerdine -- Economy and administration / Cynthia W. Shelmerdine and John Bennet -- Late Minoan II to IIIB Crete / Laura Preston -- Burial customs and religion / William Cavanagh and Thomas G. Palaima -- Death and the Mycenaeans / William Cavanagh -- Mycenaean religion / Thomas G. Palaima -- Mycenaean Greece, the Aegean and beyond / Christopher Mee -- Decline, destruction, aftermath / Sigrid Deger-Jalkotzy

About the author

Cynthia W. Shelmerdine is Robert M. Armstrong Centennial Professor of Classics Emerita at the University of Texas, Austin. Her main research interests are in Aegean Bronze Age archaeology, and Mycenaean Greek language, history and society. She was educated at Bryn Mawr College, Cambridge University and Harvard University (Ph.D. in Classical Philology, 1977). She has worked in the field as a ceramic expert with the University of Minnesota Messenia Expedition (1970s), the Pylos Regional Archaeological Project (1990s) and currently the Iklaina Archaeological Project (from 1999). She is the author of many publications on Mycenaean culture and history and is currently working on a book about Mycenaean Greek society.

Bibliographic information

• Title: The Cambridge Companion to the Aegean Bronze Age; Cambridge Collections Online; Cambridge Companion To; The Cambridge Companion to the Aegean Bronze Age, Cynthia W. Shelmerdine; The companions to literature and classics
• Editor: Cynthia W. Shelmerdine
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2008
• ISBN: 0521814448, 9780521814447
• Length: 452 pages
• Subjects: Art / History / Ancient & Classical; History / Ancient / General; History / Ancient / Greece; Social Science / Archaeology