Early Greece: The Bronze and Archaic AgesM. I. Finley here reconstructs the “preliterary” background to Greek civilization by an examination of recent archeological discoveries and a critical reappraisal of older archeological evidence. He discusses the problems that dependence on such evidence poses for the historian, for, although archeology reveals changes and even cataclysms, it rarely allows us more than a restricted view of a society under normal conditions. He points out the difficulties in reconciling the mythological “evidence” and the archeological, particularly in Crete and Troy, and analyzes and distinguishes the elements of historic fact and legend in the Iliad and Odyssey. |
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... Messenia , her total territory amounted to some 3200 square miles , more than three times as large as Attica . Given the nature of Greek terrain , this figure is not very meaning- ful . What is crucial is that Messenia and , to a lesser ...
... Messenia , her total territory amounted to some 3200 square miles , more than three times as large as Attica . Given the nature of Greek terrain , this figure is not very meaning- ful . What is crucial is that Messenia and , to a lesser ...
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... Messenia , which took many years , were afterwards enslaved by the return- ing warriors , while ' children born during the war were called Partheniae [ from the word parthenos meaning both " virgin " and " unmarried woman " ] and ...
... Messenia , which took many years , were afterwards enslaved by the return- ing warriors , while ' children born during the war were called Partheniae [ from the word parthenos meaning both " virgin " and " unmarried woman " ] and ...
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... Messenian War , which , the tradition says , lasted seventeen years , and which is prob- ably to be dated in the third quarter of the seventh century . Messenia revolted and the Spartans found themselves very hard pressed to put down ...
... Messenian War , which , the tradition says , lasted seventeen years , and which is prob- ably to be dated in the third quarter of the seventh century . Messenia revolted and the Spartans found themselves very hard pressed to put down ...
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Introduction | 3 |
The Coming of the Greeks | 13 |
The Islands I The Cyclades | 22 |
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Achaea Aegean islands Aegean world Alasiya Anatolia ancient archaeological Archaic Age Archaic Greece aristocracy Asia Minor Athenian Athens Attica Bronze Age centres century B.C. Chapter civilization classical Cnossus coast colonization connexions copper Corinth Cretan Crete culture Cyclades Cypriot Cyprus Dark Age Delphi dialect Dorians earliest Early Helladic Early Minoan east eastern Egypt eighth century Euboea evidence example Figure gods graves Greek world helots Herodotus Hittite Homeric poems important king language Late Helladic Late Minoan Linear B tablets mainland Megara ments Messenia metal Middle Helladic Middle Minoan migration Miletus Minoan period modern mother-cities munities Mycenae Mycenaean world myth mythical Naxos Neolithic palaces Peisistratus Peloponnese perhaps perioeci poets political population pottery Pylos region reveals script seal-stones settlement seventh century Sicily sixth century social society Solon southern Italy Spartan status Syria temples tholos-tomb tion Tiryns tradition Troy tyranny tyrant University Press wealth