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1 online resource (160 pages) : color illustrations |
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Intro -- Abstract -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- Introduction -- References to Time and Dates in the Bronze Age -- The Historical and Archaeological Framework of Travel and Mobility in the Bronze Age -- The Economic Background of Bronze Age Long Distance Travel -- Shipbuilding in the Bronze Age -- Evidence for Mycenaean Long Distance Journeys in the LBA -- Reflections of Mycenaean Long Distance Travel in the Mythological Record -- 8.1 Definitions, Structures and Functions of Myth -- 8.5 The Historicity of Greek Travel Myths -- Conclusions and Vantage Point |
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8.4 The Content and Narrative Style of Greek Travel Myths -- Quests and Journeys in the LBA -- 8.3 Genealogies -- Mythical Timekeeping -- 8.2 Myth and History -- 8.2.1 Approaches to the Historicity and the Origins of Myths -- 8.2.2 The Transmission Processes During the 'Dark Ages' -- 8.2.3 Transposition and Re-Interpretation of Myth during the Archaic Age of Greek Colonial Expansion -- 8.2.4 Epic Poetry, Canonization and Local Variants -- 8.2.5 Early Geography and the 'Historization of Myth' in the Archaic, Classical and Hellenistic Periods |
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Mycenaean Contacts with the Civilizations in the Eastern Mediterranean -- 9.1 Mycenaean Contacts with Anatolia -- 9.1.1 Archaeological and Historical Evidence of Mycenaean Contacts with Anatolia -- 9.4 Mycenaean Contacts with Egypt -- 9.4.1 Pictorial, Historical and Archaeological Evidence of Mycenaean Contacts with Egypt -- 9.4.2 Reflections in Greek Myths -- 9.3 Mycenaean Contacts with Cyprus -- 9.3.1 Archaeological Evidence of Mycenaean Contacts with Cyprus -- 9.3.2 Reflections in Greek Myths -- 9.2 Mycenaean Contacts with the Levant |
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9.2.1 Archaeological Evidence of Mycenaean Contacts with the Levant -- 9.2.2 Reflections in Greek Myths -- 9.1.2 Reflections in Greek Myths -- Mycenaean Contacts with the Central and Western Mediterranean -- 10.1 Evidence of Mycenaean Journeys to Italy and Sicily -- 10.1.1 Archaeological Evidence -- 10.3 Mycenaean Contacts with the Iberian Peninsula -- 10.3.1 Archaeological Evidence -- 10.3.2 Reflections in Greek Myths -- 10.2 Evidence of Mycenaean Contacts with Sardinia -- 10.2.1 Archaeological Evidence -- 10.2.2 Reflections in Myths -- 10.1.2 Reflections in Myths |
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Mycenaean Journeys to the Black Sea Area -- 11.1 The Historical, Archaeological and Epigraphic Evidence of Mycenaean Contacts with the Black Sea Area -- 11.2 Reflections of Mycenaean Journeys to the Black Sea Area in Greek Myths -- The Mysterious Countries 'Beyond' -- 12.1 The Far South and East -- The Ethiopians, the Red Sea and the Indian Ocean -- 12.3 'Hyperborea' -- The Mysterious 'Far North' -- 12.3.1 The Archaeological Evidence of Contacts from Mycenaean Greece with Northern Europe -- 12.3.2 The Mythical Record of Mycenaean Contacts with Northern Europe |
| Summary |
The Late Bronze Age from about 1600 to 1150 BCE was a time of unprecedented economic activity in human history based on the supply and production of the eponymous alloy bronze on an almost industrial scale. The supply networks for copper and tin during this period stretched over large parts of western Eurasia and included long distance maritime transport. The palatial centres of Mycenaean Greece were positioned at a unique geographical interface between the cul |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
12.2 The Far West - 'The Isles of the Blessed' |
| Subject |
Excavations (Archaeology) -- Greece -- Mycenae (Extinct city)
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Civilization, Mycenaean.
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Bronze age -- Greece -- Mycenae (Extinct city)
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Bronze age
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Civilization, Mycenaean
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Economic history
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Excavations (Archaeology)
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Mycenae (Extinct city) -- Economic conditions
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Greece -- Mycenae (Extinct city)
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9789464260793 |
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9464260793 |
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