Early Greece: The Bronze and Archaic AgesChatto & Windus, 1970 - 155 pages M. 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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... Euboea and Corinth . However one explains the affini- ties , it appears that migrants crossing the sea by - passed the Cyclades for 2000 years ( as we have already noticed in connexion with the exploitation of Melian obsidian ) , that ...
... Euboea and Corinth . However one explains the affini- ties , it appears that migrants crossing the sea by - passed the Cyclades for 2000 years ( as we have already noticed in connexion with the exploitation of Melian obsidian ) , that ...
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... Euboea ( active at the same time at Al Mina in the Levant ) . Chalcis was also the mother - city of Sicilian Zancle ( later Messina ) , of Rhegium on the Italian side of the straits , and of Naxos , Leontini and Catania ( Katane in ...
... Euboea ( active at the same time at Al Mina in the Levant ) . Chalcis was also the mother - city of Sicilian Zancle ( later Messina ) , of Rhegium on the Italian side of the straits , and of Naxos , Leontini and Catania ( Katane in ...
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... Euboea were called the Hippobotai , the ' horse - feeders ' , as late as the time of Herodotus ( V 77 ) . At the least , we must accept the value of cavalry in raiding and as a way of giving heavily armed fighters mobility in reaching a ...
... Euboea were called the Hippobotai , the ' horse - feeders ' , as late as the time of Herodotus ( V 77 ) . At the least , we must accept the value of cavalry in raiding and as a way of giving heavily armed fighters mobility in reaching a ...
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Introduction | 3 |
The Coming of the Greeks | 13 |
The Islands I The Cyclades | 22 |
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Aegean islands Aegean world Alasiya Anatolia ancient archaeological Archaic Age Archaic Greece aristocracy Asia Minor Athenian Athens Attica Boeotia 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