The Penguin History of GreecePenguin Books, 1990 - 414 pages The Penguin History of Greece offers a one-volume history of Hellas, and is principally written for the reader who is not a student or expert in classical literature. Readable, erudite, enthusiastic and balanced, it sweeps the reader along from the days of Mycenae to the splendors of Athens and to the conquests of Alexander and the last dark ages, ably pin-pointing the culture, society and politics of an astonishing people. |
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Andrew Robert Burn. CHAPTER 2 CRETE , MYCENAE AND THE HEROIC AGE 1 CRETE AND MYCENAE In the islands the age from about 1950 to 1400 B.C. was a golden age punctuated by cataclysms . Twice ... CRETE, MYCENAE THE HEROIC Crete and Mycenae 2225.
Andrew Robert Burn. CHAPTER 2 CRETE , MYCENAE AND THE HEROIC AGE 1 CRETE AND MYCENAE In the islands the age from about 1950 to 1400 B.C. was a golden age punctuated by cataclysms . Twice ... CRETE, MYCENAE THE HEROIC Crete and Mycenae 2225.
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... Crete , whose brother Rhadamanthys became one of the judges of the dead , must surely be connected with Crete's greatest days , before 1400. Later tradition also associated him with the earliest Aegean sea - power , a ' thalassocracy ...
... Crete , whose brother Rhadamanthys became one of the judges of the dead , must surely be connected with Crete's greatest days , before 1400. Later tradition also associated him with the earliest Aegean sea - power , a ' thalassocracy ...
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... Crete . This too was a reasonable theory . In the cities of Dorian Crete , too , there were powerful magistrates like the ephors – more powerful , indeed , since they also replaced the early kings ; there was a similar military soc ...
... Crete . This too was a reasonable theory . In the cities of Dorian Crete , too , there were powerful magistrates like the ephors – more powerful , indeed , since they also replaced the early kings ; there was a similar military soc ...
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PREHISTORY | 12 |
Beginnings | 21 |
Peoples and Languages and the Coming | 30 |
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Achaians Acropolis Aegean Aeschylus Aigina Alexander Alkibiades alliance allies ancient Antigonos Archon Argos armoured army Asia Assembly Athenian Athens attack Attica battle Boiotia bronze called campaign cavalry century citizens civilisation classical coast colonies Corinth Cretan Crete Cyprus death defeated Delphoi democracy democratic Dorian east Egypt Egyptian empire enemy Euboia Euripides exiles famous father fighting fleet force gods Greece Greek Herodotos Hittite Homer Ionia island Kerkyra killed Kimon king Kleomenes Knosós land later League lived Macedonia mainland Megara Miletos Minoan mountains Mycenae Mycenaean Nikias palace peace Peloponnese Peloponnesians perhaps Pericles Persian Pheidias Philip Phoenician Phokis Piraeus Plato poems poet political pottery probably Pylos Roman Salamis says sent ships Sicily slaves Socrates Sparta story Syracuse temple Thebes Themistokles Thermopylai Thessaly things thought Thucydides tion took trade tradition troops Troy tyrant victory walls Xerxes young Zeus