T B L Webster

From Mycenae to Homer

A Study in Early Greek Literature and Art

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Produktbeschreibung

First published in 1958, this book aims to describe Greek art and poetry within this ambiguous period of ancient history (often referred to as the Greek 'Dark Ages'), and to explore the possibilities of learning about Mycenaean civilisation from its own documents and not only from archaeology. Because they record Mycenaean civilisation in Mycenaean terminology, while Homer was writing in Ionian Greek at the beginning of the polis civilisation, the Homeric epics show how much in Homer is in fact Mycenaean.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 380
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. April 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 155mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 757g
• ISBN-13: 9781138021396
• ISBN-10: 1138021393
• Artikelnr.: 40046467

Autorenporträt

T. Webster

Inhaltsangabe

Chronological Table. Introduction 1. Records of Society in the Second
Millennium 2. Mycenaean Art in Its Setting 3. Eastern Poetry and Mycenaean
Poetry 4. Mycenaean Poetry 5. The Collapse of Mycenaean Civilisation and
the Ionian Migration 6. Poetry Between the Fall of Mycenae and the Time of
Homer 7. Protogeometric and Geometric Art 8. Homer and His Immediate
Predecessors 9. Conclusion and Summary. Maps