Kingship in the Mycenaean world and its reflections in the oral tradition /
Shear explores questions concerning the degree of economic and religious power held by the king in the Mycenaean world of second millennium BC Greece and its environs. She combines evidence from three realms of scholarship that often do not speak to each other: archaeology; the Linear B tablets and...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Philadelphia, PA :
INSTAP Academic Press,
2004.
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| Series: | Prehistory monographs ;
13. |
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| Online Access: | Table of contents |
| Summary: | Shear explores questions concerning the degree of economic and religious power held by the king in the Mycenaean world of second millennium BC Greece and its environs. She combines evidence from three realms of scholarship that often do not speak to each other: archaeology; the Linear B tablets and their decipherment; and the epic traditions, the myths and legends of the past, and most particularly the Iliad and Odyssey, which he points out, were oral narratives for a long time before they came out in cheap used paperbacks. The book is distributed in the US by the David Brown Book Company. Annotation : 2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com). |
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| Physical Description: | xii, 224 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-214) and index. |
| ISBN: | 1931534128 9781931534123 |