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  title info:
    title: Mycenae
    sub title: from myth to history
  name:
    name part: Kakourē, Athēna
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: McCabe, Robert
    role:
      role term: photographer.
  name:
    name part: Guare, John
    role:
      role term: playwright.
  name:
    name part: French, Lisa Wace
    role:
      role term: writer of added text.
  name:
    name part: Fallu, Daniel
    role:
      role term: writer of added commentary.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Pictorial works.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2016
    edition: First edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 286 pages : illustrations (some color), map, portraits ; 28 cm
  abstract: "The Mycenaean civilization flourished more than 800 years before the classical Greeks, with a complex society, strong artistic tendencies, and a distinct system of writing. Famous for its lion gate and citadel, Mycenae was long believed to be the city that fought Troy in Homer's epic, the Iliad. But after flourishing nearly three thousand years ago the society vanished, becoming nothing more than a legend. Mycenae brings readers into the heart of this mystery, as it was being solved, through lively text, stunning photographs, and an original take on Greek history and mythology. Using the pivotal summer of 1954-a year after Linear B, the mysterious language present on all Mycenaean artifacts, was decoded-as her entry point, author Athina Cacouri reveals the fascinating archaeological history of the site, from the pioneering work of Heinrich Schliemann to the discovery of hundreds of "seal stones," marked with an unknown language. Cacouri's text is complemented by the photographs of Robert McCabe, whose lens captured the site before it was opened to the general public, giving his atmospheric images a poignant, unmatched immediacy. An original play, commissioned for this volume from renowned American playwright John Guare, sets the mythological stage for the archaeological discoveries to come by recounting the history of the House of Atreus and King Agamemnon's Trojan War, while commentary on the photographs from archaeologist Lisa Wace French ties those myths to very real discoveries at the site. An essay by Daniel Fallu, detailing the importance of Mycenae's geology, rounds out this unparalleled survey of one of Greece's treasured archaeological sites. A multifaceted look at a brilliant civilization and the tireless work that led to its rediscovery, Mycenae is a fast-paced, lushly illustrated exploration of one of the most intriguing mysteries of antiquity that is sure to delight lovers of classical civilization, photography, and travel"--
  abstract: "The extraordinary story of the loss and rediscovery of the city that fought Troy, told through archaeology, literature, and poetic black-and-white photography"--
  table of contents: Mycenae / by Athina Cacouri -- Maps of the Acropolis -- Some Finds -- War Bride : A Play / by John Guare -- A Visit to the Site -- The Landscape / by Daniel Fallu.
  note: Athina Cacouri ; [photographs by] Robert McCabe ; a new play by John Guare ; commentaries by Lisa Wace French ; the landscape, by Daniel Fallu.
  note: Map on lining paper.
  note: Includes bibliographical references.
  subject:
    geographic code: e-gr---
  subject:
    geographic: Mycenae (Extinct city)
  subject:
    geographic: Mycenae (Extinct city)
    topic: In literature
  subject:
    geographic: Mycenae (Extinct city)
    genre: Pictorial works
  subject:
    geographic: Greece
    topic: Antiquities
  subject:
    topic: HISTORY / Ancient / Greece
  subject:
    topic: Antiquities
  subject:
    topic: Literature
  subject:
    geographic: Greece
  subject:
    geographic: Greece
    geographic: Mycenae (Extinct city)
  classification: DF221.M9 K26 2016
  classification: 938/.8
  classification: HIS002010
  identifier: 9780789212542
  identifier: 0789212544
  identifier: 2015043704
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 151208
    record change date: 20170927134823.0
    record identifier: in00003767558
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng