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Architecture and politics in Mycenaean Greece : stoneworking, labor, and regional ties in the late Bronze age /

"This book, Nicholas Blackwell explores craft relationships by analyzing artisan mobility and technological transfer across certain sites. These labor networks offer an underexplored perspective for interpreting the period's geopolitical dynamics"-- Provided by publisher.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Blackwell, Nicholas G. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2026.
Subjects:
Architecture, Mycenaean > Political aspects.
Stone carving > Political aspects > Greece > Mycenae (Extinct city)
Geopolitics > Mediterranean Region > History.
Bronze age > Greece > Mycenae (Extinct city)
Mycenae (Extinct city) > Politics and government.
Greece > Foreign relations > To 146 B.C.
Grèce > Relations extérieures > Jusqu'à 146 av. J.-C.
Architecture mycénienne > Aspect politique.
Sculpture en pierre > Aspect politique > Grèce > Mycènes (Ville ancienne)
Architecture, Mycenaean
Bronze age
Geopolitics > History.
Stone carving
Europe > Mycenae (Extinct city)
Greece
Mediterranean Region
Table of Contents:
  • Tools, stoneworker mobility, and the Argolid
  • Building memory : Mycenae's stonework as visual manipulation of the past
  • Creating wonder : Mycenae's stonework as spectacle and power statements
  • Mycenae's relationship with Tiryns and other citadels in the Argolid : stonework, politics, and interculturalism
  • Beyond the Argolid : stoneworking connections between Mycenae-Tiryns and Boeotia
  • Conclusions : Mycenaean political dynamics from a stonework perspective
  • Epilogue : memory and legends associated with the Argolid and Boeotia.