Epos. Reconsidering Greek Epic and Aegean Bronze Age Archaeology

Proceedings of the 11th International Aegean Conference / 11e Rencontre egeenne internationale, Los Angeles, UCLA - The J. Paul Getty Villa, 20-23 April 2006

edited by S.P. Morris and R. Laffineur

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Extent: 273 pages

Publisher: Peeters Publishers

Subjects: Language & Linguistics, Mediterranean Archaeology

Series: Aegaeum (Annales d'archeologie egeenne de l'Universite de Li

Series volume number: 28

Language: English

Hardback (Published)

(December 2007)

ISBN: 9781935488217

Price: $94.00

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Preface and Acknowledgments List of abbreviations I. EPOS AND LOGOS: HOMER AND TROY - Malcolm Wiener, Homer and History: Old Questions, New Evidence - Marianna Nikolaidou and Dimitra Kokkinidou, Epos, History, Metahistory in Aegean Bronze Age Studies - Maureen Basedow, Troy without Homer: the Bronze Age-Iron Age Transition in the Troad - Sarah P. Morris, Troy Between Bronze and Iron Ages: Myth, Cult and Memory in a Sacred Landscape II. EPOS AND EIKON: ART, POETRY AND WRITING - John Younger, The Mycenaean Bard: The Evidence for Sound and Song - Robert Laffineur, Homeric Similes: A Bronze Age Background? - Edmund F. Bloedow, Homer and the depas amphikypellon - L. Vance Watrous, The Fleet Fresco, the Odyssey and Greek Epic Narrative - Andreas Vlachopoulos, Mythos, Logos and Eikon. Motifs of Early Greek Poetry in the Wall Paintings of Xeste 3 III. WANAX AND BASILEUS: RULERSHIP IN HOMER AND ARCHAEOLOGY - Pierre Carlier, Are the Homeric Basileis 'Big Men'? - Thomas G. Palaima, Mycenaean Society and Kingship: Cui Bono? A Counter-Speculative View - Bryan E. Burns, Epic Reconstructions: Homeric Palaces and Mycenaean Architecture - Brendan Burke, Gordion of Midas and the Homeric Age - Eric H. Cline and Assaf Yasur-Landau, Poetry in Motion: Canaanite Rulership and Minoan Narrative Art at Tel Kabri IV. BEYOND ELITE: HOMERIC SOCIETY AND ARCHAEOLOGY - Kim S. Shelton, Foot Soldiers and Cannon Fodder: The Underrepresented Majority of the Mycenaean Civilization - Helene Whittaker, Sacrificial Practice and Warfare in Homer and in the Bronze Age - Andrea Guzetti, Homer and the Dorians: The Reasons For a Missed Encounter V. EPOS AND MYTHOS - Ernestine S. Elster, Odysseys Before Homer: Trade, Travel, and Adventure in Prehistoric Greece - Cynthia S. Colburn, The Symbolic Significance of Distance in the Homeric Epics and the Bronze Age Aegean - Fritz Blakolmer, The Silver Battle Krater from Shaft Grave IV at Mycenae: Evidence of Fighting "Heroes" on Minoan Palace Walls at Knossos? - Massimo Perna, Homer and the "Folded Wooden Tablets" VI. EPOS AND TOPOS: HOMERIC LANDSCAPES - Oliver Dickinson, Aspects of Homeric Geography - Philip P. Betancourt, The Amnissos Cave: Poetry Meets Reality - Aleydis Van De Moortel, The Site of Mitrou and East Lokris in "Homeric Times" - Anne P. Chapin and Louise A. Hitchcock, Homer and Laconian Topography: This Is What the Book Says, and This Is What the Land Tells Us - Naya Sgouritsa, Myth, Epos and Mycenaean Attica: The Evidence Reconsidered

  • Edited by Robert Laffineur
  • Edited by Sarah P Morris