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ABSTRACT: This documentary response sheet contains a series of 112 sequential questions drawn from the video, PBS: Helen of Troy (115 minutes; presented by Bettany Hughes). The documentary examines what we know about Helen of Troy from... more
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      Ancient HistoryArchaeologyExperimental ArchaeologyAnthropology
Modern visitors to Mycenae, which will include many classicists, are likely to wonder in amazement at the enormous stone blocks which were piled up to construct the enclosure walls, and may well pause at the Lion Gate to imagine Agamemnon... more
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      Aegean Bronze Age (Bronze Age Archaeology)History of ArchaeologyMycenaePausanias' Description of Greece
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      Social imaginaryMycenaeEntanglementMycenaean Culture
Lin. A (Norway) we-tu-na-ma-ti : εὐθυνάματι ‘(an offering) to the direct current’
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      Greek HistoryGreek LanguageCypriot ArchaeologyCyprus Studies
SUMMARY: Lecture 15 provides coverage on the art, architecture, state, administration, and economy of the Late Bronze Age Mycenaeans, and a discussion of the presumed Mycenaean takeover or domination of Crete (Minoans); the Minoan... more
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      Ancient HistoryArchaeologyHistory of SculptureAegean Bronze Age (Bronze Age Archaeology)
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      Aegean Bronze Age (Bronze Age Archaeology)Mycenaean era archaeologyMycenaeanMycenae
Archaeology seems to support the idea of widespread Minoan trading contacts and a significant number of Minoan colonies. The distribution of the place name “Minoa” in the Aegean and in the eastern and central Mediterranean also appears to... more
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      LanguagesDiachronic Linguistics (Or Historical Linguistics)Languages and LinguisticsContact Linguistics
In this paper, we focus on the entanglement of the LBA town of Mycenae, and discuss the history of the settlement, from the earliest beginnings (EH-MH), through the formation (LH I-IIIA1) and functioning (LH IIIA2-B) of the palatial town,... more
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      ArchaeologySettlement PatternsAegean Bronze Age (Bronze Age Archaeology)Aegean Prehistory (Archaeology)
The wish to organize the symposium Constructing Power, on which the present volume is based, arose from the insight that not only in the archeological disciplines, but also in the social and cultural sciences in general, there still are... more
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      PerformanceMycenaeMegaronTiryns
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      PerformanceMycenaeMegaronTiryns
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      AmberBronze AgeMediterranean TradeMycenae
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      Mycenaean era archaeologyGreek PotteryEarly Iron AgeWall Paintings
Kratos & Krater, the Bronze Age Antecedents, excerpts and adapts material from Kratos & Krater: Reconstructing Athenian Protohistory, Oxford 2017, to concentrate on the roots of the theme of Kratos & Krater in the preceding Greek Bronze... more
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      Aegean Bronze Age (Bronze Age Archaeology)Bronze and Iron Ages in Eastern Mediterranean (Archaeology)AthensPylos
En este trabajo, nos planteamos descifrar quiénes eran estas deidades femeninas del mundo micénico, qué importancia tenían y qué vinculación tuvieron con las divinidades del mundo griego posterior. Un área poco explorada por los... more
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      Ancient Greek ReligionMycenaean era archaeologyAncient Greek IconographyMycenaean
Mycenae culture became due to its own merits, the most important one in continental Greece for more than four centuries all along the II Millennium B.C. Its commercial importance due to the fact they took advantage of the minoans exchange... more
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      ReligionHistoryAncient HistoryMilitary History
Museum August Kestner (Hannover / Germany) owns a highly important Egyptian object made of blue, yellow and white glass: a fragment of a statuette representing the Egyptian goddess Taweret (Thoeris), inv. no. 2616, previously in the... more
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      Egyptian Art and ArchaeologyBronze Age Interconnections (Egyptology)New Kingdom (Egyptology)Mycenaean
Tra tecniche e ideologia (Catania, 25 novembre 2009)
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      History of Architectural RepresentationMycenae
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      Aegean Bronze Age (Bronze Age Archaeology)Mycenaean era archaeologyRural ArchaeologyArchaeological survey
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      PylosMycenaeMegaronLate Helladic
This work focuses on the relations of dominance as they are demonstrated in the Linear B archives of Mainland Greece (Pylos, Tiryns, Mycenae, and Thebes) and discusses whether the social status of the "slave" can be ascribed to any social... more
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      SlaveryThebesLinear BPylos
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      Ancient Greek ReligionMycenaeanLinear BGoddess
This paper analyzes the different types of corbelled vaults in Hittite and Mycenaean fortification architecture and the purposes for which they were used. Further, the paper will show, that the corbelled vault is a Hittite innovation in... more
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      Anatolian ArchaeologyArchitectural HistoryHittiteAegean Bronze Age (Bronze Age Archaeology)
detailed study of the inscribed faience plaques found at Mycenae
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      Egyptian Art and ArchaeologyEgyptian ArchaeologyBronze Age ArchaeologyAegean Bronze Age (Bronze Age Archaeology)
This paper examines the representations of the objects brought by the Aegean emissaries depicted in the foreigners’ procession scene in the tomb of Senenmut (TT 71). Through comparison of the depicted objects with the ones found in the... more
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      Ancient HistoryEgyptologyNear Eastern ArchaeologyNear Eastern Studies
In the summers of 1952 and 1953, during the excavation of Grave Circle B at Mycenae, Ioannis Papadimitriou located and excavated an early Mycenaean chamber tomb, that remained until now unpublished. Its position and finds preserve... more
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      MycenaeMycenaean Chamber Tombs
The recent discovery of a large fragment belonging to the massive stone throne of the palace at Mycenae—the only Mycenaean throne found so far on the Greek mainland—triggered an intriguing process of identification and reconstruction that... more
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      Mycenaean era archaeologyAegean ArchaeologyMycenaeanAegean Late Bronze Age
The 'golden' Homeric city of Mycenae, in Greek Tragedy, is one of the most tragic cities, covered in blood, devasted by murder, pain, deception, injustice... But memory of the ancient epic brilliance can be felt, and, if we look... more
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      Greek TragedyGreek TheatreSophoclesEuripides
Recent discoveries and research results ΥΠΟΥρΓΕιΟ ΠΟΛιτιΣΜΟΥ και αΘΛΗτιΣΜΟΥ ΓΕΝΙΚΗ ΔΙΕΥΘΥΝΣΗ ΑΡΧΑΙΟΤΗΤΩΝ ΚΑΙ ΠΟΛΙΤΙΣΤΙΚΗΣ ΚΛΗΡΟΝΟΜΙΑΣ ΕΦΟΡΕΙΑ ΑΡΧΑΙΟΤΗΤΩΝ ΦΘΙΩΤΙΔΑΣ ΚΑΙ ΕΥΡΥΤΑΝΙΑΣ MinisTrY oF cULTUre and sPorTs GENERAL DIRECTΟRΑΤΕ OF... more
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      Late Bronze AgeMycenaeTirynsTrade Networks In the Middle and Late Bronze Age
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      Mycenaean era archaeologyMycenaeanHoardsMycenaean religion
The present paper focuses on the life cycle of Argos during the early Mycenaean period (MH III/LH I-LH II), also taking into consideration the back-history of the settlement from the beginning of the MH period. On the basis of new... more
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      Social ChangeMigrationLernaMiddle Helladic period
Since the beginning of archaeological exploration on Crete, agricultural storage has attracted a great deal of scholarly interest. The discovery of several palaces on the island has provided a range of evidence concerning storage: the... more
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      Political EconomyEgyptian ArchaeologyAegean Bronze Age (Bronze Age Archaeology)Mycenaean era archaeology
This thesis investigates differences and similarities in the funerary material of Late Bronze Age Cyprus in order to answer questions about a possible uniqueness of the pit/well tombs at the Late Bronze Age harbour city of Hala Sultan... more
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      MycenaeChamber tombsShaft GravesHala Sultan Tekke
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      ArchaeologyPrehistoric ArchaeologyMediterranean prehistoryCeramics (Ceramics)
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      ArchaeologyPrehistoric ArchaeologyPottery (Archaeology)Mediterranean prehistory
Η μελέτη αυτή πραγματεύεται την οργάνωση και αίσθηση του χώρου κατά την Ύστερη Εποχή του Χαλκού στην Αργολίδα, με κύριο αναλυτικό εργαλείο τη χρήση Συστημάτων Γεωγραφικών Πληροφοριών. Στόχος της είναι να ανιχνεύσει το βαθμό στον οποίο η... more
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      ArchitectureArchaeological Method & TheoryFunerary ArchaeologyArchaeological GIS
The aim of this paper is to identify the functional role urban shrines played within the palatial societies based on topography and spatial organization. In addition the evidence from the postpalatial period will be analyzed in order to... more
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      ReligionPeloponneseLate Bronze AgeMethana
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      Aegean Bronze Age (Bronze Age Archaeology)Late Bronze Age archaeologyAegean Late Bronze AgeMycenaean pottery
An interdisciplinary model of the Indo-European homeland and the roots of Greek civilization
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      Greek LiteratureIndo-european language reconstructionAncient Indo-European LanguagesIndo-European Studies
SUMMARY: Lecture 14 provides an overview of the Middle Helladic through Late Helladic societies in mainland Greece, with a progression from "Big Men" (tribal societies) to chiefdoms, and eventally to various kingdoms emerging via palace... more
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      Ancient HistoryPalaeoclimatologyArchaeologyIndo-European Studies
Η γεωφυσική έρευνα στα άνδηρα νοτίως της ακροπόλεως (2003-2012) και η συστηματική ανασκαφή του οικισμού εκτός των τειχών (2007-2011) έχουν αλλάξει δραστικά την εικόνα των Μυκηνών την τελευταία δεκαετία. Η συστηματική γεωφυσική έρευνα και... more
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      Aegean Bronze Age (Bronze Age Archaeology)Aegean Prehistory (Archaeology)Mycenaean era archaeologyAegean Archaeology
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      MycenaeanLinear BKnossosMycenaean Greek
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      StandardizationVariationMass productionMycenae
ABSTRACT: This documentary response sheet contains a series of sequential questions drawn from the video, BBC: In Search of the Trojan War, episode 6: The Fall of Troy (shown in-class; also available online via... more
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      HistoryAncient HistoryArchaeologyAnthropology
Τα χάλκινα ξίφη και εγχειρίδια της Εποχής του Χαλκού στο Αιγαίο ανήκουν στα εντυπωσιακότερα ευρήματα αυτής της περιόδου, όσον αφορά την τεχνοτροπία και τον πλούτο των υλικών τους. Η ερμηνεία της χρήσης τους ποικίλει από τον καθαρά... more
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      Bronze Age Europe (Archaeology)Bronze Age ArchaeologyAegean Bronze Age (Bronze Age Archaeology)Mycenaean era archaeology
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      Prehistoric ArchaeologyIconographyMediterranean prehistoryGift Exchange
Δυο μικρά άρθρα στα ελληνικά και ιταλικά για την on line φωτογραφική έκθεση του Museum of Classical Archaeology αφιερωμένη στον Robert McCabe. Οι 200 αναλογικές φωτογραφίες αναφέρονται στο 1955, όταν ο Robert McCabe επισκέπτεται τις... more
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      Mycenaean era archaeologyMycenaeMycenaean periodMyceanean Greek
A persistent issue with the study of Late Bronze Age (ca. 1600-1100 BCE) chamber tombs in Mainland Greece remains our limited understanding of the factors that governed the choice of location for their construction. Mee and Cavanagh... more
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      Archaeological GISMycenaean era archaeologyHistorical CartographyLeast Cost Path Analysis
The legendary excavation of Mycenae’s Grave Circle A in 1876 resulted in the celebration of Heinrich and Sophia Schliemann as the sole excavators. The crucial role of Panayotis Stamatakis, the systematic and perceptive archaeologist who... more
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      Mycenaean era archaeologyAegean Late Bronze AgeMycenaean religionMycenae
"For the reconstruction of the military Mycenaean world scarcely we possess the information extracted from diverse slats written in Linear B, as well as the remains of some pictorial representations and scanty archaeological remains... more
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      Naval EngineeringNaval ArchitectureReligionHistory
This paper uses Driessen’ s concept of ‘crisis architecture’ to explore a particular case study that demonstrates the response of the community at Mycenae to a probable earthquake that took place during the Late Bronze Age Palatial... more
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      Archaeology of ReligionAegean Bronze Age (Bronze Age Archaeology)Mycenaean era archaeologyAegean Late Bronze Age