Mycenaean Age Research Articles

DIALOGUE AS AN ELEMENT OF URBAN CULTURE OF POSTCLEISTHENIC ATHENS

The research shows the way to liberate the word from the imperative hierarchical social system to the equality, to the cooperative search for truth. It’s the way from Logos to Dialogos. The article analyzes the development of the social structure of Athens from the Mycenaean Age to the end of the 6th century BC. The author highlights the main stages and principles of this development: dysnomia, eunomia, isonomia. Special attention was paid to the definitions and explication the relationship between these principles. Dysnomia is characterized as wrong order, lawlessness. It was a principle of total political inequality, where the class of urban aristocracy is endowed with full rights, and ordinary people do not have them at all. Eunomia is the conception of good order, the right social system. It was a principle of geometrical equality that left power in the hands of the aristocracy, but expanded the rights of the people. The author shows that Eunomia“s role in the development of the political equality in Athens as a transitional stage to the notion of Isonomia was fundamental. He claims that the emergence of dialogue as a social phenomenon, and partly as a genre, in Athens becomes possible after Cleisthenes“ reforms on the ground of principle of Isonomia (an equal distribution of political power or full arithmetical equality).

Zielarstwo w okresie mykeńskim na przykładzie „katalogów ziół” (MY Ge 602‒608)

Zielarstwo w okresie mykeńskim na przykładzie „katalogów ziół” (MY Ge 602‒608)

Upper Extremity Injuries in Homer's Iliad

Homer's Iliad remains a fascinating source of medical history. This epic poem, compiled around 800 BCE, describes several weeks of the last year of the 10-year siege of Troy (Ilion) by the Achaeans. Homer composed the epic by combining and formalizing oral poems, legends, customs, and experiences that originated in the later Mycenaean age (1600-1100 bce). The story centers on the rage of the great warrior Achilles. The Iliad remains the oldest record of Greek medicine and a unique source of surgical history. This study examines the upper extremity injuries described in the Iliad and compares them to those other sites of injury.

El Œdipe de Pierre Corneille: una reescritura clásica de Edipo rey

El mito de Edipo es un relato heroico cuyo argumento gira en torno al Destino y al poder. Configurado en Época Micénica (siglos XVIII-XII a. C.), este mito ha marcado fuertemente la producción dramática. De hecho, su argumento se encuentra a la base de una de las mayores tragedias: el Edipo rey de Sófocles (430 a. C.). Drama representativo de la tragedia griega, la obra maestra de Sófocles es el punto de referencia de toda obra que desarrolle el fatídico gobierno del héroe tebano; Destino y política están entonces en el centro de la construcción dramática. En este marco temático, el Œdipe de Pierre Corneille, escrito en 1659, es una adaptación del argumento griego al contexto monárquico del siglo XVII. Este trabajo explora el Œdipe corneliano para analizar las transformaciones hipertextuales más importantes que dan a la obra una perspectiva contextual. De hecho, el Œdipe de Corneille es un drama donde el argumento sofocleo es revalorado de acuerdo con el air du temps de la producción clásica francesa.

(S.) Dietz The Argolid at the transition to the Mycenaean age: studies in the chronology and cultural development in the shaft grave period.Copenhagen: National Museum of Denmark, 1991. Pp. 336, 93 text figs. D.Kr. 240.

(S.) Dietz The Argolid at the transition to the Mycenaean age: studies in the chronology and cultural development in the shaft grave period.Copenhagen: National Museum of Denmark, 1991. Pp. 336, 93 text figs. D.Kr. 240. - Volume 113

Late Bronze Age Greece - Søren Dietz: The Argolid at the Transition to the Mycenaean Age: Studies in the Chronology and Cultural Development in the Shaft Grave Period. Pp. 336; 93 figs, (line drawings and tables). Copenhagen: The National Museum of Denmark, Department of Near Eastern and Classical Antiquities, 1991. Paper, D. kr. 240.

Late Bronze Age Greece - Søren Dietz: The Argolid at the Transition to the Mycenaean Age: Studies in the Chronology and Cultural Development in the Shaft Grave Period. Pp. 336; 93 figs, (line drawings and tables). Copenhagen: The National Museum of Denmark, Department of Near Eastern and Classical Antiquities, 1991. Paper, D. kr. 240. - Volume 42 Issue 2

CHAPTER TWO: THE HEYDAY OF THE CRETANPALACES AND THE MYCENAEAN AGE

Journal Article CHAPTER TWO: THE HEYDAY OF THE CRETANPALACES AND THE MYCENAEAN AGE Get access Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies, Volume 36, Issue Supplement_53, January 1989, Pages 66–115, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.2041-5370.1989.tb01417.x Published: 22 February 2011

NORTH AND SOUTH AT THE END OF THE MYCENAEAN AGE: ASPECTS OF AN OLD PROBLEM

Summary. The end of the Mycenaean age calls for an explanation outside the immediate Aegean area. The evidence is more likely to come from changes in habit than in the importation of objects of bronze or pottery. In order to understand events it is necessary to look beyond Greek frontiers to the Danube and Balkans. Among important changes are those in fighting tactics with a return to the sword in the Aegean and new workshop practice in Europe with more bronze forging against casting. Evidence for actual arrival of people is never likely to be conclusive; various alternatives are considered.

The antiquity of the Greek epic tradition: some new evidence

Since the decipherment of Linear B a number of scholars have argued, on the basis of supposed Mycenaean survivals in the Homeric poems, that the Greek legendary poetic tradition ran continuously from the Bronze Age through the Dark Age down to the singers of the Ionian towns in the ninth and eighth centuries. However, the directness of the connection between the narrative poetry of the Mycenaean Age, if indeed such existed, and the subsequent development of the Epic in Greece has been called into question. Thus Shipp, for example, has argued that most of the items listed by Chadwick in his articleMycenaean elements in the Homeric dialectin fact left their mark for a time at least on forms of Greek other than that of the Epic, and so could well have entered this tradition in post-Mycenaean times and in some other way than through a direct poetical current from the Bronze Age. A similar conclusion has been reached by Kirk, who has expressed his views forcefully in a series of publications. Consider the following:The two objective criteria for dating elements within the Homeric poems, namely archaeology and language, require careful handling and reveal less than is generally claimed for them. They enable certain elements to be recognized as having existed as early as the late Bronze Age, but do not necessarily prove that these all passed into the Ionian Epic tradition by the medium of late Bronze Age poetry.

Was Homer a Liar?

...une tradition à la fois antique et directe, ininterrompue, orale, deformée, méconnaissable et vivante.M. ProustThis is a deliberately provocative title, chosen in an iconoclastic moment, when I was annoyed by reading yet another book, in which the author prostrates himself abjectly before the altar of Homer the historian. The worship of this false god has reached such proportions that every writer on Mycenaean Greece devotes a great deal of space to what Homer says, and spends page after page trying to reconcile the Homeric account with the archaeological evidence. The idea that Homer can tell us about the Mycenaean Age dies hard; it is time to administer the coup de grâce.

George E. Mylonas: Mycenae and the Mycenaean Age. Princeton: University Press, 1966. 251 pp., 153 pls. (mainly photographs), and 26 figs. £7 8s.

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Mycenae and the Mycenaean Age

Mycenae and the Mycenaean Age

Review: Mycenae and the Mycenaean Age by George E. Mylonas

Book Review| December 01 1967 Review: Mycenae and the Mycenaean Age by George E. Mylonas Mycenae and the Mycenaean AgeGeorge E. Mylonas John Griffiths Pedley John Griffiths Pedley Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians (1967) 26 (4): 314–316. https://doi.org/10.2307/988461 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation John Griffiths Pedley; Review: Mycenae and the Mycenaean Age by George E. Mylonas. Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 1 December 1967; 26 (4): 314–316. doi: https://doi.org/10.2307/988461 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentJournal of the Society of Architectural Historians Search This content is only available via PDF. Copyright 1967 The Society of Architectural Historians Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

Mycenae and Mycenaean Age

Mycenae and Mycenaean Age

Mycenae and the Mycenaean Age. By <italic>George E. Mylonas</italic>. (Princeton, N. J.: Princeton University Press. 1966. Pp. xvi, 251, 153 plates. $18.50.)

Journal Article Mycenae and the Mycenaean Age. By George E. Mylonas. (Princeton, N. J.: Princeton University Press. 1966. Pp. xvi, 251, 153 plates. $18.50.) Get access Mycenae and the Mycenaean Age. By Mylonas George E.. (Princeton, N. J.: Princeton University Press. 1966. Pp. xvi, 251, 153 plates. $18.50.) Emmett L. Bennett, Jr. Emmett L. Bennett, Jr. University of Wisconsin Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Historical Review, Volume 72, Issue 3, April 1967, Pages 935–936, https://doi.org/10.1086/ahr/72.3.935 Published: 01 April 1967

Mycenae and the Mycenaean Age

Mycenae and the Mycenaean Age

Mycenae and the Mycenaean Age

Mycenae and the Mycenaean Age

The Middle Helladic Period

THE CULTURE of the Middle Helladic period, that is, the culture of the Greek mainland from 1900 to 1550 B.C., has been the subject of increasing interest during the past few years for several reasons. First, such excavations as those at Lerna, Argos, and Kirrha have added enough to the archaeological evidence to justify more detailed study of this period. Second, the decipherment of Linear B as a Greek dialect has made it more likely that the Greek language was introduced prior to the Mycenaean age. The hypothesis that the beginning of the Middle Helladic period marks the first entry of the Greeks into Greece has undergone severe criticism, and a prerequisite to any discussion of this problem is a knowledge of the Middle Helladic period. Furthermore, the relationship of Greece during this period to Crete, the Cyclades, Anatolia, and the northern areas has not been fully explored, but the course of exploration has provoked lively discussion. Finally, something of domestic life and architecture can be observed, in rough outline, and much argument has ensued about antecedents, relationships, and descendants. In sum, one may say that it is an area of study full of interesting problems, particularly in regard to the history of the Greek language and culture. All the direct evidence is material, the result of archaeological exploration. The period itself was demarcated by C. W. Blegen in 1916 as the result of his work at Korakou.1 Since that time over seventy Middle Helladic sites have been discovered on the mainland, about a dozen of which have been excavated and published properly.2 Thus all historical

Homer and the Mycenaean Age

Homer and the Mycenaean Age

The Discovery of Inscribed Clay Tablets at Mycenae

That a system of writing had been in use in the Mycenaean civilisation on the mainland of Greece had been known ever since the then existing evidence was collected by Tsountas and Manatt in The Mycenaean Age, published in 1897. Further evidence thereafter slowly accumulated. An inscribed stirrup jar was found at Orchomenos in 1903. In subsequent years others were discovered at Tiryns, Thebes, and Eleusis; but in the fourth volume of The Palace of Minos, published in 1935, Sir Arthur Evans could only say as regards the Greek mainland ‘ the absence of clay tablets should be rather set down to the accidents of discovery or to climatic causes ’. Four years later in 1939 Professor Blegen found in the newly discovered Palace of Nestor at Pylos an archive room with several hundred inscribed clay tablets. This number he has further increased in his resumed excavations in 1952. In recording the discovery of the House of the Oil Merchant at Mycenae in 1950 I ventured to prophesy that if the excavation of that house could be completed it was quite likely that inscribed clay tablets would be found in its ruins. In the complete excavation of that house at Mycenae in the summer of 1952 the prophecy was fulfilled and thirty-eight clay tablets were found in two of its rooms. This is a discovery of the first importance; in conjunction with the tablets from Pylos it shows that we must expect to find inscribed clay tablets in any Mycenaean palace or large private house on the Greek mainland. There must have been tablets in the palace at Mycenae but that site was badly damaged by later building above it and subsequent denudation. At Tiryns too there must have been tablets, but that site like the Mycenae palace was excavated in the 1880’s when archaeologists were not so alive to the possibilities of what might be found. A clay tablet in the earth or even just out of the earth is barely recognizable as such. Consequently the excavator himself must have a good eye for such things and train his workmen to observe and preserve even the most insignificant looking objects of clay. It is probably too late now to find tablets at Tiryns, but some presumably must still lurk in the ruins of the palace at Thebes if that site can ever be fully excavated. The Acropolis of Athens with the palace of Erechtheus presumably once had tablets, but the classical buildings and the excavations of the last century there have destroyed any hope of their survival.