The Mycenaean world / (Record no. 16827)
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| fixed length control field | 01794cam a2200205 i 4500 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| ISBN | 0521210771 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| ISBN | 9780521210775 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| ISBN | 0521290376 (pbk.) |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| ISBN | 9780521290371 |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 938.01 |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--AUTHOR NAME | |
| Personal name | Chadwick, John, |
| 245 14 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | The Mycenaean world / |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Place of publication | Cambridge [Eng.] ; |
| -- | New York : |
| Name of publisher | Cambridge University Press, |
| Year of publication | 1976. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Number of Pages | xvii, 201 p. : |
| Other physical details | ill. ; |
| 500 ## - GENERAL NOTE | |
| General note | Includes index. |
| 505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Formatted contents note | The hellenization of Greece -- The documentary evidence -- Mycenaean geography -- The people of the tablets -- The social structure and the administrative system -- Religioni -- Agriculture -- Craft, industry and trade -- Weapons and war -- Homer the pseudo-historian -- The end of the Mycenaean world. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc | In 1952 the decipherment of the Linear B script suddenly revealed the Greekness of Mycenaean Greece. Now, after new discoveries and more than 20 years of intensive work, scholars are able to interpret the written documents and reconstruct from them a vivid picture of life in this remote period, in a way which is impossible from archaeology alone. John Chadwick, who assisted Ventris in the original decipherment, has played a major part in these advances. He now summarizes the results of recent research and in so doing opens the door to a new world, Mycenaean Greece seen through the eyes of its inhabitants. The tablets may be only, as he describes them, 'the account books of anonymous clerks', but from these prosaic documents he shows how we can infer a bronze industry, foreign slave-women, or even human sacrifice. Not least important is the comparison of the newly available data with the Homeric account, much to the detriment of Homer's credibility as a witness. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical Term | Civilization, Mycenaean. |
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| TUNGUU LENDING LIBRARY | TUNGUU LENDING LIBRARY | Library shelves | 2023-10-25 | SUZA | 938.01 CHA | l000016053 | Books |