The Cambridge Companion to the Aegean Bronze Age

by Edited by Cynthia W. Shelmerdine

• ISBN13: 9780521814447
• ISBN10: 0521814448
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-08-04
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

This book is a comprehensive up-to-date survey of the Aegean Bronze Age, from its beginnings to the period following the collapse of the Mycenaean palace system. In essays by leading authorities commissioned especially for this volume, it covers the history and the material culture of Crete, Greece, and the Aegean Islands from c. 3000-1100 BCE, as well as topics such as trade, religions, and economic administration. Intended as a reliable, readable introduction for university students, it will also be useful to scholars in related fields within and outside classics. The contents of this book are arranged chronologically and geographically, facilitating comparison between the different cultures. Within this framework, the cultures of the Aegean Bronze Age are assessed thematically and combine both material culture and social history.

Table of Contents

Background, sources, and methods

The early bronze age in Greece

The early bronze age in the Cyclades

Early prepalatial Crete

Protopalatial Crete

Formation of the palaces

The material culture

The material culture of neopalatial Crete

Minoan culture: religion, burial customs, administration

Minoan Crete and the Aegean Islands

Minoan trade

Early Mycenaean Greece

Mycenaean art and architecture

Mycenaean states

Economy and administration

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Burial customs

Death and the Mycenaeans

Mycenaean religion

Mycenaean Greece, the Aegean and Beyond

Decline, destruction, aftermath

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