Greece in the bronze age /

Vermeule, Emily.

Greece in the bronze age / Emily Vermeule. - Chicago ; London ; University of Chicago Press, c1964. - xix, 406 p. : illus., maps, 48 plates. ; 25 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 351-383)

I. Greece in the Stone Age -- The Land -- Before the First Villages -- Neolithic : The First Villages -- The Sequence in Thessaly -- Neolithic Civilization -- II. Early Bronze Age Greece and the Islands -- The Chalkolithic Revolution -- The Early Helladic Age -- Lerna and Early Helladic History -- The Flowering of Early Helladic II -- The Cyclades -- International Relations and Chronological Development -- III. The Opening of the Middle Bronze Age -- Disturbance in the Aegean -- The Language Problem -- The "Minyans" Arrive in Greece -- Settlements, Architecture, and Pottery -- The Graves -- IV. The Shaft Graves -- Royal Burials at Mycenae -- Art in the Shaft Graves -- The Historical Setting -- V. The Early Mycenaean Age -- Development of a Mycenaean Culture -- Architecture -- Art in the Tholoi -- The Fall of Knossos and the International Scene -- VI. Life in a Mycenaean Palace -- The Beginnings of Domestic Architecture -- The Growth of a Palace -- The Palace Setting : Real and Painted Views -- Private Houses and Provincial Towns -- VII. Art in the Palaces -- Frescoes -- Vase Painting -- Sculpture -- Carved Ivory -- Terracottas and Plastic Vases -- Gems, Jewelry, Metalwork -- VIII. Society and History in the Mycenaean World -- Linear B and the Mycenaean Records -- Merchants, Soldiers, Kings -- The Mycenaeans in Their Mediterranean Setting -- IX. The Mycenaean Heritage -- Religion : Theory and Practice -- Burial Customs -- Music and Poets -- The Greek Memory of the Mycenaeans.


Bronze age--Greece.
Civilization, Mycenaean.

DF220 / V47 1964