The Mycenaean World

by John Chadwick

Book Overview

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... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521210771
• ISBN13: 9780521210775
• Release Date: March 1976
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 218 Pages
• Weight: 1.16 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 7.0" x 10.0"

Customer Reviews

Book

Arrived earlier than I expected and was very securely packaged so did not sustain any damage whatsoever.

Dry But Factual

This book is a little dry for a layman's tastes probably, but more than likely only the interested will purchase such a specialized title anyway. The reason for the "dryness"? This book is very conservative, making no convoluted deductions from the evidence, but is actually a concise survey of everything currently known about the mycenaeans (what types of info are preserved on the tablets, what crops and livestock were cultivated, what aspects of the administrative system is known, etc.). The writing style isn't dry, really, just to-the-point as it should be in such a work. Any deep studies of bronze-age Greece should start here.