The Aegean world : a guide to the Cycladic, Minoan and Mycenaean antiquities in the Ashmolean Museum /
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Language: English
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Athens, Greece :
Kapon Editions,
2013.
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Call Number: N5899 .C9 A34 2013
Table of Contents:
- 1. The Redeveloped Ashmolean Museum / Susan Walker
- 2. The Àegean World' at the Ashmolean / Yannis Galanakis
- The Àegean World' Gallery
- Early Cyclades
- Arthur Evans and Minoan Crete
- Mycenaean Greece
- Aegean Archives at the Ashmolean
- 3. Arthur Evans and Minoan Crete / Lesley Fitton
- Beginnings
- Arthur Evans (1851-1941)
- Arthur Evans in Crete
- The Legacy of Arthur Evans
- Concluding Remarks
- 4. The Cyclades in the Early Bronze Age / Susan Sherratt
- Space and Time
- A Sea-Centred Culture
- Graves, their Contents and the Early Cycladic Image
- Marble Vessels and Figurines
- Phylakopi: the Middle and Late Bronze Ages
- Objects and Contexts
- 5. Minoan Crete: People in a World of Objects and Places / John Bennet
- Setting the Scene
- ̀Palaces'
- People and Objects in Action
- Image and Text
- Crete in the Mycenaean World
- 6. Mycenaean Greece: from Crete to the Mainland of Europe and Back / Jack Davis
- Heinrich Schliemann and the Origins of Mycenaean Civilisation
- The Expansion into the Aegean of Mycenaeans and Mycenaean Culture
- The Mycenaean Dead
- The Mycenaean Palatial Centres
- 7. The Aegean Bronze Age Scripts / Lisa Bendall
- How the Scripts were used
- Cretan Hieroglyphic
- Linear A
- Linear B
- Evans and the Ashmolean Collection
- The Decipherment of Linear B: Michael Ventris and John Chadwick
- How Ventris Deciphered Linear B
- The World of Linear B
- Epilogue
- Tablet Commentaries
- 8. Seals of Bronze Age Greece / Helen Hughes-Brock
- Mainland Beginnings
- Crete before the ̀Palaces'
- The ̀First Palaces' (circa 1950-1800 BC): New Stones, New Tools, and Writing
- The Ǹew Palaces' (circa 1800-1450 BC): The Golden Age
- The Mycenaean Connection
- Decline and Fall