Citadel to City-State. The Transformation of Greece, 1200-700 B.C.E. - THOMAS, Carol G., and C. CONANT,
The Transformation of Greece, 1200-700 B.C.E
KORTE INHOUD
?Thomas and Conant?s book, ?Citadel to City-State?, fills (a) noticeable gap in the literature in an exemplary fashion. It does it as well in a manner which provides the reader with a concrete, interesting series of themes to stimulate her/his mind as the centuries move by. They (Thomas and Conant) selected five reasonably well excavated settlements in southern and central Greece to stand as the exemplars for the contemporary situation and the ongoing transformations of Greek society between 1200 and 700 B.C. (?) Thus, for the late-thirteenth to twelfth centuries there is Mycenae; Nichoria for the eleventh; Athens for the tenth; Lefkandi for the ninth; Corinth for the eight; and Ascra for the early seventh. Each settlement?s particular situation provides them with an opportunity to expand on how this is similar or not to the situations of other, contemporary settlements as well as to the larger picture and trends of cultural transformation. This latter theme forms the intellectual framework which the informat...
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Bloomington, 1999. XXXII,199p. Paperback. Nice copy. [Antiquarian] [Auteur: THOMAS, Carol G., and C. CONANT,] [Uitgever: Indiana University Press] [Jaar: 1999] [Titel: Citadel to City-State. The Transformation of Greece, 1200-700 B.C.E.]
