The Tomb of AgamemnonHarvard University Press, 1 Ιουν 2011 - 208 σελίδες From Homer to Himmler, from Thucydides to Freud, Mycenae has occupied a singular place in the Western imagination. As the backdrop to one of the most famous military campaigns of all time, Agamemnon’s city has served for generation after generation as a symbol of the human appetite for war. As an archaeological site, it has given its name to the splendors of one of Europe’s earliest civilizations: the Mycenaean Age. In this book, historian of science Cathy Gere tells the story of these extraordinary ruins. |
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... Homeric epic, a recognisable individual through whom mortal life seems to be breathed into immortal legend. The hero whose face supposedly slept beneath those golden features must qualify as one of the most unpleasant and miserable ...
... Homeric epic, a recognisable individual through whom mortal life seems to be breathed into immortal legend. The hero whose face supposedly slept beneath those golden features must qualify as one of the most unpleasant and miserable ...
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... Homer distilled the well-worn cycle of stories about the Trojan War into two epic poems, the closest thing to a bible ever possessed by pagan Greece. In the Iliad Agamemnon springs into life as a character full oftensions and ...
... Homer distilled the well-worn cycle of stories about the Trojan War into two epic poems, the closest thing to a bible ever possessed by pagan Greece. In the Iliad Agamemnon springs into life as a character full oftensions and ...
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... Homeric stories, tailoring characters and situations to fit their own ... epics – which events were, as James Joyce so elegantly put it, 'lodged in ... epics, to come up with a plausible account of the causes of the Trojan War and to ...
... Homeric stories, tailoring characters and situations to fit their own ... epics – which events were, as James Joyce so elegantly put it, 'lodged in ... epics, to come up with a plausible account of the causes of the Trojan War and to ...
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... epics seemed more doubtful than ever. In 1846 the historian George Grote famously asserted that Greek history could ... Homer, however, there was some comfort to be had in a remote corner of the north-eastern Peloponnese, where the walls of ...
... epics seemed more doubtful than ever. In 1846 the historian George Grote famously asserted that Greek history could ... Homer, however, there was some comfort to be had in a remote corner of the north-eastern Peloponnese, where the walls of ...
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Περιεχόμενα
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The Cult of the Hero and the Agony of War
| 25 |
Mycenae Enlightened
| 47 |
Agamemnon Awakened
| 60 |
Saviour or Antichrist?
| 81 |
The Birth of the Bronze Age
| 95 |
The Swastika and the Butterfly
| 117 |
A City without Heroes
| 145 |
Making a Visit?
| 175 |
Further Reading
| 187 |
List of Illustrations
| 195 |
Acknowledgements
| 198 |
Index
| 199 |
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The Tomb of Agamemnon: Mycenae and the Search for a Hero Cathy Gere Δεν υπάρχει διαθέσιμη προεπισκόπηση - 2011 |
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