Studies of Homeric Greece / Jan Bouzek.

Cover; Table of Contents; Preface; introduction; PART 1: Bronze Age; 1.1 "The first Golden Age of Europe"; 1.2 Mycenaean models and European parallels; 1.3 Migrations in the Aegean; 1.4 Reviews; PART 2: late Helladic III C; 2.1 LH III C: A Survey; 2.2 LH III C iconography: an interim period of artistic development in Greece; 2.3 From Bronze to Iron Age; 2.4 Pride and modesty -- how to survive the Dark Age; 2.5 BIRDS; PART 3: From Submicenaean to early grometric; 3.1 Submycenaean and Subminoan; 3.2 Protogeometric (Late 11th and 10th century BC); 3.3 From Protogeometric to Geometric.

3.5 Thracian thalassocracy: fact or fiction?3.4 Early to Middle Geometric, 900-775 BC; PART 4: Late geometric; 4.1 From pasture to polis; 4.2 The structure of settlements, temples; 4.3 Reviews; 4.4 Precolonisation in the Mediterranean and the Black Sea; 4.5 Xoana and Laconian wooden sculpture; PART 5: Homer and archaeology; 5.1 Homer -- how he perceived his real environment; 5.2 Reviews; PART 6: Phoenicians; 6.1 Introduction; 6.2 Phoenicians in the Black Sea?; 6.3 Phoenician merchant ventures in central and western Mediterranean and in continental Europe; PART 7: Macedonian bronzes.

7.1 Macedonian bronzes in Italy (=MB VI)7.2 Macedonian bronzes -- 30 years later; 7.3 The history of Macedonian bronzes; 7.4 Macedonian Bronzes today; PART 8: geometric koine; 8.1 Rlations between the Aegean and The North. The Amber Route; 8.2 Koine of early Iron Age geometric styles; 8.3 Central Europe and Caucasus in the early Iron Age; 8.4 The Westernmost Part of the Eia Koine; PART 9: Religions; 9.1 Introduction; 9.2 Hyperborean Apollo, Solar Heros and Human Soul; 9.3 Early Greek Religion and Thrace; 9.4 Reviews: Dionysus and his Companions, Sea Peoples.; 9.5 Goddes with Arms.

Part 10: SummaryBibliography; INDEX.

Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on October 29, 2018).

Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-283) and index.

Annotation Studies of Homeric Greece is a comprehensive companion to the archaeology and history of Late Mycenaean to Geometric Greece and the koine of Early Iron Age Geometric styles in Europe and Upper Eurasia, circa 1300-700 BC, in relation to their Near Eastern neighbors. Jan Bouzek discusses this pivotal period of human history--the transition from Bronze to Iron Age, from the pre-philosophical to philosophical mind, from myth to logos--in an attempt to combine archaeological evidence with the words of Homer and Hesiod, and the first Phoenician and Greek trading ventures. In doing so, Bouzek surveys the birth of autonomous Greek city-states, their art, and their free citizenry. Featuring numerous maps, drawings, and photographs, Studies of Homeric Greece is the capstone of a luminary in the field.

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