| Early Greece: The Bronze and Archaic Ages Contributor(s): Finley, Moses I. (Author), Finley, Moses I. (Editor) |
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ISBN: 039330051X ISBN-13: 9780393300512 Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company OUR PRICE: $18.00 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 1982 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Ancient - Greece |
| Dewey: 938.01 |
| LCCN: 00000000 |
| Series: Ancient Culture and Society |
| Physical Information: 0.43" H x 5.05" W x 8.09" (0.43 lbs) 168 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - Ancient (To 499 A.D.) - Cultural Region - Greece |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: M. I. Finley here reconstructs the "preliterary" background to Greek civilization by an examination of recent archeological discoveries and a critical reappraisal of older archeological evidence. He discusses the problems that dependence on such evidence poses for the historian, for, although archeology reveals changes and even cataclysms, it rarely allows us more than a restricted view of a society under normal conditions. He points out the difficulties in reconciling the mythological "evidence" and the archeological, particularly in Crete and Troy, and analyzes and distinguishes the elements of historic fact and legend in the Iliad and Odyssey. |
