The foundations of palatial Crete: A survey of Crete in the Early Bronze Age (States and cities of ancient Greece) - Hardcover

Branigan, Keith

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0710066171 ISBN 13: 9780710066176

Publisher: Routledge & K. Paul, 1970

Synopsis

Excerpt from the Preface: The civilization which Evans called Minoan lasted for something like fourteen hundred years. The last six hundred years of this era have received a great deal of attention from scholars and laymen alike and many books and thousands of learned articles have been written about them. This is not surprising, for the period of six hundred years from 2,000 B.C. to 1,400 B.C. is that in which Minoan civilization reached maturity; it is the period of the great palaces and all the riches that they held. What is surprising however, is that the previous eight hundred years have been relatively ignored. Apart from excavation reports there are no books about the Minoan Early Bronze Age, and relatively few articles. Pendlebury, Hutchinson, and Schachermeyr have all written chapters which deal with the period, but only briefly and in outline. Both student and layman alike are therefore unable to read a comprehensive account of Early Minoan Crete. This book is an attempt to remedy the situation. It is not intended however to be a textbook in which each and every problem concerning our knowledge and understanding of the period is discussed and a solution suggested. Rather the book is written around a central theme - the debt of palatial Crete to the Early Bronze Age civilization. Each chapter is designed to trace the development of one particular aspect of that civilization from the sub-Neolithic period to the erection of the palaces of MM I.

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge & K. Paul
• Publication date: 1970
• ISBN 10: 0710066171
• ISBN 13: 9780710066176
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 232