The Lords of Avaris: Uncovering the Legendary Origins of Western Civilisation - Hardcover

Rohl, David

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0712677623 ISBN 13: 9780712677622

Publisher: Century, 2007

Synopsis

The Lords of Avaris is the stuff of legend — it will transport you into the real world of Greece’s legendary Heroic Age to reveal the flesh-and-blood characters from our ancestral past.

David Rohl’s epic journey in search of the origins of the Western World ranges across the ancient lands and archaeological sites of the Mediterranean. From Jericho to Rome, the true chronicle of our pre-Christian past is uncovered to reveal a historical picture previously unimagined by scholars.

The epic legends of Classical Greek and Rome appear to have been based on the exploits of genuine historical figures and actual events. In The Lords of Avaris, David Rohl reveals these classical heroes as flesh-and-blood characters from our ancestral past:

The Indo-European origins of the mysterious Hyksos oppressors of Egypt are uncovered; A Pelasgian princess from mainland Greece is identified with one of Egypt’s greatest queens; The Greek Dark Age is exposed as the phantom of a misaligned chronology; Agamemnon’s Trojan War is set in its proper archaeological context; Homer’s Iliad is finally given an epic historical setting; The Trojan hero Aeneas is re-established as the founder of Roman civilization.

About this title

About the Author

David Rohl is the author of A Test of Time: The Bible — From Myth to History; Legend: The Genesis of Civilization, and The Lost Testament: From Eden to Exile– A 5000 Year History of the People of the Bible.

Edition details

• Publisher: Century
• Publication date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0712677623
• ISBN 13: 9780712677622
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 524