Göteborg: Paul Förlag Åströms, 1985. Paperback. ***Signed by Author*** Very good softcover in printed wraps. Cover has toning around the edges but does not affect the text. 8vo. (5 x 0.5 x 8.25 inches) Sign by author to the late Professor Peter Green on the title page. Clean text free of marks or underlining. B&W photos and illustrations. Includes maps, site plans, figures, tables, select bibliography and an index. 400 pp.

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During the Late Bronze Age, ca. 1550-1200 B.C., a number of autonomous I kingdoms formed and flourished in Greece (fig. 1). They prospered chiefly during the final two centuries of that era, in the period we call Late Helladic III (LH III; see chronological chart). Greek literature, especially the Homeric Iliad and Odyssey, preserved a fictionalized memory of these kingdoms long after the reality had passed. A few of the sites
themselves were known throughout antiquity; Pausanias visited Mycenae inthe 2nd century A.D. as an admiring tourist (II.xv.4-xvi.7).
Yet modern interest in them only revived when Heinrich Schliemann, a self-made archaeologist as he had been a self-made businessman, excavated at Troy, Mycenae and Tiryns in the 1870's and 1880's. The rich burials and monumental walls of Mycenae were impressive enough to give the name 'Mycenaean' to the entire civilization of Late Bronze Age Greece, and Schliemann's discoveries attracted the attention of scholars and amateurs alike.

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