Early Greece: The Bronze and Archaic Ages (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780393300512)

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.

Author: Moses I. Finley
ISBN-10: 039330051X
ISBN-13: 9780393300512
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Language: English
Published: 09/01/1982
Pages: 168
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.43lbs
Size: 8.09h x 5.05w x 0.43d