Brill's companion to warfare in the Bronze Age Aegean / / edited by Lynne A. Kvapil.

• Superior document: Brill's Companions to Classical Studies ; 6
• TeilnehmendeR: Kvapil, Lynne A.,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, 2024.; ©2024
• Year of Publication: 2024
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Brill's Companions to Classical Studies ; 6.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (492 pages) :; illustrations.

Aegean prehistory was born out of the search for the Trojan War. Since the time of Heinrich Schliemann, new forms of evidence have come to light and innovative questions have arisen, including examinations of warfare as a concept. This volume interrogates the nature of warfare in the Bronze Age Aegean for scholars and teachers with knowledge of the ancient Mediterranean, who wish to access the state of the field when it comes to the ways that specialists approach warfare in the prehistoric Aegean. Authors review evidence, consider the social and cultural place of war, and revisit longstanding questions.

Table of Contents

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Figures, Maps, and Tables -- Abbreviations -- Part 1 Introduction -- Chapter 1 Introduction to Warfare in the Bronze Age Aegean -- Part 2 Material and Textual Evidence -- Chapter 2 Fortifications and Defensive Architecture -- Chapter 3 Weaponry -- Chapter 4 Mycenaean Warfare: The Evidence of the Linear B Tablets -- Chapter 5 Iconography -- Part 3 Warfare in Practice and Perception -- Chapter 6 Warfare in the EBA to the Beginning of the LBA -- Chapter 7 Warfare in LH IIIA-C -- Chapter 8 An Aegean Warrior Ethos? -- Chapter 9 Warfare and "Social Complexity" from LH III to the Early Iron Age -- Part 4 Historical Questions -- Chapter 10 The Myth of the Minoan Thalassocracy: A Review of Evidence for Maritime Interaction, Power, and Violence in the Insular and Coastal Aegean -- Chapter 11 Ahhiyawa -- Chapter 12 The Trojan War, a Trojan War, or Some Trojan Wars? Considering the Historicity of the Trojan War -- Part 5 Epilogue -- Chapter 13 Warfare in the Bronze Age Aegean: Rules of Future Engagement -- Index.