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 Aege...

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.