Under Milk Wood

Director: Les Orton

Overview

This introduction to the Mycenaean world brings together the latest research on its history and on the real Bronze Age cities that lie behind the Homeric legends. Economy and society, technology and trade, burials and buildings,
warfare and religion are all explored to reveal the character and achievements of this brilliant forerunner of Classical Greece.

Product Details

Release Date:	09/19/2006
UPC:	0029502682798
Original Release:	0000
Source:	Wendy L. Koenig
Language:	English
Sales rank:	57,036

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Richard Burton	Voices
Elizabeth Taylor	Actor
Peter O'Toole	Actor

Technical Credits

Dylan Thomas

Playwright

Scene Index

List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Preface to the Second Edition
1. Introduction
2. The rise and fall of Mycenaean civilization When?; Early Mycenaean period; Minoan Crete; Buried town of Akrotiri on Thera; Mainland Greece; Expansion and maturity; Palatial period; Mycenaean Crete?; Trojan War; Late Mycenaean period
3. Cities Argos; Athens; Ithaca; Iolkos; Knossos; Mycenae; Orchomenos; Pylos; Sparta; Thebes; Tiryns; Troy
4. Tombs and burial practices Tomb types; Burial customs; Grave-goods; Shaft Graves at Mycenae
5. Materials and technology Pottery; Metalwork; Carving; Glass and faience
6. Economy and society Linear B archives; Agriculture and stockraising; Landscape and climate; Crops; Animals; Slaves and workers; Officials and administrators
7. Building and engineering Tholoi; Fortresses; Roads and waterworks; Palaces; Construction techniques; Houses
8. Weapons and warfare Greaves; Cuirass; Swords and daggers; Shield; Helmet; Spear/Lance; Bow; Chariot; Warfare; Military planning
9. Wall-paintings Origins and associations; Technique; Hands and artists; Composition and subject matter; Costume
10. Trade and contact Resources and the sea; Maritime trade; Sailing patterns; Trade and exchange; Kas and Gelidonya wrecks; Metals trade; Luxury goods; Perfume trade?; Chariot kraters; Cloth; Manpower; Cyprus; Macedonia and the Black Sea; Italy and the Central Mediterranean
11. Religion Religious scenes; Shrines; Figurines and cult equipment
12. Homer and the Dark Age: myth or memory?
Dorians; Palace destructions; Aftermath; Iron Age; Ionian Migration; Heroon at Lefkandi in Euboea; Renewed trade and expansion; Settlements; A new heroic age; Sanctuaries; Homer and the monuments Suggestions for Further Study Suggestions for Further Reading and brief bibliography for each chapter Index