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A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more
at www.luminosoa.org. Although the Mycenaean civilization of the
Greek Bronze Age was identified 150 years ago, its origins remain
obscure. Jack L. Davis, codirector of excavations at the Palace of
Nestor at Pylos, takes readers on a tour of the beginnings of
Mycenaean civilization through a case study of this important site.
In collaboration with codirector Sharon R. Stocker, Davis
demonstrates that this ancient place was a major node for the
exchange of ideas between the already established Minoan
civilization, centered on the island of Crete, and the residents of
the Greek mainland. Davis and Stocker show how adoption of Minoan
culture created an ideology of power focused on a single
individual, celebrating his military prowess, investing him with
divine authority, and creating a figure instantly recognizable to
readers of Homer and students of Greek history. A Greek State in
Formation makes the powerful case that a knowledge of the Greek
Bronze Age is indispensable to the classics curriculum.
In the years 2004-2006, a joint team from the International Centre
for Albanian Archaeology in Tirana, Albania, the Institute of
Archaeology in Tirana, and the University of Cincinnati conducted
excavations in the plain west of the walls of the ancient Greek
colony of Apollonia, a short distance to the southwest of the
modern village of Pojan. The site lies almost entirely within a
complex of farm buildings known locally as Bonjaket. This volume
represents the full publication of the results of three campaigns
of excavation at the site. The new excavations discovered and
documented a previously unknown monumental temple and have made it
possible to describe for the first time the material remains of
Greek rituals as practiced at the time of, or not long after, the
foundation of Apollonia.
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