Author : Martin Nilsson
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520050738
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)
Book Synopsis Mycenaean Origin of Greek Mythology by : Martin Nilsson
Download or read book Mycenaean Origin of Greek Mythology written by Martin Nilsson and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1983-09-16 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Nilsson studied the geographical aspects of the Greek myths. He proved that almost without exception, the places in the myths, especially those in the great cycle of stories, are the very same places as those now known from archaeology to have been important Bronze-Age sites ... Nilsson made it amply clear, in a host of interesting details which he worked out with ingenuity and almost always good sense, that the memory of the great Bronze-Age centres survived, and that the stories told of them ... truly reflected, in Classical times, the Mykenaian Age. To have discovered this great bridge was the triumphant achievement of Nilsson." [Back cover].