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Nov 2018
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102: An Egyptian Odyssey (Passage to Gre...

DOMINIC PERRY
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Ancient Egypt and the Greeks of Mycenae. It's time to set sail! We journey far from Egypt to visit lands only whispered about until now. We are visiting Greece and the lands of Mycenae, who in 1370 BCE were beginning to make their mark on the international scene.


Select Bibliography:

  • Eric H. Cline, “Amenhotep III and the Aegean: A Reassessment of Egypto-Aegean Relations in the 14th Century B.C.,” Orientalia 56 (1987).
  • Elizabeth French, Mycenae: Agamemnon’s Capital: the Site and its Setting, 2002.
  • Jorrit M. Kelder, “Royal Gift Exchange between Mycenae and Egypt: Olives as “Greeting Gifts” in the Late Bronze Age Eastern Mediterranean,” American Journal of Archaeology 113 (2009).
  • Christine Lilyquist, “On the Amenhotep III Inscribed Faience Fragments from Mycenae,” Journal of the American Oriental Society 119 (1999).
  • David O’Connor and Eric H. Cline (eds.) Amenhotep III: Perspectives on His Reign, 1998.
  • Cynthia W. Shelmerdine, “Mycenaean Palatial Administration,” in Deger-Jalkotzy and Lemos (eds.) Ancient Greece: From the Mycenaean Palaces to the Age of Homer, 2006.
  • Lord William Taylour, The Mycenaeans, 1964.
  • Lord William Taylour and Elizabeth French, Well-Built Mycenae: the Helleno-British excavations within the Citadel at Mycenae, 1959-1969, 1981-2013.
  • Malcolm H. Wiener, “The Absolute Chronology of Late Helladic III A2 Revisited,” The Annual of the British School at Athens 98 (2003).

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