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by hvered » 9:42 am
by Boreades » 8:38 pm
hvered wrote:Is Arthur Anglo-Norman?
by Boreades » 10:15 pm
hvered wrote:There are other ways to read it online, as a book https://archive.org/details/suggestiveinquir00atwo or chapter by chapter http://rexresearch.com/atwood/atwood1.htm
by Boreades » 10:37 pm
TisILeclerc wrote: MacDari could have been wrong of course.
Funnily enough they've just discovered another pyramid in Maya country connected with snake worship.
by Boreades » 4:19 pm
In September 1996 Olaf Swarbrick, a very well-respected, large-animal vet, determined to visit and record all the British, (mainly single) standing stones between the Scilly Isles and Unst in the Shetlands (but not the Channel Isles).
So between 1997 and 2009 he visited 1068 sites (sometimes more than once) measured and recorded just over 1500 stones; this Gazetteer is the result of those monumental observations.
The data are enormous and these days could only be collected by an amateur with access to vast amounts of time, much money and singular, single mindedness. Few grant-gifting bodies would give serious thought to, and none would commit the funding for, a decade long, multi-distance, basic, data-gathering project with no immediate ‘added value’ and… what career archaeologist would dream of initiating such a scheme. Yet, most of this short volume will stand tall alongside many a professional monograph; its data becoming increasingly important as a snap shot/professional photograph of a quite rapidly deteriorating source.
I wonder why, according to Olaf, there are no standing stones along the north-west coast of Scotland? Surely nothing to do with the strong prevailing westerly wind and the predomonance of peat bog??! Is it time for the 21st Century archaeologists to get there Geo Phys. equipment out and to also start probing?
by Boreades » 10:24 pm
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens - Department of History and Archaeology
MA in Greece and Eastern Mediterranean archaeology.
A one-year Master’s programme, taught in English, devoted to the advanced study of the archaeology of Greece, the wider area of the Aegean, Cyprus and the Eastern Mediterranean, including Mesopotamia.
Running: September 2017 to October 2018
Fees: 5000 Euros, inclusive of all tuition, on-site instruction, museum visits and field trips.
A number of scholarships, up to the full tuition costs, may be available each year.
Application deadline: Applications are accepted between January 1st and May 31st 2017.
The programme offers an in-depth, systematic account of the evidence, the methodologies, and the current debates on Greek and Eastern Mediterranean Archaeology. Themes of interest range from the emergence of the Minoan and Mycenaean palaces and the great empires of the eastern Mediterranean, such as the Hittites and the Assyrians, to the formation and decline of the Greek city-state or the polis , the rise of Alexander the Great, the world of the East Mediterranean during the time of his successors, including the perception and importance of Greek and Eastern Mediterranean heritage today.
by Boreades » 10:32 pm
Civilizations in the eastern Mediterranean—in Greece, Egypt, and the Near East—abruptly collapsed in 1177. But were the mysterious marauding ‘Sea Peoples’ solely to blame?
No ancient site has ever been identified as their origin or departure point.
Military History Quarterly 28/1 (Autumn 2015) 66-75.
by Mick Harper » 10:34 pm
by TisILeclerc » 9:43 am
by Boreades » 9:39 pm
In actual fact, the origins of the Dorians are necessarily obscure, but it appears they originated in northern and northwestern Greece—i.e., Macedonia and Epirus. From there they apparently swept southward into central Greece and then into the southern Aegean area in successive migrations beginning about 1100 bce, at the end of the Bronze Age. The invading Dorians had a relatively low cultural level, and their only major technological innovation was the iron slashing sword. The Dorians swept away the last of the declining Mycenaean and Minoan civilizations of southern Greece and plunged the region into a dark age out of which the Greek city-states began to emerge almost three centuries later.
Doric was one of the major dialects of the Classical Greek language, along with the Ionic-Attic, Aeolic, and Arcado-Cypriot dialect groups. But because the Ionic-Attic dialect of Athens dominated Greek culture from the 5th century bce, very little remains of ancient writings in pure Doric dialect.
Politically, the Dorian centres took two different courses of development. In Corinth, Rhodes, Argos, and various other mercantile-oriented city-states, the Dorian invaders, though at first reserving political power unto themselves, eventually merged with the conquered indigenous peoples of their regions. In Sparta and the island of Crete, by contrast, the Dorians kept power to themselves and constituted themselves into a ruling military class. These militarized Dorian aristocracies deliberately “froze” an archaic form of society (and sacrificed most of their cultural and artistic promise in the process) in order to maintain dominance over a larger population of serfs.
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