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- ISBN 9781841767628
- Weight: 240g
- Dimensions: 180 x 242mm
- Publication Date: 25 Jul 2004
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Mycenaean society was constantly geared for battle and invasion.
Their ‘cities’ were heavy fortresses with unimaginably thick perimeter walls. Legendary sites such as Mycenae, Tiryns, Argos, Krisa, the Athenian Acropolis and Gla are all representative of their fortified citadels that dominated the Greek countryside for some 300 years until their sudden decline and abandonment around 1100 BC.
This title describes the golden age of these formidable structures - how they were constructed and extended, as well as revealing the elaborate palace complexes built by the great Mycenaean warlords immortalised in the verses of Homer’s Iliad.
Dr Nic Fields started his career as a biochemist before joining the Royal Marines. Having left the Navy, he went back to University and completed a BA and PhD in Ancient History at the University of Newcastle. He was Assistant Director at the British School of Archaeology, Athens, a lecturer in Ancient History and Archaeology at the University of Edinburgh, and is now a freelance author and researcher.
Donato Spedaliere studied at the Instituto Nazionale di Belle Arti in Florence and served in the Italian Army as a paratrooper. He is the chief illustrator of Alina Illustrazioni, the company he founded in 1998 with his wife, the architect and painter, Sarah Sulemsohn..
