Dimitri Nakassis, University of Toronto, AIA Lecture - Paupers and Peasants and Princes and Kings: Reconstructing Society in Late Bronze Age Greece
Thursday, November 15th at 7:00PM
Humanities Room 135
Dimitri Nakassis, University of Toronto, AIA Lecture
Title: Paupers and Peasants and Princes and Kings: Reconstructing Society in Late Bronze Age Greece
Abstract: Studies of Mycenaean Greece often focus on the vast divide between the most powerful and the least powerful individuals: the king and the officials of the palace on the one hand, and lowly laborers on the other. Between those extremes, however, were local leaders, administrators, and skilled craftsmen whose activities we can document through texts and the archaeological record. This paper proposes a new model of Mycenaean culture that incorporates evidence about kings, slaves,and the middling ranks of society.
Humanities Room 135
Dimitri Nakassis, University of Toronto, AIA Lecture
Title: Paupers and Peasants and Princes and Kings: Reconstructing Society in Late Bronze Age Greece
Abstract: Studies of Mycenaean Greece often focus on the vast divide between the most powerful and the least powerful individuals: the king and the officials of the palace on the one hand, and lowly laborers on the other. Between those extremes, however, were local leaders, administrators, and skilled craftsmen whose activities we can document through texts and the archaeological record. This paper proposes a new model of Mycenaean culture that incorporates evidence about kings, slaves,and the middling ranks of society.
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