Thomson, Prehistoric Aegean (1978)
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Abbreviation
Thomson, Prehistoric Aegean (1978)
Form of publication
Book

George Thomson, The Prehistoric Aegean, Studies in Ancient Greek Society (Lawrens and Wishart, edition with additions and corrections London 1978)

ISBN / ISSN
ISBN 85315 415 5
First edition
Date of publication of first edition
1949, 2nd 1952, 3rd 1961
Data
Professor George Thomson’s ‘Studies in Ancient Greek Society’, set out to reinterpret the legacy of Ancient Greece and have gained a worldwide reputation as one of the most fundamental Marxist accounts of the material and philosophic foundations of the Western World. The Prehistoric Aegean, the first part of these Studies, deals in particular with the origin of matriarchy, the growth of land-tenure, and the birth and evolution of epic poetry. Contents: Introduction pp. 21-29. Part One “Kinship” pp. 31-146. Part Two “Matriarchy” pp. 147-294. Part Three “Communism” pp. 295-365. Part Four “The Heroic Age” pp. 367-432. Part Five “Homer” pp. 433-582. Appendix pp. 583-594. Bibliography pp. 595-610. Supplementary Notes pp. 610-612. General Index pp. 613-626. Pages 626.
Key words
Achaeans.
Aegean Asia Minor.
Aegean Sea.
Aegean, natural environment.
Aeolis / Aeolia.
Agrarian economy.
Alkaios, poet.
Amazons.
Anatolia.
Ancient Grecce.
Archaeology.
Artemis, goddess.
Athena, goddess.
Babylonian civilization.
Bronze Age.
Caria / Karia.
Caucasians.
Crete.
Crete, antiquity.
Cults.
Cyclades.
Cycladic civilization.
Demeter, goddess.
Dialect.
Egypt.
Eileithyia, goddess.
Eleusinian mysteries.
Ethnology.
Greece.
Greek antiquity.
Greek mythology.
Hephaistos, god.
Hera, goddess.
Heracles.
Homer.
Homeric age.
House, family.
Ionia.
Iron Age.
Matriarchy.
Minoan Crete.
Mycenaean age.
Mycenean Greece.
Olympia, antiquity.
Olympic Games.
Peloponnese, antiquity.
Pharaohs.
Poetry.
Prehistoric Cyprus.
Prehistoric farming.
Prehistoric Middle East.
Prehistoric period.
Prehistoric settlement.
Prehistoric Syria.
Rituals.
Sappho.
Sicily.
Social organization.
Tenedos / Bozcaada.
Teos, ancient city.
Thessaly.
Zeus.