Moses I. Finley
M. I. Finley here reconstructs the â€œpreliteraryâ€ background to Greek civilization by an examination of recent archeological discoveries and a critical reappraisal of older archeological evidence. He discusses the problems that dependence on such evidence poses for the historian, for, although archeology reveals changes and even cataclysms, it rarely allows us more than a restricted view of a society under normal conditions. He points out the difficulties in reconciling the mythological â€œevidenceâ€ and the archeological, particularly in Crete and Troy, and analyzes and distinguishes the elements of historic fact and legend in the ,Iliad, and ,Odyssey,.
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Early Greece: The Bronze and Archaic Ages