Why Odysseus Had to Go to Scheria —Memories, Flashbacks, and the End of the Bronze Age
As the main setting for a large part of The Odyssey, Scheria is not meant to be understood as just another stop on Odysseus’s wanderings, but as a deliberate flashback to a vanis
A Great King and a Wanax? The Politics of Mycenaean Greece
Empires like the Egyptians, Hittites, and Babylonians dominated the Late Bronze Age. But what was happening to the west?
Trees and Power in Aegean Art
Every society has symbols of leadership, and in a surprising number of Mediterranean and Near Eastern societies these are trees. A look at tiny examples of Aegean art gives some hi