GREEKS, MINOANS & MYCENAENs - Books available from the AGHS Library – Year 7 and 8 History ‘Investigating the Ancient Past’.
Author’s
Name
Callender, Gae
Title
Location and
Call No.
Non-Fiction
938
CAL
Subjects
Level
Summary (if available)
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Greece - History - To 500 B.C.
Greece - Social life and customs - to 500 B.C.
Minoans
MEDDIFF.
An authoritative and comprehensive study of life in
Bronze Age Crete and Greece, written for the NSW
Ancient History Course.
Non-Fiction
939.18
CAS
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Knossos (Extinct city)
MEDDIFF.
Non-Fiction
938
CHA
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Greece - History - To 500 B.C.
MEDDIFF.
Dineen,
The Mediterranean
Jacqueline /
Ingpen, Robert
/ Wilkinson,
Philip
Edey, Maitland Lost world of the
A
Aegean
Non-Fiction
930
WIL
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History, Ancient
Mediterranean region – History
Minoans
MED
Non-Fiction
938
EDE
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Civilisation, Aegean
Classical antiquities
MED
Ganeri, Anita
Non-Fiction
938
GAN
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Civilisation, Greek
Greece - Social life and customs - 500-404
B.C., Classical period
Easier
Knossos, like the Acropolis or Stonehenge, is a
symbol for an entire culture. The Knossos Labyrinth
was first built in the reign of a Middle Kingdom
Egyptian pharaoh, and was from the start the focus
of a glittering and exotic culture.
In 1952 the decipherment of the Linear B script
suddenly revealed the 'Greekness' of Mycenaean
Greece. Now, after new discoveries and more than
20 years of intensive work, scholars are able to
interpret the written documents and reconstruct
from them a vivid picture of life in this remote
period, in a way which is impossible from
archaeology alone.
A guide to the ancient civilizations, forgotten cities,
vast temples and monuments of the Mediterranean.
Places featured include Hagia Sophia in Turkey,
Mycenae in Greece, and Leptis Magna in Libya.
Location maps for each site are included.
The Emergence of Man is an older series from the
early 70's. Each volume deals with one of the
precepts of civilization or one of the civilizations that
emerged at the dawn of humanity, and as such, they
offer a unique glimpse of what life might have been
like for our earliest ancestors.
Table of contents includes: Reading and writing,
Wisdom and scholars, Science and mathematics,
Amazing inventions, Doctors and medicine, Famous
Castleden,
Rodney
Chadwick,
John
The Minoans and the
Mycenaeans : Aegean
society in the Bronze
Age
The Knossos labyrinth :
a new view of the
`Palace of Minos' at
Knossos
The Mycenaean world
Legacies from ancient
Greece
Author’s
Name
Title
Location and
Call No.
Subjects
Level
James, John /
James, Louise
The Greeks
Non-Fiction
938
JAM
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Archaeology
Civilisation, Greek
Greece – Antiquities
Greece - Social life and customs
Easier
Sheehan, Sean
The British Museum
illustrated
encyclopaedia of
Ancient Greece
Non-Fiction
938.003
SHE
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Civilisation, Greek – Encyclopaedias
Greece – Antiquities
Greece - History - Encyclopaedias
MED
Summary (if available)
buildings, Myths and legends.
In "The Greeks," each double-page spread looks at
an important part of the ancient Greek way of life
and shows some key evidence – artefacts,
architecture, arts and written sources – that enables
us to reconstruct and understand their buildings,
technology, clothes, jewellery and everyday life:
Travel to the world of the ancient Greeks in these
colourful pages. Meet the mighty heroes of myth
and epic like Herakles and Achilles, and the great
thinkers such as Plato and Aristotle. Find out about
the clothes the ancient Greeks wore and the food
they ate, their toys and games, their gods and
goddesses, their homes and temples and their
weapons and armour. Discover the many ways
ancient Greece still influences our world today.