The Tomb of Agamemnon

Informationen zum Autor Cathy Gere is Associate Professor of the History of Science at the University of California, San Diego. Klappentext Mycenae, the fabled city of Homer¿s King Agamemnon, leapt into the headlines in the late nineteenth century when Heinrich Schliemann announced that he had opened the Tomb of Agamemnon and found the body of the hero smothered in gold treasure. In this book, historian of science Cathy Gere tells the story of these extraordinary ruins.

Product details

• Authors: Cathy Gere
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Release: 02.04.2012, delayed
• EAN: 9780674063884
• ISBN: 978-0-674-06388-4
• No. of pages: 208
• Series: Wonders of the World (Harvard; Wonders of the World; Wonders of the World (Harvard
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Antiquity; History, Ancient Greece, HISTORY / Ancient / Greece, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology, TRAVEL / Europe / Greece, Ancient World, Ancient History, Archaeology by period / region, Ancient religions and Mythologies