This Paperback Book item from Osprey Publishing was reviewed on 6-Nov-2008.
Search ISBN:1841768979 offer from Abebooks or used books from Alibris. The Mycenaeans c.1650-1100 BC (Elite) Reference Book. Classifications : Greece Ancient History Subjects Books General Greece Europe History Subjects Books General AAS Greece Europe History Subjects Books General Military History Subjects Books General AAS Military History . Click the following link to view the cover of The Mycenaeans c.1650-1100 BC (Elite). Related topics: Greece. Ancient. History. Subjects. Books. General. Greece. Europe. History. Subjects. requestid: 15e3e53f-561c-4cb7-88a7-8fb51384a84c
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1) Paperback Book The Mycenaeans c.1650-1100 BC (Elite) by Osprey Publishing. Based on the price and title, I thought there would be a lot more from this book. Unfortunately, I didn´t read the description. If all you want is to know about warfare in this culture in this time, then this is your book. If you thought, like me, that it would be about the culture in a wider range, it´s not.
You can find probably 20 books with more info on this same material, cheaper, if you keep looking.¤ 2) Paperback Book The Mycenaeans c.1650-1100 BC (Elite) by Osprey Publishing. This book tackles a tough topic-contemporaries of the ancient Egyptians, Hittites, and Israelites who left little written evidence of their own history behind. Nonetheless, from a combination of archaeology and pictoral evidence from the Mycenaeans themselves, the author and Angus McBride both paint a convincing picture of these obviously formidable warriors, forefathers of the Greeks.¤ 3) Paperback Book The Mycenaeans c.1650-1100 BC (Elite) by Osprey Publishing. The Achaean warriors reconstrutions are very generic and simplified. The books laks in several important findigs and art representations (pottery, fresco, sculpture) of armour/corselets elements, weapons, shields, helmets etc... coming from the Late Helladic time.
No accurate and detailed research has been made for this book.¤ 4) Paperback Book The Mycenaeans c.1650-1100 BC (Elite) by Osprey Publishing. I teach Ancient History and Ancient Literature. I find the book to be of great help in bringing students to an understanding of Mycenaean warfare. I was a bit disappointed in the art depicting the later Mycenaean Age, but all in all, very helpful.¤ 5) Paperback Book The Mycenaeans c.1650-1100 BC (Elite) by Osprey Publishing. I have this volume, and while possibly not quite McBride´s top effort, on his worst day he is eons ahead of Christa Hook, the "illustrator" for Macedonian Warrior. Folks, if you want an example of shoddy artistic effort, compare Macedonian Warrior to The Mycenaeans. Those here critical of Angus McBride will quickly change their minds. As a professional illustrator I don´t enjoy flaying the work of other artists, but her work is dreadful.
On the other hand, I found The Mycenaeans illustrations to be good, and find no problem with the technique or color. The work complements what I had in mind of the period.¤ 6) Paperback Book The Mycenaeans c.1650-1100 BC (Elite) by Osprey Publishing. The timeless appeal of Homer´s epic poem of the ancient TrojanWar, The Iliad, has meant an eduring interest in the Mycenaen age. Modern scholarship and new archaeological evidence now allows us to recontruct with reasonable confidence the appearance of this great warrior civilization, which dominated much of the eastern Mediterranean between the 16th and 12th centuries BC. We can also make deductions, from the few surviving pictorial sources, about the tactics of these armies. This absorbing text is illustrated with examples of the archaeological and pictorial evidence, and with striking colour reconstructions of light and heavy infantry and chariot warriors of the Mycenaean age.¤ Page Updated: Robert N. Goolsby, 4-Dec-2008, 18417689799781841768977, 480-341-2X1-791-441-111-8 
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