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The Place of Troy among the Civilizations of the Bronze Age

James C. Wright

The Classical World. (May - Jun., 1998) pp. 356-368

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[308 words] greeks, greece, peoples, cities, early, land, strabo, egypt, asia_minor, name, island, city, eastern, region, italy, islands, country, native, inhabitants, geographical, western, tribes, coast, tradition, northern, mediterranean, asia, civilization, romans, population

[239 words] phrygian, sardis, tomb, hittite, gordion, anatolian, schliemann, anatolia, ankara, lydian, troy, calvert, mound, tumulus, symposium, istanbul, tombs, anatst, turkey, hellenistic, citadel, pottery, urartian, finds, levels, temple, early, belleten, akurgal, architectural

[226 words] trade, economic, population, local, production, city, italy, empire, cities, urban, commercial, period, early, economy, market, rural, goods, towns, roman_empire, wealth, products, region, commerce, slaves, industry, grain, decline, italian, distribution, agricultural

[184 words] mycenaean, cyprus, pottery, aegean, period, mycenae, early, cycladic, mainland, tombs, bronze_age, greece, cyclades, tomb, crete, blegen, cypriot, tiryns, minoan, troy, late_helladic, figurines, iiib, graves, cypriote, late_bronze_age, lerna, wace, grave, middle_helladic

[162 words] analysis, sources, understanding, individual, information, context, questions, literary, texts, development, role, provide, structure, aspects, early, basic, complex, traditional, range, provides, data, function, significant, patterns, process, useful, pattern, attempt, limited, techniques

[146 words] glass, iron, copper, metal, lead, bronze, clay, silver, process, gold, mining, analysis, mines, samples, ingots, materials, casting, produced, sample, production, metals, chemical, analyses, furnace, oxide, firing, glaze, alloy, temperature, smelting

[83 words] neolithic, greece, data, obsidian, artifacts, prehistoric, lerna, analysis, blades, samples, regional, southern, radiocarbon, bronze_age, landscape, franchthi, tools, production, valley, blade, argolid, cave, runnels, faunal, ceramic, region, deposits, materials, flakes, cores

[82 words] bronze, gold, objects, silver, iron, metal, ivory, ring, beads, rings, pieces, glass, tomb, stone, sword, object, handle, vessels, grave, wooden, weapons, blade, swords, jewelry, collection, shape, piece, bronzes, bowl, helmet

[62 words] wheeler, arikamedu, rouletted, casal, harl, frag, sarc, endured, icicle, zamboni, biichels, dialectal, iv-a, indentations, virampatnam, arretine, beggary, bijnaur, khoes, ii-a-2, sector, pondicherry, wharf, lizard, south_india, imam, megalithic, evet, frequent, indarch

[61 words] road, river, along, route, miles, valley, plain, hill, town, distance, land, mountain, across, coast, village, city, mountains, hills, roads, pass, line, region, bridge, island, southern, water, lake, lies, ground, places

[60 words] pottery, level, period, levels, mound, phase, stone, early, trench, neolithic, ware, excavated, stratum, sherds, building, occupation, tell, phases, troy, houses, strata, walls, deposits, chalcolithic, clay, bronze, upper, burials, layer, finds

[59 words] context, simply, position, hypothesis, argued, text, makes, claim, explain, suggestion, correct, grounds, reasons, alternative, actually, argue, moreover, attempt, surely, obvious, accept, argues, unlikely, enough, issue, sense, passage, presumably, difficulties, plausible

[56 words] hittite, name, anatolian, lycian, ramsay, hittites, lydian, phrygian, ahhiyawa, inscription, asia_minor, texts, luwian, lycia, language, names, duryodhana, kretschmer, indo-european, king, ahhiyawan, kumarbi, calder, keftiu, sterrett, anatolia, cilicia, isauria, cuneiform, forrer

[38 words] role, context, image, contrast, sense, narrative, audience, reader, text, power, language, theme, images, function, traditional, reading, imagery, himself, becomes, makes, central, literary, complex, focus, meaning, perspective, status, level, process, emphasis

[36 words] pottery, prehistoric, period, neolithic, region, cultures, finds, bronze_age, indians, hallstatt, stone, early, northern, palaeolithic, implements, hungary, objects, river, graves, valley, danube, central_europe, childe, vinca, excavated, bulgaria, mexico, amber, hungarian, county

[25 words] pottery, grave, vases, ware, shape, vessels, graves, geometric, early, decoration, bowls, sherds, shapes, fragments, period, wares, tomb, burial, painted, cups, pots, burials, bowl, decorated, vessel, jars, pieces, vase, handles, protogeometric

[24 words] seals, seal, babylonian, assyrian, sumerian, iran, tell, mesopotamia, tablets, cylinder, period, king, babylonia, palace, impressions, mesopotamian, uruk, texts, sealings, iraq, leilan, frankfort, assyria, akkadian, clay, sealing, early, syrian, babylon, mari

[23 words] achilles, iliad, hector, agamemnon, homer, troy, ajax, odysseus, patroclus, priam, homeric, diomedes, trojans, greeks, nestor, battle, hero, trojan, heroes, thetis, poet, menelaus, zeus, achilleus, epic, warrior, achaeans, heroic, fight, hektor

[21 words] gibbon, eskimo, copa, magdalenian, spurs, alaska, thule, sargent, decline_and_fall, palaeolithic, essai, observations, memoirs, mathiassen, france, punuk, hoffman, draft, bone, edward, berl, womersley, canada, piette, craddock, bodl, aurignacian, breuil, collins, alaskan

[20 words] studien, akademie, heidelberg, wissenschaften, sprache, stuttgart, uber, untersuchungen, grammatik, griechen, beitrage, bonn, alten, vols, neue, muller, forschungen, festschrift, handbuch, altertumswissenschaft, klassischen, diss, wien, burckhardt, literatur, lateinischen, lateinische, wilhelm, otto, philologie

[20 words] synesius, hypatia, roques, lacombrade, cyrene, colluthus, alexandria, andronicus, garzya, hermeias, livrea, waterspout, brother, hermelin, tuesday, amarantus, brothers, dion, amous, ill-fated, jacqueline, eteocypriote, hoche, inflata, vogt, al-marwazi, cyrenaica, euoptius, ijekavski, proclus

[18 words] comments, suggestions, helpful, anonymous, help, version, advice, draft, assistance, valuable, referee, express, gratitude, referees, encouragement, professors, provided, reading, criticism, seminar, criticisms, generous, humanities, drafts, grant, colleagues, acknowledge, classics, delivered, errors

[17 words] true, passage, words, merely, matter, position, suppose, regard, name, enough, natural, mention, difficulty, period, prove, having, regarded, himself, except, facts, really, naturally, supposed, definite, makes, assumed, alone, correct, actually, referred

[11 words] period, early, development, influence, forms, developed, earliest, tradition, stage, beginning, became, become, changes, periods, characteristic, process, result, tendency, greater, true, sixth, introduced, throughout, marked, fourth, stages, longer, began, fifth_century, simple

[11 words] your, something, take, things, thing, enough, done, really, anything, himself, look, mind, mean, away, going, want, keep, matter, sort, every, kind, doing, else, tell, suppose, having, ever, words, help, understand

[10 words] latin, classics, teachers, program, teaching, courses, schools, programs, classicists, high_school, humanities, education, teacher, student, colleges, curriculum, national, conference, materials, summer, information, educational, camws, classroom, departments, computer, foreign_language, scholarship, faculty, teach

[9 words] army, city, military, took, troops, himself, control, power, events, position, situation, policy, force, sent, return, revolt, attack, victory, peace, forces, defeat, action, soon, attempt, success, battle, enemy, became, command, remained

[9 words] mass, conn, charles, new_haven, henry, baltimore, washington, mich, edward, yale_university, boston, columbia_university, new_york_city, university_of_california_berkeley, hall, frank, arthur, i900, high_school, st_louis, ann_arbor, mary, street, herbert, smith, cleveland, tenn, brooklyn, dean, providence

[9 words] crete, minoan, knossos, cretan, palace, mycenaean, evans, linear_b, pylos, tablets, thera, signs, aegean, phaistos, kommos, late_minoan, kavousi, period, marinatos, fresco, gournia, mallia, linear_a, palaces, bronze_age, sign, minos, script, pottery, palatial

[9 words] russian, bosporus, ahau, black_sea, sinope, chersonesos, moscow, scythians, olbia, scythian, katun, russia, tolstoy, maya, soviet, pairisades, petersburg, bosporan, mithradates, polish, cyllarus, kiev, rostovtzeff, leucon, hylonome, satyros, leningrad, chichen, region, itza

[7 words] source, text, sources, passage, information, works, passages, written, version, fragments, name, authors, quoted, tradition, literary, mention, fragment, extant, books, himself, wrote, early, writers, title, commentary, quotations, texts, derived, knowledge, collection

[6 words] building, city, early, excavated, period, buildings, finds, walls, pottery, complex, town, hellenistic, revealed, structures, located, architectural, byzantine, periods, built, construction, occupation, sanctuary, structure, houses, plan, uncovered, around, tombs, along, wadi