Table of Contents

Introduction: effects of trade; 1. Aegean agency in Mediterranean exchange; 2. Becoming Mycenaean: definitions of civilization, style, and art; 3. Imports in the early Mycenaean period; 4. Crafting power through import consumption; 5. Import consumption in palatial centers; 6. Funerary consumption and competition in the Argolid; 7. Conclusions: foreign and domestic in the Mycenaean world.

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A new understanding of the effects of Mediterranean trade on Mycenaean Greece, which considers the possibilities represented by the traded objects themselves.

About the Author

Bryan E. Burns is Associate Professor of Classical Studies at Wellesley College. He is the author of numerous articles on Bronze Age Greece and has been awarded fellowships and fieldwork grants from the Institute for Aegean Prehistory, the Loeb Classical Library Foundation and the American School of Classical Studies at Athens.