#mycenaean greece
History in Costumes: From Pharaoh to Dandy by Anna Blaze, art by Daria Chaltykyan
1. Etruscan nobles
2. Mesopotamian aristocracy
3. Minoan
4. Mycenaean
5. Scythian
6. Sumerian king and queen
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Patroclus comforts Briseis (2019)
An episode in which Patroclus comforted Briseis when she fell into slavery:
Briseis, looking like golden Aphrodite,
then saw Patroclus mutilated by sharp bronze.
With a cry, she threw herself on him, hands tearing
at her breast, her tender neck, her lovely face,
fair as a goddess, lamenting:
“Patroclus,
you who brought the utmost joy to my sad heart,
I left you here alive, when I went off,
taken from these huts. But now, at my return,
I find you dead, you, the people’s leader.
Again for me, as always, evil follows evil.
I saw the husband I was given to
by my father and my noble mother killed
by sharp bronze before our city. My brothers,
three of them, whom my own mother bore,
whom I loved, have all met their fatal day.
But when swift Achilles killed my husband,
you wouldn’t let me weep. You told me then
you’d make me lord Achilles’ wedded wife,
he’d take me in his ships back to Phthia,
for a marriage feast among the Myrmidons.
You were always gentle. That’s the reason
I’ll never stop this grieving for your death.”
Homer, Iliad, Song 19
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Open Access book
A Greek State in Formation: The Origins of Civilization in Mycenaean Pylos
by Jack L. Davis(Author), Sharon R. Stocker (Contributor)
A Greek State in Formation makes the powerful case that a knowledge of the Greek Bronze Age is indispensable to the classics curriculum.
This free open access ebook is available upon publication in May 2022: https://luminosoa.org/site/books/#temp-176
Learn more: https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520387249/a-greek-state-in-formation
