TY  - BOOK
AU  - Haarmann,Harald
TI  - Roots of ancient Greek civilization: the influence of old Europe 
SN  - 9781476615899
AV  - DF220 .R668 2014
PY  - 2014///
CY  - Jefferson, North Carolina
PB  - McFarland and Company, Incorporated
KW  - Bronze age
KW  - Europe
KW  - Culture
KW  - Origin
KW  - Social evolution
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; Introduction : Athens, cradle of democracy? --; European tradition versus Afrocentrism : the reality behind the myth of "black Athena" --; What the Greeks learned from their predecessors : wine and olive cultivation, pottery and metallurgy --; Greek immigrants and native Europeans in southeastern Europe : contact of cultures, fusion of languages and ways to remember the past --; Seafaring, trade and commerce trade networks in the early Greek world --; Ingredients of pan-Hellenic identity : sacred places, rituals and festivities --; Pre-Greek origins of the arts : the Muses and their doings from old Europe to classical antiquity --; Old European soundings of social egalitarianism in Greek society : social networking and the making of democratic governance --; Epilogue : the long trail of old Europe and its aftermath in western civilization; 2; b
N2  - "Contrary to a prevalent belief of the Western world, that democracy, agriculture, theater and the arts were the attainments of Classical Greek civilization, these were actually a Bronze Age fusion of earlier European concepts and Hellenic ingenuity"--
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