The position of the wanax in the Mycenaean world is often perceived as that of a local monarch, ruling from a palatial centre and controlling (to a large extent) the surrounding region.
Moorehead has written eight biographies, of Bertrand Russell, Heinrich Schliemann, Freya Stark, Iris Origo, Martha Gellhorn, Sidney Bernstein, Edda Mussolini, and Henriette-Lucy, Marquise de La Tour du Pin Gouvernet.
During the Early Bronze Age Crete was highly dependant on raw materials coming from the Cyclades. This fact forms the economic background to the emergence of the culture of the Cycladic Kampos Group during the late part of EC I.
Vor 150 Jahren unternahm Heinrich Schliemann seine erste Forschungsreise nach Griechenland und besuchte dabei erstmals Mykene. Seine Ausgrabungen und Funde habe...