In the following short list will be found the volumes on the Minoan
and Mycenaean civilizations which are most accessible to the ordinary
reader:
_Annual of the British School at Athens_, vols. vi.- . (Reports
of excavations by Evans, Hogarth, and others, and many articles
of interest on the results of discovery. Well illustrated.)
_Journal of Hellenic Studies_, vols. xx.- . (Articles by Evans,
Hall, Mackenzie, Rouse, and others. Admirable illustrations.)
BROWNE, H.: _Homeric Study_. (Relations of Homeric and Minoan
civilizations).
BURROWS, R. M.: _The Discoveries in Crete_. (An able discussion
of the results of excavations).
EVANS, A. J.: _Cretan Pictograms and Pre-Phoenician Script._ (Dr.
Evans's earlier volume on the Minoan writing.) _Essai de Classification
des Epoques de la Civilisation Minoenne._ (Short summary of the
Minoan periods.) _Mycoenean Tree and Pillar Cult_. (Reprint from
_Journal of Hellenic Studies_, vol. xxi.) _Prehistoric Tombs of
Knossos_. (Isopata, etc.). _Scripta Minoa_. (Latest and fullest
discussion of Minoan script.) Articles in the _Times_ newspaper
and the _Monthly Review_.
HALL, E. H.: _The Decorative Art of Crete in the Bronze Age_.
HALL, H. R.: _Egypt and Western Asia_. (Relations of Crete and
Egypt.) _The Oldest Civilization of Greece_. (Deals with Mycenaean
discoveries up to 1901.) Various articles in the Proceedings of the
Society of Biblical Archaeology, the _Journal of Hellenic Studies_,
etc.
HARRISON, J. E.: _Prolegomena to the Study of Greek Religion. The
Religion of Ancient Greece_.
HAWES, C. H. and H.: _Crete the Forerunner of Greece_. (Concise
and interesting manual.)
HAWES, H. B.: _Gournia, Vasiliki, and other Prehistoric Sites on
the Isthmus of Hierapetra, Crete_.
HOGARTH, D. G.: _Authority and Archoeology_; (Contains summary of
earlier Mycenaean discoveries.) _Ionia and the East_. (Relations
of Oriental and early Greek civilizations.) Articles in _Cornhill
Magazine_ and _Fortnightly Review_.
LANG, A.: _Homer and his Age_.
MOSSO, A.: _The Palaces of Crete and their Builders_. (Chiefly useful
for its numerous illustrations.)
MURRAY, G.: _The Rise of the Greek Epic_. (Exceedingly vivid and
suggestive.)
RIDGEWAY, W.: _The Early Age of Greece_.
SCHUCHHARDT, C.: _Schliemann's Excavations_. (Useful summary of
the work of Schliemann, translated by E. Sellers.)
SEAGER, R. B.: _Excavations on the Island of Pseira, Crete_.
Philadelphia, 1910. (Finely illustrated.)
TSOUNTAS AND MANATT: _The Mycenaean Age_.
For the chronology of Ancient Egypt see--
BREASTED, H.: _History of Egypt_. (1906. Abridged issue, 1908.)
PETRIE, W. M. F.: _History of Egypt_, vols. i.-iii. _Researches
in Sinai_.
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