Gods, Heroes and Tyrants : Greek Chronology in Chaos

Sweeney (history, West U., Romania) has already produced a four-volume set arguing that the course of events in ancient Egypt is no better explained by conventional scholarship than by the unconventional theories of Immanuel Velikovski (1895-1979). Here he offers the same service to mainstream scholarship on ancient Greece. His topics include the rediscovery of Homeric Greece, artistic anomalies, the loss of literacy, Thrace and Scythia, the rise of Crete, the Dorian invasion, and festivals and legal codes. Appendices present reconstructed chronologies. Annotation ©2009 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Sweeney (history, West U., Romania) has already produced a four-volume set arguing that the course of events in ancient Egypt is no better explained by conventional scholarship than by the unconventional theories of Immanuel Velikovski (1895-1979). Here he offers the same service to mainstream scholarship on ancient Greece. His topics include the rediscovery of Homeric Greece, artistic anomalies, the loss of literacy, Thrace and Scythia, the rise of Crete, the Dorian invasion, and festivals and legal codes. Appendices present reconstructed chronologies. Annotation ©2009 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)