Ebook: The Arsenal of Knossos (Crete) and Mycenaean Chariot Forces

Статья // In: Archaeological and Historical Aspects of West-European Societies (Acta Archaeologica Lovaniensia, Monographiae 8). — Leuven University Press, 1996. — Pp. 481-498.The military organisation of Mycenaean kingdoms is a field which has received plenty of scholarly attention primarily because, thanks to a combined assessment of both archaeological and epigraphical sources, it allowed the reconstruction of a background that suited the heroes of the Homeric epics. How the real fighting was done in the Aegean Bronze Age is still problematic, however, and this is also the case for the precise military role of the chariot.