Pylos

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ID23404105
AuthorsJ Davis (0000-0003-1705-1798, American School of Classical Studies at Athens, corresponding author), Jack L Davis (American School of Classical Studies)
Year2012
Pages680-689
Publication date2012-09-18
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeCHAPTER
VenueThe Oxford Handbook Of The Bronze Age Aegean (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherOxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199873609.013.0051
OpenAlexW4247040611
ISBN9780199873609
LanguageEN
References cited7

The discovery of Bronze Age Pylos followed many frustrating efforts to locate the home of Homer's hero, Nestor. In 1829, soon after Greece won its independence from the Ottoman Turks, members of the great French cultural mission, the Expédition scientifique de Morée, sought Nestor's palace not far away, near a village called Pyla. In the 1880s Heinrich Schliemann dug in the medieval fortress at Navarino, looking for prehistoric remains comparable to those that he had already investigated at Mycenae, home of King Agamemnon. Others searched much farther afield, even many kilometers farther north, in Elis, in vain attempts to discover the elusive Palace of Nestor. Both in ancient and modern times, the location to which the place name Pylos was attached shifted.

Ancient history · Archaeology · Art · Bronze Age · Fortress (chess) · HERO · Independence (probability theory) · Literature · Prehistory · Ancient Mediterranean Archaeology and History · Archaeology and Historical Studies · Classical Antiquity Studies · Classics · History

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