By Dimitri Nakassis
This ebook revises our figuring out of Mycenaean society via a close research of people attested within the administrative texts from the Palace of Nestor at Pylos in southwestern Greece, ca. 1200 BC. It argues that traditional versions of Mycenaean society, which specialise in administrative titles and phrases, should be greater in the course of the examine of named members. a brand new, methodologically leading edge prosopography demonstrates that many named members weren't merely vital managers of palatial affairs but in addition high-ranking individuals of the group. This paintings considerably broadens the elite category and means that the palace used to be much less of an agent in its personal correct than an institutional framework for interactions among contributors and social teams.
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56–57; Parker Pearson 1999, pp. 84–85). Although in LH IIIA–B tholos tombs may have been exclusively palatial in the Argolid (Voutsaki 1995, 2001), the construction of Messenian tholos tombs outside of Pylos at this time suggests that they were not exclusively palatial, although they may have been used by families with close connections to the ruling elite (Bennet 1995, p. 599; Cavanagh and Mee 1998, pp. 77–78; Shelmerdine 2008a, p. 137). Dickinson (1983) and Lewartowski (1995; 2000, pp. 47–51) have both refuted the notion that individuals buried in simple pits and cists were from a different social stratum, and chamber tombs likewise paint a complex picture (Cavanagh and Mee 1990; Wright 2008).
The palace in turn seems less of an agent in its own right that 117 Wright 2004, 2008; Dickinson 2006, p. 39; Bennet 2008. A tablet series is a grouping of texts according to topic, format, and scribal hand. See Chadwick 1958, 1968. 118 paupers and peasants and princes and kings 27 bends Mycenaean society to its will, and more of a framework for an array of socioeconomic interactions between individuals and social groups. 1 Rather, the criteria by which data are judged differ from context to context, depending on the types of documents from which information is culled, as well as their chronological and geographical range.
101 These names belong to individuals responsible for goods and services which fall under palatial purview: smiths who work bronze, herders who manage flocks, landowners, laborers, supervisors of various groups, and so on. Mycenaean tablets are unpretentious documents that deal with regular operations from the perspective of the palatial administration. This is disappointing for those historians who would prefer texts that illuminate political and social history—for this reason they are sometimes contemptuously referred to as “laundry lists”—but this specificity permits a detailed picture of the daily operations of the palatial administration and the role of individuals in these practices.