The Age of the Gods: A Study in the Origins of Culture in Prehistoric Europe and Ancient Egypt

ISBN-13: 9780813219776 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 325 str.

Christopher Dawson; Dermot Quinn

Opis

Presented here with a new introduction by Dermot Quinn, The Age ofthe Gods continues the popular Works of Christopher Dawson series.Among other topics, the book sketches the glacial age and the beginningsof human life, the Paleolithic and Neolithic cultures and the riseof the peasant culture in Europe, the development of Sumerian culture, the archaic culture of Egypt, the megalithic culture in Western Europe, the age of empire in the Near East, the Bronze Age in Central Europe, theformation of the Indo-European peoples, the Mycenaean culture ofGreece, and the beginnings of the Iron Age in Europ