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Anthropology and the Classics: Six Lectures Delivered Before the University of Oxford. E-book. Formato PDF Arthur J. Evans - Forgotten Books, 2017 -
Anthropology and the Humanities — on verbal grounds one might suppose them coextensive yet in practice they divide the domain of human culture between them. The types of human culture are, in fact, reducible to two, a simpler and a more complex, or, as we are wont to say (valuing our own achievements, I doubt not, rightly), a lower and a higher. By established convention Anthro pology occupies itself solely with culture of the Simpler or lower kind. The Humanities, on the other hand — those humanizing studies that, for us at all events, have their parent source in the literatures of Greece and Rome — concentrate on whatever is most constitutive and characteristic of the higher life of society.
The Mycenaean Tree and Pillar Cult and Its Mediterranean Relations: With Illustrations From Recent Cretan Finds. E-book. Formato PDF Arthur J. Evans - Forgotten Books, 2017 -
The design itself, so far as it is possible to study it in its fragmentary condition, presents so much naturalism and spirit that we may well believe that had the whole been preserved to us it would have afforded the nearest parallel to the marvellous gold cups from the Spartan tomb.
Scripta Minoa, the Written Documents of Minoan Crete: With Special Reference to the Archives of Knossos. E-book. Formato PDF Arthur J. Evans - Forgotten Books, 2017 -
Not long before his death, Evans expressed his willingness to hand over the publication of the 'linear' tablets to a qualified person, if such could be found; but he seems to have taken no such action.