"Progress into the past: The Rediscovery of Mycenaean Civilization" by William Andrew McDonald

This book is very useful guide to the history of the classical word, which delves into various aspects of the Mycenaean Civilisation.

The book is a very scholarly archaeological detective story. The most eminent archeologists of the past century are the superstars of the detective story – Heinrich Schliemann, Arthur Evans, and Carl Blegen. Their quest led them through a complicated series of historical puzzles that can be called by the term “Mycenaean Civilization, the fabulous era of Greek prehistory that form the basis for the background of the Homeric poems, “Iliad” and the “Odyssey”.
This book is a step-by-step full account of their dedicated search to solve on of the great mysteries of antiquity, how Mycenaean civilization grew and flourished and died between 1600 and 1100 BC.
This book is completely adheres to and photographs or renders in illustration everyone of their archaeological findings that helped them put the story together. Their work is supported by an enormous bibliography and and extensive index. This detective story leaves us with current theories and references to Homeric poetry to resolve and prove with further archaeological discoveries.

Contents
Illustrations
Preface
I Before Schliemann: Homer and the Philologists
II Schliemann, Priam and Agamemnon: 1870-1890
III Before Evans: The Situation in igoo
IV Evans, Crete and Minos: igoo-1914
V Before Blegen: The Situation in the Early Twenties
VI Blegen, Priam and Nestor: 1915-1939
VII Developments Between the Wars: 1919-1939
VIII The Last Twenty-five Years: 1940-1965
IX Some Current Theories and Problems
Chapter Bibliographies and Sources of Quotations
Homeric References
Suggested Reading
Glossary
Maps
Index
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