Author: Chrysanthi GallouPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages :
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The Cult of the Dead in Central Greece During the Mycenaean Period
Author: Chrysanthi GallouThe Cult of the Dead in Central Greece During the Mycenaean Period
Author: Chrysanthi GallouPublisher:
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Category : Antiquities, Prehistoric
Languages : en
Pages :
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The Mycenaean Cult of the Dead
Author: Chrysanthi GallouPublisher: British Archaeological Reports Oxford Limited
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
Based on the author's PhD thesis, this volume examines the possibility of a cult of the dead among the Mycenaean civilisations.
The Minoan-Mycenaean Religion and Its Survival in Greek Religion
Author: Martin Persson NilssonPublisher:
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Category : Civilization, Mycenaean
Languages : en
Pages : 636
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Cults, Territory, and the Origins of the Greek City-State
Author: François de PolignacPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226673340
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 203
Book Description
How did the classical Greek city come into being? What role did religion play in its formation? Athens, with its ancient citadel and central religious cult, has traditionally been the model for the emergence of the Greek city-state. But in this original and controversial investigation, Francois de Polignac suggests that the Athenian model was probably the exception, not the rule, in the development of the polis in ancient Greece. Combining archaeological and textual evidence, de Polignac argues that the eighth-century settlements that would become the city-states of classical Greece were defined as much by the boundaries of "civilized" space as by its urban centers. The city took shape through what de Polignac calls a "religious bipolarity," the cults operating both to organize social space and to articulate social relationships being not only at the heart of the inhabited area, but on the edges of the territory. Together with the urban cults, these sanctuaries "in the wild" identified the polis and its sphere of influence, giving rise to the concept of the state as a territorial unit distinct from its neighbors. Frontier sanctuaries were therefore often the focus of disputes between emerging communities. But in other instances, in particular in Greece's colonizing expeditions, these outer sanctuaries may have facilitated the relations between the indigenous populations and the settlers of the newly founded cities. Featuring extensive revisions from the original French publication and an updated bibliography, this book is essential for anyone interested in the history and culture of ancient Greece.
Cult and Death
Author: Danai-Christina NaoumPublisher: BAR International Series
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Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 102
Book Description
LISA 2002 Liverpool Interdisciplinary Symposium in Antiquity
Kratos & Krater: Reconstructing an Athenian Protohistory
Author: Barbara BohenPublisher: Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
ISBN: 1784916234
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
Athenian governance and culture are reconstructed from the Bronze Age into the historical era based on traditions, archaeological contexts and remains, foremost the formal commensal and libation krater.
Oil, Wine, and the Cultural Economy of Ancient Greece
Author: Catherine E. PrattPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108835643
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 425
Book Description
Provides a diachronic account of the changing roles of surplus oil and wine in the economies of pre-classical Greek societies.
The South-eastern Aegean in the Mycenaean Period
Author: Mercourios GeorgiadisPublisher: British Archaeological Reports Oxford Limited
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 394
Book Description
Mycenaean influence was exerted on the islands of the south-eastern Aegean through the improvement of both people and ideas through migration, colonisation and invasion. This study explores Mycenaean influence through analysing the burial record of islands in the south-west and in particular Karpathos, Rhodes, Kos and Ialysos.
Towards a Social Bioarchaeology of the Mycenaean Period
Author: Ioanna MoutafiPublisher: Oxbow Books
ISBN: 178925485X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
This book investigates the complex relationship between funerary treatment and wider social dynamics through a contextual analysis of human skeletal remains and associated mortuary data from Voudeni, an important Mycenaean (1400-1050 BC) chamber tomb cemetery in Achaea, Greece. Voudeni is one of the most significant sites of Achaea, thoroughly investigated under the direction of the former Ephor of Antiquities, Dr Lazaros Kolonas. Over 60 chamber tombs have been excavated (Late Helladic IIB to IIIC periods), yielding an unprecedented wealth of biocultural information. This study explores the post-mortem treatment of the body, through a novel interpretive approach that transcends unproductive cross-disciplinary divisions. This biosocial approach integrates traditional archaeology, current reflections in mortuary archaeological theory and cutting-edge bioarchaeological methods, primarily focused on funerary taphonomy and archaeothanatology of commingled skeletal assemblages. The author proposes that the most effective route to explore the social dimensions of mortuary data is through an emic understanding of historically situated actions and experiences, both of the living actors, the mourners, and of the dead themselves. Human skeletal remains are used as the primary strand of evidence, both as the object of the acts of the living and the subject of their own lived experiences. The topic is explored in successive stages: a) theoretical and methodological framework, b) detailed taphonomic analysis and osteological results of 20 tombs, c) multivariate analysis of bio-cultural data across socio-temporal parameters (with special emphasis on the distinction between the palatial LHIIIA-B and the transitional post-palatial LHIIIC period), and d) final synthesis, aiming to questions pertaining to changing social conditions in Achaea and key issues of current Mycenaean mortuary research. These include: tomb re-use; form, diversity, sequence and frequency of mortuary activities; mortality profiles; differential inclusion, visibility and funerary treatment of different groups/identities; changes in treatment of the dead body, reflecting shifts in notions of the self and social relationships. The results shed new light to social developments in Mycenaean Achaea, showing that the complex interaction between changing social conditions and mortuary practice is often reflected in subtle, yet meaningful, shifts of emphasis in the post-mortem treatment of bodies and bones, rather than in blatant radical changes.