The Minoan-Mycenaean Religion and Its Survival in Greek Religion
Author: Martin Persson Nilsson
Publisher: Biblo & Tannen Publishers
Published: 1971
Total Pages: 684
ISBN-13: 9780819602732
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Martin Persson Nilsson
Publisher: Biblo & Tannen Publishers
Published: 1971
Total Pages: 684
ISBN-13: 9780819602732
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Martin Persson Nilsson
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Published: 1927
Total Pages: 636
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Cynthia W. Shelmerdine
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2008-08-04
Total Pages: 577
ISBN-13: 1107494621
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book is a comprehensive up-to-date survey of the Aegean Bronze Age, from its beginnings to the period following the collapse of the Mycenaean palace system. In essays by leading authorities commissioned especially for this volume, it covers the history and the material culture of Crete, Greece, and the Aegean Islands from c.3000–1100 BCE, as well as topics such as trade, religions, and economic administration. Intended as a reliable, readable introduction for university students, it will also be useful to scholars in related fields within and outside classics. The contents of this book are arranged chronologically and geographically, facilitating comparison between the different cultures. Within this framework, the cultures of the Aegean Bronze Age are assessed thematically and combine both material culture and social history.
Author: Dimitri Nakassis
Publisher: INSTAP
Published: 2014-10-31
Total Pages: 337
ISBN-13: 1931534764
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The title of this volume, ke-ra-me-ja in Linear B, was chosen because it means ñpotterî (????????, from Greek ???????, ñpotterÍs clayî) and combines two major strands of Cynthia ShelmerdineÍs scholarship: Mycenaean ceramics and Linear B texts. It thereby signals her pioneering use of archaeological and textual data in a sophisticated and integrated way. The intellectual content of the essays demonstrate not only that her research has had wide-ranging influence, but also that it is a model of scholarship to be emulated.
Author: Giorgos Vavouranakis
Publisher: Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Published: 2019-01-14
Total Pages: 188
ISBN-13: 1789690463
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This volume features a group of select peer-reviewed papers by an international group of authors, both younger and senior academics and researchers, on the frequently neglected popular cult and other ritual practices in prehistoric and ancient Greece and the eastern Mediterranean.
Author: Nanno Marinatos
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2014-12-22
Total Pages: 304
ISBN-13: 0857725165
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Before Sir Arthur Evans, the principal object of Greek prehistoric archaeology was the reconstruction of history in relation to myth. European travellers to Greece viewed its picturesque ruins as the gateway to mythical times, while Heinrich Schliemann, at the end of the nineteenth century, allegedly uncovered at Troy and Mycenae the legendary cities of the Homeric epics. It was Evans who, in his controversial excavations at Knossos, steered Aegean archaeology away from Homer towards the broader Mediterranean world. Yet in so doing he is thought to have done his own inventing, recreating the Cretan Labyrinth via the Bronze Age myth of the Minotaur. Nanno Marinatos challenges the entrenched idea that Evans was nothing more than a flamboyant researcher who turned speculation into history. She argues that Evans was an excellent archaeologist, one who used scientific observation and classification. Evans's combination of anthropology, comparative religion and analysis of cultic artefacts enabled him to develop a bold new method which Sir James Frazer called 'mental anthropology'. It was this approach that led him to propose remarkable ideas about Minoan religion, theories that are now being vindicated as startling new evidence comes to light. Examining the frescoes from Akrotiri, on Santorini, that are gradually being restored, the author suggests that Evans's hypothesis of one unified goddess of nature is the best explanation of what they signify. Evans was in 1901 ahead of his time in viewing comparable Minoan scenes as a blend of ritual action and mythic imagination. Nanno Marinatos is a leading authority on Minoan religion. In this latest book she combines history, archaeology and myth to bold and original effect, offering a wholly new appraisal of Evans and the significance of his work. Sir Arthur Evans and Minoan Crete will be essential reading for all students of Minoan civilization, as well as an irresistible companion for travellers to Crete.
Author: Inger Marie Ruud
Publisher: Coronet Books
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 136
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Nanno Marinatos
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 282
ISBN-13: 0252033922
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →An illustrated guide to Minoan images and symbols