[PDF] Sanctuaries And Cults In The Aegean Bronze Age eBook

Author : Mieke Prent
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 813 pages
File Size : 24,86 MB
Release : 2005-06-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9047406907

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This volume offers a contextual study of sanctuaries and cults in Crete in the transitional period from the end of the Late Bronze Age into the Archaic period (c.1200 to 600 BC). It provides a dynamic picture of the interplay of religious tradition and societal change in a period long considered a 'Dark Age' by Classical scholarship.

Author : François de Polignac
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 49,73 MB
Release : 1995-08-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226673332

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Combining archaeological and textual evidence the author suggests that most of the 8th Century settlements that would become the city-states of classical Greece were defined as much by the boundaries of civilised' space as by their urban centres.

Author : Giorgos Vavouranakis
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 27,21 MB
Release : 2019-01-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1789690463

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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 : Susan E. Alcock
Publisher :
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 22,29 MB
Release : 1994
Category : History
ISBN :

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Cult activity played an extremely important role in ancient Greece--to the point, historians believe, that the placing of cult centers played a major part in establishing the whole concept of the city-state in archaic Greece. The essays in this collection critically examine the social and political importance of sanctuary placement, extending the analysis back to Mycenean Greece and on to Greece under Roman occupation. Revealing the complexity of relations between religion and politics in ancient Greece, these essays show how important tradition, gender relations, and cult identity were in creating and maintaining the religious mapping of the ancient Greek countryside.

Author : Oliver Thomas Pilkington Kirwan Dickinson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 16,68 MB
Release : 1994-03-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521456647

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Oliver Dickinson has written a scholarly, accessible, and up-to-date introduction to the prehistoric civilizations of Greece. The Aegean Bronze Age, the long period from roughly 3000 to 1000 BC, saw the rise and fall of the Minoan and Mycenaean civilizations. The cultural history of the region emerges through a series of thematic chapters that treat settlement, economy, crafts, exchange and foreign contact (particularly with the civilizations of the Near East), and religion and burial customs. Students and teachers will welcome this book, but it will also provide the ideal companion for amateur archaeologists visiting the Aegean.