31 PRAISOS: POLITICAL EVOLUTION AND ETHNIC IDENTITY IN EASTERN CRETE c.1400–300

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. CONTRIBUTORS AND EDITORS viii
4. ABBREVIATIONS xv
5. INTRODUCTION 1
6. Part I POLITICAL AND SOCIAL STRUCTURES
7. 1 THE FORMATION OF THE MYCENAEAN PALACE 7
8. 2 WANAKS AND RELATED POWER TERMS IN MYCENAEAN AND LATER GREEK 53
9. 3 MYCENAEAN PALATIAL ADMINISTRATION 73
10. 4 THE SUBJECTS OF THE WANAX: ASPECTS OF MYCENAEAN SOCIAL STRUCTURE 87
11. 5 Avαξ AND IN THE HOMERIC POEMS* βασιλεύς 101
12. 6 KIN-GROUPS IN THE HOMERIC EPICS (SUMMARY) 111
13. Part II CONTINUITY – DISCONTINUITY – TRANSFORMATION
14. 7 THE MYCENAEAN HERITAGE OF EARLY IRON AGE GREECE 115
15. 8 COMING TO TERMS WITH THE PAST: IDEOLOGY AND POWER IN LATE HELLADIC IIIC 123
16. 9 LATE MYCENAEAN WARRIOR TOMBS 151
17. 10 THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF BASILEIS 181
18. 11 FROM LATE BRONZE AGE TO EARLY IRON AGE COPPER METALLURGY IN MAINLAND GREECE AND OFFSHORE AEGEAN ISLANDS 213
19. 12 ETHNE IN THE PELOPONNESE AND CENTRAL GREECE 233
20. Part III INTERNATIONAL AND INTER-REGIONAL RELATIONS
21. 13 GIFT EXCHANGE: MODERN THEORIES AND ANCIENT ATTITUDES 257
22. 14 BASILEIS AT SEA: ELITES AND EXTERNAL CONTACTS IN THE EUBOEAN GULF REGION FROM THE END OF THE BRONZE AGE TO THE BEGINNING OF THE IRON AGE 271
23. 15 ASPECTS OF THE ‘ITALIAN CONNECTION’ 299
24. 16 FROM THE MYCENAEAN QA-SI-RE-U TO THE CYPRIOTE PA-SI-LE-WO-SE: THE BASILEUS IN THE KINGDOMS OF CYPRUS 315
25. 17 PHOENICIANS IN CRETE 337
26. Part IV RELIGION AND HERO CULT
27. 18 FROM KINGS TO DEMIGODS: EPIC HEROES AND SOCIAL CHANGE c.750–600 363
28. 19 RELIGION, BASILEIS AND HEROES 381
29. 20 CULT ACTIVITY ON CRETE IN THE EARLY DARK AGE: CHANGES, CONTINUITIES AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF A ‘GREEK’ CULT SYSTEM 397
30. Part V THE HOMERIC EPICS AND HEROIC POETRY
31. 21 THE RISE AND DESCENT OF THE LANGUAGE OF THE HOMERIC POEMS 417
32. 22 HOMER AND ORAL POETRY 427
33. 23 SOME REMARKS ON THE SEMANTICS OF άvαξ IN HOMER 439
34. 24 HISTORICAL APPROACHES TO HOMER 449
35. Part VI THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF GREEK REGIONS AND BEYOND
36. 25 THE PALACE OF IOLKOS AND ITS END 465
37. 26 EARLY IRON AGE ELITE BURIALS IN EAST LOKRIS 483
38. 27 ATHENS AND LEFKANDI: A TALE OF TWO SITES 505
39. 28 THE EARLY IRON AGE IN THE ARGOLID: SOME NEW ASPECTS 531
40. 29 THE WORLD OF TELEMACHUS: WESTERN GREECE 1200–700 549
41. 30 KNOSSOS IN EARLY GREEK TIMES 581
42. 31 PRAISOS: POLITICAL EVOLUTION AND ETHNIC IDENTITY IN EASTERN CRETE c.1400–300 597
43. 32 THE GILDED CAGE? SETTLEMENT AND SOCIOECONOMIC CHANGE AFTER 1200 BC: A COMPARISON OF CRETE AND OTHER AEGEAN REGIONS 619
44. 33 HOMERIC CYPRUS 665
45. INDEX 676