Mycenaean Religion Through Linear B Evidence: Concepts, Practices, Objects

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Mycenaean Religion Through Linear B Evidence

Concepts, Practices, Objects

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The eight essays in this volume deal with different aspects of Mycenaean religion, synchronically and diachronically, and on the three different levels of philology, iconography and archaeology. They analyse the Mycenaean texts in their contexts and examine diachronically both the iconography of the Minoan-Mycenaean glyptic, whose images have been interpreted as representations of the gods, and the differences in the use of writing in religious contexts between the Minoans and the Mycenaeans. It also discusses, from the same diachronic perspective, the decline and demise of Mycenaean religion after the fall of the palaces, drawing parallels between certain Mycenaean and other rituals attested in Greece in the 1st millennium BCE.

The dialogue between philology, iconography and archaeology proves to be a fundamental perspective for a better understanding of Mycenaean Greece, its religion and its legacy on the Greek religion of the following centuries.

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Juan Piquero, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED), Madrid, Spain.

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Mycenae’s Religion in Textual and Archaeological Sources
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Carlos Varias García

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Mycenaean Kings and the Divine Sphere: A Complicated Relationship
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Jörg Weilhartner

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Ritual Theriomorphism in Mycenaean Greece? The Theban Zoonyms Revisited
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Irene Serrano Laguna, Juan Piquero and Eugenio R. Luján

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On Mycenaean ki-ri-te-wi-ja
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Alberto Bernabé

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Priestess Eritha, ko-to-no-o-ko, and ke-ke-me-na plots at pa-ki-ja-ne: Religious Personnel and Land Tenure at Pylos
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José Miguel Jiménez Delgado

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Writing and Religion in Minoan and Mycenaean Society
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Massimo Perna

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Linear B Deities in Mycenaean Imagery?
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Fritz Blakolmer

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From Bronze to Iron: The Demise of Mycenaean Religion
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Helene Whittaker

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List of Contributors
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Index of Words

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Mycenaean Religion; Linear B; Aegean Civilizations and Religion; Ancient Greek Religion

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Mycenaean Religion Through Linear B Evidence

About this book

Author / Editor information

Topics

Frontmatter

Preface

Contents

Bibliographical Abbreviations

List of Figures

Mycenae’s Religion in Textual and Archaeological Sources

Mycenaean Kings and the Divine Sphere: A Complicated Relationship

Ritual Theriomorphism in Mycenaean Greece? The Theban Zoonyms Revisited

On Mycenaean ki-ri-te-wi-ja

Priestess Eritha, ko-to-no-o-ko, and ke-ke-me-na plots at pa-ki-ja-ne: Religious Personnel and Land Tenure at Pylos

Writing and Religion in Minoan and Mycenaean Society

Linear B Deities in Mycenaean Imagery?

From Bronze to Iron: The Demise of Mycenaean Religion

List of Contributors

Index of Words

Index of Texts

Mycenaean Religion Through Linear B Evidence

Overview

About this book

Author / Editor information

Topics

Table of contents

Frontmatter

Preface

Contents

Bibliographical Abbreviations

List of Figures

Mycenae’s Religion in Textual and Archaeological Sources

Mycenaean Kings and the Divine Sphere: A Complicated Relationship

Ritual Theriomorphism in Mycenaean Greece? The Theban Zoonyms Revisited

On Mycenaean ki-ri-te-wi-ja

Priestess Eritha, ko-to-no-o-ko, and ke-ke-me-na plots at pa-ki-ja-ne: Religious Personnel and Land Tenure at Pylos

Writing and Religion in Minoan and Mycenaean Society

Linear B Deities in Mycenaean Imagery?

From Bronze to Iron: The Demise of Mycenaean Religion

List of Contributors

Index of Words

Index of Texts

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