| Description |
1 online resource (xviii, 331 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Contents |
Introduction and discussion of late Bronze Age mortuary practices / Joanne M.A. Murphy -- Late Bronze Age tombs at the Palace of Nestor, Pylos / Joanne M.A. Murphy, Sharon R. Stocker, Jack L. Davis, Lynne A. Schepartz -- You can't take it with you : the socio-political context of Changing burial traditions during the Mycenaean palatial period at Mycenae, Prosymna / Kim Shelton -- The Mycenaean cemetery of Deiras in a local and regional context / Nikolas Papadimitriou, Anna Philippa-Touchais, Gilles Touchais -- The Mycenaean cemetery at Ayia Sotira, Nemea / R. Angus K. Smith, Mary K. Dabney, James C. Wright -- The Mycenaean cemetery at Clauss, near Patras : the rise and fall of a local society towards the end of an era / Constantinos Paschalidis -- Death in early Mycenaean Achaea / Lena Papazoglou-Manioudaki -- The chamber tombs of the Trapeza, Aigion : preliminary observations on rituals of a small Mycenaean community / Elizabetta Borgna, Gaspare De Angeli -- Claiming social identities in the mortuary landscape of the late Bronze Age communities of northern Greece / Sevi Triantaphylou, Stelios Andreou -- Landscape, feasting, and ancestors in the burial tradition of Mycenaean Rhodes / Mercourios Georgiadis -- Langada revisited : construction practices, space, and socio-cultural identity in the Koan burial arena during the Mycenaean palatial and postpalatial periods / Calla Mc Namee, Salvatore Vitale -- Late Minoan I-IIIB tombs and funerary landscapes in south-central Crete / Luca Girella -- The power of the dead : the Late Minoan III cemeteries of Mochlos and Myrsini / R. Angus Smith -- Funerary practices, female identities, and the clay pyxis in late Minoan III Crete / Anna Lucia D'Agata |
| Summary |
"Late Bronze Age tombs in Greece and their attendant mortuary practices have been a topic of scholarly debate for over a century, dominated by the idea of a monolithic culture with the same developmental trajectories throughout the region. This book contributes to that body of scholarship by exploring both the level of variety and of similarity that we see in the practices at each site and thereby highlights the differences between communities that otherwise look very similar. By bringing together an international group of scholars working on tombs and cemeteries on mainland Greece, Crete, and in the Dodecanese we are afforded a unique view of the development and diversity of these communities. The papers provide a penetrative analysis of the related issues by discussing tombs connected with sites ranging in size from palaces to towns to villages and in date from the start to the end of the Late Bronze Age. This book contextualizes the mortuary studies in recent debates on diversity at the main palatial and secondary sites and between the economic and political strategies and practices throughout Greece. The papers in the volume illustrate the pervasive connection between the mortuary sphere and society through the creation and expression of cultural narratives, and draw attention to the social tensions played out in the mortuary arena"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (Oxford Scholarship Online, viewed on April 13, 2020) |
| Subject |
Funeral rites and ceremonies, Ancient -- Greece
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Bronze age -- Greece
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Tombs -- Greece.
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Sepulchral monuments -- Greece.
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Bronze age
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Funeral rites and ceremonies, Ancient
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Sepulchral monuments
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Tombs
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Greece
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Murphy, Joanne M. A., 1971- editor.
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| LC no. |
2019036478 |
| ISBN |
9780190926090 |
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0190926090 |
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9780190926076 |
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0190926074 |
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0190926082 |
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9780190926083 |
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