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Author Christakopoulou-Sōmakou, Gioulika, author

Title To die in style! : the residential lifestyle of feasting and dying In Iron Age, Stamna, Greece / Gioulika-Olga Christakopoulou
Published Summertown, Oxford : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd, 2018

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Description 1 online resource (100 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour)
Contents The Banquet through the Burial Testimony.; A. The tomb evidence.; B. Material evidence of consumption: The ceramic dinner sets.; C. Bronze vessels.; D. Complementary feasting equipment: Spits, Hooks and Knives.; Fare thee well. The Stamna Timeless Farewell.; Feasting and Dying in a lebes; an institutional innovation with an international appeal.; Symposium, Religion and Cult portrayed through successive layers of burials, (semi)circular constructions and pyres.; 'Consuming' with the dead.; "In Darkness We Trust"; References
Summary This volume investigates the culture of feasting and the rituals of death among elite citizens in Iron Age Stamna, Greece, by studying archaeological finds from a large number of Protogeometric era tombs
Notes Previously issued in print: 2018
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes Available through Archaeopress Digital Subscription Service
Audience Specialized
Notes Online resource; title from home page (viewed on October 9, 2018)
Subject Fasts and feasts -- Greece -- Aitōlia kai Akarnania -- History -- To 1500
Death -- Greece -- Aitōlia kai Akarnania -- History -- To 1500
Tombs -- Greece -- Aitōlia kai Akarnania -- History -- To 1500
Funeral rites and ceremonies, Ancient -- Greece -- Aitōlia kai Akarnania
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Archaeology.
Antiquities
Death
Fasts and feasts
Funeral rites and ceremonies, Ancient
Tombs
SUBJECT Aitōlia kai Akarnania (Greece) -- Antiquities
Subject Greece -- Aitōlia kai Akarnania
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Archaeopress, publisher.
ISBN 1784919365
9781784919368