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Title Popular religion and ritual in prehistoric and ancient Greece and the eastern Mediterranean / edited by Giorgos Vavouranakis, Konstantinos Kopanias, Chrysanthos Kanellopoulos
Published Oxford : Archaeopress, [2018]
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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 168 pages) : illustrations, maps, plans
Contents Popular religion and ritual: introductory notes / Giorgos Vavouranakis -- Ritual, multitude and social structure in Minoan Crete / Giorgos Vavouranakis -- What relationship with the first palace of Phaistos? The funerary complexes of Kamilari and Ayia Triada in the Protopalatial period / Ilaria Caloi -- Mass and elite in Minoan peak sanctuaries / Matthew Haysom -- Inverting vases in Bronze Age Crete: Where? When? Why? / Santo Privitera -- A Minoan 'chytros'? Unexpected archaeological evidence for the possible pre-historic origin of an ancient Greek ceremonial practice / Lefteris Platon -- Metamorphoses and hybridity in the wall-paintings at Akrotiri, Thera / Annette Hørensen, Walter L. Friedrich and Kirsten Molly Søholm -- Approaches to popular religion in Late Bronze Age Greece / Helène Whittaker -- The Mycenaean figurines revisited / Nagia Polychronakou Sgouritsa -- Mount Lykaion (Arkadia) and Mount Oros (Aegina): two cases of Late Bronze Age sacred 'high places' / Eleni Salavoura -- The 'Minoan Goddess with Upraised Arms' today / Theodore C. Eliopoulos -- Re-positioning 'rural' sanctuaries within the Cypro-Archaic societies: some considerations / Anastasia Leriou -- Popular religion in ancient Judah during the 8th and 7th centuries BC. The case of the female pillar figurines / Valia Papanastasopoulou -- Representations of the demon-god Bes in Rhodes and Samos during the 7th and 6th centuries BC and their influence on popular religious beliefs: Bes and the 'fat-bellied demon' / Electra Apostola -- Of curses and cults: private and public ritual in Classical Xypete / Jessica L. Lamont and Georgia Boundouraki -- Cursing rituals as part of household cult: a fourth century BC inscribed bowl from Salamis / Yannis Chairetakis -- Representations of masked figures: a comparative study and an interpretative approach to their cult-use and meaning / Maria G. Spathi -- Detecting the cult of a border sanctuary on the Messenian slopes of Mount Taygetos / Socrates Koursoumis -- Popular religion and the beginnings of the Olympic Games / Panos Valavanis
Summary 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
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Subject Excavations (Archaeology) -- Greece.
Excavations (Archaeology) -- Middle East
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Archaeology.
Excavations (Archaeology)
Religion
SUBJECT Greece -- Religion -- History -- To 146 B.C. -- Congresses
Middle East -- Religion -- History -- To 622 -- Congresses
Mediterranean Region -- Religion -- History -- To 476 -- Congresses
Subject Greece
Mediterranean Region
Middle East
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings
History
Form Electronic book
Author Vavouranakis, Giorgos, editor.
Kopanias, K., editor.
Kanellopoulos, Chrysanthos, editor.
ISBN 9781789690460
1789690463