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

by: Piquero, J.

Mycenaean Religion Through Linear B Evidence
Concepts, Practices, Objects

Edited by: Juan Piquero

About this book
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.

Author / Editor information
Juan Piquero, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED), Madrid, Spain.

Table of contents
Frontmatter

Preface

Contents

Bibliographical Abbreviations

List of Figures

Mycenae?s Religion in Textual and Archaeological Sources

Carlos Varias García
Mycenaean Kings and the Divine Sphere: A Complicated Relationship

Jörg Weilhartner
Ritual Theriomorphism in Mycenaean Greece? The Theban Zoonyms Revisited

Irene Serrano Laguna, Juan Piquero and Eugenio R. Luján
On Mycenaean ki-ri-te-wi-ja

Alberto Bernabé
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

José Miguel Jiménez Delgado
Writing and Religion in Minoan and Mycenaean Society

Massimo Perna
Linear B Deities in Mycenaean Imagery?

Fritz Blakolmer
From Bronze to Iron: The Demise of Mycenaean Religion

Helene Whittaker
List of Contributors

Index of Words

Index of Texts

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

by: Piquero, J.

• ISBN-13: 9783119145527 / 978-3-11-914552-7
• ISBN-03: 3119145521 / 3-11-914552-1
• Walter de Gruyter, Berlin, 205