Death in late Bronze Age Greece : variations on a theme

Death in late Bronze Age Greece : variations on a theme / edited by Joanne M.A. Murphy.

"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 ex...

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Other Authors: Murphy, Joanne M. A., 1971- (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, [2020]
Subjects:
Funeral rites and ceremonies, Ancient > Greece.
Bronze age > Greece.
Tombs > Greece.
Sepulchral monuments > Greece.
Bronze age
Funeral rites and ceremonies, Ancient
Sepulchral monuments
Tombs
Greece
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Table of 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.

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