Cretan Sanctuaries and Cults
Title | Cretan Sanctuaries and Cults PDF eBook |
Author | Mieke Prent |
Publisher | BRILL |
Total Pages | 813 |
Release | 2005-06-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9047406907 |
This volume offers a contextual study of sanctuaries and cults in Crete in the transitional period from the end of the Late Bronze Age into the Archaic period (c.1200 to 600 BC). It provides a dynamic picture of the interplay of religious tradition and societal change in a period long considered a 'Dark Age' by Classical scholarship.
Sanctuaries and Cults in Crete from the Late Minoan IIIC to the Archaic Period: Continuity and Change
Title | Sanctuaries and Cults in Crete from the Late Minoan IIIC to the Archaic Period: Continuity and Change PDF eBook |
Author | Annemieke Prent |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 415 |
Release | 2004 |
Genre | |
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Sanctuaries and Cults in the Aegean Bronze Age
Title | Sanctuaries and Cults in the Aegean Bronze Age PDF eBook |
Author | Robin Hägg |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 236 |
Release | 1981 |
Genre | Aegean Islands (Greece and Turkey) |
ISBN |
Cults, Territory, and the Origins of the Greek City-State
Title | Cults, Territory, and the Origins of the Greek City-State PDF eBook |
Author | François de Polignac |
Publisher | University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | 216 |
Release | 1995-08-15 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780226673332 |
Combining archaeological and textual evidence the author suggests that most of the 8th Century settlements that would become the city-states of classical Greece were defined as much by the boundaries of civilised' space as by their urban centres.
Cretan Cults and Festivals
Title | Cretan Cults and Festivals PDF eBook |
Author | R. F. Willetts |
Publisher | Praeger |
Total Pages | 384 |
Release | 1980-01-29 |
Genre | History |
ISBN |
Placing the Gods
Title | Placing the Gods PDF eBook |
Author | Susan E. Alcock |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 296 |
Release | 1994 |
Genre | History |
ISBN |
Cult activity played an extremely important role in ancient Greece--to the point, historians believe, that the placing of cult centers played a major part in establishing the whole concept of the city-state in archaic Greece. The essays in this collection critically examine the social and political importance of sanctuary placement, extending the analysis back to Mycenean Greece and on to Greece under Roman occupation. Revealing the complexity of relations between religion and politics in ancient Greece, these essays show how important tradition, gender relations, and cult identity were in creating and maintaining the religious mapping of the ancient Greek countryside.
Reading the Letter to Titus in Light of Crete
Title | Reading the Letter to Titus in Light of Crete PDF eBook |
Author | Michael Robertson |
Publisher | BRILL |
Total Pages | 201 |
Release | 2023-11-20 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 9004685715 |
This volume argues that Titus’s invocation of Crete affected the ways early readers developed their identities. Using archaeological data, classical writings, and early Christian documents, he describes multiple traditions that circulated on Crete and throughout the Roman Empire concerning Cretan Zeus, Cretan social structure, and Cretan Judaism. He then uses these traditions to interpret Titus and explain how the letter would intersect with and affect readers’ identities. Because readers had differing conceptions of Crete based on their location and access to and evaluation of Cretan traditions, readers would have developed their identities in multiple, conflictual, even contradictory ways.