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Author : Nanno Marinatos
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 88 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Minoan Sacrificial Ritual written by Nanno Marinatos and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert James Cromarty
Publisher : BAR International Series
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Burning Bulls, Broken Bones written by Robert James Cromarty and published by BAR International Series. This book was released on 2008 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This monograph aims to shed light on just one facet of the comparatively understudied field of Minoan religion - that of animal sacrifice. As such it is a detailed disucussion and analysis of faunal remains, and takes issue with much of the methodology of what has gone before it.
Author : Dennis D. Hughes
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134966385
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (349 download)
Download or read book Human Sacrifice in Ancient Greece written by Dennis D. Hughes and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-01-11 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Numerous ancient texts describe human sacrifices and other forms of ritual killing: in 480 BC Themistocles sacrifices three Persian captives to Dionysus; human scapegoats called pharmakoi are expelled yearly from Greek cities, and according to some authors they are killed; Locrin girls are hunted down and slain by the Trojans; on Mt Lykaion children are sacrificed and consumed by the worshippers; and many other texts report human sacrifices performed regularly in the cult of the gods or during emergencies such as war and plague. Archaeologists have frequently proposed human sacrifice as an explanation for their discoveries: from Minoan Crete children's bones with knife-cut marks, the skeleton of a youth lying on a platform with a bronze blade resting on his chest, skeletons, sometimes bound, in the dromoi of Mycenaean and Cypriot chamber tombs; and dual man-woman burials, where it is suggested that the woman was slain or took her own life at the man's funeral. If the archaeologists' interpretations and the claims in the ancient sources are accepted, they present a bloody and violent picture of the religious life of the ancient Greeks, from the Bronze Age well into historical times. But the author expresses caution. In many cases alternative, if less sensational, explanations of the archaeological are possible; and it can often be shown that human sacrifices in the literary texts are mythical or that late authors confused mythical details with actual practices.Whether the evidence is accepted or not, this study offers a fascinating glimpse into the religious thought of the ancient Greeks and into changing modern conceptions of their religious behaviour.
Author : Nanno Marinatos
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Minoan Religion written by Nanno Marinatos and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Umberto Albarella
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199686475
Total Pages : 865 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (996 download)
Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Zooarchaeology written by Umberto Albarella and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 865 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Animals have played a fundamental role in shaping human history, and the study of their remains from archaeological sites - zooarchaeology - has gradually been emerging as a powerful discipline and crucible for forging an understanding of our past. This Handbook offers a cutting-edge, global compendium of zooarchaeology that seeks to provide a holistic view of the role played by animals in past human cultures. Case studies from across five continents explore ahuge range of human-animal interactions from an array of geographical, historical, and cultural contexts, and also illuminate the many approaches and methods adopted by different schools and traditions instudying these relationships.
Author : Walter Burkert
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674362819
Total Pages : 514 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (628 download)
Download or read book Greek Religion written by Walter Burkert and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1985 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A survey of the religious beliefs of ancient Greece covers sacrifices, libations, purification, gods, heroes, the priesthood, oracles, festivals, and the afterlife.
Author : Judith Weingarten
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1803275340
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (32 download)
Download or read book Processions: Studies of Bronze Age Ritual and Ceremony presented to Robert B. Koehl written by Judith Weingarten and published by Archaeopress Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2023-10-05 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robert Koehl has long considered processions to have played an integral role in Aegean Bronze Age societies. Papers concentrate mainly on evidence from Crete, the Cyclades and the Greek mainland, with additional perspectives from abroad, these geographic divisions forming the basic outline of this volume.
Author : Giorgos Vavouranakis
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1789690463
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (896 download)
Download or read book Popular Religion and Ritual in Prehistoric and Ancient Greece and the Eastern Mediterranean written by Giorgos Vavouranakis and published by Archaeopress Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2019-01-14 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : Gunnel Ekroth
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 442 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Sacrificial Rituals of Greek Hero-cults in the Archaic to the Early Hellenistic Periods written by Gunnel Ekroth and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Laura Perry
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (488 download)
Download or read book Labrys and Horns written by Laura Perry and published by . This book was released on 2020-06-13 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this newly revised and updated second edition of Labrys and Horns, you'll find the pantheon, rituals, symbols and practices of Modern Minoan Paganism. MMP is a revivalist tradition that connects the deities of ancient Crete with modern Pagans in a living spiritual practice. With a pantheon headed by a triplicity of mother goddesses who embody the three sacred realms of land, sky, and sea, MMP calls us to remember a time when women were valued as equals to men, when the Great Mothers took care of all their children, and when the sacred touched every person every day of their lives. Minoan spirituality is so relevant to our times, when we're doing our best to move forward and away from inequality and oppression. This book can help you build relationships with the Minoan gods and goddesses and bring their blessings into your life, and from there, into the larger world.
Author : David Sacks
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1438110200
Total Pages : 433 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (381 download)
Download or read book Encyclopedia of the Ancient Greek World written by David Sacks and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2014-05-14 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses the people, places and events found in over 2,000 years of Greek civilization.
Author : Oliver Thomas Pilkington Kirwan Dickinson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521456647
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (566 download)
Download or read book The Aegean Bronze Age written by Oliver Thomas Pilkington Kirwan Dickinson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1994-03-03 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Oliver Dickinson has written a scholarly, accessible, and up-to-date introduction to the prehistoric civilizations of Greece. The Aegean Bronze Age, the long period from roughly 3000 to 1000 BC, saw the rise and fall of the Minoan and Mycenaean civilizations. The cultural history of the region emerges through a series of thematic chapters that treat settlement, economy, crafts, exchange and foreign contact (particularly with the civilizations of the Near East), and religion and burial customs. Students and teachers will welcome this book, but it will also provide the ideal companion for amateur archaeologists visiting the Aegean.
Author : David W. Kim
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 303056522X
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (35 download)
Download or read book Sacred Sites and Sacred Stories Across Cultures written by David W. Kim and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-01-18 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers global perspectives from Mediterranean, Asian, Australian, and American cultures on sacred sites and their related stories in regional history. Contemporary society witnesses many travelers visiting sacred sites (temples, mountains, castles, churches, houses) throughout the world. These visits often involve discovery of new historical facts through the origin stories of the associated tribe, region, or nation. The transmission of oral tradition and myth carries on the significant meaning of those religious sites. This volume unveils multi-angle perspectives of symbolic and mystical places. The contributors describe the religio-political experiences of each regional case, and analyze the religiosity of local people as a lens through which readers can re-examine the concept of iconography, syncretism, and materialism. In addition, contributors interpret the growth of new religions as the alternative perspectives of anti-traditional religions. This new approach offers significant insight into comprehending the practical agony and sorrow of regional people in the context of contemporary history.
Author : Vera Tiesler
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 0387488715
Total Pages : 327 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (874 download)
Download or read book New Perspectives on Human Sacrifice and Ritual Body Treatments in Ancient Maya Society written by Vera Tiesler and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-02-15 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines Maya sacrifice and related posthumous body manipulation. The editors bring together an international group of contributors from the area studied: archaeologists as well as anthropologists, forensic anthropologists, art historians and bioarchaeologists. This interdisciplinary approach provides a comprehensive perspective on these sites as well as the material culture and biological evidence found there
Author : Brian Hayden
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108426395
Total Pages : 411 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)
Download or read book The Power of Ritual in Prehistory written by Brian Hayden and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-09-13 with total page 411 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Secret societies in tribal societies turn out to be key to understanding the origins of social inequalities and state religions.
Author : Jerolyn E. Morrison
Publisher : INSTAP Academic Press
ISBN 13 : 1623034337
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (23 download)
Download or read book Kleronomia written by Jerolyn E. Morrison and published by INSTAP Academic Press. This book was released on 2022-12-31 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 27 papers in this volume harken to the themes that Jeffrey Soles has influenced during his illustrious career in Aegean Bronze Age archaeology: ancestry, burial customs, religion, trade, jewelry, the development of the Minoan settlement of Mochlos in eastern Crete, and the rise and fall of the Minoan civilization.
Author : Helène Whittaker von Hofsten
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107049873
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)
Download or read book Religion and Society in Middle Bronze Age Greece written by Helène Whittaker von Hofsten and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-05-12 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book argues that religious beliefs played a significant role in the social changes that occurred in Middle Helladic Greece.
