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

Mycenaean Religion Through Linear B Evidence Concepts, Practices, Objects Edited by: Juan PiqueroAbout 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 I Preface V Contents VII Bibliographical Abbreviations List of Figures XIII Mycenae’s Religion in Textual and Archaeological Sources 1 Carlos Varias García Mycenaean Kings and the Divine Sphere: A Complicated Relationship 19 Jörg Weilhartner Ritual Theriomorphism in Mycenaean Greece? The Theban Zoonyms Revisited 39 Irene Serrano Laguna, Juan Piquero and Eugenio R. Luján On Mycenaean ki-ri-te-wi-ja 75 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 93 José Miguel Jiménez Delgado Writing and Religion in Minoan and Mycenaean Society 109 Massimo Perna Linear B Deities in Mycenaean Imagery? 125 Fritz Blakolmer From Bronze to Iron: The Demise of Mycenaean Religion 153 Helene Whittaker List of Contributors 165 Index of Words Index of Texts ISSN 1868-4785 / Trends in Classics