Religion and Society in Middle Bronze Age Greece - Hardcover

Whittaker, Helène

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1107049873 ISBN 13: 9781107049871

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2014

Synopsis

The Middle Helladic period has received little attention, partially because of scholars' view of it as merely the prelude to the Mycenaean period and partially because of the dearth of archaeological evidence from the period. In this book, Helène Whittaker demonstrates that Middle Helladic Greece is far more interesting than its material culture might at first suggest. Whittaker comprehensively reviews and discusses the archaeological evidence for religion on the Greek mainland, focusing on the relationship between religious expression and ideology. The book argues that religious beliefs and rituals played a significant role in the social changes that were occurring at the time. The arguments and conclusions of this book will be relevant beyond the Greek Bronze Age and will contribute to the general archaeological debate on prehistoric religion.

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Book Description:

Helène Whittaker reviews and discusses the archaeological evidence for religion on the Greek mainland in the Middle Helladic period, focusing on the relationship between religious expression and ideology. The book argues that religious beliefs and rituals played a significant role in the social changes that were occurring at the time.

About the Author:

Helène Whittaker is Professor of Classical Archaeology and Ancient History at the University of Gothenburg. In 2009, she held the Peter M. Warren Visiting Professorship at the University of Bristol. She is author of Mycenaean Cult Buildings: A Study of their Architecture and Function in the Context of the Aegean and Eastern Mediterranean (1997) and editor of The Aegean Bronze Age in Relation to the Wider European Context (2008). She has published articles on the Greek Bronze Age in the European Journal of Archaeology, Opuscula, Aegaeum, Aegean Archaeology, Bulletin de correspondence hellénique, and Studi micenei ed egeo-anatolici.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1107049873
• ISBN 13: 9781107049871
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 300