Popular Religion and Ritual in Prehistoric and Ancient Greece and the Eastern Mediterranean 1st Edition by Giorgos Vavouranakis, Konstantinos Kopanias, Chrysanthos Kanellopoulos ISBN 9781789690460 1789690463

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ISBN 10: 1789690463
ISBN 13: 9781789690460
Author: Giorgos Vavouranakis, Konstantinos Kopanias, Chrysanthos Kanellopoulos

This volume features a group of select peer-reviewed papers by an international group of authors, both younger and senior academics and researchers. It has its origins in a conference held at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, which aimed to bring up the frequently-neglected popular cult and other ritual practices in prehistoric and ancient Greece and the eastern Mediterranean. The topics covered by the chapters of the volume include the interplay between elite and popular ritual at cemeteries and peak sanctuaries just before and right after the establishment of the first palaces in Minoan Crete; the use of conical cups in Minoan ritual; the wide sharing of religious and other metaphysical beliefs as expressed in the wall-paintings of Akrotiri on the island of Thera; the significance of open-air sanctuaries, figurines and other informal cult and ritual paraphernalia in the Aegean, Cyprus and the Levant from the late bronze age to the archaic period; the role of figurines and caves in popular cult in the classical period; the practice of cursing in ancient Athens; and the popular element of sports games in ancient Greece.

Popular Religion and Ritual in Prehistoric and Ancient Greece and the Eastern Mediterranean 1st Edition Table of contents:

1. Popular religion and ritual: introductory notes – by Giorgos Vavouranakis
2. Ritual, multitude and social structure in Minoan Crete – by Giorgos Vavouranakis
3. What relationship with the First palace of Phaistos? The funerary complexes of Kamilari and Ayia Triada in the Protopalatial period – by Ilaria Caloi
4. Mass and elite in Minoan peak sanctuaries – by Matthew Haysom
5. Inverting vases in Bronze Age Crete: Where? When? Why? – by Santo Privitera
6. A Minoan ‘chytros’? Unexpected archaeological evidence for the possible pre-historic origin of an ancient Greek ceremonial practice – by Lefteris Platon
7. Metamorphoses and hybridity in the wall-paintings at Akrotiri, Thera – by Annette Højen Sørensen, Walter L. Friedrich and Kirsten Molly Søholm
8. Approaches to popular religion in Late Bronze Age Greece – by Helène Whittaker
9. The Mycenaean figurines revisited – by Nagia Polychronakou Sgouritsa
10. Mount Lykaion (Arkadia) and Mount Oros (Aegina): two cases of Late Bronze Age sacred ‘high places’ – by Eleni Salavoura
11. The ‘Minoan Goddess with Upraised Arms’ today – by Theodore C. Eliopoulos
12. Re-positioning ‘rural’ sanctuaries within the Cypro-Archaic societies: some considerations – by Anastasia Leriou
13. Popular religion in ancient Judah during the 8th and 7th centuries BC. The case of the female pillar figurines – by Valia Papanastasopoulou
14. Representations of the demon-god Bes in Rhodes and Samos during the 7th and 6th centuries BC and their influence on popular religious beliefs: Bes and the ‘fat-bellied demons’ – by Electra Apostola
15. Of curses and cults: public and private ritual in Classical Xypete – by Jessica L. Lamont and Georgia Boundouraki
16. Cursing rituals as part of household cult: a fourth century BC inscribed bowl from Salamis – by Yannis Chairetakis
17. Representations of masked figures: a comparative study and an interpretative approach to their cult-use and meaning – by Maria G. Spathi
18. Detecting the cult of a border sanctuary on the Messenian slopes of Mount Taygetos – by Socrates Koursoumis
19. Popular religion and the beginnings of the Olympic Games – by Panos Valavanis

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