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Religion and Society in Middle Bronze Age Greece Helène Whittaker RELIGION AND SOCIETY IN MIDDLE BRONZE AGE GREECE 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. Inthisbook,Hele`neWhittakerdemonstratesthatMiddleHelladicGreeceis farmoreinterestingthanitsmaterialculturemightatfirstsuggest.Whittaker comprehensively reviews and discusses the archaeological evidence for reli- gionontheGreekmainland,focusingontherelationshipbetweenreligious 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 debateonprehistoricreligion. Hele`neWhittakerisprofessorofclassicalarchaeologyandancienthistoryat theUniversityofGothenburg.In2009,sheheldthePeterM.WarrenVisit- ingProfessorshipattheUniversityofBristol.SheistheauthorofMycenaean Cult Buildings: A Study of Their Architecture and Function in the Context of the AegeanandEasternMediterranean(1997)andeditorofTheAegeanBronzeAge 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 helle´nique, and Studi miceneiedegeo-anatolici. Religion and Society in Middle Bronze Age Greece Hel`ene Whittaker UniversityofGothenburg,Sweden 32AvenueoftheAmericas,NewYork,ny10013-2473,usa CambridgeUniversityPressispartoftheUniversityofCambridge. ItfurtherstheUniversity’smissionbydisseminatingknowledgeinthepursuitof education,learning,andresearchatthehighestinternationallevelsofexcellence. www.cambridge.org Informationonthistitle:www.cambridge.org/9781107049871 (cid:2)C Hele`neWhittaker2014 Thispublicationisincopyright.Subjecttostatutoryexception andtotheprovisionsofrelevantcollectivelicensingagreements, noreproductionofanypartmaytakeplacewithout thewrittenpermissionofCambridgeUniversityPress. Firstpublished2014 PrintedintheUnitedStatesofAmerica AcataloguerecordforthispublicationisavailablefromtheBritishLibrary. LibraryofCongressCataloguinginPublicationData Hofsten,Hele`neWhittakervon. ReligionandsocietyinMiddleBronzeAgeGreece/Hele`neWhittaker,University ofGothenburg,Sweden. pages cm Includesbibliographicalreferencesandindex. isbn978-1-107-04987-1(hardback) 1.Greece–Religion. 2.Greece–Civilization. 3.Bronzeage–Greece. I.Title. bl783.h64 2014 292.08–dc23 2013044931 isbn978-1-107-04987-1Hardback CambridgeUniversityPresshasnoresponsibilityforthepersistenceoraccuracyofurls forexternalorthird-partyInternetWebsitesreferredtointhispublicationanddoesnot guaranteethatanycontentonsuchWebsitesis,orwillremain,accurateorappropriate. Contents List of Illustrations page vii List of Maps ix List of Tables xi Acknowledgments xiii 1. Introduction 1 2. The Formation of the Middle Helladic Period 38 3. Religion and Society in the Middle Helladic Period 72 4. The Transition from the Middle to the Late Bronze Age 130 5. Religion and Society in the Late Helladic I Period 147 Conclusions 207 Appendix: Catalogue of Middle Helladic and Early Mycenaean Tumuli 211 Bibliography 257 Index 289 v Illustrations 1 BronzeknifewithsilvernailsfoundinPithos5inthetumulus atVoidokoilia(afterKorres1979,fig.112g;drawingbySven vonHofsten) page61 2 Kynortion(afterTheodorou-Mavrommatidi2010) 70 3 TerracottadoubleaxefromLerna(afterCaskey1956,fig.2) 73 4 Nisakouli(afterChoremis1969) 79 5 TheHouseoftheTilesatLerna(afterCaskey1957,fig.1) 100 6 RestoredsectionofthetumulusatLerna(afterCaskey1955, fig.3) 101 7 Leucas(afterKilian-Dirlmeier,figs.2and3) 106 8 Reconstructionofapithosburial(drawingbySvenvonHofsten) 107 9 ThetumulusatThorikos(afterKilian-Dirlmeier1997,fig.50) 113 10 StelefromGraveCircleB(drawingbySvenvonHofsten) 137 11 GraveCirclesAandBatMycenae(afterAlden2000,map) 149 12 GraveCircleAatMycenae 151 13 ReconstructionofanearlyMycenaeanmaleburial(drawing bySvenvonHofsten) 159 14 ReconstructionofanearlyMycenaeanfemaleburial(drawing bySvenvonHofsten) 167 vii
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