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Lesson 17.11: Thera and Minoan Religion

Lesson 17 Bibliography: Akrotiri on Thera, the Santorini Volcano, and the Middle and Late Cycladic Periods in the Central Aegean Islands

A. P. Chapin and M. N. Pareja, “Peacock or Poppycock? Investigations into Exotic Animal Imagery in Minoan and Cycladic Art,” in B. Davis and R. Laffineur (eds.), NEOTEROS. Studies in Bronze Age Aegean Art and Archaeology in Honor of Professor John G. Younger on the Occasion of His Retirement [Aegaeum 44] (Louvain/Liège 2020) 215-226.

A. Liveri, “Representations and Interpretations of Dance in the Aegean Bronze Age. Ritual Dances in Cycladic and Minoan Religions,” AM 123(2008) 1-38.

N. Marinatos, Art and Religion in Thera: Reconstructing a Bronze Age Society (Athens 1984).

N. Marinatos, “Minoan Threskeiocracy on Thera,” in R. Hägg and N. Marinatos (eds.), The Minoan Thalassocracy: Myth and Reality (Stockholm 1984) 167-178.

E. Notti and F. Aspesi, “Tracce del culto dell’ape a Thera?,” DO-SO-MO: Journal of Minoan-Mycenaean and Classical Studies 10(2014) 35-53.


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