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Lesson 13.2: Synthetic Overview of the Villa System

Lesson 13 Bibliography: Minoan Domestic and Funerary Architecture of the Neopalatial and Post-Palatial Periods

P. P. Betancourt and N. Marinatos, “The Minoan Villa,” in R. Hägg (ed.), The Function of the ‘Minoan Villa’ (Stockholm 1997) 91-98.

G. Cadogan, “Was There a Minoan Landed Gentry?,” BICS 18(1971) 145-148.

J. Driessen, “The Proliferation of Minoan Palatial Architectural Style,” Acta Archaeologica Lovanensia 28-29(1989-90) 3-23.

J. Driessen and C. F. MacDonald, The Troubled Island: Crete Before and After the Santorini Eruption [Aegaeum 17] (Liège/Austin 1997].

J. W. Graham, The Palaces of Crete (Princeton 1962, 1987).

S. Hood, “The 'Country House' and Minoan Society,” in O. Krzyszkowska and L. Nixon (eds.), Minoan Society (Bristol 1983) 129-135.

S. Hood, “The Magico-Religious Background of the Minoan 'Villa',” in R. Hägg (ed.), The Function of the ‘Minoan Villa’ (Stockholm 1997) 105-116.

V. La Rosa, “La civiltà cretese dal MM III al miceneo,” in E. De Miro, L. Godart, and A. Sacconi (eds.), Atti e memorie del secondo congresso internazionale di micenologia [Incunabula Graeca 98] (Rome 1996) III: 1063-1089.

J. W. Myers, E. E. Myers, and G. Cadogan, The Aerial Atlas of Ancient Crete (Berkeley 1992).

W.-D. Niemeier, “The Origins of the Minoan 'Villa' System,” in R. Hägg (ed.), The Function of the ‘Minoan Villa’ (Stockholm 1997) 15-19.

D. Puglisi, “The View from the Day After: Some Observations on the Late Bronze Age I Final Destructions in Crete,” in J. Driessen (ed.), Destruction: Archaeological, Philological and Historical Perspectives (Louvain-la-Neuve 2013) 168-178.

P. Rehak, “The Role of Religious Painting in the Function of the Minoan Villa: The Case of Ayia Triadha,” in R. Hägg (ed.), The Function of the ‘Minoan Villa’ (Stockholm 1997) 163-175.

P. Rehak and J. G. Younger, “Review of Aegean Prehistory VII: Neopalatial, Final Palatial, and Postpalatial Crete,” AJA 102(1998) 91-173, esp. 104-111.

P. Rehak and J. G. Younger, “Review of Aegean Prehistory VII: Neopalatial, Final Palatial, and Postpalatial Crete,” and “Addendum: 1998-1999,” in T. Cullen (ed.), Aegean Prehistory: A Review (Boston 2001) 383-465, esp. 396-402, and 466-473.

U. Thaler, “Open Door Policies? A Spatial Analysis of Neopalatial Domestic Architecture with Special Reference to the Minoan ‘Villa’,” in G. Muskett, A. Koltsida, and M. Georgiadis (eds.), SOMA 2001: Symposium on Mediterranean Archaeology 2001 [BAR-IS 1040] (Oxford 2002) 112-122.

H. and M. Van Effenterre, “Towards a Study of Neopalatial 'Villas'. Modern Words for Minoan Things,” in R. Hägg (ed.), The Function of the ‘Minoan Villa’ (Stockholm 1997) 9-13.

G. Walberg, “The Function of the Minoan Villas,” in B. Rutkowski (ed.), Aegean Archaeology 1(Warsaw 1994) 49-55.

S. Westerburg-Eberl, “Minoische Villen in der Neupalastzeit,” in H. Siebenmorgen (ed.), Im Labyrinth des Minos. Kreta – die erste europäische Hochkultur (Munich 2000) 87-95.


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