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Lesson 15.17: Bull-Jumping and Other Bull-related Activities

Lesson 15 Bibliography: Minoan Religion

W. G. Arnott, “Bull-leaping as Initiation,” Liverpool Classical Monthly 18:8(1993) 114-116.

M. Bietak, “The Toreador Scenes in Avaris/Tell el-Dab’a,” Cretan Studies 5(1996) 123-125.

M. Bietak and N. Marinatos, “The Minoan Wall Paintings from Avaris,” Ägypten und Levante 5(1995) 49-62.

D. Collon, “Bull-Leaping in Syria,” Ägypten und Levante 4(1994) 81-88.

S. Damiani Indelicato, “Were Cretan Girls Playing at Bull-leaping?,” Cretan Studies 1(1988) 39-47.

W. Decker, Sport in der griechischen Antike: vom minoischen Wettkampf bis zu den olympischen Spielen (Munich 1995).

W. Decker, “Zum Stand der Erforschung des ‘Stierspiels’ in der Alten Welt,” in R. Dittmann, C. Eder, and B. Jacobs (eds.), Altertumswissenschaften im Dialog: Festschrift für Wolfram Nagel (Münster 2003) 31-79.

G. Forstenpointner, “Stierspiel oder Bocksgesang? Archäozoologische Aspekte zur Interpretation des Hornviehs als Opfertier in der Ägäis,“ in F. Blakolmer (ed.), Österreichische Forschungen zur ägäischen Bronzezeit 1998 (Vienna 2000) 51-65.

B. P. and E. Hallager, “The Knossian Bull - Political Propaganda in Neopalatial Crete?,” in R. Laffineur and W.-D. Niemeier (eds.), POLITEIA: Society and State in the Aegean Bronze Age [Aegaeum 12] (Liège/Austin 1995) II: 547-556.

R. Harrison, “The Bull Cult in Ancient Crete,” History Today (April 1978) 218.

E. Kyriakidis, “The Dead Acrobat: Managing Risk and Minoan Iconography,” in V. G. Koutrafouri and J. Sanders (eds.), Ritual Failure: Archaeological Perspectives (Leiden 2013) 155-163.

O. Lendle, “Das kretische Stiersprungspiel” Marburger Wincklemann-Programm,1965 (Marburg 1966) 30-37.

E. Loughlin, “Grasping the Bull by the Horns: Minoan Bull Sports,” in S. Bell and G. Davies (eds.), Games and Festivals in Classical Antiquity [BAR-IS 1220] (Oxford 2004) 1-8.

J. A. Mac Gillivray, “Labyrinths and Bull-leapers,” Archaeology 53:6(2000) 53-55.

N. Marinatos, “The Bull as Adversary: Some Observations on Bull-Hunting and Bull-Leaping,” Ariadne 5(1989) 23-32.

N. Marinatos, “The ‘Export’ Significance of Minoan Bull Hunting and Bull Leaping Scenes,” Ägypten und Levante 4(1994) 89-93.

N. Marinatos, “Tell el-Dab’a Paintings – A Study in Pictorial Tradition,” Ägypten und Levante 8(1998) 83-99.

N. Marinatos, “Bull-leaping and Royal Ideology,” in M. Bietak, N. Marinatos, and C. Palyvou, Taureador Scenes in Tell el-Dab’a (Avaris) and Knossos (Vienna 2007) 127-132.

C. Obsomer, “Hérodote II 148 à l’origine du mot Labyrinthos? La Minotauromachie revisitée,” Cretan Studies 9(2003) 105-186.

D. Panagiotopoulos, “Das minoische Stierspringen. Zur Performanz und Darstellung eines altägäischen Rituals,” in J. Mylonopoulos and H. Roeder (eds.), Archäologie und Ritual. Auf der Suche nach der rituellen Handlung in den antiken Kulturen Ägyptens und Griechenlands (Vienna 2006) 125-138. http://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/propylaeumdok/volltexte/2007/75/

R. Perez, “Ringkampf mit dem Stier,” Merian XII:8(1959) 43.

O. Pelon, “Le palais de Malia et les jeux de taureaux,” in L. Hadermann-Misguich et al. (eds.), Rayonnement grec: hommages à Charles Delroye (Brussels 1982) 45-57.

J. Pinsent, “Bull-leaping,” in O. Krzyszkowska and L. Nixon (eds.), Minoan Society (Bristol 1983) 259-271.

P. Rehak, “The Use and Destruction of Minoan Stone Bull’s Head Rhyta,” in R. Laffineur and W.-D. Niemeier (eds.), POLITEIA: Society and State in the Aegean Bronze Age [Aegaeum 12] (Liège/Austin1995) II: 435-460.

A. Reichel, “Die Stierspiele in der kretisch-mykenischen Kultur,” AM 34(1909) 85-99.

J. A. Sakellarakis, “Das Kuppelgrab A von Archanes und das kretisch-mykenische Tieropferritual,” PZ 45(1970) 135-219.

T. F. Scanlon, “Women, Bull Sports, Cults and Initiation in Minoan Crete,“ Nikephoros 12(1999) 33-70.

M. C. Shaw, “Bull Leaping Frescoes at Knossos and their Influence on the El Dab’a Murals,” Ägypten und Levante 5(1995) 91-120.

M. C. Shaw, “The Bull-leaping Fresco from below the Ramp House at Mycenae: A Study in Iconography and Artistic Transmission,” BSA 91(1996) 167-190.

T. Sipahi, “Eine althethitische Reliefvase vom Hüseyindede Tepesi,” IstMitt 50(2000) 63-85.

T. Sipahi, “New Evidence from Anatolia Regarding Bull-leaping Scenes in the Art of the Aegean and the Near East,” Anatolica 27(2001) 107-126.

P. Taracha, “Bull-leaping on a Hittite Vase. New Light on Anatolian and Minoan Religion,” Archaeologica Warsawa 53(2002) 7-20.

J. G. Thompson, “The Bull-jumping Exhibition at Mallia,” ArchNews 14(1985) 1-8.

A. Ward, “The Cretan Bull Sports,” Antiquity 42(1968) 117-122.

J. G. Younger, “Bronze Age Representations of Aegean Bull-leaping,” AJA 80(1976) 125-137.

J. G. Younger, “A New Look at Aegean Bull-leaping,” Muse 17(1983) 72-80.

J. Younger, “Bronze Age Representations of Aegean Bull-Games, III,” in R. Laffineur and W.-D. Niemeier (eds.), POLITEIA: Society and State in the Aegean Bronze Age [Aegaeum 12] (Liège/Austin1995) II: 507-545.


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