Lesson 15 Bibliography: Minoan Religion
S. N. D. Alexiou, “He minoïke thea meth’upsomenon cheiron,” Kretika Chronika 12(1958) 179-299.
A. E. Barclay, “The Potnia Theron: Adaptation of a Near Eastern Image,” in R. Laffineur and R. Hägg (eds.), POTNIA: Deities and Religion in the Aegean Bronze Age [Aegaeum 22] (Liège/Austin 2001) 373-386.
J. K. Binnberg, Birds in the Aegean Bronze Age (PhD dissertation, University of Oxford 2017).
J. Binnberg, “Animism or Analogism? Bird Depictions and Their Significance for the Reconstruction of Cretan Bronze Age Ontologies,” in K. Zebrowska, A. Ulanowska, and K. Lewartowski (eds.), Sympozjum Egejskie: Papers in Aegean Archaeology 2 (Warsaw 2019) 31-42.
F. Blakolmer, “Wie Bilder lügen. Die Frühägäer und ihre Götter,” in C. Reinholdt and W. Wohlmayr (eds.), Akten des 13. Österreichischen Archäologentages (Vienna 2012) 19-28.
K. Branigan, “The Genesis of the Household Goddess,” SMEA 8(1969) 22-38.
S. L. Budin, Images of Woman and Child from the Bronze Age: Reconsidering Fertility, Maternity, and Gender in the Ancient World (Cambridge 2011).
C. D. Cain, “Dancing in the Dark: Deconstructing a Narrative of Epiphany on the Isopata Ring,” AJA 105(2001) 27-49.
J. L. Crowley, “In Honour of the Gods – But Which Gods? Identifying Deities in Aegean Glyptic,” in L. A. Hitchcock, R. Laffineur, and J. Crowley (eds.), DAIS: The Aegean Feast [Aegaeum 29] (Liège/Austin 2008) 75-87.
N. Cucuzza, “Minoan Nativity Scenes? The Ayia Triada Swing Model and the Three-dimensional Representation of Minoan Divine Epiphany,” ASAtene 91(2013) [2015] 175-207.
P. Demargne, “Deux représentations de la déesse minoenne dans la nécropole de Mallia (Crète),” Mélanges Gustave Glotz I (Paris 1932) 305-318.
B. C. Dietrich, “A Minoan Symbol of Renewal,” JPR 2(1988) 12-24.
V. Dubcová, “Götter ohne Grenzen? Transfer der religiösen Ikonographie in der Bronzezeit – Alter Orient und die frühe Ägäis,” Anodos. Studies of the Ancient World 10(2010) 103-116.
E. Fowden, “The Early Minoan Goddess: Images of Provision,” JPR 3-4(1990) 15-18.
A. Furumark, “Gods of Ancient Crete,” OpAth 6(1965) 85-98.
F. Gaignerot-Driessen, “Goddesses Refusing to Appear? Reconsidering the Late Minoan III Figures with Upraised Arms,” AJA 118(2014) 489-520.
F. Gaignerot-Driessen, “The Lady of the House: Trying to Define the Meaning and Role of Ritual Figures with Upraised Arms in Late Minoan III Crete,” in E. Alram-Stern, F. Blakolmer, S. Deger-Jalkotzy, R. Laffineur, and J. Weilhartner (eds.), METAPHYSIS: Ritual, Myth and Symbolism in the Aegean Bronze Age [Aegaeum 39] (Liège 2016) 21-28.
G. C. Gesell, “The Place of the Goddess in Minoan Society,” in O. Krzyszkowska and L. Nixon (eds.), Minoan Society (Bristol 1983) 93-99.
G. C. Gesell, “The Snake Goddesses of the LM IIIB and LM IIIC Periods,” in O. Krzsyzkowska (ed.), Cretan Offerings: Studies in Honour of Peter Warren [BSA Studies 18] (London 2010) 131-140.
U. Günkel-Maschek, “Establishing the Minoan ‘Enthroned Goddess’ in the Neopalatial Period: Images, Architecture, and Elitist Ambition,” in E. Alram-Stern, F. Blakolmer, S. Deger-Jalkotzy, R. Laffineur, and J. Weilhartner (eds.), METAPHYSIS: Ritual, Myth and Symbolism in the Aegean Bronze Age [Aegaeum 39] (Liège 2016) 255-262.
R. Hägg, “Die göttliche Epiphanie im minoischen Ritual,” AM 101(1986) 41-62.
B. Jones, “The Minoan ‘Snake Goddess’. New Interpretations of Her Costume and Identity,” in R. Laffineur and R. Hägg (eds.), POTNIA: Deities and Religion in the Aegean Bronze Age [Aegaeum 22] (Liège/Austin 2001) 259-265.
R. Laffineur, “Seeing is Believing: Reflections on Divine Imagery in the Aegean Bronze Age,” in R. Laffineur and R. Hägg (eds.), POTNIA: Deities and Religion in the Aegean Bronze Age [Aegaeum 22] (Liège/Austin 2001) 387-392.
N. Marinatos, “Rosette and Palm on the Bull Frieze from Tell el-Dab’a and the Minoan Solar Goddess of Kingship,” in M. Bietak, N. Marinatos, and C. Palyvou, Taureador Scenes in Tell el-Dab’a (Avaris) and Knossos (Vienna 2007) 145-150.
N. Marinatos and R. Hägg, “Anthropomorphic Cult Images in Minoan Crete?,” in O. Krzyszkowska and L. Nixon (eds.), Minoan Society (Bristol 1983) 185-202.
S. Marinatos, “Hai minoïkai theai tou Gazi,” ArchEph (1937) 278-291.
F. Matz, Göttererscheinung und Kultbild im minoischen Kreta (Wiesbaden 1958).
M. L. Moss, The Minoan Pantheon: Towards an Understanding of its Nature and Extent [BAR-IS 1343] (Oxford 2005).
P. Muhly, “The Great Goddess and the Priest King: Minoan Religion in Flux,” Expedition 32:3(1990) 54-60.
W.-D. Niemeier, “Zur Ikonographie von Gottheiten und Adoranten in den Kultszenen auf minoischen und mykenischen Siegeln,” in W. Müller (ed.), Fragen und Probleme der bronzezeitlichen ägäischen Glyptik [CMS Beiheft 3] (Berlin 1989) 163-184.
G. Owens, “‘All Religions are One’ (William Blake 1757-1827), Astarte/Ishtar/Ishassaras/Asasarame: The Great Mother Goddess of Minoan Crete and the Eastern Mediterranean,” Cretan Studies 5(1996) 209-218.
G. A. Owens, “New Evidence for Minoan ‘Demeter’,” Kadmos 35(1996) 172-175.
M. Prent, “The Survival of the Goddess with Upraised Arms: Early Iron Age Representations and Contexts,” in A. L. D’Agata and A. Van de Moortel (eds.), Archaeologies of Cult: Essays on Ritual and Cult in Crete in Honor of Geraldine C. Gesell [Hesperia Supplement 42] (Princeton 2009) 231-238.
B. Rutkowski, Frühgriechische Kultdarstellungen [AM Beiheft 8] (Berlin 1981).
A. Simandiraki-Grimshaw and F. Stevens, “Destroying the Snake Goddesses,” in J. Driessen (ed.), Destruction: Archaeological, Philological and Historical Perspectives (Louvain-la-Neuve 2013) 153-170.
P. Warren, “In divino veritas. The Conceptualization and Representation of Divinity in Bronze Age Crete,” in C. F. Macdonald, E. Hatzaki, and S. Andreou (eds.), The Great Islands: Studies of Crete and Cyprus Presented to Gerald Cadogan (Athens 2015) 34-40.