Lesson 15 Bibliography: Minoan Religion
E. Adams, “Power and Ritual in Neopalatial Crete,” WorldArch 36(2004) 26-42.
M. Andreadaki-Vlasaki, “Cultes et divinités dans la ville minoennne de la Canée. Quleques réflexions,” in I. Bradfer, B. Detournay, and R. Laffineur (eds.), KRES TECHNITES: L’artisan crétois: Recueil d’articles en l’honneur de Jean-Claude Poursat, publié à l’occasion des 40 ans de la découverte du Quartier Mu [Aegaeum 26] (Liège/Austin 2005) 17-27.
L. Banti, “I culti minoici e greci di Haghia Triada (Creta),” ASAtene 3-5(1941-43) 9-74.
P. P. Betancourt, “Discontinuity in the Minoan-Mycenaean Religions: Smooth Development or Disruptions and War?,” in R. Laffineur (ed.), POLEMOS. Le contexte guerrier en Égée à l’Âge du Bronze [Aegaeum 19] (Liège/Austin 1999) 219-225.
F. Blakolmer, “A Pantheon without Attributes? Goddesses and Gods in Minoan and Mycenaean Iconography,” in J. Mylonopoulos (ed.), Divine Images and Human Imagination in Ancient Greece and Rome (Leiden 2010) 21-61.
E. Borgna, “Food Preparation and Ritual Activity in LM IIIC Crete,” in A. Karetsou (ed.), Pepragmena tou H' Diethnous Kretologikou Synedriou (Heraklion 2000) A1: 147-159.
F. Carinci and A. L. D’Agata, “L’attività cultuale a Creta nel III e nel II millennio a.C.,” in Anathema. Regime delle offerte e vita nei santuari nel Mediterraneo antico [Scienze dell’Antichità 3-4] (1989-90) 221-242.
A. L. D’Agata, “Religion, Society and Ethnicity on Crete at the End of the Late Bronze Age. The Contextual Framework of LM IIIC Cult Activities,” in R. Laffineur and R. Hägg (eds.), POTNIA: Deities and Religion in the Aegean Bronze Age [Aegaeum 22] (Liège/Austin 2001) 345-354.
A. L. D’Agata, “Cult Activity on Crete and Cyprus at the End of the Late Bronze Age and the Beginning of the Early Iron Age. What Comparative Analysis Can Tell Us,” in V. Karageorghis, H. Matthäus, and S. Rogge (eds.), Cyprus: Religion and Society from the Late Bronze Age to the End of the Archaic Period (Bibliopolis 2005) 1-17.
A. L. D’Agata, “Introduction: How Many Archaeologies of Cult?,” 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) 1-8.
J. Dempsey, Calendar House: Secrets of Time, Life and Power in Ancient Crete’s Great Year (2008). [available in pdf form from author at jpd37@hotmail.com]
O. T. P. K. Dickinson, “Comments on a Popular Model of Minoan Religion,” OJA 13(1994) 173-184.
B. C. Dietrich, “Uniformity and Change in Minoan and Mycenaean Religion,” Kernos 6(1993) 113-122.
B. C. Dietrich, “Death and Afterlife in Minoan Religion,” Kernos 10(1997) 19-38.
J. Driessen, “Crisis Cults on Minoan Crete?,” in R. Laffineur and R. Hägg (eds.), POTNIA: Deities and Religion in the Aegean Bronze Age [Aegaeum 22] (Liège/Austin 2001) 361-369.
C. Eller, “Two Knights and a Goddess: Sir Arthur Evans, Sir James George Frazer, and the Invention of Minoan Religion,” JMA 25(2012) 75-98.
P. Faure, “Cultes populaires dans la Crète antique,” BCH 96(1972) 389-426.
F. Gaignerot-Driessen, “Old Deities for New Men: Religious Practices and Societal Transformation during the Late Bronze Age/Early Iron Age Transitional Period on Crete,” in J. M. A. Murphy (ed.), Rituals, Collapse, and Radical Transformation in Archaic States (London/New York 2021) 18-36.
G. C. Gesell, Town, Palace, and House Cult in Minoan Crete (Göteborg 1985).
G. C. Gesell, “The Minoan Palace and Public Cult,” in R. Hägg and N. Marinatos (eds.), The Function of the Minoan Palaces (Stockholm 1987) 123-128.
G. C. Gesell, “Popular Religion in Late Minoan III Crete,” in A. Karetsou (ed.), Pepragmena tou H' Diethnous Kretologikou Synedriou (Heraklion 2000) A1: 497-507.
G. C. Gesell, “From Knossos to Kavousi: The Popularizing of the Minoan Palace Goddess,” in A. Chapin (ed.), CHARIS: Essays in Honor of Sara A. Immerwahr [Hesperia Supplement 33] (Princeton 2004) 131-150.
L. Goodison, Death, Women and the Sun: Symbolism of Regeneration in Aegean Religion (London 1989).
L. Goodison and C. Morris, “Beyond the ‘Great Mother’: The Sacred World of the Minoans,” in L. Goodison and C. Morris (eds.), Ancient Goddesses: The Myths and the Evidence (London 1998) 113-133.
J. Gulizio and D. Nakassis, “The Minoan Goddess(es): Textual Evidence for Minoan Religion,” in D. Nakassis, J. Gulizio, and S. A. James (eds.), KE-RA-ME-JA: Studies Presented to Cynthia W. Shelmerdine [Prehistory Monographs 46] (Philadelphia 2014) 115-128.
R. Hägg, “Personal Religion among the Minoans,” in A. Karetsou (ed.), Pepragmena tou H' Diethnous Kretologikou Synedriou (Heraklion 2000) A1: 531-534.
E. Hallager, “A Waste Deposit from a LBA-Shrine in Khania (?),” in R. Laffineur and R. Hägg (eds.), POTNIA: Deities and Religion in the Aegean Bronze Age [Aegaeum 22] (Liège/Austin 2001) 175-180.
M. Haysom, “The Strangeness of Crete: Problems for the Protohistory of Greek Religion,” in M. Haysom and J. Wallensten (eds.), Current Approaches to Religion in Ancient Greece (Stockholm 2011) 95-109.
C. F. Herberger, The Thread of Ariadne: The Labyrinth of the Calendar of Minos (New York 1972).
C. F. Herberger, The Riddle of the Sphinx: Calendric Symbolism in Myth and Icon (New York 1979).
V.-P. Herva, “Flower Lovers, After All? Rethinking Religion and Human-Environment Relations in Minoan Crete,” WorldArch 38(2006) 586-598.
S. Hood, “Religion in Bronze Age Crete,” in A. Karetsou (ed.), Pepragmena tou H' Diethnous Kretologikou Synedriou (Heraklion 2000) A1: 607-622.
J. T. Hooker, “Minoan Religion in the Late Palace Period,” in O. Krzyszkowska and L. Nixon (eds.), Minoan Society (Bristol 1983) 137-142.
A. Kanta, “The Religious Centre of the City of Knossos and Religious Worship through Time,” in E. Papadopoulou, “A-pa-ta-wa: Early Settlements,” in N. C. Stampolidis, E. Papadopoulou, I. G. Lourentzatou, and I. D. Fappas (eds.), Crete: Emerging Cities: Aptera – Eleutherna – Knossos (Athens 2019) 244-256.
A. Kanta and A. Tzigounaki, “The Character of the Minoan Goddess. New Evidence from the Area of Amari,” in R. Laffineur and R. Hägg (eds.), POTNIA: Deities and Religion in the Aegean Bronze Age [Aegaeum 22] (Liège/Austin 2001) 151-157.
K. Kopaka, “A Day in Potnia’s Life: Aspects of Potnia and Reflected ‘Mistress’ Activities 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) 15-27.
O. Krzyszkowska, “Warding Off Evil: Apotropaic Practice and Imagery in Minoan 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) 115-122.
E. Kyriakidis, “The Economics of Potnia: Storage in ‘Temples’ of Prehistoric Greece,” in R. Laffineur and R. Hägg (eds.), POTNIA: Deities and Religion in the Aegean Bronze Age [Aegaeum 22] (Liège/Austin 2001) 123-129.
E. Kyriakidis, Ritual and its Establishment: The Case of Some Minoan Open Air Rituals (Ph.D. dissertation, Cambridge University 2002).
V. La Rosa, “La ricerca delle prove. Il contributo di Luisa Banti agli studi sulla religione minoica e micenea,” PdP 53(1998) 442-462.
N. Marinatos, Minoan Religion: Ritual, Image, and Symbol (Columbia 1993).
N. Marinatos, Minoan Kingship and the Solar Goddess. A Near Eastern Koine (Chicago 2010).
C. Morris and A. D. Peatfield, “Feeling thrugh the Body: Gesture in Cretan Bronze Age Religion,” in Y. Hamilakis, M. Pluciennik, and S. Tarlow (eds.), Thinking through the Body: Archaeologies of Corporeality (New York 2002) 105-120.
C. Morris and A. Peatfield, “Experiencing Ritual: Shamanic Elements in Minoan Religion,” in M. Wedde (ed.), Celebrations: Sanctuaries and the Vestiges of Cult Activity [Papers from the Norwegian Institute at Athens 6] (Bergen 2004) 35-59.
C. Morris and A. D. Peatfield, “Dynamic Spirituality on Minoan Peak Sanctuaries,” in K. Rountree, C. Morris, and A. D. Peatfield (eds.), Archaeology of Spiritualities (New York 2012) 227-245.
M. L. Moss, The Minoan Pantheon: Towards an Understanding of its Nature and Extent [BAR-IS 1343] (Oxford 2005).
J. M. A. Murphy, Changing Roles and Locations of Religious Practices in South Central Crete during the Pre-Palatial and Proto-Palatial Periods (Ph.D. thesis, University of Cincinnati 2003).
M. Nikolaïdou and D. Kokkinidou, The Archaeology and Social Identity of Gender: Approaches in Aegean Prehistory (Thessaloniki 1993) <in Greek>.
M. P. Nilsson, The Minoan-Mycenaean Religion and its Survival in Greek Religion [2nd edition] (Lund 1950).
A. Peatfield, “Minoan Religion for Ordinary People,” in A. Karetsou (ed.), Pepragmena tou H' Diethnous Kretologikou Synedriou (Heraklion 2000) A3: 9-17.
A. Papaefthymiou-Papanthimou, “Teletourgikos kallopismos ste minoïke Krete,” in A. Karetsou (ed.), Pepragmena tou H' Diethnous Kretologikou Synedriou (Heraklion 2000) A3: 531-539.
O. Pelon, “Aspects de la vie religieuse minoenne à la lumière des recherches récentes au palais de Malia (Crète),” CRAI (1980) 658-670.
A. W. Persson, The Religion of Greece in Prehistoric Times (Berkeley 1942).
W. Pötscher, Aspekte und Probleme der minoischen Religion: Ein Versuch [Religionswissenschaftliche Texte und Studien 4] (Hildesheim 1990).
M. Prent, Cretan Sanctuaries and Cults: Continuity and Change from Late Minoan IIIC to the Archaic Period (Leiden/Boston 2005).
S. Privitera, “Inverting Vases in Bronze Age Crete: Where? When? Why?,” in G. Vavouranakis, K. Kopanias, and C. Kanellopoulos (eds.), Popular Religion and Ritual in Prehistoric and Ancient Greece and the East Mediterranean (Oxford 2018) 29-38.
C. Renfrew, The Archaeology of Cult. The Sanctuary at Phylakopi [BSA Supplement 18] (London 1985).
I. M. Ruud, Minoan Religion: A Bibliography [SIMA-PB 141] (Jonsered 1996).
M. C. Shaw, “Religion at Minoan Kommos,” in L. P. Day, M. S. Mook, and J. D. Muhly (eds.), Crete Beyond the Palaces: Proceedings of the Crete 2000 Conference (Philadelphia 2004) 137-150.
A Simandiraki-Grimshaw, “Religious Exchanges between Minoan Crete and its Neighbours: Methodological Considerations,” in K. Duistermaat and I Regulski (eds.), Intercultural Contacts in the Ancient Mediterranean [Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta 202] (Leuven 2011) 79-88.
G. Vavouranakis, “Ritual, Multitude and Social Structure in Minoan Crete,” in G. Vavouranakis, K. Kopanias, and C. Kanellopoulos (eds.), Popular Religion and Ritual in Prehistoric and Ancient Greece and the East Mediterranean (Oxford 2018) 1-10.
G. Vavouranakis, “Liquid Consumption and the Mechanics of Ritual in Late Prepalatial and Old Palace Crete,” 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) 271-282.
P. M. Warren, “The Beginnings of Minoan Religion,” in Antichità Cretesi. Studi in onore di Doro Levi I (Catania 1973) 137-147.
P. Warren, “Minoan Crete and Ecstatic Religion,” in R. Hägg and N. Marinatos (eds.), Sanctuaries and Cults in the Aegean Bronze Age (Stockholm 1981) 155-167.
P. M. Warren, “The Minoans and their Gods,” in B. Cunliffe (ed.), Origins (London 1987) 30-41.
P. M. Warren, Minoan Religion as Ritual Action (Göteborg 1988).
P. M. Warren, “Ηλυσιον Μινωικον,” in F. Lang, C. Reinholdt, and J. Weilhartner (eds.), STEPHANOS ARISTEIOS: Archäologische Forschungen zwischen Nil und Istros: Festschrift für Stefan Hiller zum 65. Geburtstag (Vienna 2007) 261-270.
H. Whittaker, “Approaches to Popular Religion in Late Bronze Age Greece,” in G. Vavouranakis, K. Kopanias, and C. Kanellopoulos (eds.), Popular Religion and Ritual in Prehistoric and Ancient Greece and the East Mediterranean (Oxford 2018) 55-62.
R. F. Willetts, Cretan Cults and Festivals (London 1962).
J. C. Wright, “The Archaeological Correlates of Religion: Case Studies in the Aegean,” in R. Laffineur and W.-D. Niemeier (eds.), POLITEIA: Society and State in the Aegean Bronze Age [Aegaeum 12] (Liège/Austin1995) II: 341-348.
E. Yiannouli, “Fecundity and the Sacred: Some Preliminary Thoughts Regarding Bronze Age Greece,” JPR 11-12(1998) 65-84.
J. G. Younger and P. Rehak, “Minoan Culture: Religion, Burial Customs, and Administration,” in C. W. Shelmerdine (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to the Aegean Bronze Age (Cambridge 2008) 105-120.
M. Zeimbekis, “Gender, Kinship and Material Culture in Aegean Bronze Age Ritual,” in K. Kopaka (ed.), FYLO. Engendering Prehistoric ‘Stratigraphies’ in the Aegean and the Mediterranean [Aegaeum 30] (Liège/Austin 2009) 151-163.