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Lesson 15.19: Miscellaneous Minoan Ritual Behavior

Lesson 15 Bibliography: Minoan Religion

F. Blakolmer, “A ‘Special Procession’ in Minoan Seal Images: Observations on Ritual Dress in Minoan Crete,” in P. Pavúk, V. Klonzta-Jaklová, and A. Harding (eds.), EUDAIMON: Studies in Honour of Professor Jan Bouzek (Prague 2019) 29-50.

T. Carter, “Transformative Processes in Liminal Spaces: Craft as Ritual Action in the Throne Room Area,” in G. Cadogan, E. Hatzaki, and A. Vasilakis (eds.), Knossos: Palace, City, State [BSA Studies 12] (London 2004) 273-282.

F. Chapouthier, “Une table à offrandes au palais de Mallia,” BCH 52(1928) 292-323.

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.

T. F. Cunningham and L. H. Sackett, “Does the Widespread Cult Activity at Palaikastro Call for a Special Explanation?,” 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) 79-97.

C. Ferrari and N. Cucuzza, “I cosiddetti kernoi di Festòs,” Creta Antica 5(2004) 53-96.

L. Girella, “Un pitharaki MM III dal nuovo ‘Settore Nord-est’ di Haghia Triada,” Creta Antica 4(2003) 343-358.

L. Girella, “Forms of Commensal Politics in Neopalatial Crete,” Creta Antica 8(2007) 135-168.

L. Goodison, “From Tholos Tomb to Throne Room: Perceptions of the Sun in Minoan Ritual,” in R. Laffineur and R. Hägg (eds.), POTNIA: Deities and Religion in the Aegean Bronze Age [Aegaeum 22] (Liège/Austin 2001) 77-88.

R. Hägg, “The Last Ceremony in the Throne Room at Knossos,” OpAth 17(1988) 99-106.

M. Haysom, “Entangled Religion, Ritual and Social Practice: The Case of Karphi,” in I. S. Lemos and A. Tsingarida (eds.), Beyond the Polis: Rituals, Rites and Cults in Early and Archaic Greece (12th–6th Centuries BC) (Brussels 2019) 53-64.

N. Hillbom, For Games or for Gods? An Investigation of Minoan Cup Holes [SIMA 132] (Sävedalen 2003).

S. Hood, “Minoan Cup Marks,” Eirene 31(1995) 7-43.

E. Karagianni, Minoïka syntheta skeve (kernoi) (Athens 1984).

R. B. Koehl, “The ‘Sacred Marriage’ in Minoan Religion and Ritual,” in R. Laffineur and R. Hägg (eds.), POTNIA: Deities and Religion in the Aegean Bronze Age [Aegaeum 22] (Liège/Austin 2001) 237-243.

A. Lebessi, “Flagellation ou autoflagellation: Données iconographiques pour une tentative d’interpretation,” BCH 115(1991) 99-123.

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

S. H. Lonsdale, “A Dancing Floor for Ariadne (Iliad 18.590-592): Aspects of Ritual Movement in Homer and Minoan Religion,” in J. B. Carter and S. P. Morris (eds.), The Ages of Homer: A Tribute to Emily Townsend Vermeule (Austin 1995) 273-284.

N. Marinatos, “Public Festivals in the West Courts of the Palaces,” in R. Hägg and N. Marinatos (eds.), The Function of the Minoan Palaces (Stockholm 1987) 135-143.

N. Marinatos, “Cult by the Seashore: What Happened at Amnisos?,” in R. Hägg (ed.), The Role of Religion in the Early Greek Polis (Stockholm 1996) 135-139.

J. M. A. Murphy, “Gods in the House? Religious Rituals in the Settlements of South Central Crete,” 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) 11-17.

D. Palermo, “La cronologia dei cosiddetti ‘kernoi’ e il problema delle origini del culto sull’Acropoli di Gortyna,” Creta Antica 3(2002) 255-262.

C. Papadaki, “Pegaion Ydor: Teletourgikes apotheseis ton minoïkon chronon se technetes peges nerou,” Archaiologia kai Technes 126 (april 2018) 32-45.

L. Platon, “A Minoan ‘Chytros’? Unexpected Archaeological Evidence for the Possible Pre-historic Origin of an Ancient Greek Ceremonial Practice,” in G. Vavouranakis, K. Kopanias, and C. Kanellopoulos (eds.), Popular Religion and Ritual in Prehistoric and Ancient Greece and the East Mediterranean (Oxford 2018) 39-46.

D. Puglisi, “Azione rituale da Festòs a Thera: Un’interpretazione funzionale del complesso adyton-polythyron nel mondo egeo,” in F. Carinci, N. Cucuzza, P. Militello, and O. Palio (eds.), KRETES MINOIDOS: Tradizione e identità minoica tra produzione artigianale, pratiche cerimoniali e memoria del passato. Studi offerti a Vincenzo La Rosa per il Suo 70o compleanno (Padova 2011) 323-342.

P. Rehak, “The Ritual Destruction of Minoan Art,” ArchNews 19(1994) 1-6.

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. Sarpaki, “Harvest Rites and Corn Dollies in the Bronze Age Aegean,” 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) 59-67.

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.

J. S. Soles, “Evidence for Ancestor Worship in Minoan Crete: New Finds from Mochlos,” in O. Krzsyzkowska (ed.), Cretan Offerings: Studies in Honour of Peter Warren [BSA Studies 18] (London 2010) 331-338.

J. S. Soles, “The Creation of Social Memory in Minoan Mochlos,” in E. Borgna, I. Caloi, F. M. Carinci, and R. Laffineur (eds.), ΜΝΗΜΗ/MNEME: Past and Memory in the Aegean Bronze Age [Aegaeum 43] (Liège 2019) 35-47.

A. Suter, The Narcissus and the Pomegranate. An Archaeology of the Homeric Hymn to Demeter (Ann Arbor 2002).

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.

H. Whittaker, “Minoan Board Games: The Function and Meaning of Stones with Depressions (So-called Kernoi) from Bronze Age Crete,” Aegean Archaeology 6(2002) 73-87.


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