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Lesson 15.22: Priests, Priestesses, Priest-Kings, and Matriarchs

Lesson 15 Bibliography: Minoan Religion

J. Bamberger, “The Myth of Matriarchy: Why Men Rule in Primitive Society,” in M. Z. Rosaldo and L. Lamphere (eds.), Women, Culture and Society (Stanford 1974) 263-280.

E. L. Bennett, “On the Use and Misuse of the Term ‘Priest-King’,” Kretika Chronika 15-16(1961-62) 327-335.

M. Blomberg and H. Göran, “Minos Enneoros: Archaeoastronomical Light on the Priestly Role of the King in Crete,” in P. Hellström and B. Alroth (eds.), Religion and Power in the Ancient Greek World (Uppsala 1996) 27-39.

C. Downing, “Prehistoric Goddesses, The Cretan Challenge,” Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion 1(1985) 7-22.

S. Evasdaughter, Crete Reclaimed: A Feminist Exploration of Bronze Age Crete (Loughborough 1996).

L. Goodison and H. Hughes-Brock, “Helen Waterhouse and Her ‘Priest-Kings?’ Paper,” Cretan Studies 7(2002) 89-96.

V. Lenuzza, “Dressing Priestly Shoulders: Suggestions from the Campstool Fresco,” in M.-L. Nosch and R. Laffineur (eds.), KOSMOS: Jewellery, Adornment and Textiles in the Aegean Bronze Age [Aegaeum 33] (Leuven/Liège 2012) 255-264.

N. Marinatos, “Divine Kingship in Minoan Crete,” in P. Rehak (ed.), The Role of the Ruler in the Prehistoric Aegean [Aegaeum 11] (Liège/Austin1995) 37-48.

N. Marinatos, “The Lily Crown and Sacred Kingship in Minoan Crete,” in P. P. Betancourt, M. C. Nelson, and H. Williams (eds.), Krinoi kai Limenes: Studies in Honor of Joseph and Maria Shaw (Philadelphia 2007) 271-276.

P. Muhly, “The Great Goddess and the Priest King: Minoan Religion in Flux,” Expedition 32:3(1990) 54-60.

P. Rehak, “The Aegean ‘Priest’ on CMS I 223,” Kadmos 33(1994) 76-84.

P. Rehak, “Children’s Work: Girls as Acolytes in Aegean Ritual and Cult,” in A. Cohen and J. B. Rutter, Constructions of Childhood in Ancient Greece and Italy [Hesperia Supplement 41] (Princeton 2007) 205-225.

D. W. Rupp and M. Tsipopoulou, “Priestess? At Work: A LM IA Chlorite Schist Lentoid Seal from the Neopalatial Settlement of Petras,” in M. Tsipopoulou (ed.), Petras, Siteia: 25 Years of Excavations and Studies [Monographs of the Danish Institute at Athens 16] (Athens 2012) 305-314. 

H. Waterhouse, “Priest-Kings?,” BICS (1974) 153-155. 

M. A. Zembeikis, The Priesthood in Crete: A Minoan Perspective (M.A. thesis, University of Bristol 1991).


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