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Lesson 15.3: Religious Architecture

Lesson 15 Bibliography: Minoan Religion

S. Alexiou, “Ieron para to Kavousi Ierapetras,” Kretika Chronika 10(1965) 7-19.

T. Alusik, “Tripartite Shrine in the Minoan Architecture and Iconography,” Eirene 39(2003) 56-118.

P. P. Betancourt, “The Household Shrine in the House of the Rhyta at Pseira,” in R. Laffineur and R. Hägg (eds.), POTNIA: Deities and Religion in the Aegean Bronze Age [Aegaeum 22] (Liège/Austin 2001) 145-149.

P. P. Betancourt and N. Marinatos, “The Minoan Villa. Part II: Some Special Cases of Urban and Manorial Cults,” in R. Hägg (ed.), The Function of the ‘Minoan Villa’ (Stockholm 1997) 92-98.

I. Beyer, Der minoisch-mykenische Palasttempel und seine Wirkung auf den dorischen Tempel (Freiburg 1981).

I. Beyer, “Der Palasttempel von Phaistos,” in R. Hägg and N. Marinatos (eds.), The Function of the Minoan Palaces (Stockholm 1987) 213-225.

E. Borgna, “From Minoan Crete to Mycenaean Greece and Beyond: The Dissemination of Ritual Practices and their Material Correlates in Ceremonial Architecture,” in J. Maran and P. W. Stockhammer (eds.), Materiality and Social Practice: Transformative Capacities of Intercultural Encounters (Oxford 2012) 137-151.

K. Branigan, “Open-Air Shrines in Pre-Palatial Crete,” in LOIBE: Eis mnemen Andrea G. Kalokairinou (Heraklion 1994) 279-290.

G. Cadogan, “A Probable Shrine in the Country House at Pyrgos,” in R. Hägg and N. Marinatos (eds.), Sanctuaries and Cults in the Aegean Bronze Age (Stockholm 1981) 169-171.

N. Cucuzza, “Religion and Architecture: Early LM IIIA2 Buildings in the Southern Area of Haghia Triada,” in R. Laffineur and R. Hägg (eds.), POTNIA: Deities and Religion in the Aegean Bronze Age [Aegaeum 22] (Liège/Austin 2001) 169-174.

A. L. D’Agata, “Un vano di culto TM III nell-abitato di Haghia Triada (Creta),” Sileno 13(1987) 135-145.

A. L. D’Agata, “I santuari sul Piazzale dei Sacelli ad Haghia Triada (Creta),” Athenaeum 81(1993) 5-12.

C. Davaras, “The ‘Cult Villa’ at Makriyialos,” in R. Hägg (ed.), The Function of the ‘Minoan Villa’ (Stockholm 1997) 117-135.

L. P. Day, “Ritual Activity at Karphi: A Reappraisal,” 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) 137-151.

T. Eliopoulos, “Gournia, Vronda Kavousi, Kephala Vasilikis: A Triad of Interrelated Shrines of the Expiring Minoan Age on the Isthmus of Ierapetra,” in L. P. Day, M. S. Mook, and J. D. Muhly (eds.), Crete Beyond the Palaces: Proceedings of the Crete 2000 Conference (Philadelphia 2004) 81-90.

F. Gaignerot-Driessen, “Goddesses Refusing to Appear? Reconsidering the Late Minoan III Figures with Upraised Arms,” AJA 118(2014) 489-520.

G. C. Gesell, Town, Palace, and House Cult in Minoan Crete [SIMA 67] (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.

R. Hägg, “On the Reconstruction of the West Facade of the Palace at Knossos,” in R. Hägg and N. Marinatos (eds.), The Function of the Minoan Palaces (Stockholm 1987) 129-134.

B. Hallager, “Domestic Shrines in Late Minoan IIIA2-Late Minoan IIIC Crete: Fact or Fiction?,” 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) 107-120.

M. S. F. Hood, “Minoan Town-shrines?,” in K. H. Kinzl (ed.), Greece and the Eastern Mediterranean in Ancient History and Prehistory (Berlin/New York 1977) 158-172.

S. Hood, “The Magico-Religious Background of the Minoan ‘Villa’,” in R. Hägg (ed.), The Function of the ‘Minoan Villa’ (Stockholm 1997) 105-116.

A. Karetsou, “The Middle Minoan III Building at Alonaki, Juktas,” in C. F. Macdonald and C. Knappett (eds.), INTERMEZZO. Intermediacy and Regeneration in Middle Minoan III Palatial Crete [BSA Studies 21] (London 2013) 71-91.

A. Karetsou and I. Mathioudaki, “The Middle Minoan III Building Complex at Alonaki, Iuktas. Architectural Observations and Pottery Analysis,” Creta Antica 13(2012) 83-107.

N. L. Klein, “The Architecture of the Late Minoan IIIC Shrine (Building G) at Vronda, Kavousi,” in L. P. Day, M. S. Mook, and J. D. Muhly (eds.), Crete Beyond the Palaces: Proceedings of the Crete 2000 Conference (Philadelphia 2004) 91-101.

N. L. Klein and K. T. Glowacki, “From Kavousi Vronda to Dreros: Architecture and Display in Cretan Cult Buildings,” 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) 153-167.

V. La Rosa, “Altari e sacelli fra il TM II ed il TM IIIA1 ad H. Triada: un culto identitario delle rovine?,” Creta Antica 13(2012) 159-189.

P. Militello, “Minoan Religious Architecture: Representation and Reality,” in F. Blakolmer (ed.), Current Approaches and New Perspectives in Aegean Iconography [Aegis 18] (Louvain-la-Neuve 2020) 87-116.

K. Müller, “Ein altpalastzeitlicher Raumkomplex im Palast von Malia – Formen der rituellen Nutzung und Inszenierung eines möglichen Pfeilerraum-Vorläufers,” in K. Müller, B. Schiller, et al., Von Kreta nach Kuba: Gedankschrift zu Ehren des Berliner Archäologen Veit Stürmer (Berlin 2018) 137-162.

W.-D. Niemeier, “Zur Deutung des Thronraumes im Palast von Knossos,” AM 101(1986) 63-95.

M. Panagiotaki, “The Temple Repositories at Knossos: New Information from the Unpublished Notes of Sir Arthur Evans,” BSA 88(1993) 49-91.

M. Panagiotaki, The Central Palace Sanctuary at Knossos [BSA Supplementary Volume 31] (London 1999).

A. Pilali-Papasteriou, “Anaktorika iera tes minoïkes Kretes,” AMETOS. Timetikos tomos gia ton kathegeten Manole Androniko (Thessaloniki 1987) II: 665-680.

N. Platon, “To hieron Maza kai ta minoïka hiera koryphes,” Kretika Chronika 5(1951) 96-160.

N. Platon, “Ta minoïka oikiaka hiera,“ Kretika Chronika 8(1954) 428-483.

M. R. Popham, “A Late Minoan Shrine from Knossos,” BSA 65(1970) 191-194.

W. H. D. Rouse, “The Double Axe and the Labyrinth,” JHS 21(1901) 268-274.

D. Rousioti and G. Stournaras, “The Urban Development in Crete at the End of the Bronze Age: Settlements with Shrines,” in A. Mazarakis Ainian (ed.), The ’Dark Ages’ Revisited: Acta of an International Symposium in Memory of William D. E. Coulson (Volos 2011) 445-458.

B. Rutkowski, Cult Places in the Aegean World (Warsaw 1972).

B. Rutkowski, The Cult Places of the Aegean (New Haven 1986).

B. Rutkowski, “Minoan Sanctuaries: The Topography and Architecture,” in R. Laffineur (ed.), Annales d’archéologie égéenne de l’Université de Liège 2 [Aegaeum 2] (Liège 1988) 71-98.

B. Rutkowski, “Minoan Sanctuaries at Christos and Koumasa, Crete: New Field Research,” Archäologisches Korrespondenzblatt 19(1989) 47-51.

P. Russell, “The Date of the Gournia Shrine,” TUAS 4(1979) 27-33.

Y. Sakellarakis and E. Sapouna-Sakellarakis, “Drama of Death in a Minoan Temple,” National Geographic 159:2(1981) 205-222.

J. W. Shaw, “Evidence for the Minoan Tripartite Shrine,” AJA 82(1978) 429-448.

E. Sikla, “The Elusive Domestic Shrine in Neopalatial Crete: On the Archaeological Correlates of Domestic Religion,” in K. T. Glowacki and N. Vogeikoff-Brogan (eds.), STEGA: The Archaeology of Houses and Households in Ancient Crete [Hesperia Supplement 44] (Princeton 2011) 219-231.

F. Stevens and A. Simandiraki-Grimshaw, “Composite, Partial, Created and Floating Bodies: A Re-assessment of the Knossos Temple Repositories Assemblage,” in M. Mina, S. Triantaphyllou, and Y. Papadatos (eds.), An Archaeology of Prehistoric Bodies and Embodied Entities in the Eastern Mediterranean (Oxford 2016) 25-31.

T. E. Strasser, “Horns of Consecration or Rooftop Granaries? Another Look at the Master Impression,” in R. Laffineur and P. P. Betancourt (eds.), TEXNH: Craftsmen, Craftswomen and Craftsmanship in the Aegean Bronze Age [Aegaeum 16] (Liège/Austin 1997) 201-207.

M. Tsipopoulou, “A New Late Minoan IIIC Shrine at Halasmenos, East Crete,” in R. Laffineur and R. Hägg (eds.), POTNIA: Deities and Religion in the Aegean Bronze Age [Aegaeum 22] (Liège/Austin 2001) 99-101.

M. Tsipopoulou, “Goddesses for ‘Gene’? The Late Minoan IIIC Shrine at Halasmenos, Ierapetra,” 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) 121-136.

H. Waterhouse, “The Flat Alabastron and the Last Ritual in the Throne Room,” OJA 7(1988) 361-367.


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