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Lesson 15.12: Sacrificial Ritual and Rites

Lesson 15 Bibliography: Minoan Religion

B. Bergquist, “Bronze Age Sacrificial Koine in the Eastern Mediterranean? A Study of Animal Sacrifice in the Ancient Near East,” in J. Quaegebeuer, Ritual and Sacrifice in the Ancient Near East (Louvain 1993) 11-43.

E. F. Bloedow, “Notes on Animal Sacrifices in Minoan Religion,” JPR 10(1996) 31-44.

R. J. Cromarty, Burning Bulls, Broken Bones: Sacrificial Ritual in the Context of Palace Period Minoan Religion [BAR-IS 1792] (Oxford 2008).

V. Isaakidou and P. Halstead, “Bones and the Body Politic? A Diachronic Analysis of Structured Deposition in the Neoltihic – Early Iron Age Aegean,” in G. Ekroth and J. Wallenstein (eds.), Bones, Behaviour and Belief: The Zooarchaeological Evidence as a Source for Ritual Practice in Ancient Greece and Beyond (Stockholm 2013) 87-99.

N. Marinatos, Minoan Sacrificial Ritual: Cult Practice and Symbolism (Stockholm 1986).

N. Marinatos, “An Offering of Saffron to the Minoan Goddess of Nature: The Role of the Monkey and the Importance of Saffron,” in T. Linders and G. Nordquist (eds.), Gifts to the Gods (Uppsala 1987) 123-132.

N. Marinatos, “The Imagery of Sacrifice: Minoan and Greek,” in R. Hägg, N. Marinatos, and G. Nordquist (eds.), Early Greek Cult Practice (Göteborg 1988) 9-10.

L. Recht, Sacrifice in the Bronze Age Aegean and Near East: A Poststructuralist Approach (PhD dissertation, Trinity College Dublin 2011).


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