Matriarchy In Bronze Age Crete
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| Author | : Joan M. Cichon |
| Publisher | : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd |
| Total Pages | : 280 |
| Release | : 2022-06-30 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1803270454 |
This book makes a compelling case for a matriarchal Bronze Age Crete. It is acknowledged that the preeminent deity was a Female Divine, and that women played a major role in Cretan society, but there is a lively, ongoing debate regarding the centrality of women in Bronze Age Crete. a gap in the scholarly literature which this book seeks to fill.
| Author | : Cathy Gere |
| Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
| Total Pages | : 288 |
| Release | : 2010-09-15 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 0226289559 |
In the spring of 1900, British archaeologist Arthur Evans began to excavate the palace of Knossos on Crete, bringing ancient Greek legends to life just as a new century dawned amid far-reaching questions about human history, art, and culture. With Knossos and the Prophets of Modernism, Cathy Gere relates the fascinating story of Evans’s excavation and its long-term effects on Western culture. After the World War I left the Enlightenment dream in tatters, the lost paradise that Evans offered in the concrete labyrinth—pacifist and matriarchal, pagan and cosmic—seemed to offer a new way forward for writers, artists, and thinkers such as Sigmund Freud, James Joyce, Giorgio de Chirico, Robert Graves, and Hilda Doolittle. Assembling a brilliant, talented, and eccentric cast at a moment of tremendous intellectual vitality and wrenching change, Cathy Gere paints an unforgettable portrait of the age of concrete and the birth of modernism.
| Author | : Andrew Shapland |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 291 |
| Release | : 2022-05-12 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1009151541 |
Reassesses the animal depictions of Bronze Age Crete in terms of human-animal relations rather than a love of nature.
| Author | : Sharon L. James |
| Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
| Total Pages | : 661 |
| Release | : 2012-02-13 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1444355007 |
A COMPANION TO WOMEN IN THE ANCIENT WORLD A Companion to Women in the Ancient World is the first interdisciplinary, methodologically based collection of readings to address the study of women in the ancient world while weaving textual, visual, and archaeological evidence into its approach. Prominent scholars tackle the myriad problems inherent in the interpretation of the evidence, and consider the biases and interpretive categories inherited from centuries of scholarship. Essays and case studies cover an unprecedented breadth of chronological and geographical range, genres, and themes. Illuminating and insightful, A Companion to Women in the Ancient World both challenges preconceived notions and paves the way for new directions in research on women in antiquity.
| Author | : Ronald Frederick Willetts |
| Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
| Total Pages | : 304 |
| Release | : 1977-01-01 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9780520034068 |
"Professor Willetts presents the first complete picture of the civilization of Ancient Crete - one which gives full weight to its origins as well as to its post-Minoan development. He shows the important influences from the neighbouring regions of Mesopotamia and Egypt, and examines the island's development from the arrival of the Neolithic farmers during the early Bronze Age, through the spectacular Minoan civilization of the Bronze Age, down to the Dorian aristocracy of the Iron Age which ended in the Roman Conquest of the first century B.C."--BOOK JACKET.
| Author | : Merlin Stone |
| Publisher | : Doubleday |
| Total Pages | : 379 |
| Release | : 2012-05-09 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 0307816850 |
Here, archaeologically documented,is the story of the religion of the Goddess. Under her, women’s roles were far more prominent than in patriarchal Judeo-Christian cultures. Stone describes this ancient system and, with its disintegration, the decline in women’s status.
| Author | : John Peradotto |
| Publisher | : State University of New York Press |
| Total Pages | : 392 |
| Release | : 1987-04-15 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1438415842 |
One of the reasons for the study of the Greek and Roman classics is their perpetual relevance. In no area can this position be more clearly defended than in the investigation of the feminine condition, for it was here that basic attitudes derogatory to the sex were molded by legal and social systems, by philosophers and poets, and by the thinking of men long since gone. Women in the Ancient World brings together essays that examine philosophy, social history, literature, and art, and that extend from the early Greek period through the Roman Empire. Their wide range of critical perspectives throws new light on the personal, political, socio-economic, and cultural position of women.
| Author | : Guy D. Middleton |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 315 |
| Release | : 2023-02-09 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1108574866 |
In this book, Guy D. Middleton explores the fascinating lives of thirty real women of the ancient Mediterranean from the Palaeolithic to the Byzantine era. They include queens and aristocrats, such as the Pharoah Hatshepsut and the Etruscan noblewoman Seianti; Eritha and Karpathia, Bronze Age priestesses from the Aegean; a Pompeiian prostitute called Eutychis; the pagan philosopher Hypatia and the Christian saint Perpetua, from North Africa, as well as women from smaller communities. Middleton uses a wide range of archaeological and historical evidence, including burials and funerary practices, graffiti, inscriptions and painted pottery, handprints, human remains and a variety of historical texts, as well as the latest modern research. His volume weaves together the stories of real women, placing them firmly in the spotlight of history. Engagingly written and up-to-date in its scholarship, Middleton's book offers new insights for students and researchers in Ancient History, Archaeology and Mediterranean Studies, as well as in Women's History.
| Author | : J. A. MacGillivray |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 412 |
| Release | : 2001 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : |
| Author | : Diamantis Panagiotopoulos |
| Publisher | : Presses univ. de Louvain |
| Total Pages | : 189 |
| Release | : 2012 |
| Genre | : Architecture, Minoan |
| ISBN | : 2875881000 |
What is the social role of images and architecture in a pre-modern society? How were they used to create adequate environments for specific profane and ritual activities? In which ways did they interact with each other? These and other crucial issues on the social significance of imagery and built structures in Neopalatial Crete were the subject of a workshop which took place on November 16th, 2009 at the University of Heidelberg. The papers presented in the workshop are collected in the present volume. They provide different approaches to this complex topic and are aimed at a better understanding of the formation, role, and perception of images and architecture in a very dynamic social landscape. The Cretan Neopalatial period saw a rapid increase in the number of palaces and 'villas', characterized by elaborate designs and idiosyncratic architectural patterns which were themselves in turn generated by a pressing desire for a distinctive social and performative environment.
