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Cultural identity in Minoan Crete : social dynamics in the Neopalatial period

Adams, Ellen, author

2017

Overview

Neopalatial Crete - the 'Golden Age' of the Minoan Civilization - possessed palaces, exquisite artefacts, and iconography with preeminent females. While lacking in fortifications, ritual symbolism cloaked the island, an elaborate bureaucracy logged transactions, and massive storage areas enabled the redistribution of goods. We cannot read the Linear A script, but the libation formulae suggest an island-wide koine. Within this cultural identity, there is considerable variation in how the Minoan elites organized themselves and others on an intra-site and regional basis. This book explores and celebrates this rich, diverse and dynamic culture through analyses of important sites, as well as Minoan administration, writing, economy and ritual. Key themes include the role of Knossos in wider Minoan culture and politics, the variable modes of centralization and power relations detectable across the island, and the role of ritual and cult in defining and articulating elite control.

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Subject: Minoans History. / Crete (Greece) Civilization. / Crete (Greece) History To 67 B.C.
• ISBN: 9781107197527, 110719752X

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
DF221.C8 A33 2017	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE