eBook

Death in Late Bronze Age Greece

Murphy, Joanne M. A

2019,2020

Overview

Late Bronze Age tombs in Greece and their attendant mortuary practices have been a topic of scholarly debate for over a century, dominated by the idea of a monolithic culture with the same developmental trajectories throughout the region. This book contributes to that body of scholarship by exploring both the level of variety and of similarity in the practices at each site and thereby highlights the differences between communities that otherwise look very similar. Bringing together an international group of scholars working on tombs and cemeteries on mainland Greece, Crete, and in the Dodecanese, the volume affords a unique view of the development and diversity of these communities. The chapters provide a penetrative analysis of the related issues by discussing tombs connected with sites ranging in size from palaces to towns to villages and in date from the start to the end of the Late Bronze Age. This book contextualizes the mortuary studies in recent debates on diversity at the main palatial and secondary sites and between the economic and political strategies and practices throughout Greece. The chapters in the volume illustrate the pervasive connection between the mortuary sphere and society through the creation and expression of cultural narratives, and draw attention to the social tensions played out in the mortuary arena.

• Publisher: Oxford University Press,Oxford University Press, Incorporated
• Subject: Bronze age / Funeral rites and ceremonies, Ancient / Funeral rites and ceremonies, Ancient-Greece / Greek and Roman Archaeology / History of ancient world Greece / Religion in the Ancient World / Sepulchral monuments / Tombs
• ISBN: 9780190926076, 0190926074, 9780190926069, 0190926066