Cult and Death

ISBN-13: 9781841716350 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 92 str.

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These nine papers form the Proceedings of the Third Annual Meeting of Postgraduate Researchers held at Liverpool University in 2002. They present postdoctoral research on the evidence for the mingling of cult and death in the archaeological record, focusing on evidence from prehistoric and classical Greece. Subjects include: Greek Neolithic figurines; tomb design and symbolism in late Helladic Greece; the burial ritual tradition in the south-easterb Aegean during the Mycenaean period; Myceneaen priests and priestesses; homecoming and death in Greek tragedy; Euripidean evidence for human sacrifices in Greece; inscribed gold foil as evidence for initiation rituals into mystery cults in Pelinna and Thurioi; Theocritus' portrayal of the death of Daphnis.

Proceedings of the Third Annual Meeting of Postgraduate Researchers, The University of Liverpool, May 2002The Liverpool Interdisciplinary Symposium in Antiquity (LISA) was envisaged as a forum for postgraduate and postdoctoral researchers to present their research and engage in discussion in an informal manner. The theme for LISA 2002, the potent combination of Cult and Death, attracted delegates from several universities in the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland. The interdisciplinary nature of the symposium was amply fulfilled by the presentation of papers from the fields of archaeology, ancient history and classics, adopting a wide range of approaches, which are reflected in the articles presented in this volume. Contents: The Greek Neolithic Figurines (Gerasimos Vallerios Stergiopoulos); The Abode of the Ancestors: tomb design, ritual and symbolism In Late Helladic IIIA-B Greece (Chrysanthi Gallou); The Burial Ritual Tradition in the South-eastern Aegean during the Mycenaean Period (Mercourios Georgiadis); The 'hellenisation' of Isis among the Greek deities (Danai-Christina Naoum); Priests and Priestesses in the Mycenaean period (Christina Aamont); Nostos (= homecoming) and death in Greek tragedy (Marigo Alexopoulou); To kill or not to kill? Human sacrifices in Greece according to the Euripidean thought (Polytimi Oikonomopoulou); Adopted by Persephone. Adoption and initiation ritual in A1-A3 Zuntz and Pelinna 1-2 (Georgia Petridou); The death of Daphnis (Evangelia Anagnostou-Laoutides).