New light on a dark age : exploring the culture of geometric Greece /

New light on a dark age : exploring the culture of geometric Greece /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Langdon, Susan Helen, 1952-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Columbia : University of Missouri Press, [1997]
Subjects:
Civilization, Homeric > Congresses.
Cults > Greece > Congresses.
Greece > History > Geometric period, ca. 900-700 B.C. > Congresses.
Greece > Antiquities > Congresses.
Table of Contents:
  • The art of citizenship / Ian Morris
  • Aspects of Athenian grave cult in the age of Homer / Barbara Bohen
  • Greek and Near Eastern art in the age of Homer / Sarah P. Morris
  • Thiasos and Marzeaḥ : ancestor cult in the age of Homer / Jane B. Carter
  • Cult in Iron Age Attica / Merle Langdon
  • The archaeology of cult in geometric Greece : Ionian temples, altars, and dedications / Christopher G. Simon
  • Oral tradition and Homeric art : the hymn to Demeter / John Miles Foley
  • From picture to myth, from myth to picture : prolegomena to the invention of mythic representation in Greek art / Barry B. Powell
  • The shield of Achilles : ends of the Iliad and beginnings of the polis / Gregory Nagy.