From Library Journal
Marinatos (archaeology and classics, College Year, Athens) provides a comprehensive, well-documented, and carefully illustrated theory of religion during the Bronze Age in Crete. She shows that the Minoan religion is similar to Egyptian and Near Eastern religions in its concentration on death and rebirth, divine sacred marriage, and nature imagery emphasizing cyclical renewal but maintains its distinctiveness in social and ritual organization. She views religious change in combination with historical and social change, beginning her analysis before the advent of the palaces--which she regards as temples--and concluding in the postpalatial period. Essential for academic libraries; highly recommended for museum and public libraries.
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- ISBN10 0872497445
- ISBN13 9780872497443
- Publish Date 26 November 1992
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 19 October 2003
- Publish Country US
- Imprint University of South Carolina Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 410
- Language English