Minoan Kingship and the Solar Goddess: A Near Eastern Koine (Hardback)
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Short Description for Minoan Kingship and the Solar Goddess Ancient Minoan culture has been typically viewed as an ancestor of classical Greek civilization. This book shows that Minoan Crete was on the periphery of a powerfully dynamic cultural interchange with its neighbours. It considers ancient Crete in the context of its powerful competitors to the east and south.
Full description- Publisher: University of Illinois Press
- Published: 25 May 2010
- Format: Hardback 296 pages
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- Categories: Social & Cultural Anthropology | European History | Classical History / Classical Civilisation | Comparative Religion | Ancient Religions & Mythologies
- ISBN 13: 9780252033926 ISBN 10: 0252033922
- Sales rank: 692,456
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Full description for Minoan Kingship and the Solar Goddess
Ancient Minoan culture has been typically viewed as an ancestor of classical Greek civilization, but this book shows that Minoan Crete was on the periphery of a powerfully dynamic cultural interchange with its neighbours. Rather than viewing Crete as the autochthonous ancestor of Greece's glory, Nanno Marinatos considers ancient Crete in the context of its powerful competitors to the east and south. Analyzing the symbols of the Minoan theocratic system and their similarities to those of Syria, Anatolia, and Egypt, Marinatos unlocks many Minoan visual riddles and establishes what she calls a 'cultural koine', or standard set of cultural assumptions, that circulated throughout the Near East and the eastern Mediterranean at the time Minoan civilization reached its peak. With more than two hundred illustrations, "Minoan Kingship and the Solar Goddess" delivers a comprehensive reading of Minoan art as a system of thought. Nanno Marinatos is a professor of classics at the University of Illinois, Chicago, and the author of "Minoan Religion: Ritual, Image, and Symbol", "The Goddess and the Warrior: The Naked Goddess" and "Mistress of Animals in Early Greek Religion" and other books.
