Lesson 26 Bibliography: Mycenaean and Late Cycladic Religion and Religious Architecture
[Updated April 2008]
Colloquia, Symposia, and Festschriften
A. Cohen and J. B. Rutter, Constructions of Childhood in Ancient Greece and Italy [Hesperia Supplement 41] (Princeton 2007).E. De Miro, L. Godart, and A. Sacconi (eds.), Atti e memorie del secondo Congresso internazionale di micenologia [Incunabula Graeca 98] (Rome 1996).
R. Hägg (ed.), Peloponnesian Sanctuaries and Cults (Stockholm 2002).
R. Hägg and N. Marinatos (eds.), Sanctuaries and Cults in the Aegean Bronze Age (Stockholm 1981).
R. Hägg, N. Marinatos, and G. Nordquist (eds.), Early Greek Cult Practice (Göteborg 1988).
R. Hägg and G. C. Nordquist (eds.), Celebrations of Death and Divinity in the Bronze Age Argolid (Stockholm 1990).
E. Konsolaki-Yiannopoulou (ed.), Argosaronikos: Praktika 1ou Diethnous Synedriou Istorias kai Archaiologias touj Argosaronikou (Athens 2003).
R. Laffineur and R. Hägg, POTNIA. Deities and Religion in the Aegean Bronze Age [Aegaeum 22] (Liège/Austin 2001).
R. Laffineur and W-D. Niemeier, Politeia. Society and State in the Aegean Bronze Age [Aegaeum 12] (Liège 1995).
A. Morpurgo Davies and Y. Duhoux (eds.), Linear B: A 1984 Survey (Louvain-la-Neuve 1985).
Ansichten griechischer Rituale: Geburtstag-Symposium für Walter Burkert (Stuttgart 1998).
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Individual Works
F. R. Adrados, "Les institutions religieuses mycéniennes," in Acta Mycenaea (1972) 170-203.G. Albers, Spätmykenische Stadtheiligtümer: Systematische Analyse und vergleichende Auswertung der archaologischen Befunde [BAR International Series 596] (Oxford 1994).
G. Albers, "Comparative Aspects of Regional Cult Structures of the Late Bronze and Early Iron Ages in the East Mediterranean (Aegean, Cyprus, Levant-Palestine)," in E. De Miro, L. Godart, and A. Sacconi (eds.), Atti e memorie del secondo Congresso internazionale di micenologia [Incunabula Graeca 98] (Rome 1996) II: 647-662.
G. Albers, “Rethinking Mycenaean Sanctuaries,” in R. Laffineur and R. Hägg, POTNIA. Deities and Religion in the Aegean Bronze Age [Aegaeum 22] (Liège/Austin 2001) 131-141.
G. Albers, “Re-evaluating Mycenaean Sanctuaries,” in Celebrations: Sanctuaries and the Vestiges of Cult Activity [Papers from the Norwegian Institute at Athens 6] (Athens 2004) 111-149.
M. Andronikos, Totenkult [Archaeologica Homerica W] (Göttingen 1968).
C. M. Antonaccio, "Placing the Past: The Bronze Age in the Cultic Topography of Early Greece," in in S. Alcock and R. Osborne (eds.), Placing the Gods: The Landscape of Greek Sanctuaries (Oxford 1994) 79-104.
C. M. Antonaccio, An Archaeology of Ancestors. Tomb Cult and Hero Cult in Early Greece (Lanham 1995).
C. Antonelli, "I santuari micenei ed il mondo dell'economia," in R. Laffineur and W-D. Niemeier (eds.), Politeia: Society and State in the Aegean Bronze Age [Aegaeum 12] (Liège 1995) II: 415-421.
C. Antonelli, "Dioniso: Una divinità micenea," in E. De Miro, L. Godart, and A. Sacconi (eds.), Atti e memorie del secondo Congresso internazionale di micenologia [Incunabula Graeca 98] (Rome 1996) I: 169-176.
R. Arnott, "Healing and Medicine in the Aegean Bronze Age," Journal of Royal Society of Medicine 89(1996) 265-270.
L. Baumbach, "The Mycenaean Contribution to the Study of Greek Religion in the Bronze Age," SMEA 20(1979) 143-160.
M. R. Belgiorno, "Iconografie cultuali e realtà archeologiche nell'orizzonte miceneo," in E. De Miro, L. Godart, and A. Sacconi (eds.), Atti e memorie del secondo Congresso internazionale di micenologia [Incunabula Graeca 98] (Rome 1996) III: 1365-1373.
L. M. Bendall, “The Economics of Potnia in the Linear B Documents: Palatial Support for Mycenaean Religion,” in R. Laffineur and R. Hägg, POTNIA. Deities and Religion in the Aegean Bronze Age [Aegaeum 22] (Liège/Austin 2001) 445-452.
B. Bergquist, "The Archaeology of Sacrifice: Minoan-Mycenaean vs. Greek," in R. Hägg, N. Marinatos, and G. Nordquist (eds.), Early Greek Cult Practice (Göteborg 1988) 21-34.
B. Bergquist, "Bronze Age Sacrificial Koine in the Eastern Mediterranean? A Study of Animal Sacrifice in the Ancient Near East," in J. Quaegebeuer, Ritual and Sacrifice in the Ancient Near East [Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta 55] (Louvain 1993) 11-43.
C. Boëlle, "PO-TI-NI-JA à Mycènes," Minos 27-28(1993) 283-301.
C. Boëlle, “PO-TI-NI-JA: Unité ou pluralité?,” in R. Laffineur and R. Hägg, POTNIA. Deities and Religion in the Aegean Bronze Age [Aegaeum 22] (Liège/Austin 2001) 403-409.
A. Brelich, "Religione micenea: osservazioni metodologiche," Atti e memorie del primo Congresso internazionale di Micenologia (Rome 1968) 919-928.
C. Briault, “High Fidelity or Chinese Whispers? Cult Symbols and Ritual Transmission in the Bronze Age Aegean,” JNA 20(2007) 239-265.
H-G. Buchholz, "Zur religiösen Bedeutung mykenischer Siegel," JPR 9(1995) 9-14.
R. J. Buck, "Mycenaean Human Sacrifice," Minos 24(1989) 131-137.
E. Buschor and W. von Massow, "Vom Amyklaion," AM 52(1927) 1-85.
P. Calligas, "From the Amyklaion," in J. M. Sanders (ed.), PHILOLAKON: Lakonian Studies in Honour of Hector Catling (Oxford 1992) 31-48.
P. Carlier, "Palais et sanctuaires dans le monde mycénien," in E. Lévy (ed.), Le système palatial en Orient, en Grèce et à Rome (Strasbourg 1987) 255-282.
M. E. Caskey, Keos II,1: The Temple at Ayia Irini: The Statues (Princeton 1986).
M. Caskey, "Ayia Irini: Temple Studies," in L. G. Mendoni and A. J. Mazarakis Ainian (eds.), Kea - Kythnos. History and Archaeology (Athens 1998) 123-138.
P. Cassola Guida, "Le armi nel culto dei Micenei," in Studi Triestini di Antichità in Onore di L. A. Stella ( 1975) 93-106.
H. W. Catling, "A Late Bronze Age House- or Sanctuary-Model from the Menelaion, Sparta," BSA 84(1989) 171-175.
J. Chadwick, The Mycenaean World (Cambridge 1976) 84-101.
J. Chadwick, "What Do We Know about Mycenaean Religion?," in A. Morpurgo Davies and Y. Duhoux (eds.), Linear B: A 1984 Survey (Louvain-la-Neuve 1985) 191-202.
J. N. Coldstream, Deities in Aegean Art before and after the Dark Age (London 1977).
M. Cultraro, “Exercise of Dominance: Boar Hunting in Mycenaean Religion and Hittite Royal Rituals,” in M. Hutter and S. Hutter-Braunsar (eds.), Offizielle Religion, locale Kulte und individuelle Religiosität [Alter Orient und Altes Testament 318] (Münster 2004) 117-135.
P. Darcque, "Les vestiges mycéniens découverts sous le Télésterion d'Eleusis," BCH 105(1981) 593-605.
K. Demakopoulou, To mykenaïko iero sto Amyklaio kai e YE IIIC Periodos ste Lakonia (Athens 1982).
K. Demakopoulou, “A Mycenaean Ritual Vase from Trachones, Attica,” in A. Dakouri-Hild and S. Sherratt (eds.), AUTHOCHTHON: Papers Presented to O. T. P. K. Dickinson on the Occasion of His Retirement [BAR International Series 1432] (Oxford 2005) 276-281.
K. Demakopoulou and N. Divari-Valakou, “Evidence for Cult Practice at Midea: Figures, Figurines and Ritual Objects,” in R. Laffineur and R. Hägg, POTNIA. Deities and Religion in the Aegean Bronze Age [Aegaeum 22] (Liège/Austin 2001) 181-191.
B. C. Dietrich, "Uniformity and Change in Minoan and Mycenaean Religion," Kernos 6(1993) 113-122.
B. Eder, “Continuity of Bronze Age Cult at Olympia? The Evidence of the Late Bronze Age and Early Iron Age Pottery,” in R. Laffineur and R. Hägg, POTNIA. Deities and Religion in the Aegean Bronze Age [Aegaeum 22] (Liège/Austin 2001) 201-209.
R. C. S. Felsch, "Mykenischer Kult im Heiligtum bei Kalapodi?," in R. Hägg and N. Marinatos (eds.), Sanctuaries and Cults in the Aegean Bronze Age (Stockholm 1981) 81-89.
R. C. S. Felsch, "To mykenaïko iero sto Kalapodi: Latreia kai teletourgiko," in H periphereia tou mykenaïkou kosmou [A' Diethnes Diepistemoniko Symposio, Lamia, 25-29 Septembriou 1994] (Lamia 1999) 163-170.
R. C. S. Felsch, “Opferhandlungen des Alltagslebens im Heiligtum der Artemis Elaphebolos von Hyampolis in den Phasen SH IIIC – Spätgeometrisch,” in R. Laffineur and R. Hägg, POTNIA. Deities and Religion in the Aegean Bronze Age [Aegaeum 22] (Liège/Austin 2001) 193-199.
P. de Fidio, I Dosmoi Pilii a Poseidon. Una Terra Sacra di Età Micenea (Rome 1977).
P. de Fidio, "Potere politico e funzione del sacro nelle società micenee," Mélanges P. Lévêque 4. Religion (1990) 151-171.
E. B. French, "The Development of Mycenaean Terracotta Figurines," BSA 66(1971) 101-187.
E. B. French, "Cult Places at Mycenae," in R. Hägg and N. Marinatos (eds.), Sanctuaries and Cults in the Aegean Bronze Age (Stockholm 1981) 41-48.
E. B. French, "Mycenaean Figures and Figurines, Their Typology and Function," in R. Hägg and N. Marinatos (eds.), Sanctuaries and Cults in the Aegean Bronze Age (Stockholm 1981) 173-178.
E. B. French, “The Mycenae Figures,” in R. Laffineur and R. Hägg, POTNIA. Deities and Religion in the Aegean Bronze Age [Aegaeum 22] (Liège/Austin 2001) 275-276.
H. Gallet de Santerre, "Les statuettes de bronze au type dit du "Dieu Reshef" dans leur contexte égéen," BCH 111(1987) 7-29.
C. Gallou, The Mycenaean Cult of the Dead [BAR International S1372] (Oxford 2005).
E. Georgoulaki, "To mykenaïko iero sto Amyklaio. Epanexetase," Lakonikai Spoudai 9(1988) 376-409.
M. Gérard-Rousseau, Les mentions religieuses dans les tablettes mycéniennes (Rome 1968).
G. Gilmour, "Aegean Sanctuaries and the Levant in the Late Bronze Age," BSA 88(1993) 125-134.
L. Girella, “Vasi rituali con elementi miniaturizzati a Creta, in Egeo e nel Mediterraneo orientale alla fine dell’età del Bronzo. Indicatori archeologici ed etnici,” Creta Antica 3(2002) 167-216.
L. Godart, "Il Labirinto e la Potnia nei testi micenei," Rendiconti dell'Accademia di Archeologia, Lettere e Belle Arti 50(1975) 141-152.
L. Godart and A. Sacconi, "Les dieux thébains dans les archives mycéniennes," CRAI (1996) 99-113.
L. Goodison, Death, Women and the Sun: Symbolism of Regeneration in Early Aegean Religion (London 1989).
G. Gulizio, K. Pluta, and T. G. Palaima, “Religion in the Room of the Chariot Tablets,” in R. Laffineur and R. Hägg, POTNIA. Deities and Religion in the Aegean Bronze Age [Aegaeum 22] (Liège/Austin 2001) 453-461.
R. Hägg, "Mykenische Kultstätten im archäologischen Material," OpAth 8(1968) 39-60.
R. Hägg, "Official and Popular Cults in Mycenaean Greece," in R. Hägg and N. Marinatos (eds.), Sanctuaries and Cults in the Aegean Bronze Age (Stockholm 1981) 35-39.
R. Hägg, "The House Sanctuary at Asine Revisited," in R. Hägg and N. Marinatos (eds.), Sanctuaries and Cults in the Aegean Bronze Age (Stockholm 1981) 91-94.
R. Hägg, "Mycenaean Religion: The Helladic and the Minoan Components," in A. Morpurgo Davies and Y. Duhoux (eds.), Linear B: A 1984 Survey (Louvain-la-Neuve 1985) 203-225.
R. Hägg, "The Role of Libations in Mycenaean Ceremony and Cult," in R. Hägg and G. C. Nordquist (eds.), Celebrations of Death and Divinity in the Bronze Age Argolid (Stockholm 1990) 177-184.
R. Hägg, "State and Religion in Mycenaean Greece," in R. Laffineur and W-D. Niemeier, Politeia. Society and State in the Aegean Bronze Age [Aegaeum 12] (Liège 1995) II: 387-391.
R. Hägg, "Did the Middle Helladic Peopole Have Any Religion?," Kernos 10(1997) 13-18.
R. Hägg, "The Religion of the Mycenaeans Twenty-Four Years after the Mycenological Congress in Rome," in E. De Miro, L. Godart, and A. Sacconi (eds.), Atti e memorie del secondo congresso internazionale di micenologia [Incunabula Graeca 98] (Rome 1996) II: 599-612.
R. Hägg, "Ritual in Mycenaean Greece," in Ansichten griechischer Rituale: Geburtstag-Symposium für Walter Burkert (Stuttgart 1998) 99-113.
R. Hägg, “Some Reflections on the Sanctuary of Poseidon at Kalaureia in the Bronze Age,” in E. Konsolaki-Yiannopoulou (ed.), Argosaronikos: Praktika 1ou Diethnous Synedriou Istorias kai Archaiologias touj Argosaronikou (Athens 2003) 333-347.
Y. Hamilakis, “Animal Sacrifice and Mycenaean Societies: Preliminary Thoughts on the Zooarchaeological Evidence from the Sanctuary at Ag. Konstantinos Methana,” in E. Konsolaki-Yiannopoulou (ed.), Argosaronikos: Praktika 1ou Diethnous Synedriou Istorias kai Archaiologias touj Argosaronikou (Athens 2003) 249-256.
Y. Hamilakis and E. Konsolaki, “Pigs for the Gods: Burnt Animal Sacrifices as Embodied Rituals at a Mycenaean Sanctuary,” OJA 23(2004) 135-151.
E. Herkenrath, “Mykenische Kultszenen,” AJA 41(1937) 411-423.
S. Hiller, "Mykenische Heiligtümer: Das Zeugnis der Linear-B Texte," in R. Hägg and N. Marinatos (eds.), Sanctuaries and Cults in the Aegean Bronze Age (Stockholm 1981) 95-125.
S. Hiller, "Tempelwirtschaft im mykenischen Griechenland," Archiv für Orientforschung 19(1982) 94-104.
S. Hiller, “Potnia/Potnios Aigon. On the Religious Aspects of Goats in the Aegean Late Bronze Age,” in R. Laffineur and R. Hägg, POTNIA. Deities and Religion in the Aegean Bronze Age [Aegaeum 22] (Liège/Austin 2001) 293-304.
S. Hood, "A Mycenaean Horns of Consecration," in Philia Epe eis Georgion E. Mylonan A (Athens 1986) 148-151.
J. Hooker, "Cult Personnel in the Linear B. Texts from Pylos," in M. Beard and J. North (eds.), Pagan Priests (London 1990) 159-174.
D. D. Hughes, Human Sacrifice in Ancient Greece (London/New York 1991).
V. Isaakidou, P. Halstead, J. Davis, and S. Stocker, “Burnt Animal Sacrifice at the Mycenaean ‘Palace of Nestor’, Pylos,” Antiquity 76(2002) 86-92.
R. Jung, "Menschenopferdarstellungen? Zur Analyse minoischer und mykenischer Siegelbilder," PZ 72(1997) 133-194.
R. Kandeler, "Das Silphion als Emblem der Aphrodite: Zur Deutung eines Siegelringes aus dem Schatz von Mykene," Antike Welt 29(1998) 297-300.
K. Kilian, "Zeugnisse mykenische Kultausübung in Tiryns," in R. Hägg and N. Marinatos (eds.), Sanctuaries and Cults in the Aegean Bronze Age (Stockholm 1981) 49-58.
K. Kilian, "Patterns in the Cult Activity in the Mycenaean Argolid: Hagia Triada (Klenies), the Profitis Elias Cave (Haghios Hadrianos) and the Citadel of Tiryns," in R. Hägg and G. C. Nordquist (eds.), Celebrations of Death and Divinity in the Bronze Age Argolid (Stockholm 1990) 185-197.
K. Kilian, "Mykenische Heiligtümer der Peloponnes," in H. Froning, T. Hölscher, and H. Mielsch (eds.), Kotinos: Festschrift für Erika Simon (Mainz 1992) 10-25.
I. Kilian-Dirlmeier, "Zum Halsschmuck mykenischer Idole," Jahresbericht des Instituts für Vorgeschichte der Universität Frankfurt-am-Main (1978-79) 29-43.
J. Killen, "Piety Begins at Home," in P. Ilievski and L Crepajac (eds.), Tractata Mycenaea (Skopje 1987) 163-177.
J. T. Killen, “Religion at Pylos: The Evidence of the Fn Tablets,” in R. Laffineur and R. Hägg, POTNIA. Deities and Religion in the Aegean Bronze Age [Aegaeum 22] (Liège/Austin 2001) 435-443.
R. B. Koehl, "The Functions of Aegean Bronze Age Rhyta," in R. Hägg and N. Marinatos (eds.), Sanctuaries and Cults in the Aegean Bronze Age (Stockholm 1981)179-187.
E. Konsolaki, "A Mycenaean Sanctuary on Methana," in R. Hägg (ed.), Peloponnesian Sanctuaries and Cults (Stockholm 2002) 25-36.
E. Konsolaki-Yannopoulou, “New Evidence for the Practice of Libations in the Aegean Bronze Age,” in R. Laffineur and R. Hägg, POTNIA. Deities and Religion in the Aegean Bronze Age [Aegaeum 22] (Liège/Austin 2001) 213-220.
E. Konsolaki, “Mycenaean Religious Architecture: The Archaeological Evidence from Ayios Konstantinos, Methana,” in Celebrations. Sanctuaries and Vestiges of Cult Practiced [International Symposium at the Norwegian Institute at Athens, 12-16 May 1999] [forthcoming].
E. Konsolaki, “Mycenaean Religious Architecture: The Archaeological Evidence from Ayios Konstantinos, Methana,” in Celebrations: Sanctuaries and the Vestiges of Cult Activity [Papers from the Norwegian Institute at Athens 6] (Athens 2004) 61-94.
L. Kontorli-Papadopoulou, Aegean Frescoes of Religious Character [SIMA 117] (Göteborg 1996).
E. Kountoure, “Ryto me protomes elaphion kai tavrou apo ta Volimidia Messenias,” in A. Vlachopoulos and K. Birtacha (eds.), ARGONAUTIS: Timetikos tomos yia ton Kathegete Christo G. Douma apo tous mathetes tou sto Panepistimio Athenon (1980-2000) (Athens 2003) 665-687.
K. Kopaka, “A Day in Potnia’s Life. Aspects of Potnia and Reflected ‘Mistress’ Activities in the Aegean Bronze Age,” in R. Laffineur and R. Hägg, POTNIA. Deities and Religion in the Aegean Bronze Age [Aegaeum 22] (Liège/Austin 2001) 15-27.
I. Kritsele-Provide, Toichographies tou threskeutikou Kentrou ton Mykenon (Athens 1982).
O. H. Krxsyzkowska, "Cult and Craft: Ivories from the Citadel House Area, Mycenae," in R. Laffineur and P. P. Betancourt (eds.), TEXNH: Craftsmen, Craftswomen and Craftsmanship in the Aegean Bronze Age [Aegaeum 16] (Liège 1997) 145-150.
E. Kyriakidis, “The Economics of Potnia: Storage in ‘Temples’ of Prehistoric Greece,” in R. Laffineur and R. Hägg, POTNIA. Deities and Religion in the Aegean Bronze Age [Aegaeum 22] (Liège/Austin 2001) 123-129.
A. K. Kyrou, “E Amphiktionia tes Kalaureias: Aparches kai exelixe enos panarchaiou thesmou,” in E. Konsolaki-Yiannopoulou (ed.), Argosaronikos: Praktika 1ou Diethnous Synedriou Istorias kai Archaiologias touj Argosaronikou (Athens 2003) 349-362.
R. Laffineur, "Fécondité et pratiques funéraires en Égée à l'âge du Bronze," in Archaeology and Fertility Cult in the Ancient Mediterranean (1986) 79-96.
R. Laffineur, "Weitere Beiträge zur Symbolik im mykenischen Bestattungsritual," in Kolloquium zur ägäischen Vorgeschichte (Mannheim 1987) 125-132.
V. Lambrinoudakis, "Remains of the Mycenaean Period in the Sanctuary of Apollo Maleatas," in R. Hägg and N. Marinatos (eds.), Sanctuaries and Cults in the Aegean Bronze Age (Stockholm 1981) 59-65.
M. Lejeune, "Prêtres et prêtresses dans les documents mycéniens," Latomus 45(1960) 129-139.
A. Leukart, "Götter, Feste und Gefässe. Mykenisch -eus und -ewios: Strukturen eines Wortfeldes und seiner Weiterleben im späteren Griechisch," in A. Heubeck and G. Neumann (eds.), Res Mycenaeae (Göttingen 1983) 234-250.
A. Liveratou, “Religious Continuity from the Late Bronze Age to the Early Iron Age: A Contradicting Picture,” in A. Brysbaert, N. de Bruijn, E. Gibson, A. Michael, and M. Monaghan (eds.), SOMA 2002: Symposium on Mediterranean Archaeology [BAR International Series 1142] (Oxford 2003) 63-69.
S. Lupack, "Palaces, Sanctuaries, and Workshops: The Role of the Religious Sector in Mycenaean Economics," in M. L. Galaty and W. A. Parkinson (eds.), Rethinking Mycenaean Palaces: New Interpretations of an Old Idea (Los Angeles 1999) 25-34.
J. Maran, “Political and Religious Aspects of Architectural Change on the upper Citadel of Tiryns. The Case of Building T,” in R. Laffineur and R. Hägg, POTNIA. Deities and Religion in the Aegean Bronze Age [Aegaeum 22] (Liège/Austin 2001) 113-122.
A. Mazarakis Ainian, From Rulers’ Dwellings to Temples: Architecture, Religion and Society in Early Iron Age Greece (1100-700 B.C.) [SIMA 121] (Jonsered 1997).
C. Milani and C. Onofrio, La farmacia nel mondo minoico-miceneo ed egeo-anatolico (Chieti 1986).
A. Moore, "The Large Monochrome Terracotta Figures from Mycenae: The Problem of Interpretation," in E. B. French and K. A. Wardle (eds.), Problems in Greek Prehistory (Bristol 1988) 219-228.
A. Moore, A Study of Religious Practice in Bronze Age Greece with Particular Reference to the Various Cult Rooms at Mycenae (Ph.D. dissertation, Manchester University 1989).
A. Moore and W. D. Taylour, Well Built Mycenae: The Helleno-British Excavations within the Citadel at Mycenae 1959-1969, fascicule 10: The Temple Complex (Oxford 1999).
C. A. Morgan, "From Palace to Polis? Religious Developments on the Greek Mainland during the Bronze Age/Iron Age Transition," in P. Hellström and B. Alroth (eds.), Religion and Power in the Ancient Greek World (Uppsala 1996) 27-57.
C. Morgan, Isthmia VIII: The Late Bronze Age Settlement and Early Iron Age Sanctuary (Princeton 1999).
C. Morgan, “The Origins of the Isthmian Festival: Points of Comparison and Contrast,” in H. Kyrieleis (ed.), Olympia 1875-2000: 125 Jahre Deutsche Ausgrabungen (Mainz 2002) 251-271.
S. P. Morris, “Potnia Aswiya: Anatolian Contirbutions to Greek Religion,” in R. Laffineur and R. Hägg, POTNIA. Deities and Religion in the Aegean Bronze Age [Aegaeum 22] (Liège/Austin 2001) 423-434.
S. Müller-Celka, “Les personnages féminins des perles mycéniennes en verre bleu,” in R. Laffineur and R. Hägg, POTNIA. Deities and Religion in the Aegean Bronze Age [Aegaeum 22] (Liège/Austin 2001) 277-290.
G. E. Mylonas, The Cult Center of Mycenae (Athens 1972).
G. E. Mylonas, Mycenaean Religion, Temples, Altars and Temene (Athens 1977).
G. E. Mylonas, "The Cult Centre of Mycenae," Proceedings of the British Academy 67(1982) 307-320.
O. Negbi, "Levantine Elements in the Sacred Architecture of the Aegean at the Close of the Bronze Age," BSA 83(1988) 339-357.
R. V. Nicholls, "Greek Votive Statuettes and Religious Continuity ca. 1200-700 B.C.," in B. F. Harris (ed.), Auckland Classical Essays Presented to E. M. Blaiklock (Oxford 1970) 1-38.
K. Nicolaou, "Mycenaean Terracotta Figurines in the Cyprus Museum," OpAth 5(1964) 47-57.
W-D. Niemeier, "Zur Ikonographie von Gottheiten und Adoranten in den Kultszenen auf minoischen und mykenischen Siegeln," in W. Müller (ed.), Fragen und Probleme der bronzezeitlichen ägäischen Glyptik [CMS Beiheft 3] (Berlin 1989) 163-184.
W-D. Niemeier, "Cult Scenes on Gold Rings from the Argolid," in R. Hägg and G. C. Nordquist (eds.), Celebrations of Death and Divinity in the Bronze Age Argolid (Stockholm 1990) 165-170.
M. P. Nilsson, The Minoan-Mycenaean Religion and its Survival in Greek Religion [2nd edition] (Lund 1950).
M.-L. B. Nosch and M. Perna, “Cloth in the Cult,” in R. Laffineur and R. Hägg, POTNIA. Deities and Religion in the Aegean Bronze Age [Aegaeum 22] (Liège/Austin 2001) 471-477.
J-P. Olivier, À propos d'une "liste" de desservantes de sanctuaire dans les documents en linéaire B de Pylos (1960).
T. G. Palaima, "Die Linear-B Texte und der Ursprung der hellenischen Religion: DI-WO-NU-SO," in The History of the Hellenic Language and Writing: From the Second to the First Millennium B.C., Brek or Continuity? (Weilheim 1998) 205-224.
T. G. Palaima, "Kn02 - Tn316," in S. Deger-Jalkotzy, S. Hiller, O. Panagl, G. Nightingale, and T. Lindner (eds.), Floreant Studia Mycenaea (Vienna 1999) 437-461.
T. G. Palaima, "Assessing the Linear B Evidence for Continuity from the Mycenaean Period in the Boeotian Cult of Poseidon (and Erinys) at Onchestos (Telphousa-Haliartos)," in J. M. Fossey and M. Cosmopoulos (eds.), Boiotia Antiqua VII-VIII (Chicago, forthcoming).
A. Peppa-Papaioannou, Pelina Eidolia apo to Iero tou Apollona Maleata Epidaurias (Athens 1985).
A. Persson and Å. Åkerström, "Zwei mykenische Hausaltäre in Berbati," Bulletin de la Société Royale des Lettres de Lund (1937-38) 59-63.
A. W. Persson, The Religion of Greece in Prehistoric Times (Berkeley 1942).
C. Picard, Les religions préhelléniques (Paris 1948).
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K. Pilafidis-Williams, The Sanctuary of Aphia on Aigina in the Bronze Age (Munich 1998).
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The Ritual Destruction or Mutilation of Grave Goods
P. Åström, "Intentional Destruction of Grave Goods," in R. Laffineur (ed.), Thanatos. Les coutûmes funéraires en Égée à l'âge du Bronze [Aegaeum 1] (Liège 1987) 213-217.
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J. M. Fossey, "The Ritual Breaking of Objects in Greek Funerary Contexts: A Note," Folklore 96(1985) 21-23.
L. V. Grinsell, "The Breaking of Objects as a Funerary Rite," Folklore 72(1961) 475-491.
L. V. Grinsell, "The Breaking of Objects as a Funerary Rite," Folklore 84(1973) 111-114.
Y. Hamilakis, "Eating the Dead: Mortuary Feasting and the Politics of Memory in Aegean Bronze Age Societies," in K. Branigan (ed.), Cemetery and Society in the Aegean Bronze Age (Sheffield 1998)
I. Kilian-Dirlmeier, Die Schwerter in Griechenland (ausserhalb der Peloponnes), Bulgarien und Albanien [Prähistorische Bronzefunde IV.12] (Stuttgart 1993).
S. Reinach, "Un mythe né d'un rite: L'épée de Brennus," L'anthropologie (1906) 321-336.
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