Myth, Ritual, and Society in Mycenaean Anatolia
Identifying Asian Influences
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Product details:
- Publisher Cambridge University Press
- Date of Publication 7 August 2025
- ISBN 9781009424516
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages340 pages
- Size 229x152x22 mm
- Weight 602 g
- Language English 754
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Short description:
Provides new analysis on the early Greek myth and cult in Europe and Anatolia and its relationship to Indo-Iranian myth and cult.
MoreLong description:
Despite the Mycenaean Linear B script having been deciphered some seventy years ago, much has remained uncertain regarding the ritual ideology of Mycenaean society that the Linear B documents reveal. Roger Woodard here explores this problem by investigating a new range of sources from the Late Bronze Age and Early Iron Age, together with processes of the transfer of knowledge between Anatolia and European Hellas. Bringing together evidence from Mycenaean culture with mythic and cult traditions of Iron Age Greek culture and Indo-Iranian sources, he reveals the close parallels between Mycenaean and Vedic ritual structures and practices, these being particular expressions of Mycenaean Asianism. He also demonstrates how features inspired from Indo-Iranian sources are present in Aeolian Greek epic traditions that emerged during the Iron Age, notably the Argonautic search for the Golden fleece.
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Introduction; 1. A Mycenaean ritual and its cult language; 2. Mycenaean and Vedic sacrificial posts; 3. Mycenaean leaders in the context of Indo-European and Indo-Iranian society and ritual; 4. Potnia of the labyrinth, initiation of the King, and the triple sacrifice; 5. Mitannian and Anatolian triads; 6. Nart saga, Indo-Iranian twins, and Dioscurias; 7. Golden fleeces; Conclusion; Bibliography.
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