Roger D. Woodard

Gebundenes Buch

Myth, Ritual, and Society in Mycenaean Anatolia

Beschreibung

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.

Autor

Roger Woodard is Andrew van Vranken Raymond Professor of the Classics at the University of Buffalo (The State University of New York). He has held fellowships at the Center for Hellenic Studies of Harvard University, The American Academy in Rome, and the University of Oxford, and is the author and editor of numerous books, most recently Aeolic and Aeolians: Origins of an Ancient Greek Language and its Community of Speakers (2024).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 340
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Juni 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 703g
• ISBN-13: 9781009424516
• ISBN-10: 1009424513
• Artikelnr.: 73310336