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Aussenbeziehungen kretischer Gemeinden zu den hellenistischen Staaten im 3. und 2. Jh. v. Chr.
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ISBN: 392580112X Year: 1992 Volume: 6 Publisher: München : Editio Maris,


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Minoan religion : ritual, image, and symbol
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ISBN: 0872497445 9780872497443 Year: 1993 Publisher: Columbia, S.C. : University of South Carolina Press,

From Minoan farmers to Roman traders : sidelights on the economy of Ancient Crete
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ISBN: 3515076212 Year: 1999 Volume: 29. Publisher: Stuttgart Franz Steiner Verlag

Minoans : life in Bronze Age Crete
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ISBN: 041508833X 0415040701 9780415040709 9780415088336 Year: 1993 Publisher: London : Routledge,

Cretan sanctuaries and cults
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ISSN: 09277633 ISBN: 9004142363 9789004142367 9781429452670 1429452676 1280867558 9781280867552 9786610867554 6610867550 9047406907 9789047406907 1433704501 9781433704505 Year: 2005 Volume: 154 Publisher: Leiden Boston Brill

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This volume documents the development of Cretan sanctuaries and associated cults from the end of the Late Bronze Age into the Archaic Period (c.1200–600 BC). The book supplies up-to-date site catalogues and discusses recurring types of sanctuaries, the history of their use and their religious and social functions, offering new insights into the period as a whole. Ancient Crete is known as an island whose religion displays a strong continuity with ‘Minoan’ traditions. The period of 1200–600 BC in general, however, is considered as one of profound socio-political and cultural change. This study explores the idea of ‘continuity’ by detailing the different processes and mechanisms involved in the maintenance of older cult traditions and provides balance by placing the observed changes in cult customs and the use of sanctuaries in the broader context of societal change.

The making of the Cretan landscape
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ISBN: 0719036461 071903647X 9780719036460 9780719036477 Year: 1996 Publisher: Manchester: Manchester University press,

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This is the first book to help the visitor understand Crete's remarkable landscape, which is just as spectacular as the island's rich archaeological heritage. Crete is a wonderful and dramatic island, a miniature continent with precipitous mountains, a hundred gorges, unique plants, extinct animals and lost civilisations, as well as the characteristic agricultural landscape of olive groves, vines and goats, Jennifer Moody and Oliver Rackham explain how the island's peculiar and extraordinary features, moulded and modified by centuries of human activity, have come together to create the landscape we see today. They also explain the formation and ecology of Crete's beautiful mountains and coastline, and the contemporary threats to the island's fragile natural beauty.

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