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Myth, Ritual, and Society in Mycenaean Anatolia

Identifying Asian Influences
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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.

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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VerlagCambridge Academic
EinbandFester Einband
Erscheinungsjahr2025
AusgabekennzeichenEnglisch
AbbildungenWorked examples or Exercises
MasseH22.9 cm x B15.2 cm x D2.2 cm 621 g
CoverlagCambridge University Press (Imprint/Brand)
AutorWoodard Roger D.

Über den Autor Woodard Roger D.

Roger D. Woodard is Andrew van Vranken Raymond Professor of Classics at the University of Buffalo (The State University of New York). He has held fellowships and visiting appointments at, among other institutions, the Center for Hellenic Studies of Harvard University, the American Academy in Rome, and the University of Oxford. Woodard is author or editor of numerous books, including; The Textualization of the Greek Alphabet (Cambridge University Press, 2014), Myth, Ritual, and the Warrior in Roman and Indo-European Antiquity (Cambridge University Press, 2013) and The Cambridge Companion to Greek Mythology (Cambridge University Press, 2007).  He is series editor of Cambridge's Elements of Greek and Roman Mythology.

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