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Title:

New light on a dark age : exploring the culture of geometric Greece / edited by Susan Langdon.

Publisher:

University of Missouri Press,

Copyright Date:

c1997

Description:

xii, 247 p. : ill. ; 24 cm,

Subject:

Civilization, Homeric--Congresses.
Cults--Greece--Congresses.
Greece--Congresses.--Geometric period, ca. 900-700 B.C--Congresses.
Greece--Congresses.--Congresses.

Other Authors:

Langdon, Susan Helen, 1952-

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 209-239) and index.

Contents:

The art of citizenship / Ian Morris -- Aspects of Athenian grave cult in the age of Homer / Barbara Bohen -- Greek and Near Eastern art in the age of Homer / Sarah P. Morris -- Thiasos and Marzeaḥ : ancestor cult in the age of Homer / Jane B. Carter -- Cult in Iron Age Attica / Merle Langdon -- The archaeology of cult in geometric Greece : Ionian temples, altars, and dedications / Christopher G. Simon -- Oral tradition and Homeric art : the hymn to Demeter / John Miles Foley -- From picture to myth, from myth to picture : prolegomena to the invention of mythic representation in Greek art / Barry B. Powell -- The shield of Achilles : ends of the Iliad and beginnings of the polis / Gregory Nagy.

ISBN:

9780826210999 (pbk.)
0826210996 (pbk.)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)35593480

LCCN:

96043443

Locations:

USUX851 -- ISU Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (University of Iowa) (Iowa City)

OZAX845 -- Ramaker Library (Orange City)