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Nanno Marinatos

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Connection to Illinois: Nanno is a professor of classics at the University of Illinois, Chicago.

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Nanno Marinatos on WorldCat : http://www.worldcat.org/search?q=nanno+marinatos


Selected Titles

Goddess and the Warrior
ISBN: 0415619432 OCLC: 668196859

Routledge 2011.

Minoan kingship and the solar goddess :
ISBN: 0252033922 OCLC: 233813744

University of Illinois Press, Urbana : ©2010.

""A multifaceted, innovative work that freshly interprets many aspects of the Minoan religious symbol system. Without a doubt, this book will stimulate extensive scholarly discussion?'-Thomas Staubli coauthor of Body Symbolism in the Bible" ""A radical and provocative view of Minoan art, religion, and society. Marinatos provides new readings of numerous Minoan artifacts, offering solutions to many puzzles and placing the imagery within a semantic system of sacral kingship and cosmology?'-Kenneth D.S. Lapatin author of Mysteries of the Snake Goddess: Art, Desire, and the Forging of History" "Ancient Minoan culture has been typically viewed as an ancestor of classical Greek civilization, but this book shows that Minoan Crete was on the periphery of a powerfully dynamic cultural interchange with its neighbors. Rather than viewing Crete as the autochthonous ancestor of Greece's glory, Nanno Marinatos considers ancient Crete in the context of its powerful competitors to the east and south." "Analyzing the symbols of the Minoan theocratic system and their similarities to those of Syria, Anatolia, and Egypt, Marinatos unlocks many Minoan visual riddles and establishes what she calls a "cultural twine," or standard set of cultural assumptions, that circulated throughout the Near East and the eastern Mediterranean at the time Minoan civilization reached its peak. She pays special attention to the similarities found in religion and political leadership, which were everywhere entwined. With more than two hundred illustrations, Minoan Kingship and the Solar Goddess delivers a comprehensive reading of Minoan art as a system of thought."--BOOK JACKET.

Minoan kingship and the solar goddess :
ISBN: 0252079671 OCLC: 843861714

Univ Of Illinois Press, [Place of publication not identified] : 2013.

Minoan religion :
ISBN: 0872497445 OCLC: 25547175

University of South Carolina Press, Columbia, S.C. : ©1993.

Minoan sacrificial ritual :
ISBN: 9185086959 OCLC: 16708712

Distributor P. Åström, Stockholm ; 1986.

The goddess and the warrior :
ISBN: 9780203462850 OCLC: 52280452

Routledge, London ; 2000.

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