Research Catalog

Title

Zoia : animal-human interactions in the Aegean Middle and Late Bronze Age : proceedings of the 18th International Aegean Conference, originally to be held at the Program in Aegean Scripts and Prehistory, in the Department of Classics, The University of Texas at Austin, May 28-31, 2020 / edited by Robert Laffineur and Thomas G. Palaima.

Author

International Aegean Conference (18th : 2020 Austin, Texas)

Publication

Leuven : Peeters, 2021.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Laffineur, Robert
• Palaima, Thomas G.

Description

ix, 394 pages, 83 pages of plates : illustrations (some color); 30 cm.

Summary

The 18th International Aegean Conference on the subject of Zoia (literally "creatures endowed with an anima or life force") was conceived and organized by Robert Laffineur and Tom Palaima, director of the Program in Aegean Scripts and Prehistory (PASP) in the Department of Classics at The University of Texas at Austin, marking 30 years of their collaboration on Aegaeum volumes and conferences. In the event, Covid-19 forced the cancellation of the conference proper.--This volume, however, testifies to the dedication of Aegeanist scholars worldwide to accomplish the scholarly objectives of the proposed conference: to examine, from a wide range of specialist research perspectives, how the human societies that developed in the Aegean area in the Middle and Late Bronze Age and the human beings within them interacted with wild, domesticated and semi-domesticated animals of the sea, sky and land socio-politically, economically, religiously, ideologically, imaginatively and artistically. Diamantis Panagiotopoulos stresses in his keynote paper that the 28 papers in Zoia reflect "the dynamic development of Human-Animal Studies" in the last two decades.--Papers are grouped under five main topics: identification of the animal environment; human uses of domesticated and wild animals, material economy, diet and society; hybrid and fantastic creatures in animal iconography (seals, frescoes and other forms of representation); animals in beliefs and religion (their contemporary symbolic uses and later uses as relics or heirlooms); and animals in texts (Indo-European and non-Indo-European; Cretan Pictographic, Linear A, Linear B and later Homeric and historical Greek). The results are comprehensive, eclectic, scientifically informative and intellectually provocative. They help us see protohistoric Aegean cultures as the non-human animals inextricably linked to them saw them.

Series Statement

Aegaeum ; 45

Uniform Title

Aegaeum ; 45.

Alternative Title

Animal-human interactions in the Aegean Middle and Late Bronze Age

Subject

• Human-animal relationships > Congresses
• Civilization, Aegean > Congresses
• Bronze age > Greece
• Bronze age
• Civilization, Aegean
• Human-animal relationships
• Greece

Genre/Form

Conference papers and proceedings.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Terms of Use (note)

• British Library not licensed to copy

Call Number

JFF 21-806

ISBN

• 9789042946361
• 9042946369

LCCN

9789042946361

OCLC

1264031578

Conference

International Aegean Conference (18th : 2020 Austin, Texas)

Title

Zoia : animal-human interactions in the Aegean Middle and Late Bronze Age : proceedings of the 18th International Aegean Conference, originally to be held at the Program in Aegean Scripts and Prehistory, in the Department of Classics, The University of Texas at Austin, May 28-31, 2020 / edited by Robert Laffineur and Thomas G. Palaima.

Publisher

Leuven : Peeters, 2021.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Aegaeum ; 45

Aegaeum ; 45.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references.

Terms Of Use

British Library not licensed to copy 0. Uk

Added Author

Laffineur, Robert, editor.

Palaima, Thomas G., editor.

Other Form:

9789042946378 e-book version

Other Standard Identifier

9789042946361

Research Call Number

JFF 21-806