Research Catalog

Title

Women in Mycenaean Greece : the Linear B tablets from Pylos and Knossos / Barbara A. Olsen.

Author

Olsen, Barbara Ann, 1968-

Publication

Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, 2014.

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Details

Description

viii, 380 pages; 24 cm

Summary

"Women in Mycenaean Greece is the first book-length study of women in the Linear B tablets from Mycenaean Greece and the only to collect and compile all the references to women in the documents of the two best attested sites of Late Bronze Age Greece -- Pylos on the Greek mainland and Knossos on the island of Crete"--

Subject

• Women > Greece > Pylos > History
• Women > Greece > Knossos (Extinct city) > History
• Civilization, Mycenaean
• Clay tablets
• Inscriptions, Linear B > Greece > Pylos
• Inscriptions, Linear B > Greece > Knossos (Extinct city)
• Excavations (Archaeology) > Greece > Pylos
• Excavations (Archaeology) > Greece > Knossos (Extinct city)
• HISTORY / Ancient / General
• Pylos (Greece) > Antiquities
• Knossos (Extinct city) > Antiquities

Genre/Form

History

Note

• "Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada"--Title page verso.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

1 The Women Of Mycenaean Greece -- 2 Identifying and Contextualizing Women in the Tablets -- 3 Women and Production at Pylos -- 4 Women And Property Holdings At Pylos -- 5 Women at Knossos : Production and Property -- 6 Women and Land Tenure at Pylos and Knossos -- 7 Women And Religion At Knossos And Pylos -- 8 Conclusions: Women in Aegean Prehistory -- Appendix A: All Mentions of Women in the Pylos Tablets -- Appendix B: All Mentions of Women in the Knossos Tablets.

ISBN

• 9780415725156 (hardback)
• 0415725151 (hardback)
• 9781315795577 (ebook) (canceled/invalid)
• 1315795574 (ebook) (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

^^2013039284

OCLC

• 854497700
• SCSB-10928627

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library