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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Olsen, Barbara Ann, 1968- author.

Contributor:

George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Excavations (Archaeology).

Inscriptions, Linear B.

Women.

History.

Pylos (Greece)--Antiquities.

Pylos (Greece).

Knossos (Extinct city)--Antiquities.

Knossos (Extinct city).

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).

Greece--Knossos (Extinct city).

Greece--Pylos.

Physical Description:

viii, 380 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, 2014.

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"-- Provided by publisher.

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.

Notes:

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

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

ISBN:

9780415725156

0415725151

OCLC:

854497700

Publisher Number:

99958482130