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The Mycenaean feast / edited by James C. Wright. - xiii, 217 pages : illustrations, map ; 28 cm

"This volume is also published as issue 73:2 (2004) of Hesperia : The Journal of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens (ISSN 0018-098X)."--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references.

Preface / The Mycenaean feast : an introduction / A survey of evidence for feasting in Mycenaean society / Animal sacrifice, archives, and feasting at the Palace of Nestor / Mycenaean feasting on Tsoungiza at ancient Nemea / Sacrificial feasting in the linear B documents / Aegean feasting : a Minoan perspective / A goodly feast ... a cup of mellow wine : feasting in Bronze Age Cyprus / Feasting in Homeric epic / Tracey Cullen -- James C. Wright -- James C. Wright -- Sharon R. Stocker and Jack L. Davis -- Mary K. Dabney, Paul Halstead and Patrick Thomas -- Thomas G. Palaima -- Elisabetta Borgna -- Louise Steel -- Susan Sherratt. Ch. 1. Ch. 2. Ch. 3. Ch. 4. Ch. 5. Ch. 6. Ch. 7. Ch. 8.

ISBN: 0876619510 9780876619513

LCCN: 2004046237

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Civilization, Mycenaean
Food habits--History--Greece--To 1500.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Greece--Antiquities

LC Class. No.: DF220.5 / .M89 2004

Dewey Class. No.: 394.1209388