Published by the Swedish Institute at Athens. Distributed by Eddy.se AB. LM IIIB Knossos and its relations to Kydonia By Birgitta P. Hallager Abstract The date of the destruction of the palace at Knossos on Crete has been one of the key problems of Aegean prehistory since the palace was excavated at the beginning of the 20th century. The excavator Arthur Evans argued for an LM II date as he presumed that the inscribed tablets found in the palace destruction layers must have been written by the people who had produced the large and richly adorned Palace Style jars which he dated to the LM II period. After his death Evans’ date has been questioned, keenly debated and finally lowered to early LM IIIA:2. Nobody, however, has studied the amount and distribution of the latest pottery of LM IIIB date found in the palace, its connection to the inscribed tablets and its presence in the surrounding houses, town and cemeteries. The LM IIIB pottery in Knossos is here scrutinized through the Day and Note Books of the excavation, the original excavation reports in the Annual of the British School at Athens and the published sherds and complete vases. Finally the close connections between the two…

Published by the Swedish Institute at Athens. Distributed by Astrom Editions. Ancient Greek hero cult. Proceedings of the Fifth International Seminar on Ancient Greek Cult, organized by the Department of Classical Archaeology and Ancient History, Göteborg University, 21–23 April 1995 Edited by Robin Hägg Abstract A collection of twelve papers, read at an international seminar in Göteborg, that deal with various phenomena of the ancient Greek hero cult, based on literary, iconographical and archaeological evidence. Among the special topics discussed are the hero cults in Early Iron Age Greece, the relationship between funerary ritual, the veneration of ancestors and the cult of heros, the Danaides of Argos as “ancestors”, the multilocality of heroes, patriotic heroes, the politics of the transferal of the bones of heros, the position of the Dioskouroi as Laconian heroes worshipped also in Attica, the origins of Greek hero cult in the context of overseas foundations, the heroon of Asclepius in Athens, the sacrificial rituals of Greek hero cults in Pausanias, the hero Melikertes-Palaimon at Isthmia, and the development of hero cults in the Hellenistic and Roman periods. Contents ‘Preface’, p. 7 Alexander Mazarakis Ainian, ‘Reflections on hero cults in Early Iron Age Greece’, pp. 9–36 Robin…