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Author Christakopoulou-Sōmakou, Gioulika, author.

Title To die in style! : the residential lifestyle of feasting and dying In Iron Age, Stamna, Greece / Gioulika-Olga Christakopoulou.

Publication Info. Summertown, Oxford : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd, 2018.

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Description 1 online resource (100 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour)
text file
Note Previously issued in print: 2018.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Summary This volume investigates the culture of feasting and the rituals of death among elite citizens in Iron Age Stamna, Greece, by studying archaeological finds from a large number of Protogeometric era tombs.
Audience Specialized.
Note Available through Archaeopress Digital Subscription Service.
Contents The Banquet through the Burial Testimony.; A. The tomb evidence.; B. Material evidence of consumption: The ceramic dinner sets.; C. Bronze vessels.; D. Complementary feasting equipment: Spits, Hooks and Knives.; Fare thee well. The Stamna Timeless Farewell.; Feasting and Dying in a lebes; an institutional innovation with an international appeal.; Symposium, Religion and Cult portrayed through successive layers of burials, (semi)circular constructions and pyres.; 'Consuming' with the dead.; "In Darkness We Trust"; References.
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Subject Fasts and feasts -- Greece -- Aitōlia kai Akarnania -- History -- To 1500.
Fasts and feasts.
Greece -- Aitōlia kai Akarnania.
History.
Chronological Term To 1500
Subject Death -- Greece -- Aitōlia kai Akarnania -- History -- To 1500.
Death.
Tombs -- Greece -- Aitōlia kai Akarnania -- History -- To 1500.
Tombs.
Aitōlia kai Akarnania (Greece) -- Antiquities.
Funeral rites and ceremonies, Ancient -- Greece -- Aitōlia kai Akarnania.
Funeral rites and ceremonies, Ancient.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Added Author Archaeopress, publisher.
Other Form: Print version: 9781784919351
ISBN 1784919365
9781784919368 (electronic book)