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

• VerfasserIn: Christakopoulou, Gioulika - Olga,
• Place / Publishing House: Summertown : : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd,, [2018]; ©2018
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (85 pages)

Symposium in Stamna both as a concept and as a process involved the presence of prominent citizens of the social establishment, as testified by the large cauldrons, tripod jars and tripod vessels present. This study re-examines the cemeteries studied to date, isolating tombs with unique architecture or peculiar structures with individual features, in order to investigate the complex identity of the elite group ideologies. The finding and studying of such a large number of PRG tombs (500 ca) presents a good representative example for discussing the perception of death, and how it was confronted through the mourning ritual. The data also presents an opportunity to examine the creation of individual and collective memory in a population that operated in this privileged location, redefining as such the cultural landscape of the Protogeometric era. The pre-existing theoretical framework, the methodology of the managing and displaying of grief and their correlation with already-studied and exalted geographical parallels, integrate Stamna into the cultural chain of populations ruled by an overall-systematic design of a particular cultural ideology.

Table of Contents

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Preface and acknowledgments -- What we live by we die by. Robert Frost -- The Banquet through the Burial Testimony -- 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 -- Old cities, old souls... -- 'In Darkness We Trust' -- Preface and acknowledgments -- Introduction -- What we live by we die by. Robert Frost -- 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 -- Old cities, old souls... -- 'In Darkness We Trust' -- References -- References.