Browsing Department of Art History and Archaeology (MU) by Thesis Advisor "Langdon, Susan Helen, 1952-"
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Dedications in clay : terracotta figurines in early Iron Age Greece (c. 1100-700 BCE)
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)This dissertation explores early Greek religion and society through a contextual analysis of the ritual use of terracotta votive figurines in the Early Iron Age, c. 1100-700 BCE. I have compiled the major deposits of ... -
Herakles iconography on Tyrrhenian Amphorae
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2005)The Etruscans, well-known in the ancient world for seafaring and trade, held deep beliefs about death and the afterlife, and often placed foreign objects in their tombs which fit with these traditions. The Athenians, who ... -
Money, power, and gender: evidence for influential women represented on inscribed bases and sculpture on Kos
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)In this thesis I have attempted to show evidence for a rise of influential women on Kos during the Hellenistic period in the Greek East. I gathered my evidence from sculptural inscriptions and portraits to count the number ... -
The Nemean Wells : sanctuary context and ritual activities in the northeast Peloponnese
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2017)Nemea is known as the site of the panhellenic Sanctuary of Zeus and yet can also be considered a place of rural cult activity due to its location within the Nemea Valley, removed from large polis centers. The sanctuary is ... -
Painting the wine-dark sea : traveling Aegean fresco artists in the Middle and late Bronze Age Eastern Mediterranean
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)During the Middle and Late Bronze Age, the "civilized world" was not centered on the Aegean or the Mediterranean as in later centuries, but was instead shifted east. The older, established civilizations in Egypt and the ... -
Pictorial representations of monkeys and simianesque creatures in Greek art
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)"Primates are visually disturbing to many--at least I thought so when I was young. Their physical and behavioral similarities with humans were uncomfortable and jarring to my developing mind. As an adult, however, I have ... -
Pieces of the sun : amber in Mycenaean economy and society
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Amber was a substance highly prized by the Mycenaean Greeks. It appeared in small amounts in the Early and Middle Bronze Ages, but in the Late Bronze ... -
Regional variation in protopalatial Crete?: a comparison of Minoan domestic and funerary architecture in Eastern and Central Crete
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] This study investigates the existence and extent of regional variation in Crete in the Protopalatial period (Middle Minoan IB-II) as reflected in the ... -
The sacred life of the hetaira in ancient Greece
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Religion in the ancient Greek world was integral to societal function, and arguably to survival. Whether citizen, slave, or freedman, some form of ...