Year: 2019, 2019
Member of: Trent University Graduate Thesis Collection
Abstract: <p>The goal of this thesis is to explore the role that civic (i.e. state-sponsored)</p><p>feasting and drinking played in early polis (pl. poleis), or city-state formation on Crete in</p><p>the Early Iron Age to Archaic transition, ca. 700-500 BCE. Using the two recently</p><p>excavated civic feasting structures at the site of Azoria as a model for both… more Full Text: THE POLITICS OF FEASTING: CIVIC COMMENSALITY AND THE RISE OF THE POLIS IN THE EARLY IRON AGE TO ARCHAIC TRANSITION ON CRETE, CA. 700-500 BCE A Thesis Submitted to the Committee on Graduate Studies in Partial Fulfillment for the Degree of Master of Arts in …