Marinatos Nanno. Minoan Religion: Ritual, Image, and Symbol

University of South Carolina Press, 1993. — 310 p. — ISBN: 9780872497443, 0872497445.Comprehensive study of Minoan religion combining archaeological evidence and iconography with theories derived from the anthropology of religion, art history, structuralism, and the social sciences, this new synthesis interprets ritual as an integral part of social organization, hierarchy of power, and religious belief.Nanno Marinatos is a professor of Classics at the University of Illinois at Chicago. She is a Classical scholar specializing in the history of ancient religions and imagery, especially that of Minoan Crete. She has also dealt with the philosophy and religious outlook of the Greek historian Thucydides.