Κατεύθυνση Αρχαιολογία της Ελλάδας και της Ανατολικής Μεσογείου: από τα ανάκτορα της Εποχής του Χαλκού έως και τα Ελληνιστικά βασίλεια
Βιβλιοθήκη Φιλοσοφικής Σχολής

2024-10-23

2024

Μίτροβιτς Μισέλ

Vassilis Petrakis, Assistant Professor of Prehistoric Archaeology, Department of History
and Archaeology, NKUA (Supervisor);
Yiannis Papadatos, Professor of Prehistoric Archaeology, Department of History
and Archaeology, NKUA (1st assessor);
Giorgos Vavouranakis, Professor of Prehistoric Archaeology, Department of History
and Archaeology, NKUA (2nd assessor).

The Octopus in Bronze Age Aegean iconography

Αγγλικά

Το χταπόδι στην Αιγαιακή εικονογραφία της Εποχής του Χαλκού

The octopus was among the most popular decorative motifs in Minoan and Mycenaean iconographic tradition. The main hypothesis presented in this work suggests that the specific iconographic approach, style, and context of images of octopuses depicted with large frontal eyes and primarily as a focal and/or isolated motif, which is seen in the Bronze Age Aegean visual corpus, served a protective or apotropaic purpose. It is further proposed that the roots of this function can be found in animal biology, particularly, in a defensive mechanism known as Deimatic Display. The same fundamental mechanism has been also shown to moderate human behavior and potentially to be the underlying principle for the beliefs in the protective power of the Gorgoneion of the Greek historical period and the amulet known as the Evil Eye.

Αρχαιολογία

Octopus, Minoan, Mycenaean, Bronze Age Aegean, iconography, Marine Style, Evil Eye, Deimatic Display, Gorgon, gorgoneion, Medusa, apotropaic, cephalopod, Minoan pottery, larnakes, Tiryns, Pylos fresco paintings

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https://pergamos.lib.uoa.gr/uoa/dl/object/3420922