Abstract:
Title: Hunting, myths and society in the Aegean and Greek world from the Late Bronze Age to the Roman period. Different point of view
Hunting, one of the oldest and most widely attested human activities, has often been the setting for ritual gestures that form part of cult ceremonies or practices that punctuate collective life. From the Late Bronze Age onwards, hunting became the prerogative of the Mycenaean elites, who built up a specific iconographic language around this activity, particularly lion and boar hunting, a language that was to be found many centuries later in the Hellenistic mosaic of Pella, whose protagonist is Alexander the Great. From Minoan Crete to the Roman epoch, representative examples of hunting myths, rituals and cults will be analysed through interdisciplinary studies involving archaeological, iconographic, historical and textual approaches.
Keywords: Archaeology, history, hunting, iconography, myth, philology, ritual.