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Mycenaean feasting on Tsoungiza at Ancient Nemea

Hesperia, Spring, 2004 by Mary K. Dabney, Paul Halstead, Patrick Thomas

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The settlement at Tsoungiza was only one of a number of settlements that lay on the northern periphery of Mycenae. Settlements to the east of Tsoungiza at Kleonai and Zygouries, and to the west at Phlious, Ayia Irini, and the settlement associated with the Aidonia cemetery might also have been drawn into Mycenae's social and economic sphere of influence.

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As Pia de Fidio argues,40 palace and villages were engaged in a dynamic relationship, not merely one in which the center commanded and the periphery obeyed; within villages themselves, hierarchies emerged. Competition among the elites at these sites could have driven both the practice of feasting and the establishment of public ritual. The rotation of regional feasts involving elites from a number of different centers would have contributed to maintaining regional political and economic alliances.

Mycenaean feasting on Tsoungiza at Ancient Nemea

Hesperia, Spring, 2004 by Mary K. Dabney, Paul Halstead, Patrick Thomas

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