The Mycenaean Linear B tablets include numerous references to religion,
such as details of offerings, banqueting foodstuffs or land-tenure
relating to cult personnel. While contributing significantly to our
understanding of early Greek religion, the documents are exclusively
economic and administrative records and the limitations of such sources
have long been recognised. Few attempts have been made, however, to
analyse the purely economic information about religion we do have in
Linear B. Such analysis is essential to understanding the place of
religion in Mycenaean palace society. This book asks a simple but
important question: What proportion of the resources available to the
palaces was directed towards support for religion? Price approx.