more book stuff, dead Greeks' religion
Finally finished The Cult Places of the Aegean. My big criticisms are it's basically The Cult Places of Crete and Maybe a Little Greece as a Treat and there's a time scale referenced but not given anywhere, which doesn't quite match the "Helladic chronology" I can find. (It's very much assumed you research Mycenaeans for a living.) That said it's basically everything you might possibly wondered about this topic, the wildest speculation is pretty plausible (Mycenaeans remained basically an agrarian civilization with shrines out there in farmland long after they became urbanized and therefore obvious temples in towns are slow to crop up). The last interesting part in the book was a (believable but I wish better substantiated) contention that the eruption at Santorini really screwed with these dudes' take on the world because suddenly there's lots of activity at cave sites and less activity at official shrines.