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The main sources in Greek literature for the cult of Helen and/or Menelaus at Therapn? are Herodotus (6.61.3), Isocrates 10 (Encomium of Helen), and Pausanias (3.19.9-10). Isocrates is the one who speaks of joint-worship of Helen and Menelaus (10.63).

Catalogues and databases which are easily accessible to all interested parties regardless of their geographical location, occupation, background or purpose, provide a level playing field for research, publication and debate in the archaeology of the bronze age. The establishment of a canon of reliable, illustrated documentation of as many facets of the Bronze Age as are required, is a prerequisite to the future of our understanding of the Bronze Age.

Taking the major studies together it can be seen that there is a large degree of agreement in relation to the major trends. Indeed the noise which appears to be fairly equally if not normally, distributed over time is typical of that which might be expected due to differences in dating, different site sensitivity, and in regional variation.

Here I attempt a brief review and synthesis of the contents of these frameworks, and an assessment of current priorities in Bronze Age research.

Though textual evidence is meager, the difference between royal and non-royal funerary architecture clearly reflects two different visions of the afterlife. The tombs of the elite

This contribution will focus mainly on the period 2500