Exploring The Sacred Landscape Of The Ancient Peloponnese

Author : Eleni Marantou
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1803277726
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Exploring the Sacred Landscape of the Ancient Peloponnese written by Eleni Marantou and published by Archaeopress Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2024-05-16 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book traces the origins of the religious system of the Peloponnese to identify the factors behind its subsequent development from the Geometric to the Classical period. Through a presentation of cult places, the deities worshipped, and the epithets used, the book explores preferences for particular deities and the reasons for this.

Author : Lutz Käppel
Publisher : V&R unipress GmbH
ISBN 13 : 3847102524
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Human Development in Sacred Landscapes written by Lutz Käppel and published by V&R unipress GmbH. This book was released on 2015 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Holy Landscape" is a term frequently used to describe a multidimensional phenomenon. What this actually comprises is hard to define. Precisely this question is addressed in this volume. The "holy landscape" depends on people's Weltanschauung and is influenced by their respective culture and ethos. It is not just a question of religious buildings and rituals, nor is a mere matter of explicating terms such as "pure" and "impure", magic and myths; it is about an expressive space in which the "ceremony and mood of rites and cults" take place. The contributions also deal with the emergence and continuing development of the term "holy landscape" and the changing expressions of religious mood.

Author : Greta Hawes
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198744773
Total Pages : 351 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Myths on the Map written by Greta Hawes and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Papers presented at the sixth Bristol Myth Conference, held July 31-August 2, 2013 at the University of Bristol.

Author : Susan Guettel Cole
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520235444
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Landscapes, Gender, and Ritual Space written by Susan Guettel Cole and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2004-03-31 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A thorough exploration of the idea of sacred space in Ancient Greece including prohibitions, ordainment, and requirements of sacred sites with a special focus on gendered space.

Author : Stella Katsarou
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 100029613X
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cave and Worship in Ancient Greece written by Stella Katsarou and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-12-30 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cave and Worship in Ancient Greece brings together a series of stimulating chapters contributing to the archaeology and our modern understanding of the character and importance of cave sanctuaries in the fi rst millennium BCE Mediterranean. Written by emerging and established archaeologists and researchers, the book employs a fascinating and wide range of approaches and methodologies to investigate, and interpret material assemblages from cave shrines, many of which are introduced here for the fi rst time. An introductory section explores the emergence and growth of caves as centres of cult and religion. The chapters then probe some of the meanings attached to cave spaces and votive materials such as terracotta fi gurines, and ceramics, and those who created and used them. The authors use sensory and gender approaches, discuss the identity of the worshippers, and the contribution of statistical analysis to the role of votive materials. At the heart of the volume is the examination of cave materials excavated on the Cycladic islands and Crete, in Attika and Aitoloakarnania, on the Ionian islands and in southern Italy. This is a welcome volume for students of prehistoric and classical archaeology,enthusiasts of the history of caves, religion, ancient history, and anthropology.

Author : Ralph Haussler
Publisher : Oxbow Books
ISBN 13 : 1789253349
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sacred Landscapes in Antiquity written by Ralph Haussler and published by Oxbow Books. This book was released on 2020-07-31 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From generation to generation, people experience their landscapes differently. Humans depend on their natural environment: it shapes their behavior while it is often felt that deities responsible for both natural benefits and natural calamities (such as droughts, famines, floods and landslides) need to be appeased. We presume that, in many societies, lakes, rivers, rocks, mountains, caves and groves were considered sacred. Individual sites and entire landscapes are often associated with divine actions, mythical heroes and etiological myths. Throughout human history, people have also felt the need to monumentalize their sacred landscape. But this is where the similarities end as different societies had very different understandings, believes and practices. The aim of this new thematic appraisal is to scrutinize carefully our evidence and rethink our methodologies in a multi-disciplinary approach. More than 30 papers investigate diverse sacred landscapes from the Iberian peninsula and Britain in the west to China in the east. They discuss how to interpret the intricate web of ciphers and symbols in the landscape and how people might have experienced it. We see the role of performance, ritual, orality, textuality and memory in people’s sacred landscapes. A diachronic view allows us to study how landscapes were ‘rewritten’, adapted and redefined in the course of time to suit new cultural, political and religious understandings, not to mention the impact of urbanism on people’s understandings. A key question is how was the landscape manipulated, transformed and monumentalized – especially the colossal investments in monumental architecture we see in certain socio-historic contexts or the creation of an alternative humanmade, seemingly ‘non-natural’ landscape, with perfectly astronomically aligned buildings that define a cosmological order? Sacred Landscapes therefore aims to analyze the complex links between landscape, ‘religiosity’ and society, developing a dialectic framework that explores sacred landscapes across the ancient world in a dynamic, holistic, contextual and historical perspective.

Author : Jean Richer
Publisher : Suny Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sacred Geography of the Ancient Greeks written by Jean Richer and published by Suny Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides proof of the existence and explains the significance of planned alignments between classical temples and oracle sites over a wide range of territory, pointing to an astrological system of planning in the ancient world. This system of symbolism may be used predictively and is supported by all relevant artifacts. Here is a unifying approach to the study of geomancy in the ancient world as a whole. Richer has found a network of significant geographic alignments, associated with the pathways of various legendary figures and gods, that are geomantic keys to many legends and texts. One of these texts is Plato's Laws in which Plato describes the layout of the ideal city. Richer found Plato's ideal city repeated around the most important oracular centers on ancient Greece. He shows how Plato's description was a later codification of a much earlier practice of dividing geography into twelve regions under the patronage of the gods of the zodiac. Several such twelve-part divisions of the Greek Territories are presented here.

Author : Michael Cullen
Publisher : Hunter Publishing, Inc
ISBN 13 : 9781856912242
Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Landscapes of the Southern Peloponnese written by Michael Cullen and published by Hunter Publishing, Inc. This book was released on 2003 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This guide to Malta, Gozo and Comina includes: topographical walking maps; fold-out touring maps; many short walks and picnic suggestions - suitable for hot summer days and for those with young children; and an update service with specific route-change information.

Author : Mercourios Georgiadis
Publisher : INSTAP Academic Press
ISBN 13 : 1623034426
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Sacred Landscape at Leska and Minoan Kythera written by Mercourios Georgiadis and published by INSTAP Academic Press. This book was released on 2023-01-01 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presentes the results of the survey and excavation of a second peak sanctuary on Minoan Kythera at Leska. An introduction to the archaeological background of the island is provided, as well as a discussion on peak sanctuaries there and in Minoan Crete. The discovery of Leska and the research conducted there are described, and a discussion of the diachronic use of the summit is presented, following analyses of the material remains (including pottery, figurines, stone vessels, stone tools, and jewelry). Detailed discussions of the active role and significance of the landscape and the cultic practices allow an in-depth analysis of the links between society and cult, and also of the ways in which the landscape and immediate surroundings at Leska were sacralised in the Middle Minoan IB to Late Minoan IB phase. The broader analysis of the sacred landscape on Kythera provides a unique ropportunity to asess Aegean religion during the Minoan period outside Crete.

Author : Susan E. Alcock
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781383005431
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Placing the Gods written by Susan E. Alcock and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the significance behind the religious sites of ancient Greece - why they grew up there, and what social, political, and anthropological influences may have contributed to their development.