Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 538 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Balkan Peninsula
ISBN : UCAL:$B547257
Dēmosieumata
Anonim
Dēmosieumata
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Epistēmonika dēmosieumata
Ethnikon Metsovion Polytechneion (Greece)
Author : Ethnikon Metsovion Polytechneion (Greece)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Technology
ISBN : UOM:39015030862844
Epistēmonika dēmosieumata by Ethnikon Metsovion Polytechneion (Greece) Pdf
The Cambridge Companion to the Aegean Bronze Age
Cynthia W. Shelmerdine
Author : Cynthia W. Shelmerdine
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 577 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2008-08-04
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781107494626
The Cambridge Companion to the Aegean Bronze Age by Cynthia W. Shelmerdine Pdf
This book is a comprehensive up-to-date survey of the Aegean Bronze Age, from its beginnings to the period following the collapse of the Mycenaean palace system. In essays by leading authorities commissioned especially for this volume, it covers the history and the material culture of Crete, Greece, and the Aegean Islands from c.3000–1100 BCE, as well as topics such as trade, religions, and economic administration. Intended as a reliable, readable introduction for university students, it will also be useful to scholars in related fields within and outside classics. The contents of this book are arranged chronologically and geographically, facilitating comparison between the different cultures. Within this framework, the cultures of the Aegean Bronze Age are assessed thematically and combine both material culture and social history.
Rituals of Death and Dying in Modern and Ancient Greece
Evy Johanne Håland
Author : Evy Johanne Håland
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 690 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2014-10-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781443868594
Rituals of Death and Dying in Modern and Ancient Greece by Evy Johanne Håland Pdf
*Winner of the AFS Elli Köngäs-Maranda Prize 2016* Multidisciplinary or post-disciplinary research is what is needed when dealing with such complex subjects as ritual behaviour. This research, therefore, combines ethnography with historical sources to examine the relationship between modern Greek death rituals and ancient written and visual sources on the subject of death and gender. The central theme of this work is women’s role in connection with the cult of the dead in ancient and modern Greece. The research is based on studies in ancient history combined with the author’s fieldwork and anthropological analysis of today’s Mediterranean societies. Since death rituals have a focal and lasting importance, and reflect the gender relations within a society, the institutions surrounding death may function as a critical vantage point from which to view society. The comparison is based on certain religious festivals that are dedicated to deceased persons and on other death rituals. Using laments, burials and the ensuing memorial rituals, the relationship between the cult dedicated to deceased mediators in both ancient and modern society is analysed. The research shows how the official ideological rituals are influenced by the domestic rituals people perform for their own dead, and vice versa, that the modern domestic rituals simultaneously reflect the public performances. As this cult has many parallels with the ancient official cult, the following questions are central: Can an analysis of modern public and domestic rituals in combination with ancient sources tell the reader more about the ancient death cult as a whole? What does such an analysis suggest about the relationship between the domestic death cult and the official? Since the practical performance of the domestic rituals was – and still remains – in the hands of women, it is crucial to discover the extent of their influence to elucidate the real power relations between women and men. This research represents a new contribution to earlier presentations of the Greek “reality”, but mainly from the female perspective, which is highly significant since men produced most of the ancient sources. This means that the principal objective for this endeavour is to question the ways in which history has been written through the ages, to supplement the male with a female perspective, perhaps complementing an Olympian Zeus with a Chthonic Mother Earth. The research brings both ancient and modern worlds into mutual illumination; its relevance therefore transcends the Greek context both in time and space.
Women, Pilgrimage, and Rituals of Healing in Modern and Ancient Greece
Evy Johanne Håland
Author : Evy Johanne Håland
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 658 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2023-07-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781527593183
Women, Pilgrimage, and Rituals of Healing in Modern and Ancient Greece by Evy Johanne Håland Pdf
This book investigates religious rituals and gender in modern and ancient Greece, with a specific focus on women’s role in connection with healing. How can we come to understand such mainstays of ancient culture as its healing rituals, when the male recorders did not, and could not, know or say much about what occurred, since the rituals were carried out by women? The book proposes that one way of tackling this dilemma is to attend similar healing rituals in modern Greece, carried out by women, and compare the information with ancient sources, thus providing new ways of interpreting the ancient material we possess. Carrying out fieldwork—being present during, often, enduring rituals within cultures, despite other changes—teaches one whole new ways of looking at written and pictorial records of such events. By bringing ancient and modern worlds into mutual illumination, this text also has relevance beyond the Greek context both in time and space.
Women, Pain and Death
Evy Johanne Håland
Author : Evy Johanne Håland
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2009-10-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781443815178
Women, Pain and Death by Evy Johanne Håland Pdf
“Women, Pain and Death: Rituals and Everyday-Life on the Margins of Europe and Beyond” is a cross-cultural and multidisciplinary collection of articles representing different perspectives and topics related to the general theme Women and Death from different periods and parts of Europe, as well as the Middle East and Asia, i.e. areas where, through the ages, there have been a constant interaction and discourse between a variety of people, often with different ethnic backgrounds. The studies illustrate many parallels between the various societies and religious groupings, despite of many differences, both in time and space. The theme, death, is mostly seen from what have been regarded as the geographical margins of society as well as concerning the people involved: women. Thus, the articles, most of them presenting original material from areas which are not very known for English readers, offer new perspectives on the processes of cultural changes. The collection has important ramification for current research surrounding the shaping of a “European identity”, the marketing of regional and national heritages. In connection with the present-day aim of connecting the various European heritages, and developing a vision of Europe and its constituent elements that is both global and rooted, the work has great relevance. One may also mention the new international initiative on intangible heritage, spearheaded by UNESCO.
The Archaeology of Byzantine Anatolia
Philipp Niewohner
Author : Philipp Niewohner
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 672 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2017-03-17
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780190610470
The Archaeology of Byzantine Anatolia by Philipp Niewohner Pdf
This book accounts for the tumultuous period of the fifth to eleventh centuries from the Fall of Rome and the collapse of the Western Roman Empire through the breakup of the Eastern Roman Empire and loss of pan-Mediterranean rule, until the Turks arrived and seized Anatolia. The volume is divided into a dozen syntheses that each addresses an issue of intrigue for the archaeology of Anatolia, and two dozen case studies on single sites that exemplify its richness. Anatolia was the only major part of the Roman Empire that did not fall in late antiquity; it remained steadfast under Roman rule through the eleventh century. Its personal history stands to elucidate both the emphatic impact of Roman administration in the wake of pan-Mediterranean collapse. Thanks to Byzantine archaeology, we now know that urban decline did not set in before the fifth century, after Anatolia had already be thoroughly Christianized in the course of the fourth century; we know now that urban decline, as it occurred from the fifth century onwards, was paired with rural prosperity, and an increase in the number, size, and quality of rural settlements and in rural population; that this ruralization was halted during the seventh to ninth centuries, when Anatolia was invaded first by the Persians, and then by the Arabs---and the population appears to have sought shelter behind new urban fortifications and in large cathedrals. Further, it elucidates that once the Arab threat had ended in the ninth century, this ruralization set in once more, and most cities seem to have been abandoned or reduced to villages during the ensuing time of seeming tranquility, whilst the countryside experienced renewed prosperity; that this trend was reversed yet again, when the Seljuk Turks appeared on the scene in the eleventh century, devastated the countryside and led to a revival and refortification of the former cities. This dynamic historical thread, traced across its extremes through the lens of Byzantine archaeology, speaks not only to the torrid narrative of Byzantine Anatolia, but to the enigmatic medievalization.
That Greece Might Still be Free
William St. Clair
Author : William St. Clair
Publisher : Open Book Publishers
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : 9781906924003
That Greece Might Still be Free by William St. Clair Pdf
When in 1821, the Greeks rose in violent revolution against the rule of the Ottoman Turks, waves of sympathy spread across Western Europe and the United States. More than a thousand volunteers set out to fight for the cause. The Philhellenes, whether they set out to recreate the Athens of Pericles, start a new crusade, or make money out of a war, all felt that Greece had unique claim on the sympathy of the world. As Byron wrote, 'I dreamed that Greece might Still be Free'; and he died at Missolonghi trying to translate that dream into reality. William St Clair's meticulously researched and highly readable account of their aspirations and experiences was hailed as definitive when it was first published. Long out of print, it remains the standard account of the Philhellenic movement and essential reading for any students of the Greek War of Independence, Byron, and European Romanticism. Its relevance to more modern ethnic and religious conflicts is becoming increasingly appreciated by scholars worldwide. This new and revised edition includes a new Introduction by Roderick Beaton, an updated Bibliography and many new illustrations.
Dictionary of Bibliographic Abbreviations Found in the Scholarship of Classical Studies and Related Disciplines
Jean S. Wellington
Author : Jean S. Wellington
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 704 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2003-08-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780313072550
Dictionary of Bibliographic Abbreviations Found in the Scholarship of Classical Studies and Related Disciplines by Jean S. Wellington Pdf
Trying to identify abbreviated titles of journals and standard bibliographic works is a major difficulty facing researchers and librarians in the field of Classical Studies. This revised edition has been greatly expanded, with nearly twice the abbreviations (17,000) and bibliographic entries (12,400) as the first edition. Also, the Greek and Cyrillic abbreviations have increased by seven and four fold respectively. Abbreviations for internet sites are now included, as are those for associations in the broad area of Classical Studies. There are also more entries for Eastern European and regional archaeological publications. This revised volume is divided into two parts. Part One consists of an alphabetical listing of bibliographic abbreviations found in the scholarship of classical studies and related disciplines. Meanwhile, Part Two is an alphabetically arranged bibliographic descriptions for the works published in classical studies and related disciplines. Special efforts were made to increase the coverage in peripheral areas, making this new edition a useful reference tool for scholars in all subjects of study in the ancient and medieval world.
From Roman to Early Christian Thessalonikē
Laura Nasrallah,Charalambos Bakirtzis,Steven J. Friesen
Author : Laura Nasrallah,Charalambos Bakirtzis,Steven J. Friesen
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780674053229
From Roman to Early Christian Thessalonikē by Laura Nasrallah,Charalambos Bakirtzis,Steven J. Friesen Pdf
This volume brings together international scholars of religion, archaeologists, and scholars of art and architectural history to investigate social, political, and religious life in Roman and early Christian Thessalonikē, an important metropolis in the Hellenistic, Roman, and early Christian periods and beyond. This volume is the first broadly interdisciplinary investigation of Roman and early Christian Thessalonikē in English and offers new data and new interpretations by scholars of ancient religion and archaeology. The book covers materials usually treated by a broad range of disciplines: New Testament and early Christian literature, art historical materials, urban planning in antiquity, material culture and daily life, and archaeological artifacts from the Roman to the late antique period.
Mortuary Variability and Social Diversity in Ancient Greece
Nikolas Dimakis,Tamara M. Dijkstra
Author : Nikolas Dimakis,Tamara M. Dijkstra
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2020-01-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781789694437
Mortuary Variability and Social Diversity in Ancient Greece by Nikolas Dimakis,Tamara M. Dijkstra Pdf
This volume brings together early career scholars working on funerary customs in Greece from the Early Iron Age to the Roman period. Papers present various thematic and interdisciplinary analysis in which funerary contexts provide insights on individuals, social groups and communities.
The Virgin in Song
Thomas Arentzen
Author : Thomas Arentzen
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2017-04-03
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780812293913
The Virgin in Song by Thomas Arentzen Pdf
According to legend, the Virgin appeared one Christmas Eve to an artless young man standing in one of Constantinople's most famous Marian shrines. She offered him a scroll of papyrus with the injunction that he swallow it, and following the Virgin's command, he did so. Immediately his voice turned sweet and gentle as he spontaneously intoned his hymn "The Virgin today gives birth." So was born the career of Romanos the Melodist (ca. 485-560), one of the greatest liturgical poets of Byzantium, author of at least sixty long hymns, or kontakia, that were chanted during the night vigils preceding major feasts and festivals. In The Virgin in Song, Thomas Arentzen explores the characterization of Mary in these kontakia and the ways in which the kontakia echoed the cult of the Virgin. He focuses on three key moments in her story as marked in the liturgical calendar: her encounter with Gabriel at the Annunciation, her child's birth at Christmas, and the death of her son on Good Friday. Consistently, Arentzen contends, Romanos counters expectations by shifting emphasis away from Christ himself to focus on Mary—as the subject of the erotic gaze, as a breastfeeding figure of abundance and fertility, and finally as an authoritatively vocal woman who conveys the secrets of her son and the joys of the resurrection. Through his hymns, Romanos inspired an affective relationship between Mary and his audience, bringing the human and the holy into dialogue. By plumbing her emotional depths, the poet traces her process of understanding as she apprehends the mysteries that she embodies. By giving her a powerful voice, he grants subjectivity to a maiden who becomes a mediator. Romanos shaped a figure, Arentzen argues, who related intimately to her flock in a formative period of Christian orthodoxy.
Dying and Death in 18th-21st Century Europe
Corina Rotar,Marius Rotar
Author : Corina Rotar,Marius Rotar
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2014-03-17
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781443857468
Dying and Death in 18th-21st Century Europe by Corina Rotar,Marius Rotar Pdf
This book features the second selection of the most representative papers presented at the international conference “Dying and Death in 18th–21st Century Europe” (ABDD), a traditional scientific event organized every year in Alba Iulia, Romania. The book invites the reader on a fascinating journey across the last three centuries of Europe, using the concept of death as a guide. The past and present realities of the complex phenomena of death and dying in Romania, the United Kingdom, Lithuania, Serbia, Macedonia, Poland, USA, Germany, Sweden, Finland, and Italy are dealt with by authors from varying backgrounds, including historians, sociologists, psychologists, priests, humanists, anthropologists, and doctors. This is proof that death as a topic cannot be confined to one science; the deciphering of its meanings and of the shifts it effects requires a joint, interdisciplinary effort.
Late Antique Metal Vessels in the Carpathian Basin
Tivadar Vida
Author : Tivadar Vida
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Metal-work
ISBN : 963991181X
Late Antique Metal Vessels in the Carpathian Basin by Tivadar Vida Pdf
The magnificent gold and silver vessels that reached the Barbarian elites of the Migration period either as diplomatic gifts or as war booty, as part of annual subsidies or through trade, attest to the many forms of cultural exchanges between the late antique civilisation of the Mediterranean and the tribal kingdoms emerging on its fringes. These resplendent silver and gold vessels were prized possessions of elite households, whose display enhanced the splendour of community feasts and ceremonies. As expensive diplomatic gifs, precious metal vessels played an important role in maintaining and cementing amicable relations and alliances between the late antique states and the Barbarian kingdoms. The elegant gold and silver vessels bore witness to the prosperity and "good life" of the late antique aristocracy, while their graceful form and delicate ornamentation were designed to reflect the erudition and cultural values of their owners. These masterpieces of late antique art retained their role as status symbols in their new cultural milieu too, and they were sometimes circulated as part of the gift exchanges between Barbarian elites or between a Barbarian king and his nobles. The more humble copper-alloy vessels used in daily life can usually be associated with the middle classes and reflect the appeal of the late antique aristocracy's lifestyle to a broader circle as well as the desire to emulate their table customs and to acquire at least copies of their tableware. Late antique and early Byzantine metal vessels were mediums of social display not only during their owners' lifetimes, but also after their death through the deposition of these impressive items in burials.
Nationalism and War
John A. Hall,Siniša Malešević
Author : John A. Hall,Siniša Malešević
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 387 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2013-04-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781107067875
Nationalism and War by John A. Hall,Siniša Malešević Pdf
Has the emergence of nationalism made warfare more brutal? Does strong nationalist identification increase efficiency in fighting? Is nationalism the cause or the consequence of the breakdown of imperialism? What is the role of victories and defeats in the formation of national identities? The relationship between nationalism and warfare is complex, and it changes depending on which historical period and geographical context is in question. In 'Nationalism and War', some of the world's leading social scientists and historians explore the nature of the connection between the two. Through empirical studies from a broad range of countries, they explore the impact that imperial legacies, education, welfare regimes, bureaucracy, revolutions, popular ideologies, geopolitical change, and state breakdowns have had in the transformation of war and nationalism.