The Akragas Dialogue

Author : Monica De Cesare,Elisa Chiara Portale,Natascha Sojc
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2020-02-24
Category : Art
ISBN : 9783110498783

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The Akragas Dialogue by Monica De Cesare,Elisa Chiara Portale,Natascha Sojc Pdf

The papers of this volume focus on the sacred landscapes of ancient Sicily. Religious and cultural dimensions of Greek sanctuaries are assessed in light of the results of recent exacavations and new readings of literary sources. The material dimension of cult practices in ancient sanctuaries is the central issue of all contributions, with a focus on the findings from ancient Akragas. Great attention is also paid to past ritual activities, which are framed in three complementary areas of enquiry. Firstly, the architectural setting of sanctuaries is examined beyond temple buildings to assess the wider context of their structural and spatial complexity. Secondly, the material culture of votive deposition and religious feasting is analysed in terms of performative characteristics and through the lens of anthropological approaches. Thirdly, the significance of gender in cultic practice is investigated in light of the fresh data retrieved from the field. The new findings presented in this volume contribute to close the existing research gaps in the study of sanctuaries in Sicily, as well as the wider practice of Greek religion.

Author : Monica De Cesare,Elisa Chiara Portale,Natascha Sojc
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 594 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2020-02-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783110497687

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The Akragas Dialogue by Monica De Cesare,Elisa Chiara Portale,Natascha Sojc Pdf

The papers of this volume focus on the sacred landscapes of ancient Sicily. Religious and cultural dimensions of Greek sanctuaries are assessed in light of the results of recent exacavations and new readings of literary sources. The material dimension of cult practices in ancient sanctuaries is the central issue of all contributions, with a focus on the findings from ancient Akragas. Great attention is also paid to past ritual activities, which are framed in three complementary areas of enquiry. Firstly, the architectural setting of sanctuaries is examined beyond temple buildings to assess the wider context of their structural and spatial complexity. Secondly, the material culture of votive deposition and religious feasting is analysed in terms of performative characteristics and through the lens of anthropological approaches. Thirdly, the significance of gender in cultic practice is investigated in light of the fresh data retrieved from the field. The new findings presented in this volume contribute to close the existing research gaps in the study of sanctuaries in Sicily, as well as the wider practice of Greek religion.

Author : Melanie Jonasch
Publisher : Oxbow Books
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2020-06-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781789253597

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The Fight for Greek Sicily by Melanie Jonasch Pdf

The island of Sicily was a highly contested area throughout much of its history. Among the first to exert strong influence on its political, cultural, infrastructural, and demographic developments were the two major decentralized civilizations of the first millennium BCE: the Phoenicians and the Greeks. While trade and cultural exchange preceded their permanent presence, it was the colonizing movement that brought territorial competition and political power struggles on the island to a new level. The history of six centuries of colonization is replete with accounts of conflict and warfare that include cross-cultural confrontations, as well as interstate hostilities, domestic conflicts, and government violence. This book is not concerned with realities from the battlefield or questions of military strategy and tactics, but rather offers a broad collection of archaeological case studies and historical essays that analyze how political competition, strategic considerations, and violent encounters substantially affected rural and urban environments, the island’s heterogeneous communities, and their social practices. These contributions, originating from a workshop in 2018, combine expertise from the fields of archaeology, ancient history, and philology. The focus on a specific time period and the limited geographic area of Greek Sicily allows for the thorough investigation and discussion of various forms of organized societal violence and their consequences on the developments in society and landscape.

Author : Hanne Eisenfeld
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2022-12-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781108924351

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Pindar and Greek Religion by Hanne Eisenfeld Pdf

Pindar's victory songs teem with divinity. By exploring them within the lived religious landscapes of the fifth century BCE, Hanne Eisenfeld demonstrates that they are in fact engaged in theological work. Focusing on a set of mythical figures whose identities blur the boundaries between mortality and immortality (Herakles, the Dioskouroi, Amphiaraos, and Asklepios), she newly interprets the value of immortality in the epinician corpus. Pindar's depiction of these figures responds to and shapes contemporary religious experience and revalues mortality as a prerequisite for the glory found in victory. The book combines close reading and philological analysis with religious historical approaches to Pindar's songs and his world. It highlights the inextricability of Greek literature and Greek religion, and models a novel approach to Greek lyric poetry at the intersection of these fields.

Author : Maria G. Spathi,Maria Chidiroglou,Jenny Wallensten
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2024-05-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781803277509

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Apotropaia and Phylakteria: Confronting Evil in Ancient Greece by Maria G. Spathi,Maria Chidiroglou,Jenny Wallensten Pdf

The belief in the existence of evil forces was part of ancient everyday life and a phenomenon deeply embedded in popular thought of the Greek world. Stemming from a conference held in Athens in June 2021, this volume addresses the apotropaia and phylakteria from different perspectives: via literary sources, archaeological material, and iconography.

Author : Hans Beck,Julia Kindt
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 407 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2023-03-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781009301831

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The Local Horizon of Ancient Greek Religion by Hans Beck,Julia Kindt Pdf

Which dimensions of the religious experience of the ancient Greeks become tangible only if we foreground its local horizons? This book explores the manifold ways in which Greek religious beliefs and practices are encoded in and communicate with various local environments. Its individual chapters explore 'the local' in its different forms and formulations. Besides the polis perspective, they include numerous other places and locations above and below the polis-level as well as those fully or largely independent of the city-state. Overall, the local emerges as a relational concept that changes together with our understanding of the general or universal forces as they shape ancient Greek religion. The unity and diversity of ancient Greek religion becomes tangible in the manifold ways in which localizing and generalizing forces interact with each other at different times and in different places across the ancient Greek world.

Author : Tyler Jo Smith
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2021-06-18
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780812252811

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Religion in the Art of Archaic and Classical Greece by Tyler Jo Smith Pdf

"An examination of the combined subjects of ancient Greek art and religion, dealing with festivals, performance, rites of passage, and the archaeology of death, to name a few examples, to explore the visual, material, and textual dimensions of ancient Greek religion"--

Author : Mark R. Thatcher
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2021-09-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780197586440

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The Politics of Identity in Greek Sicily and Southern Italy by Mark R. Thatcher Pdf

This analysis of the relationship between collective identities and politics in ancient Greece focuses on four key types of identity - polis identity, ethnicity (e.g., Dorian or Achaean), regional, and Greek - and places these multiple and flexible self-perceptions at the center of a new account of politics in the Greek West.

Author : Giovanni Colzani,Clemente Marconi,Fabrizio Slavazzi
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2023-10-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9783110741742

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Greek and Roman Small Size Sculpture by Giovanni Colzani,Clemente Marconi,Fabrizio Slavazzi Pdf

Considerations about size and scale have always played a central role within Greek and Roman visual culture, deeply affecting sculptural production. Both Greeks and Romans, in particular, had a clear notion of “colossality” and were able to fully exploit its implications with sculpture in many different areas of social, cultural and religious life. Instead, despite their ubiquitous presence, an equal and contrary categorization for small size statues does not seem to have existed in Greek and Roman culture, leading one to wonder what were the ancient ways of conceptualizing sculptural representations in a format markedly smaller than “life-size.” Even in the context of modern scholarship on Classical Art, few notions appear to be as elusive as that of “small sculpture”, often treated with a certain degree of diffidence well summarized in the formula Klein, aber Kunst? In fact, a large and heterogeneous variety of objects corresponds to this definition: all kinds of small sculpture, from statuettes to miniatures, in a variety of materials including stone, bronze, and terracotta, associated with a great array of functions and contexts, and with extremely different levels of manufacture and patronage. It would be a major misunderstanding to think of these small sculptures in general as nothing more than a cheap and simplified alternative to larger scale statues. Compared with those, their peculiar format allowed for a wider range of choices, in terms, for example, of use of either cheap or extremely valuable materials (not only marble and bronze, but also gold and silver, ivory, hard stones, among others), methods of production (combining seriality and variation), modes of fruition (such as involving a degree of intimacy with the beholder, rather than staging an illusion of “presence”). Furthermore, their pervasive presence in both private and public spaces at many levels of Greek and Roman society presents us with a privileged point of view on the visual literacy of a large and varied public. Although very different in many respects, small-sized sculptures entertained often a rather ambivalent relationship with their larger counterparts, drawing from them at the same time schemes, forms and iconographies. By offering a fresh, new analysis of archaeological evidence and literary sources, through a variety of disciplinary approaches, this volume helps to illuminate this rather complex dynamic and aims to contribute to a better understanding of the status of Greek and Roman small size sculpture within the general development of ancient art.

Author : Christopher Prescott,Arja Karivieri,Peter Campbell,Kristian Göransson,Sebastiano Tusa
Publisher : Oxbow Books
Page : 666 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2021-05-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781789255928

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Trinacria, 'An Island Outside Time' by Christopher Prescott,Arja Karivieri,Peter Campbell,Kristian Göransson,Sebastiano Tusa Pdf

Trinacria, the ancient name for Sicily extending back to Homeric Greek, has understandably been the focus of decades of archaeological research. Recognizing Sicily’s rich prehistory and pivotal role in the history of the Mediterranean, Sebastiano Tusa - professor, head of heritage agencies and councillor for Cultural Heritage for the Sicilian Region - promoted the exploration of the island’s heritage through international collaboration. His decades of fostering research initiatives not only produced rich archaeological results spanning the Palaeolithic to the modern era but brought scholars from a range of schools and disciplines to work together in Sicily. Through his efforts, uniquely productive methodological, theoretical and interpretative networks were created. Their impact extends far beyond Sicily and Italy. To highlight these networks and their results, the Institutum Romanum Finlandiae, the Swedish Institute in Rome, the Norwegian Institute in Rome, the British School at Rome and the Assessorato dei Beni Culturali of Sicily, with generous support from the Swedish Riksbankens Jubileumsfond, assembled this anthology of papers. The aim is to present a selection of the work of and results from contemporary, multi-national research projects in Sicily. The collaboration between the Sicilian and international partners, often in an interdisciplinary framework, has generated important results and perspectives. The articles in this volume present research projects from throughout the island. The core of the articles is concerned with the Archaic through to the Roman period, but diachronic studies also trace lines back to the Stone Age and up to the contemporary era. A range of methods and sources are explored, thus creating an up-to-date volume that is a referential gateway to contemporary Sicilian archaeology.

Author : K.A. Rask
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2023-04-14
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781000869880

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Personal Experience and Materiality in Greek Religion by K.A. Rask Pdf

Employing frameworks of lived religion and materiality, this book provides the first full-length study of personal religious experience in the Greek Archaic and Classical periods. Rask analyzes archeological, epigraphic, and textual evidence to highlight the role of individuals as vital actors and makers of Greek religion. A range of perspectives, such as those of Archaic mariners and Late Classical weaving women, show that religion infused the daily lives of ancient Greeks. Chapters visit the many spaces where people engaged in religious activities, from household kitchens to international emporia, as well as shrines both large and small. The book also interrogates devotional activities such as making votives and engaging in lifelong relationships with divinities, arguing for the emotionally rich character of Greek lived religion. Not only do these considerations demonstrate underexplored ways for reconstructing aspects of Greek religion, but also allow us to rethink familiar subjects such as votive portraits and epiphany from new angles. Personal Experience and Materiality in Greek Religion is of interest to students and scholars working on ancient Greek religion and archeology, as well as anyone interested in daily life and lived experience in the ancient world.

Author : Diskin Clay
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2010-11-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0271041153

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Platonic Questions by Diskin Clay Pdf

The dialogue has disappeared as a mode of writing philosophy, and philosophers who study Plato today often ignore the form in which Plato's work appears in favor of reconstructing and analyzing arguments thought to be conveyed by the content of the dialogues. A distinguished classicist here offers an approach to understanding Plato that tries to do full justice to the form of Platonic philosophy, appreciated against the background of Greek literature and history, while also giving proper due to the important philosophic content of the dialogues. The book deals in turn with Plato's relation to and portraits of Socrates, the literary and philosophical character of the dialogues (including the problems of interpreting a philosopher who never speaks in his own name), and the modes of argumentation employed in the dialogues as well as some of their major themes.

Author : Kenneth Royce Moore
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 397 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2005-07-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135474515

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Sex and the Second-Best City by Kenneth Royce Moore Pdf

Sex and the Second-Best City deals with the topics of sex and society in the Laws of Plato with recourse to historical context and modern critical theory. It examines reconstructions of ancient "sexuality" with a view to increased clarification. The text of the Laws is considered, along with many of its literary qualities, its influences and the utopian plan that it proposes.

Author : Edward Augustus Freeman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 622 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1891
Category : Sicily (Italy)
ISBN : BNC:1001987688

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The History of Sicily from the Earliest Times by Edward Augustus Freeman Pdf

Author : E.. Freeman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 628 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1891
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UBBE:UBBE-00126556

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The History of Sicily from the Earliest Times by E.. Freeman Pdf