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Author : Nicos Papahatzis
Release : 1981-12
Genre : Archaeological museums and collections
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Book Rating : 435/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Ancient Corinth by : Nicos Papahatzis
Download or read book Ancient Corinth written by Nicos Papahatzis. This book was released on 1981-12. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The museums of Corinth, Isthmia and Sicyon.
Author : Nancy Bookidis
Release : 1987
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 710/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Demeter and Persephone in Ancient Corinth by : Nancy Bookidis
Download or read book Demeter and Persephone in Ancient Corinth written by Nancy Bookidis. This book was released on 1987. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the Roman tourist Pausanias visited Corinth around A.D. 160, he saw many shrines and buildings high up to the south of the city, on the slopes of Acrocorinth. This booklet describes excavations at one of these, the Sanctuary of Demeter and Persephone (Kore). The details of religious rites revealed are of particular interest since the cult of the two goddesses, also celebrated at Eleusis, is one of the most mysterious in antiquity, and no literary testimony exists to explain what may have happened behind the high walls. Terracotta dolls, ritual meals of pork, and miniature models of food-filled platters hint at a vigorous religious tradition associated with human and agricultural fertility.
Author : James Herbst
Release : 2018-04-30
Genre : Architecture
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Book Rating : 233/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Ancient Corinth by : James Herbst
Download or read book Ancient Corinth written by James Herbst. This book was released on 2018-04-30. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first official guidebook to the site of ancient Corinth published by the ASCSA in over 50 years, and it comes fully updated with the most current information, color photos, maps, and plans. It is an indispensable resource for the casual tourist or professional archaeologist new to the site. The guide begins with a history of Corinth and its excavations and then presents two tours. The first takes visitors through the archaeological site from the Temple of Apollo to the Forum, the Fountain of Peirene, and more. The second tour covers the ancient monuments outside the fenced area of the site, including the Odeion, the Theater, and the Asklepieion, and then the various remains of ancient Corinth located within and outside the ancient Greek walls, including the Sanctuary of Demeter and Kore and the Lechaion Basilica. Short bibliographic notes for many entries lead the reader to fuller descriptions of monuments, objects, and concepts; a glossary is also provided. Interspersed in the text are topographical notes and focus boxes on special topics such as geology, Pausanias, St. Paul, and prehistoric Corinth and the Corinthia.
Author : Richard M. Rothaus
Release : 2015-08-27
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 496/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Corinth: The First City of Greece by : Richard M. Rothaus
Download or read book Corinth: The First City of Greece written by Richard M. Rothaus. This book was released on 2015-08-27. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book addresses cult and religion in the city of Corinth from the 4th to 7th centuries of our era. The work incorporates and synthesizes all available evidence, literary, archaeological and other. The interaction and conflict between Christian and non-Christian activity is placed into its urban context and seen as simultaneously existing and overlapping cultural activity. Late antique religion is defined as cult-based rather than doctrinally-based, and thus this volume focuses not on what people believed, but rather what they did. An emphasis on cult activity reveals a variety of types of interaction between groups, ranging from confrontational events at dilapidated polytheist cult sites, to full polysemous and shared cult activity at the so-called "Fountain of the Lamps". Non-Christian traditions are shown to have been recognized and viable through the sixth century. The tentative conclusion is drawn that a clear definition of "pagan" and "Christian" begins at an urban level with the Christian re-monumentalization of Corinth with basilicas. The disappearance of "pagan" cult is best attributed to the development of a new city socially and physically based in Christianity, rather than any purely "religious" development.
Author : Ben Witherington III
Release : 2012-03-30
Genre : Religion
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Book Rating : 623/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis A Week in the Life of Corinth by : Ben Witherington III
Download or read book A Week in the Life of Corinth written by Ben Witherington III. This book was released on 2012-03-30. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this work of historical fiction, Ben Witherington III provides a one of kind window into the social and cultural context of Paul's ministry.
