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Author : Jessica Piccinini
Release : 2019
Genre : Social Science
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 471/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Shrine of Dodona in the Archaic and Classical Ages. A History by : Jessica Piccinini
Download or read book The Shrine of Dodona in the Archaic and Classical Ages. A History written by Jessica Piccinini. This book was released on 2019. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Diego Chapinal-Heras
Release : 2021-03-08
Genre : Religion
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Book Rating : 595/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Experiencing Dodona by : Diego Chapinal-Heras
Download or read book Experiencing Dodona written by Diego Chapinal-Heras. This book was released on 2021-03-08. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A monograph concerning the sanctuary of Dodona and its role in the political context of Epirus might be a remarkable input. Located in a region that has received more interest in the last years, this book attempts to analyze the way the shrine evolved in connection with the political developments of its surrounding region. The study employs a diachronic perspective and emphasizes throughout that religion was a dynamic, not a static, phenomenon. The chronology of this research extends from the Archaic to Hellenistic periods. Its key novelty is that it offers an entirely new holistic approach to an ancient religious site by considering its polyfunctionality. At the same time that it presents a state-of-the-art analysis of the shrine of Dodona and contributes with a new theory concerning the function of some structures located in the sacred area, it also highlights the close connection between a settlement and its region. For this reason, the aim is to become a reference work that allows continuing the current trend of studies focused on Epirus, a territory traditionally considered as secondary.
Author : Hans Beck
Release : 2023-03-31
Genre : History
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 837/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Local Horizon of Ancient Greek Religion by : Hans Beck
Download or read book The Local Horizon of Ancient Greek Religion written by Hans Beck. This book was released on 2023-03-31. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Carlotta Viti
Release : 2024-09-23
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Rating : 858/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Ancient Greek and Latin in the linguistic context of the Ancient Mediterranean by : Carlotta Viti
Download or read book Ancient Greek and Latin in the linguistic context of the Ancient Mediterranean written by Carlotta Viti. This book was released on 2024-09-23. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Latein und Griechisch werden in diesem Sammelband unter dem Aspekt des Sprachkontakts untersucht, ein Thema, das in unserer globalen und multiethnischen Gesellschaft besonders aktuell ist. Spezialist:innen verschiedener Universitäten und Länder nehmen in Ihren Beiträgen unter anderem die linguistische Variation der griechischen Dialekte, den griechisch-lateinischen Bilinguismus, den Sprachkontakt im alten Italien, Mittleren Osten und Mittelmeer sowie Übersetzungen und Glossen in den Blick. Landkarten und Bilder alter Inschriften und Manuskripte bereichern die Diskussion. Aus interdisziplinärer Perspektive wird außerdem die Linguistik des Lateinischen und des Griechischen in ihrem Zusammenhang mit Epigraphik, Philologie, Textkritik und grammatischer Theorie untersucht. Neben Latein und Griechisch werden Daten zahlreicher alter und moderner Sprachen mit einbezogen.
Author : Stella Katsarou
Release : 2020-12-30
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 13X/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Cave and Worship in Ancient Greece by : Stella Katsarou
Download or read book Cave and Worship in Ancient Greece written by Stella Katsarou. This book was released on 2020-12-30. 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.
