Human Development in Sacred Landscapes : Between Ritual Tradition, Creativity and Emotionality

by: Kappel, L. Pothou, V.

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Human Development in Sacred Landscapes
The conference was focused on the identification and interpretation of sacred areas principally – but not exclusively – in the ancient Greek world and in the study of Greek religious ideas or religious practice. For example: what did ancient Greece, from the Mesolithic onwards, look like, if it is possible to identify sacred areas on a landscape scale, like ancient Delos or modern Mount Athos, and if the sacred landscapes were differing from the countryside. Another paper offered a new understanding of the role of astronomical observations in the Delphic and Spartan landscapes, the performance of the religious sites in the Spartan sanctuary of Artemis Orthia and the operation of the Delphic oracle. Most of the contributions were directly connected with the cult of Apollo and the history and tradition of the famous sanctuary of Delphi. A different paper examined the treatment of Apollo's journey from Delos to Delphi described in the Homeric Hymn to Apollo. According to a further contributor the network formed by connections between sanctuaries was looser than political federation, but helps to explain why panhellenic sanctuaries were so central to the articulation of Greek identity.

Contents:
Memory in stone : ritual lanscapes and concepts of monumentality in prehistoric societies / Bettina Schulz Paulsson
Greek landscapes : profane and sacred / Oliver Rackham
Sacred groves : nature between religion, philisophy and politics / Lukas Thommen
Under the open sky : imagining the Dionysian landscape / Susan Guettel Cole
Landscape and the cosmos in the Apolline rites of Delphi, Delos and Dreros / Efronsyni Boutsikas
From Delos to Delphi : how Appolo comes home / Jeremy McInerney
Barren landscapes and sacrificial offerings in the Homeric hymn to Apollo / Sarah Hitch
Landscape and females in hte Odyssey : Calypso, Circe and Nausicaa / Mercedes Aguirre Castro
An orge in three landscapes : cyclops in Homer, Euripides amd Theokritos / Richard Buxton
Landscape and the magic of music in Pindar's twelfth Pythian ode / Lutz Käppel
The distribution of cult in the landscape of Eleia / James Roy
Newbown babies and newborn islands : insularity and politics / Vassiliki Pothou
A Greek landscape with God and his saints : a case study from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries AD / Hamish Forbes
The role of archaeological museums in Greece for contemporary societies : approaches and perspectives / Michael Teichmann

Human Development in Sacred Landscapes : Between Ritual Tradition, Creativity and Emotionality

by: Kappel, L. Pothou, V.

• ISBN-13: 9783847102526 / 978-3-8471-0252-6
• ISBN-03: 3847102524 / 3-8471-0252-4
• Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Gottingen, 2014

Price: 47,70 EURO

1 copy in stock