The Local Horizon of Ancient Greek Religion

by: Beck, H. Kindt, J.

The local horizon of ancient Greek religion
Authors:Hans Beck (Editor), Julia Kindt (Editor)

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 various ways in which localising and generalising forces interact with each other at different times and in different places across the ancient Greek world

Contents:
Localism and the study of ancient Greek religion : the example of the divine person / Julia Kindt
Refitting the local horizon of ancient Greek religion (including some remarks on the sanctuary of Poseidon on Kalaureia) / Hans Beck
Mycenaean Greek worship in Minoan territory / Susan Lupack
Hera on Samos : between the global and the local / Jan N. Bremmer
Polytheism and the distribution of votives in the Corinthia / Tulsi Parikh
Demeter Chthonia at Hermione : landscapes and cult / Diana Burton
Local variation in the Thesmophoria festival : a case study of the Attic and Sicilian Thesmophoria festivals / Katherine R.L. McLardy
The Lindian Chronicle and local identity / Jeremy McInerney
Shifting identities and defensive localism : conflicts of religious narratives in post-synoikism Rhodes / Juliane Zachhuber
Between local and global? : religion in late-Hellenistic Delos / Julietta Steinhauer
Personal or communal? : social horizons of local Greek religion / Irene Polinskaya
How to write a local history of imperial Greek cults : observations from Pausanias / Greta Hawes
Panhellenic sanctuaries : local and regional perspectives / Peter Funke
Epilogue: A tribute to Potnia of the Labyrinth / Corinne Bonnet

xvi, 389 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 26 cm

The Local Horizon of Ancient Greek Religion

by: Beck, H. Kindt, J.

• ISBN-13: 9781009301848 / 978-1-00-930184-8
• ISBN-03: 1009301845 / 1-00-930184-5
• Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2023