| Description |
1 online resource (xvi, 389 pages) : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) |
| Contents |
Cover -- Half-title -- Title page -- Copyright information -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Contributors -- Preface -- List of Abbreviations -- 1 Localism and the Study of Ancient Greek Religion: The Example of the Divine Persona -- Introduction -- The Problem of the Unity and Diversity of Ancient Greek Divinity -- Localism and the Divine Persona: Debates and Positions -- The Local as the Realisation of the Universal -- The Local as the Place at Which Variation Occurs -- The Local and the Universal as Ubiquitous and Intersecting Categories |
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Placing Religion between the Local and the General -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- 2 Refitting the Local Horizon of Ancient Greek Religion (Including Some Remarks on the Sanctuary of Poseidon on Kalaureia) -- The Local Horizon: Signifier and Source of Religious Meaning -- The Sanctuary of Poseidon at Kalaureia and the Saronic Region: Sails and Scales -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- 3 Mycenaean Greek Worship in Minoan Territory -- The Mycenaeans in Place: The Foundations of Greek Religion -- A Historiographical Perspective -- The Minoans and the Mycenaeans: Distinct Ideological Systems |
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The Helladic Roots of Mycenaean Religion -- Within Minoan Territory: The Effects of a New Place on Mycenaean Religion -- Upheaval on Crete and a New Power Base at Knossos -- Early Days at Knossos: Harking back to the Mainland -- Settling in and Transforming the New Place into Home -- The Force of Local Horizons -- Bibliography -- 4 Hera on Samos: Between the Global and the Local -- The Name -- The Myths -- The Toneia -- Heraia -- Worshipping Hera on Samos -- Conclusions -- Bibliography -- 5 Polytheism and the Distribution of Votives in the Corinthia -- Poseidon at Isthmia -- Hera at Perachora |
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Demeter and Kore on Acrocorinth -- Votives and Wealth -- Votives and Practicality of Location -- Votives and Gender -- Votives and Deity -- An Alternative Model: 'Raw' and 'Converted' -- The Miniature and the Monumental -- Conclusions -- Appendix: Tables and Charts -- Bibliography -- 6 Demeter Chthonia at Hermione: Landscapes and Cult -- Introduction -- Localisation, 'Landscapes', and their Interaction with the Divine Persona -- Hermione: Polis and Chora, Topography and Character -- Local Factors in the Cult of Demeter Chthonia -- Demeter Chthonia Outside of Hermione -- Bibliography |
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7 Local Variation in the Thesmophoria Festival: A Case Study of the Attic and Sicilian Thesmophoria Festivals -- Introduction -- The 'Universal' Reconstruction of the Thesmophoria Festival -- The Attic Thesmophoria -- The Sicilian Thesmophoria -- Similarities and Differences between the Attic and Sicilian Thesmophoria Festivals -- The Local and the Universal in the Attic and Sicilian Thesmophoria Festivals -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- 8 The Lindian Chronicle and Local Identity -- Introduction: Local Religion and Global Pressure -- Which Rhodes? -- The Lindian Chronicle and the Tangible Past |
| Summary |
"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"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on April 14, 2023) |
| Subject |
Religion and geography.
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Religion
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Religion and geography
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| SUBJECT |
Greece -- Religion.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85057127
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| Subject |
Greece
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Beck, Hans, 1969- editor.
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Kindt, Julia, 1975- editor.
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| LC no. |
2022053581 |
| ISBN |
9781009301862 |
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1009301861 |
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9781009301855 |
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1009301853 |
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