Heroic offerings : the terracotta plaques from the Spartan sanctuary of Agamemnon and Kassandra / Gina Salapata.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Salapata, Gina.

Contributor:

Michigan Publishing (University of Michigan), publisher.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Votive offerings--Greece--Lakōnia.

Votive offerings.

Hero worship--Greece--Lakōnia.

Hero worship.

Sacred space--Greece--Lakōnia.

Sacred space.

Terra-cotta sculpture, Greek--Greece--Lakōnia.

Terra-cotta sculpture, Greek.

Terra-cotta plaques--Greece--Lakōnia.

Terra-cotta plaques.

Excavations (Archaeology)--Greece--Lakōnia.

Excavations (Archaeology).

Lakōnia (Greece)--Antiquities.

Lakōnia (Greece).

Sparta (Extinct city)--Religious life and customs.

Sparta (Extinct city).

Greece--Lakōnia.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2014.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

"Heroic Offerings sheds light on the study of religion in Sparta, one of Greece's most powerful city-states and the long-term rival of Athens. Sparta's history is well known, but its archaeology has been much less satisfactorily explored. Through the comprehensive study of a distinctive class of terracotta votive offerings from a specific sanctuary, Gina Salapata explores both coroplastic art and regional religion. By integrating archaeological, historical, literary, and epigraphic sources, she provides important insights into the heroic cults of Lakonia and contributes to an understanding of the political and social functions of local ritual practice.This volume focuses on a large group of decorated terracotta plaques, from the sixth to fourth centuries BCE. These molded plaques were discovered with other offerings in a sanctuary deposit excavated near Sparta more than fifty years ago, but they have remained unpublished until now. They number over 1,500 complete and fragmentary pieces. In technique, style, and iconography they form a homogeneous group unlike any other from mainland Greece. The large number of plaques and variety of types reveal a stable and vigorous coroplastic tradition in Lakonia during the late Archaic and Classical period. Heroic Offerings will be of interest to students and scholars of Greek history, art, and archaeology, to those interested in ancient religious practice in the Mediterranean, and to all inspired by Athens' chief political rival, Sparta. This volume received financial support from the Archaeological Institute of America"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

The Sanctuary at Agia Paraskevi, Amyklai

The Cult Recipients

The Terracotta Plaques : Life Cycle and Classification

Plaques with Seated Figures : Typological Analysis

Plaques with Seated Figures : Iconography

Plaques with Standing Figures, Riders, Warriors, Banqueters, and Miscellaneous Subjects

Votive Plaques and Hero Cult

Conclusion

Catalogue

Appendix 1: Findspots of Lakonian and Messenian Plaques

Appendix 2: Lakonian Stone Reliefs with Seated Figures.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on information from the publisher.

ISBN:

9780472029860

047202986X

9780472119165

0472119168

Publisher Number:

10.3998/mpub.3235848

Access Restriction:

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