Hellenistic sanctuaries : between Greece and Rome / edited by Milena Melfi & Olympia Bobou.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Melfi, Milena, editor.

Bobou, Olympia, 1974- editor.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sacred space--Greece.

Sacred space.

Temples--Greece.

Temples.

Physical Description:

1 online resource : illustrations (black and white).

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2016.

Summary:

This edited collection focuses on how the archaeological material of the Hellenistic and Republican periods can further our understanding of the way in which sanctuary spaces, politics, and rituals intersected in the Greek cities of this era.

Contents:

Preface

List of Illustrations

List of Contributors

1 Introduction / Milena Melfi

2 Euergetism and religion in the cities of the Peloponnese (first century BC to first century AD) / Yves Lafond

3 Re-shaping the sacred landscape through benefaction / Maria Kantirea

4 Artemis Lykoatis and the bones of Arkas / Björn Forsén

5 Traditionalism in cult practice from Hellenistic to Roman times in Kameiros /Luigi M. Caliò

6 Damophon of Messene in the Ionian coast of Greece / Milena Melfi

7 Hellenistic divine images and the power of tradition / Joannis Mylonopoulos

8 Sacred space and the politics of multiculturalism in Demetrias (Thessaly) / Sofia Kravaritou

9 Renaissance or decline? The shrine of Dodona in the Hellenistic period / Jessica Piccinini

10 Architecture and rituals in the Hellenistic age /Elisabetta Interdonato

11 New images for new gods / Olympia Bobou

12 Wreaths, shields, and old statues / Annalisa Lo Monaco

13 The making of a colonial Pantheon in the colonies of Caesar in Greece / Milena Melfi

14 Tauromenion (Taormina, Sicily) / Lorenzo Campagna

Abbreviations

References

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on February 11, 2016).

Other Format:

Print version :

ISBN:

9780191814747

0-19-181474-1

0-19-965413-1