Cave and worship in Ancient Greece : new approaches to landscape and ritual / Edited by Stella Katsarou and Alexander Nagel.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Katsarou, Stella, editor.

Nagel, Alexander, editor.

Taylor & Francis eBooks.

Orville H. Bullitt Classics Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cave temples--Greece--History.

Cave temples.

History.

Greece--Antiquities.

Greece.

Antiquities.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xviii, 252 pages)

Place of Publication:

Abingdon : Routledge, [2021]

System Details:

text file

Biography/History:

Stella Katsarou is an archaeologist at the Ephorate of Palaeoanthropology⁰́₃Speleology of the Greek Ministry of Culture. She has carried out fi eldworkin caves and prehistoric sites in Thessaly, the Peloponnese, the Aegean islands and, recently, Aitoloakarnania. She studies and writes about the functional, social, and ritual aspects of cave use and their material expression in prehistoric Greece. Alexander Nagel is Chair of the Art History and Museum Professions Program and Assistant Professor at the State University of New York, Fashion Institute of Technology, and a Research Associate in Residence at the Smithsonian Institution⁰́₉s National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C.

Contents:

Introduction: On Reading Caves and Ancient Greek CultStella Katsarou and Alexander NagelThe Dawn of Ancient Greek Cave Cult: Prehistoric Cave SanctuariesStella KatsarouCaves as Sites of Sensory and Cognitive Enhancement: The Idaean Cave on Crete NassosPapalexandrouCaves and Consumption:The Case of Polis Bay, IthacaCatherine Morgan and Chris HaywardCommunities, Consumption and a Cave: The Profile of CultatDrakainaCave onKephalloniaAgathi KaradimaA River Ran Through It: Circulating Images of Ritual and Engaging Communities in a Cave in AitoloakarnaniaAlexander NagelThe Cave of Pan at Marathon, Attica:New Evidence for thePerformance of Cult in the Historic Era Jorge J. Bravo III and Alexandra MariThe Face of Cave Rituals: Terracotta Figurines in Greek Sacred CavesKatja Sporn Approaching Cult and Ritual in CycladicCaves Erica AnglikerGrottoes and the Construction of Cult in Southern Italy Rebecca Miller Ammerman

Notes:

Includes index.

Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.

Online resource; title from PDF title page (Taylor & Francis, viewed January 12, 2021).

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Orville H. Bullitt Classics Fund.

ISBN:

9781003015765

100301576X

9781000296136

100029613X

9781000296112

1000296113

9781000296129

1000296121

Publisher Number:

99986095698

9781003015765

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Restricted for use by site license.