The local horizon of ancient Greek religion / edited by Hans Beck, Julia Kindt.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Beck, Hans, 1969- editor.

Kindt, Julia, 1975- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Religion and geography.

Greece--Religion.

Greece.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvi, 389 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2023.

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 manifold ways in which localizing and generalizing forces interact with each other at different times and in different places across the ancient Greek world.

Contents:

The Local Dimension of Ancient Greek Religion: Polytheism and the Distribution of Votives in the Corinthia / Tulsi Parikh

Demeter Chthonia at Hermione: Landscapes and Cult / Diana Burton

Panhellenic Sanctuaries: Local and Regional Perspectives / Peter Funke.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 06 Apr 2023).

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ISBN:

9781009301862 (ebook)

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