Ascending and descending the acropolis : movement in Athenian religion / edited by Wiebke Friese, Søren Handberg and Troels Myrup Kristensen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Agelidis, Soi.

Contributor:

Friese, Wiebke, editor.

Handberg, Søren, editor.

Kristensen, Troels Myrup, editor.

Series:

Monographs of the Danish Institute at Athens ; v. 23.

Monographs of the Danish Institute at Athens ; volume 23

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Religion--Greece.

Religion.

Acropolis (Athens, Greece).

Attikē (Greece).

Genre:

History.

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (277 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Aarhus : Aarhus University Press, [2019]

Summary:

Ascending and Descending the Acropolis - Mobility in Athenian Religion provides new perspectives on religious mobilities within the geographically limited region of Attica in Greece from the Late Bronze Age to the second century AD. Attica is a particularly fruitful region to study these forms of mobility, as it provides rich evidence across a range of material and textual sources for a variety of different mobile situations - both inside the city of Athens itself (such as on and circumnavigating the Acropolis) and to sanctuaries in its hinterland (for example, those of Demeter and Kore at Eleusis and that of Artemis at Brauron), as well to as more distant sanctuaries, such as Delphi.

Contents:

Introduction

New approaches to movement in Athenian religion

Part I. Movement in the city. Performing piety : a phenomenological approach to Athenian processions

On the peripatos : accessibility and topography of the acropolis slope sanctuaries

Under the care of daemons : from the Athenian acropolis to Kallirrhoe on the Ilissos

Pausanias and the intellectual travellers of the Roman imperial period : the acropolis and the historical imagination

Part II. Movement beyond the city. The beginning of sacred travel in ancient Athens and its countryside

"To the mountain" : the ritual space of Maenadism in the Athenian imaginary

Journeys to the Eleusinian Mysteria (with an appendix on the procession at the Andanian Mysteria)

Individuals and polis in cult : the procession from Athens to Eleusis in classical times

The route of the Athenian pythaïs across the city and its territory

Reflections on pilgrimage at the acropolis of Brauron during the late Helladic period

Epilogue

Rituals in its space.

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed September 9, 2019).

ISBN:

87-7184-862-2

OCLC:

1113875159