Sanctuaries and experience : knowledge, practice and space in the ancient world / edited by Greg Woolf, Ilaria Bultrighini and Camilla Norman.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Woolf, Greg, editor.

Bultrighini, Ilaria, editor.

Norman, Camilla, editor.

Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

Series:

Potsdamer altertumswissenschaftliche Beiträge ; Band 83

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Civilization, Greco-Roman.

Classical antiquities.

Greece--Antiquities.

Greece.

Rome--Antiquities.

Rome.

Temples--Greece.

Temples.

Genre:

Case studies.

Physical Description:

474 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps, charts ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Stuttgart : Franz Steiner Verlag, [2024]

Summary:

Ancient religion is traditionally understood in terms of myths, rituals and institutions, as transmitted in ancient texts. The studies gathered here focus instead on the lived experience of ancient cult and the places in which that experience was formed. They build on recent explorations of Lived Ancient Religion and also on new approaches to Material Ancient Religion. All ancient societies constructed elaborate sanctuaries. Their architecture and the collective rituals that took place there shaped collective experiences. Through case studies drawn from Ancient Egypt, the Greek World and the Roman Empire these themes are explored and elaborated. Together they indicate new ways of approaching ancient religious experience, collective and individual.

Contents:

Sacralization and focalization : agentic perspectives on sactuaries / Jörg Rüpke

How does architecture help one feel part of the divine world? Looking for movements and perceptions in Egyptian temples / Thomas Gamelin

Experiences and individual practices at the Sanctuary of Apollo at Despotiko : a case study of dances and travelling / Erica Angliker, Yannos Kourayos, Kornilia Daifa

The ritual ecology of archaic Italy : a view from Daunia / Camilla Norman

Food offerings and ritual meals in pre-Roman Apulia contexts / Giovanni Mastronuzzi, Davide Tamiano, Giacomo Vizzino

'Travel stories' : some semantics of ancient sacred space / Esther Eidinow

Iera Oikia : archaeological evidence of religious experience in a 'sacred house' of a Sicilian Greek colony / Marco Serino

Worshipping imported deities in Attika : the case of Artemis Amarysia / Ilaria Bultrighini

The human dimension of divine space : some remarks on worshippers' religious and secular actions performed inside Greek sanctuaries / Rita Sassu

The sanctuary of the Syrian gods on Delos and the experience of female foreigners / Julietta Steinhauser

Private portraits in temples : Greek and Roman in comparison / Katja Sporn

Images of gods in the sanctuaries of imperial Rome / Marlis Arnhold

Pathways of religious experience in the urban fabric of Roman Pompeii / Anna-Katharina Rieger

Making Delphi happen : walking, memories, and intellectual experience in Roman Central Greece / Elena Franchi

Between Pergamum, Athens and Eleusis : illness and initiation in Aelius Aristides / Georgia Petridou

God and temple : Jupiter Optimus Heliopolitanus at Baalbek / Dominic Dalglish

Sacralisations of space in the Danubian provinces during the principate / Csaba Szabó

The first slump in temple building in Roman Hispania / Jaime Alvar Ezquerra, José Carlos López-Gómez

Afterthought : sacred space, sanctuaries, and religious experience in the ancient world / Julia Kindt.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

Other Format:

e-book version

ISBN:

9783515133999

3515133992

OCLC:

1427695423

Publisher Number:

9783515133999