The local horizon of ancient Greek religion / edited by Hans Beck [and three others].
地面气象测报作业规范

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Beck, Hans, 1969- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Religion and geography.

Greece--Religion.

Greece.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (408 pages)

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, England : Cambridge University Press & Assessment, [2023]

Summary:

Explores the many ways in which ancient Greek religious beliefs and practices operated in their various local contexts.

Contents:

Cover

Half-title

Title page

Copyright information

Contents

List of Figures

List of Contributors

Preface

List of Abbreviations

1 Localism and the Study of Ancient Greek Religion: The Example of the Divine Persona

Introduction

The Problem of the Unity and Diversity of Ancient Greek Divinity

Localism and the Divine Persona: Debates and Positions

The Local as the Realisation of the Universal

The Local as the Place at Which Variation Occurs

The Local and the Universal as Ubiquitous and Intersecting Categories

Placing Religion between the Local and the General

Conclusion

Bibliography

2 Refitting the Local Horizon of Ancient Greek Religion (Including Some Remarks on the Sanctuary of Poseidon on Kalaureia)

The Local Horizon: Signifier and Source of Religious Meaning

The Sanctuary of Poseidon at Kalaureia and the Saronic Region: Sails and Scales

3 Mycenaean Greek Worship in Minoan Territory

The Mycenaeans in Place: The Foundations of Greek Religion

A Historiographical Perspective

The Minoans and the Mycenaeans: Distinct Ideological Systems

The Helladic Roots of Mycenaean Religion

Within Minoan Territory: The Effects of a New Place on Mycenaean Religion

Upheaval on Crete and a New Power Base at Knossos

Early Days at Knossos: Harking back to the Mainland

Settling in and Transforming the New Place into Home

The Force of Local Horizons

4 Hera on Samos: Between the Global and the Local

The Name

The Myths

The Toneia

Heraia

Worshipping Hera on Samos

Conclusions

5 Polytheism and the Distribution of Votives in the Corinthia

Poseidon at Isthmia

Hera at Perachora

Demeter and Kore on Acrocorinth

Votives and Wealth

Votives and Practicality of Location

Votives and Gender.

Votives and Deity

An Alternative Model: 'Raw' and 'Converted'

The Miniature and the Monumental

Appendix: Tables and Charts

6 Demeter Chthonia at Hermione: Landscapes and Cult

Localisation, 'Landscapes', and their Interaction with the Divine Persona

Hermione: Polis and Chora, Topography and Character

Local Factors in the Cult of Demeter Chthonia

Demeter Chthonia Outside of Hermione

7 Local Variation in the Thesmophoria Festival: A Case Study of the Attic and Sicilian Thesmophoria Festivals

The 'Universal' Reconstruction of the Thesmophoria Festival

The Attic Thesmophoria

The Sicilian Thesmophoria

Similarities and Differences between the Attic and Sicilian Thesmophoria Festivals

The Local and the Universal in the Attic and Sicilian Thesmophoria Festivals

8 The Lindian Chronicle and Local Identity

Introduction: Local Religion and Global Pressure

Which Rhodes?

The Lindian Chronicle and the Tangible Past

Archives and Intentional History

Cities and Tribes

Spatium Mythicum and Spatium Historicum

The Association Habit

What Really Matters

9 Shifting Identities and Defensive Localism: Conflicts of Religious Narratives in Post-Synoikism Rhodes

'All for One and One for All': The Rhodian Synoikism and its Aftermath

Lindian First, Rhodian Second?

Lindian Identity and Peraian Pariahs

Inclusivity and Exclusivity in Local Discourse

Recasting Lindian Identity in Sacred Space

Appendix: TRI 22 (cf. IG XII 1, 761)

10 Between Local and Global? Religion in Late-Hellenistic Delos

Local Religion

Translocal Cults

Global Cults in Delian Local Religion

Bibliography.

11 Personal or Communal? Social Horizons of Local Greek Religion

Inheriting and 'Opting In': Ancestral Cults and New Introductions

Private Foundations in Public Places: The Initiative of Citizens

Xenokrateia of Athens Sets Up a Shrine of Kephisos

Introduction of the Cult of Pan to Attica

Failed Cult Introduction - Kleisthenes Introduces Melanippos to Sikyon

Private Foundations in Public Places: The Initiative of Foreign Residents

Archedamos of Thera and the Shrine at the Vari Cave

Xenophon's Sanctuary of Artemis at Skillous

'Local' and 'More Local': Spatial and Social Complications

Lessons from Ethno-archaeology: A 'Local' Cult of Buried Icons on Naxos

Concluding Thoughts

12 How to Write a Local History of Imperial Greek Cults: Observations from Pausanias

The Localism of Pausanias' Periegesis

Obscured Ritual Relationships in the Architecture of the Periegesis

13 Panhellenic Sanctuaries: Local and Regional Perspectives

The Polis-Centred Dimensions

Beyond the Poleis and the Ethne: The Panhellenic Perspective

Different, but Entangled Spheres

Epilogue: A Tribute to Potnia of the Labyrinth

Index.

Notes:

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

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-009-30185-3

OCLC:

1361694168