The Local Horizon of Ancient Greek Religion

Herausgeber: Beck, Hans; Kindt, Julia

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Produktbeschreibung

Addresses all those interested in the manifold links between ancient Greek religion and society. Illustrates what can be gained from paying careful attention to the various ways in which ancient Greek religious beliefs and practices were encoded in and in communication with their various local environments.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 406
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. April 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 170mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 696g
• ISBN-13: 9781009301824
• ISBN-10: 1009301829
• Artikelnr.: 72878244

Inhaltsangabe

1. Localism and the study of ancient Greek religion. The example of the
Divine Persona Julia Kindt; 2. Refitting the local horizon of ancient Greek
religion (including some remarks on the Sanctuary of Poseidon on Kalaureia)
Hans Beck; 3. Mycenaean Greek worship in Minoan territory Susan Lupack; 4.
Hera on Samos: between the global and the local Jan N. Bremmer; 5. The
local dimension of ancient Greek religion: Polytheism and the distribution
of votives in the Corinthia Tulsi Parikh; 6. Demeter Chthonia at Hermione:
landscapes and cult Diana Burton; 7. Local variation in the Thesmophoria
festival: a case study of the attic and Sicilian Thesmophoria festivals
Katherine R. L. McLardy; 8. The Lindian Chronicle and local identity Jeremy
McInerney; 9. Shifting identities and defensive localism: conflicts of
religious narratives in Post-Synoikism Rhodes Juliane Zachhuber; 10.
Between local and global? Religion in Late-Hellenistic Delos Julietta
Steinhauer; 11. Personal or communal? Social horizons of local Greek
religion Irene Polinskaya; 12. How to write a local history of imperial
Greek cults: observations from Pausanias Greta Hawes; 13. Panhellenic
sanctuaries: local and regional perspectives Peter Funke; Epilogue: a
tribute to Potnia of the labyrinth Corinne Bonnet.