The Local Horizon of Ancient Greek Religion

ISBN-13: 9781009301848 / Angielski / Twarda / 2023

Hans Beck; Julia Kindt

Opis

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.

Spis treści

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.