A Sanctuary of Zeus on Mount Hymettos
Author: Merle K. Langdon
Publisher: ASCSA
Published: 1976
Total Pages: 168
ISBN-13: 9780876615164
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A Sanctuary of Zeus on Mount Hymettos
Material Koinai in the Greek Early Iron Age and Archaic Period
Author: Anastasia Gadolou
Publisher: Aarhus Universitetsforlag
Published: 2017-02-01
Total Pages: 369
ISBN-13: 8771845690
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The ancient Greek word koine was used to describe the new common language dialect that became widespread in the ancient Greek world after the conquests of Alexander the Great. Modern scholars have increasingly used the word to conceptualise regional homogeneities in the material culture of the ancient Mediterranean. In this volume, twenty scholars from various disciplines present case studies that focus on the fundamental question of how to perceive and the social and cultural mechanisms that led to the spread and consumption of material culture in the Greek early Iron Age. Combined the chapters provide a critical examination of the use of the koine concept as a heuristic tool in historical research and discuss to what degree similarities in material culture reflect cultural connections. The volume will be of interest scholars interested in archaeological theory and method, the social significance of material culture, and the history of the ancient Greek world in the first half of the first millennium BC.
Our Cups Are Full: Pottery and Society in the Aegean Bronze Age. Papers Presented to Jeremy B. Rutter on the Occasion of his 65th Birthday
Author: Walter Gauß
Publisher: Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Published: 2011-06-15
Total Pages: 419
ISBN-13: 1784913243
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →38 papers on Aegean Bronze Age pottery in honour of Jeremy Rutter. They range from specific site reports, to technical reports, and issues of chronology, to analysis of the social and religious functions of particular vessel types, and studies of trade and cultural contacts.
Le Sanctuaire Grec
Author: Emily Kearns
Publisher: Librairie Droz
Published: 1992
Total Pages: 400
ISBN-13: 9782600044295
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Ascending and descending the Acropolis
Author: Wiebke Friese
Publisher: Aarhus Universitetsforlag
Published: 2019-01-28
Total Pages: 277
ISBN-13: 8771848622
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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.
Mountain Aesthetics in Early Modern Latin Literature
Author: William M. Barton
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2016-10-26
Total Pages: 268
ISBN-13: 1315391732
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In the late Renaissance and Early Modern period, man’s relationship to nature changed dramatically. An important part of this change occurred in the way that beauty was perceived in the natural world and in the particular features which became privileged objects of aesthetic gratification. This study explores the shift in aesthetic attitude towards the mountain that took place between 1450 and 1750. Over the course of these 300 years the mountain transformed from a fearful and ugly place to one of beauty and splendor. Accepted scholarly opinion claims that this change took place in the vernacular literature of the early and mid-18th century. Based on previously unknown and unstudied material, this volume now contends that it took place earlier in the Latin literature of the late Renaissance and Early Modern period. The aesthetic attitude shift towards the mountain had its catalysts in two broad spheres: the development of an idea of ‘landscape’ in the geographical and artistic traditions of the 16th century on the one hand, and the increasing amount of scientific and theological investigation dedicated to the mountain on the other, reaching a pinnacle in the late 17th and early 18th centuries. The new Latin evidence for the change in aesthetic attitude towards the mountain unearthed in the course of this study brings material to light which is relevant for the current philosophical debate in environmental aesthetics. The book’s concluding chapter shows how understanding the processes that produced the late Renaissance and Early Modern shift in aesthetic attitude towards the mountain can reveal important information about the modern aesthetic appreciation of nature. Alongside a standard bibliography of primary literature, this volume also offers an extended annotated bibliography of further Latin texts on the mountains from the Renaissance and Early Modern period. This critical bibliography is the first of its kind and constitutes an essential tool for further study in the field.
Objects in Context, Objects in Use
Author: Luke Lavan
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2008-03-31
Total Pages: 754
ISBN-13: 904743305X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This collection of papers, arising from the conference series Late Antique Archaeology, examines material spatiality in late antiquity. Synthetic papers drawing on archaeological, art-historical and textual sources, are complemented by case-studies of sites, an introductory essay, and several bibliographic essays.
Sounion Revisited: The Sanctuaries of Poseidon and Athena at Sounion in Attica
Author: Zetta Theodoropoulou-Polychroniadis
Publisher: Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Published: 2015-07-31
Total Pages: 346
ISBN-13: 1784911550
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book is the first to be published from a wider research project, still in progress, about the sanctuaries of Poseidon and Athena on the promontory of Sounion (southeast Attica). The aim of this volume is to present, for the first time, a comprehensive examination and interpretation of a wide selection of unpublished small finds.
Written Texts and the Rise of Literate Culture in Ancient Greece
Author: Harvey Yunis
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2003-02-06
Total Pages: 276
ISBN-13: 1139437836
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →From the sixth through the fourth centuries BCE, the landmark developments of Greek culture and the critical works of Greek thought and literature were accompanied by an explosive growth in the use of written texts. By the close of the classical period, a new culture of literacy and textuality had come into existence alongside the traditional practices of live oral discourse. New avenues for human activity and creativity arose in this period. The very creation of the 'classical' and the perennial use of Greece by later European civilizations as a source of knowledge and inspiration would not have taken place without the textual innovations of the classical period. This book considers how writing, reading and disseminating texts led to new ways of thinking and new forms of expression and behaviour. The individual chapters cover a range of phenomena, including poetry, science, religions, philosophy, history, law and learning.
