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Cave and Worship in Ancient Greece : New Approaches to Landscape and Ritual
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of contents -- Illustrations -- Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Introduction: On reading caves and ancient Greek cult -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 2 The dawn of ancient Greek cave cult: Prehistoric cave sanctuaries -- Introduction --...
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| Document Type: | Online Resource Book |
| Language: | English |
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Milton
: Taylor & Francis Group
, 2020
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| Online Access: | http://proxy.fid-lizenzen.de/han/proquest-ebook-central-altertum/ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/bsbfidaltertumswissenschaften/detail.action?docID=6425736 |
| E-Book Packages: | ProQuest Ebook Central : Classical Studies Collection |
| Summary: | Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of contents -- Illustrations -- Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Introduction: On reading caves and ancient Greek cult -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 2 The dawn of ancient Greek cave cult: Prehistoric cave sanctuaries -- Introduction -- Mycenaean cave cult -- Circumstantial cave rituals in the third and second millennia bce -- Farming village communities: The background -- Neolithic worship (in) caves -- Theopetra Cave -- Alepotrypa Cave -- Cyclops Cave -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 3 Caves as sites of sensory and cognitive enhancement: The Idaean Cave on Crete -- Introduction -- The Idaean Cave as a Wunderkammer -- The surrounding environment -- The Idaean Cave as a physical and artefactual religious space -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 4 Caves and consumption: The case of Polis Bay, Ithaca -- Introduction -- Polis "cave": Geology and topography (by Chris Hayward) -- Activity in and around the Polis "cave" sanctuary -- Change and continuity in material behaviour -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 5 Communities, consumption, and a cave: The profile of cult at Drakaina Cave on Kephallonia -- Introduction -- Feasting at the Drakaina Cave -- Honouring Dionysos? -- Miniaturization of vases and figurative terracottas -- Artemis at Drakaina and Kephallonia -- Nymphs -- Discussion -- Acknowledgement -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 6 A river ran through it: Circulating images of ritual and engaging communities in a cave in Aitoloakarnania -- Introduction -- The Paracheloitis and beyond: A landscape explored -- Engaging with figurines in an Aitoloakarnanian cave sanctuary -- Feasting with friends and the community: Interpreting ceramic containers in an Aitoloakarnanian cave -- Products of the sea -- Roof tiles, textiles, and beyond. Engagements at Paianion: Caves, crafts, wilderness, and an analytical approach -- Acknowledgements -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 7 The Cave of Pan at Marathon, Attica: New evidence for the performance of cult in the historic era -- Introduction -- The cave and its divinities -- Worshippers at the Cave of Pan -- Ritual activity within the cave -- Conclusions -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 8 The face of cave rituals: Terracotta figurines in Greek sacred caves -- Appearance and distribution of terracotta figurines in caves -- Types and iconography -- Function of the terracotta figurines: Votives or ritual objects? -- Find contexts and actual state of terracotta figurines in Attic caves -- A view beyond Attica -- Terracotta figurines: Single or multiple use and display? -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 9 Cult and ritual in Cycladic caves -- Caves and cults in the Cyclades: An overview -- Artificial caves: Delos -- Caves at open sanctuaries: Amorgos -- Caves outside the Polis: Thera, Siphnos, Naxos, Antiparos, Pholegandros -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 10 Grottoes and the construction of cult in southern Italy -- Coastal sites -- Grotta Porcinara, Leuca -- Grotta della Poesia, Rocavecchia -- Interior sites -- Monte Papalucio, Oria -- Grotte delle Fontanelle, Garaguso -- Considerations on the character of the cult -- Sites at Greek poleis -- Sorgente, Satyrion (Taras) -- Considerations on the character of the cult -- Grotta Caruso, Locri Epizephyrii -- Comparisons between the cults at Grotta Caruso and Sorgente -- Pantanello, Metaponto -- Considerations on the character of the cult -- The conceptual cave -- Summary -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 Online-Ressource (271 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9781000296112 |
