| Placing the Gods: Sanctuaries and Sacred Space in Ancient Greece Contributor(s): Alcock, Susan E. (Editor), Osborne, Robin (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0198150601 ISBN-13: 9780198150602 Publisher: Clarendon Press OUR PRICE: $81.70 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: July 1996 Annotation: The essays critically the relationship between sanctuaries and political units in the Greek world over the best part of two millennia, both extending de Polignac's sort of analysis back and forward in time, and also assessing the limits of that analysis. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Ancient - Greece - Religion | Antiquities & Archaeology |
| Dewey: 292.3 |
| Lexile Measure: 1740 |
| Series: Clarendon Paperbacks |
| Physical Information: 0.72" H x 6.04" W x 8.98" (1.02 lbs) 282 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - Ancient (To 499 A.D.) - Cultural Region - Greece |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Cult activity played an extremely important role in ancient Greece--to the point, historians believe, that the placing of cult centers played a major part in establishing the whole concept of the city-state in archaic Greece. The essays in this collection critically examine the social and political importance of sanctuary placement, extending the analysis back to Mycenean Greece and on to Greece under Roman occupation. Revealing the complexity of relations between religion and politics in ancient Greece, these essays show how important tradition, gender relations, and cult identity were in creating and maintaining the religious mapping of the ancient Greek countryside. |