Cave and Worship in Ancient Greece

New Approaches to Landscape and Ritual
Herausgeber: Nagel, Alexander; Katsarou, Stella

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Produktbeschreibung

Cave and Worship in Ancient Greece brings together a series of stimulating chapters contributing to the archaeology, and our modern understanding of the character and importance of caves and cave sanctuaries in the first millennium BCE Mediterranean.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 252
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. August 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 156mm x 235mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 516g
• ISBN-13: 9780367677503
• ISBN-10: 0367677504
• Artikelnr.: 65612937

Autorenporträt

Stella Katsarou is an archaeologist at the Ephorate of Palaeoanthropology-Speleology of the Greek Ministry of Culture. She has carried out fi eldworkin caves and prehistoric sites in Thessaly, the Peloponnese, the Aegean islands and, recently, Aitoloakarnania. She studies and writes about the functional, social, and ritual aspects of cave use and their material expression in prehistoric Greece. Alexander Nagel is Chair of the Art History and Museum Professions Program and Assistant Professor at the State University of New York, Fashion Institute of Technology, and a Research Associate in Residence at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: On Reading Caves and Ancient Greek Cult; 2.The Dawn of
Ancient Greek Cave Cult: Prehistoric Cave Sanctuaries; 3. Caves as Sites of
Sensory and Cognitive Enhancement: The Idaean Cave on Crete; 4. Caves and
Consumption: The Case of Polis Bay, Ithaca; 5. Communities, Consumption,
and a Cave: The Profile of Cult at Drakaina Cave on Kephallonia; 6. A River
Ran Through It: Circulating Images of Ritual and Engaging Communities in a
Cave in Aitoloakarnania; 7.The Cave of Pan at Marathon, Attica: New
Evidence for the Performance of Cult in the Historic Era; 8. The Face of
Cave Rituals: Terracotta Figurines in Greek Sacred Caves; 9. Cult and
Ritual in Cycladic Caves; 10. Grottoes and the Construction of Cult in
Southern Italy