Human Development in Sacred Landscapes : Between Ritual Tradition, Creativity and Emotionality / Oliver Rackham, Susan Guettel Cole, Lukas Thommen, Sarah Hitch, Hamish A. Forbes, Efrosyni Boutsikas, James Roy, Mercedes Aguirre, Richard Buxton, Bettina Schulz Paulsson, Michael Teichmann, Vassiliki Pothou, Lutz Käppel, Jeremy McInerney, Lutz Käppel, Vassiliki Pothou
"Holy Landscape" is a term frequently used to describe a multidimensional phenomenon. What this actually comprises is hard to define. Precisely this question is addressed in this volume. The "holy landscape" depends on people's Weltanschauung and is influenced by their respe...
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| Year of Publication: | 2015 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | V&R Academic Human development in sacred landscapes
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (252 p.) |
| Notes: | "With numerous figures." |
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Table of Contents:
- Title Page; Copyright; Table of Contents; Body; Acknowledgements; Lutz Käppel and Vassiliki Pothou: Prologos - Prefatory Note; I The subject; II Human Development in Landscapes; III Why in Delphi?; IV The Volume; Bettina Schulz Paulsson: Memory in Stone: Ritual Landscapes and Concepts of Monumentality in Prehistoric Societies; Sacred natural landscapes versus rituals covering social space; Rocks, forms, landscapes; Ritual and social space on the archipelagos of Malta and Orkney; On the significance of monuments; Conclusion; Bibliography; Oliver Rackham: Greek Landscapes: Profane and Sacred
- What makes a sacred landscape?Landscapes of Ancient Greece; Some sacred landscapes; Sacred landscapes of Ancient Greece; Bibliography; Lukas Thommen: Sacred Groves: Nature between Religion, Philosophy and Politics; Bibliography; Susan Guettel Cole: Under the Open Sky: Imagining the Dionysian Landscape; Bibliography; Efrosyni Boutsikas: Landscape and the Cosmos in the Apolline Rites of Delphi, Delos and Dreros; Delphi; Attica and Boeotia; Delos; Crete; Conclusion; Bibliography; Jeremy McInerney: From Delos to Delphi: How Apollo comes Home; Bibliography
- Sarah Hitch: Barren Landscapes and Sacrificial Offerings in the Homeric Hymn to ApolloBibliography; Mercedes Aguirre Castro: Landscape and Females in the Odyssey: Calypso, Circe and Nausicaa; Bibliography; Richard Buxton: An Ogre in Three Landscapes: Cyclops in Homer, Euripides and Theokritos; Bibliography; Lutz Käppel: Landscape and the Magic of Music in Pindar's Twelfth Pythian Ode; Bibliography; Text, Scholia, Lexicon; Commentaries; Literature with special reference to Pythian 12; Commentary of Theon Pap. Oxy. 2536; James Roy: The Distribution of Cult in the Landscape of Eleia
- BibliographyVassiliki Pothou: Newborn Babies and Newborn Islands: Insularity and Politics; Asylum for the desperate Oiniadai; Self-determination; Newborn babies and newborn islands; Connectivity between Island and Continent; Redistribution; Rebellion; Epilogue; Bibliography; Hamish Forbes: A Greek Landscape with God and his Saints: A Case Study from the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries AD; Introduction: mise en scène; Methana: a very brief and partial history; Churches and their place in landscapes; Village churches and the landscape of kinship
- The supernatural in the foundation of the settlement patternExtra-mural churches in the landscape; The dead in the landscape; Discussion and conclusion; Bibliography; Michael Teichmann: The Role of Archaeological Museums in Greece for Contemporary Societies - Approaches and Perspectives; Introduction; Approaching the problem: Archaeology and the public - Ways of communication; Case studies; Conclusion; Acknowledgements; Addendum; Bibliography; List of Contributors; Index locorum; Index rerum et nominum; Index verborum graecorum potiorum