Author: Karl LehmannPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Samothrace Island (Greece)
Languages : en
Pages : 182
Book Description
Samothrace: The ancient literary sources, edited and translated by Naphtali Lewis
Author: Karl LehmannPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Samothrace Island (Greece)
Languages : en
Pages : 182
Book Description
A Companion to Ancient Thrace
Author: Julia ValevaPublisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1119016185
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 509
Book Description
A Companion to Ancient Thrace presents a series of essays that reveal the newly recognized complexity of the social and cultural phenomena of the peoples inhabiting the Balkan periphery of the Classical world. • Features a rich and detailed overview of Thracian history from the Early Iron Age to Late Antiquity • Includes contributions from leading scholars in the archaeology, art history, and general history of Thrace • Balances consideration of material evidence relating to Ancient Thrace with more traditional literary sources • Integrates a study of Thrace within a broad context that includes the cultures of the eastern Mediterranean, southwest Asia, and southeast Europe/Eurasia • Reflects the impact of new theoretical approaches to economy, ethnicity, and cross-cultural interaction and hybridity in Ancient Thrace
zeus. a study in ancient religion. volume 2, part 1.
Author: Essays in Memory of Karl Lehmann
Author: New York University. Institute of Fine ArtsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 556
Book Description
The Classical Review
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Classical literature
Languages : en
Pages : 516
Book Description
This companion to the Classical Quarterly contains reviews of new work dealing with the literatures and civilizations of ancient Greece and Rome. Over 300 books are reviewed each year.
The Dance of the Islands
Author: Christy ConstantakopoulouPublisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191615455
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
Christy Constantakopoulou examines the history of the Aegean islands and changing concepts of insularity, with particular emphasis on the fifth century BC. Islands are a prominent feature of the Aegean landscape, and this inevitably created a variety of different (and sometimes contradictory) perceptions of insularity in classical Greek thought. Geographic analysis of insularity emphasizes the interplay between island isolation and island interaction, but the predominance of islands in the Aegean sea made island isolation almost impossible. Rather, island connectivity was an important feature of the history of the Aegean and was expressed on many levels. Constantakopoulou investigates island interaction in two prominent areas, religion and imperial politics, examining both the religious networks located on islands in the ancient Greek world and the impact of imperial politics on the Aegean islands during the fifth century.
The Classical World
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Civilization, Ancient
Languages : en
Pages : 636
Book Description
Water and Sacred Architecture
Author: Anat GevaPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1000863719
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 438
Book Description
This edited book examines architectural representations that tie water, as a physical and symbolic property, with the sacred. The discussion centers on two levels of this relationship: how water influenced the sacredness of buildings across history and different religions; and how sacred architecture expressed the spiritual meaning of water. The volume deliberately offers original material on various unique contextual and design aspects of water and sacred architecture, rather than an attempt to produce a historic chronological analysis on the topic or focusing on a specific geographical region. As such, this unique volume adds a new dimension to the study of sacred architecture. The book’s chapters are compiled by a stellar group of scholars and practitioners from the US, Canada, Europe, Asia, and Africa. It addresses major aspects of water in religious buildings, such as, rituals, pilgrimage, water as a cultural material and place-making, hydro systems, modern practices, environmental considerations, the contribution of water to transforming secular into sacred, and future digital/cyber context of water and sacredness. All chapters are based on original archival studies, historical documents, and field visits to the sites and buildings. These examinations show water as an expression of architectural design, its materiality, and its spiritual values. The book will be of interest to architects, historians, environmentalists, archaeologists, religious scholars, and preservationists.
Pratt Institute Monthly
Author: Architecture of the Sacred
Author: Bonna D. WescoatPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 110737829X
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 467
Book Description
In this book, a distinguished team of authors explores the way space, place, architecture, and ritual interact to construct sacred experience in the historical cultures of the eastern Mediterranean. Essays address fundamental issues and features that enable buildings to perform as spiritually transformative spaces in ancient Greek, Roman, Jewish, early Christian, and Byzantine civilizations. Collectively they demonstrate the multiple ways in which works of architecture and their settings were active agents in the ritual process. Architecture did not merely host events; rather, it magnified and elevated them, interacting with rituals facilitating the construction of ceremony. This book examines comparatively the ways in which ideas and situations generated by the interaction of place, built environment, ritual action, and memory contributed to the cultural formulation of the sacred experience in different religious faiths.