Author: Gina Salapata
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 047202986X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 433
Book Description
Heroic Offerings sheds light on the study of religion in Sparta, one of Greece’s most powerful city-states and the long-term rival of Athens. Sparta’s history is well known, but its archaeology has been much less satisfactorily explored. Through the comprehensive study of a distinctive class of terracotta votive offerings from a specific sanctuary, Gina Salapata explores both coroplastic art and regional religion. By integrating archaeological, historical, literary, and epigraphic sources, she provides important insights into the heroic cults of Lakonia and contributes to an understanding of the political and social functions of local ritual practice. This volume focuses on a large group of decorated terracotta plaques, from the sixth to fourth centuries BCE. These molded plaques were discovered with other offerings in a sanctuary deposit excavated near Sparta more than fifty years ago, but they have remained unpublished until now. They number over 1,500 complete and fragmentary pieces. In technique, style, and iconography they form a homogeneous group unlike any other from mainland Greece. The large number of plaques and variety of types reveal a stable and vigorous coroplastic tradition in Lakonia during the late Archaic and Classical period. Heroic Offerings will be of interest to students and scholars of Greek history, art, and archaeology, to those interested in ancient religious practice in the Mediterranean, and to all inspired by Athens’ chief political rival, Sparta. This volume received financial support from the Archaeological Institute of America.
Heroic Offerings
Author: Gina Salapata
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 047202986X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 433
Book Description
Heroic Offerings sheds light on the study of religion in Sparta, one of Greece’s most powerful city-states and the long-term rival of Athens. Sparta’s history is well known, but its archaeology has been much less satisfactorily explored. Through the comprehensive study of a distinctive class of terracotta votive offerings from a specific sanctuary, Gina Salapata explores both coroplastic art and regional religion. By integrating archaeological, historical, literary, and epigraphic sources, she provides important insights into the heroic cults of Lakonia and contributes to an understanding of the political and social functions of local ritual practice. This volume focuses on a large group of decorated terracotta plaques, from the sixth to fourth centuries BCE. These molded plaques were discovered with other offerings in a sanctuary deposit excavated near Sparta more than fifty years ago, but they have remained unpublished until now. They number over 1,500 complete and fragmentary pieces. In technique, style, and iconography they form a homogeneous group unlike any other from mainland Greece. The large number of plaques and variety of types reveal a stable and vigorous coroplastic tradition in Lakonia during the late Archaic and Classical period. Heroic Offerings will be of interest to students and scholars of Greek history, art, and archaeology, to those interested in ancient religious practice in the Mediterranean, and to all inspired by Athens’ chief political rival, Sparta. This volume received financial support from the Archaeological Institute of America.
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 047202986X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 433
Book Description
Heroic Offerings sheds light on the study of religion in Sparta, one of Greece’s most powerful city-states and the long-term rival of Athens. Sparta’s history is well known, but its archaeology has been much less satisfactorily explored. Through the comprehensive study of a distinctive class of terracotta votive offerings from a specific sanctuary, Gina Salapata explores both coroplastic art and regional religion. By integrating archaeological, historical, literary, and epigraphic sources, she provides important insights into the heroic cults of Lakonia and contributes to an understanding of the political and social functions of local ritual practice. This volume focuses on a large group of decorated terracotta plaques, from the sixth to fourth centuries BCE. These molded plaques were discovered with other offerings in a sanctuary deposit excavated near Sparta more than fifty years ago, but they have remained unpublished until now. They number over 1,500 complete and fragmentary pieces. In technique, style, and iconography they form a homogeneous group unlike any other from mainland Greece. The large number of plaques and variety of types reveal a stable and vigorous coroplastic tradition in Lakonia during the late Archaic and Classical period. Heroic Offerings will be of interest to students and scholars of Greek history, art, and archaeology, to those interested in ancient religious practice in the Mediterranean, and to all inspired by Athens’ chief political rival, Sparta. This volume received financial support from the Archaeological Institute of America.
Life and Work of Rev. James Aloysius Cullen, S. J.
Greek Hero Cults and Ideas of Immortality
Author: Lewis Richard Farnell
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cults
Languages : en
Pages : 460
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cults
Languages : en
Pages : 460
Book Description
Baby and Child Heroes in Ancient Greece
Author: Corinne Ondine Pache
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 9780252029295
Category : Children
Languages : en
Pages : 558
Book Description
"Baby and Child Heroes in Ancient Greece is the first systematic study of the considerable number of Greek babies and children who became enduring myths, objects of worship, and the recipients of sacrifice." "Examining literary, pictorial, and numismatic representations, Pache opens up a vast territory once occupied by children such as Charila, Opheltes, Melikertes, and the children of Hercules and Medea. She argues that the stories, songs, and sanctuaries honoring these heroes express parental fears and guilt about children's death."--Jacket.
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 9780252029295
Category : Children
Languages : en
Pages : 558
Book Description
"Baby and Child Heroes in Ancient Greece is the first systematic study of the considerable number of Greek babies and children who became enduring myths, objects of worship, and the recipients of sacrifice." "Examining literary, pictorial, and numismatic representations, Pache opens up a vast territory once occupied by children such as Charila, Opheltes, Melikertes, and the children of Hercules and Medea. She argues that the stories, songs, and sanctuaries honoring these heroes express parental fears and guilt about children's death."--Jacket.
Greek Votive Offerings
Author: William Henry Denham Rouse
Publisher: CUP Archive
ISBN:
Category : Cults
Languages : en
Pages : 492
Book Description
This essay explores the relationship of ancient Greeks to their dieties through votive offerings - those things given freely to a being conceived as superhuman.
Publisher: CUP Archive
ISBN:
Category : Cults
Languages : en
Pages : 492
Book Description
This essay explores the relationship of ancient Greeks to their dieties through votive offerings - those things given freely to a being conceived as superhuman.
Humane Science Lectures
Author: Humanitarian League
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
Progress of Science in the Century
Author: John Arthur Thomson
Publisher: London : Linscott
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 582
Book Description
Publisher: London : Linscott
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 582
Book Description
Hermathena
The Irish Ecclesiastical Record
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 1164
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 1164
Book Description
History of Goodhue County
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Goodhue County (Minn.)
Languages : en
Pages : 736
Book Description
Provides histories and biographies for the cities and townships of: Belle Creek, Belvidere, Burnside, Cannon Falls, Central Point, Cherry Grove, Featherstone, Florence, Frontenac Station, Goodhue, Hay Creek, Holden, Kenyon, Leon Township, Minneola, Pine Island, Red Wing, Roscoe, Stanton, Vasa, Wanamingo, Warsaw, Wacouta, Welch, and Zumbrota.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Goodhue County (Minn.)
Languages : en
Pages : 736
Book Description
Provides histories and biographies for the cities and townships of: Belle Creek, Belvidere, Burnside, Cannon Falls, Central Point, Cherry Grove, Featherstone, Florence, Frontenac Station, Goodhue, Hay Creek, Holden, Kenyon, Leon Township, Minneola, Pine Island, Red Wing, Roscoe, Stanton, Vasa, Wanamingo, Warsaw, Wacouta, Welch, and Zumbrota.