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Author: Peg Streep Publisher: Little Brown GBR ISBN: 9780821219768 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 222
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Offers a lavishly illustrated exploration of the caves, hills, megaliths, statues, and other sites and objects sacred to the goddess, from France's Lascaux Caves to Corinth's Temple of Hera. Simultaneous.
Author: Peg Streep Publisher: Little Brown GBR ISBN: 9780821219768 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 222
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Offers a lavishly illustrated exploration of the caves, hills, megaliths, statues, and other sites and objects sacred to the goddess, from France's Lascaux Caves to Corinth's Temple of Hera. Simultaneous.
Author: Tobias Fischer-Hansen Publisher: Museum Tusculanum Press ISBN: 8763507889 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 590
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This text is presented in English and German. This book contains 19 articles dealing with various aspects of the Greek goddess Artemis and the Roman goddess Diana. The themes presented in the volume deal with the Near Eastern equivalents of Artemis, the Bronze Age Linear B testimonies, and Artemis in Homer and in the Greek tragedies. Sanctuaries and cult, and regional aspects are also dealt with - encompassing Cyprus, the Black Sea region, Greece and Italy. Pedimental sculpture, mosaics and sculpture form the basis of investigations of the iconography of the Roman Diana; the role of the cult of Diana in a dynastic setting is also examined. There is a single section that deals with the reception of the iconography of the Ephesian Artemis during the Renaissance and later periods.
Author: Peg Streep Publisher: ISBN: Category : Electronic books Languages : en Pages : 0
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"Peg Streep's Sanctuaries of the Goddess is a journey into the past, a spiritual adventure into a long-buried time, that captures in glorious images and words the peaceable, generative deity of prehistory and her sacred sites." "Long before Judaism and Christianity, long before the Greco-Roman pantheon of gods and goddesses, the peoples of Western and Central Europe and the Near East worshipped a Goddess, seen in many guises, who encompassed both the awesome power of nature and the forces of life and death. The far reaches of her power found their expression in artifacts, sculptures and carvings, and at the sites where she was venerated - caves, sanctuaries, and temples - that have slept for thousands of years." "Sanctuaries of the Goddess brings once-holy places dramatically back to life and recaptures their numinous power. The spiritual and archaeological significance of these ancient sites and their artifacts is conveyed in glowing photographs, from the caves of Lascaux in France to the awe-inspiring underground chambers of the Hypogeum on Malta, the mysteries of Ireland's Dowth and Knowth, and the mountain sanctuaries of Crete. The accompanying text takes readers deep into the past, offering glimpses of rites and rituals half-hidden in the shadows of history and illuminating the mysteries of the ancient Goddess for the present day."--BOOK JACKET.
Author: Jean Markale Publisher: Inner Traditions / Bear & Co ISBN: 9780892817153 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 274
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Patriarchal societies forced the preeminent power of the feminine into an obscure and subservient position, yet the Great Goddess did not simply disappear when her position was usurped. This book provides evidence of the extraordinary permanence of her worship--even at the heart of those religions that tried to destroy her.
Author: Thomas Galoppin Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG ISBN: 311079845X Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 1274
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Ancient religions are definitely complex systems of gods, which resist our understanding. Divine names provide fundamental keys to gain access to the multiples ways gods were conceived, characterized, and organized. Among the names given to the gods many of them refer to spaces: cities, landscapes, sanctuaries, houses, cosmic elements. They reflect mental maps which need to be explored in order to gain new knowledge on both the structure of the pantheons and the human agency in the cultic dimension. By considering the intersection between naming and mapping, this book opens up new perspectives on how tradition and innovation, appropriation and creation play a role in the making of polytheistic and monotheistic religions. Far from being confined to sanctuaries, in fact, gods dwell in human environments in multiple ways. They move into imaginary spaces and explore the cosmos. By proposing a new and interdiciplinary angle of approach, which involves texts, images, spatial and archeaeological data, this book sheds light on ritual practices and representations of gods in the whole Mediterranean, from Italy to Mesopotamia, from Greece to North Africa and Egypt. Names and spaces enable to better define, differentiate, and connect gods.
Author: John Ferguson Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1000369617 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 270
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First published in 1989, Among the Gods uses archaeological evidence to explore ancient Greek religion. The book analyses cult-statues and inscriptions to provide a detailed discussion of gods and goddesses, the priesthood, and healing sanctuaries. In doing so, it highlights the external, formal nature of religious practice in ancient Greece, such as pilgrimages, offerings, and hallowed sites. Archaeological records are used to examine both the theory and practice of ancient Greek religion, and to provide context to a variety of Greek myths and Greek literature. Among the Gods will appeal to those with an interest in religious history, archaeological history, and Classical history.
Author: Zetta Theodoropoulou-Polychroniadis Publisher: Archaeopress Publishing Ltd ISBN: 1784911550 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 346
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This book is the first to be published from a wider research project, still in progress, about the sanctuaries of Poseidon and Athena on the promontory of Sounion (southeast Attica). The aim of this volume is to present, for the first time, a comprehensive examination and interpretation of a wide selection of unpublished small finds.
Author: Antonio Corso Publisher: L'ERMA di BRETSCHNEIDER ISBN: 9788882654375 Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 316
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Fifth Chapter: Praxiteles at his Peak (around 364-360); 22. The Cnidian Aphrodite; 23. The Coan Aphrodite; 24. The statues of the Twelve Gods in the sanctuary of the Savior Artemis in Megara; 25. The Aphrodite who is about to wreath herself; 26. The statue of Chaerippe; Indexes.
Author: Peg Streep
Author: Peg Streep
Author: Tobias Fischer-Hansen
Author: Peg Streep
Author: Robin Hagg
Author: Jean Markale
Author: Louis Dyer
Author: Thomas Galoppin
Author: John Ferguson
Author: Zetta Theodoropoulou-Polychroniadis
Author: Antonio Corso