Placing the Gods - Sanctuaries and Sacred Space in Ancient Greece

Zusatztext coherent! integrated! and explicitly theory-based collection of commissioned essays edited by Alcock and Osborne Informationen zum Autor Susan E. Alcock is Assistant Professor of Archaeology at the University of Michigan. Robin Osborne is University Lecturer in Ancient History, and Fellow and Tutor at Corpus Christi College, Oxford. Dr. Osborne also edited Ritual, Finance, Politics: Athenian Democratic Accounts Presented to David Lewis (OUP, 1995) with Simon Hornblower. Klappentext The essays critically the relationship between sanctuaries and political units in the Greek world over the best part of two millennia! both extending de Polignac's sort of analysis back and forward in time! and also assessing the limits of that analysis. Zusammenfassung Explores the significance behind the religious sites of ancient Greece - why they grew up there, and what social, political, and anthropological influences may have contributed to their development.

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• Authors: Alcock, Susan E. (Assistant Professor of Archaeolo Alcock, Susan E. Osborne Alcock, Alcock Osborne
• Assisted by: Susan E. Alcock (Editor), Osborne (Editor), Robin Osborne (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 25.04.1996
• EAN: 9780198150602
• ISBN: 978-0-19-815060-2
• No. of pages: 282
• Series: Clarendon Paperbacks; Clarendon Paperbacks
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Antiquity; European History, HISTORY / Europe / General, Ancient Greece, RELIGION / Antiquities & Archaeology, HISTORY / Ancient / Greece, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology, RELIGION / Ancient, Ancient World, Ancient History, Archaeology by period / region, Ancient history: to c 500 CE, Ancient religions & mythologies, Classical Greek & Roman archaeology, Ancient religions and Mythologies