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Ascending and descending the acropolis : movement in Athenian religion / edited by Wiebke Friese, Søren Handberg and Troels Myrup Kristensen.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Monographs of the Danish Institute at Athens ; v. 23.Publisher: Aarhus : Aarhus University Press ; Bristol, CT : ISD, [2019]Description: 1 online resource (277 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 8771848622
  • 9788771848625
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Ascending and Descending the Acropolis : Movement in Athenian Religion.DDC classification:
  • 292.3/809 23
LOC classification:
  • BL788 .A83 2019
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  • online - EBSCO
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Contents:
Introduction -- New approaches to movement in Athenian religion -- Part I. Movement in the city. Performing piety : a phenomenological approach to Athenian processions -- On the peripatos : accessibility and topography of the acropolis slope sanctuaries -- Under the care of daemons : from the Athenian acropolis to Kallirrhoe on the Ilissos -- Pausanias and the intellectual travellers of the Roman imperial period : the acropolis and the historical imagination -- Part II. Movement beyond the city. The beginning of sacred travel in ancient Athens and its countryside -- "To the mountain" : the ritual space of Maenadism in the Athenian imaginary -- Journeys to the Eleusinian Mysteria (with an appendix on the procession at the Andanian Mysteria) -- Individuals and polis in cult : the procession from Athens to Eleusis in classical times -- The route of the Athenian pythaïs across the city and its territory -- Reflections on pilgrimage at the acropolis of Brauron during the late Helladic period -- Epilogue -- Rituals in its space.
Summary: Ascending and Descending the Acropolis - Mobility in Athenian Religion provides new perspectives on religious mobilities within the geographically limited region of Attica in Greece from the Late Bronze Age to the second century AD. Attica is a particularly fruitful region to study these forms of mobility, as it provides rich evidence across a range of material and textual sources for a variety of different mobile situations - both inside the city of Athens itself (such as on and circumnavigating the Acropolis) and to sanctuaries in its hinterland (for example, those of Demeter and Kore at Eleusis and that of Artemis at Brauron), as well to as more distant sanctuaries, such as Delphi.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Introduction -- New approaches to movement in Athenian religion -- Part I. Movement in the city. Performing piety : a phenomenological approach to Athenian processions -- On the peripatos : accessibility and topography of the acropolis slope sanctuaries -- Under the care of daemons : from the Athenian acropolis to Kallirrhoe on the Ilissos -- Pausanias and the intellectual travellers of the Roman imperial period : the acropolis and the historical imagination -- Part II. Movement beyond the city. The beginning of sacred travel in ancient Athens and its countryside -- "To the mountain" : the ritual space of Maenadism in the Athenian imaginary -- Journeys to the Eleusinian Mysteria (with an appendix on the procession at the Andanian Mysteria) -- Individuals and polis in cult : the procession from Athens to Eleusis in classical times -- The route of the Athenian pythaïs across the city and its territory -- Reflections on pilgrimage at the acropolis of Brauron during the late Helladic period -- Epilogue -- Rituals in its space.

Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on November 01, 2019).

Ascending and Descending the Acropolis - Mobility in Athenian Religion provides new perspectives on religious mobilities within the geographically limited region of Attica in Greece from the Late Bronze Age to the second century AD. Attica is a particularly fruitful region to study these forms of mobility, as it provides rich evidence across a range of material and textual sources for a variety of different mobile situations - both inside the city of Athens itself (such as on and circumnavigating the Acropolis) and to sanctuaries in its hinterland (for example, those of Demeter and Kore at Eleusis and that of Artemis at Brauron), as well to as more distant sanctuaries, such as Delphi.