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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"Greek Religion"”.
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Manufacturing the Marvellous: Technology and Divine Presence in Ancient Greek Religion
… and foremost the mechanical, in the ancient Greek world. The dissertation seeks both to expand the existing vocabulary of visual modes of ancient epiphany, and to contribute to the cultural history of the unique category of ancient ‘enchantment’ technologies. A broad chronological scope not …
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The Material of Polytheism in Archaic Greece: Understanding Greek Religion Through Patterns of Dedicatory Practice and Thought, ca.750–480 BCE
… religious and theological questions concerning Greek polytheism, including how ancient worshippers constructed, cultivated and understood the plurality of the divine world through the material they deposited in sanctuaries. I simultaneously consider gift-giving in relation to the mental and …
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Religious Practices in Classical Thebes
… by using both literature (Classical Greek tragedies) as well as material culture found in exceptional religious settings of the Thesmophoria and Kabeirion, I strive to delineate some of the religious practices taking place in the polis of Thebes during the Classical age. While the …
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Religion of the Roadways: Roadside Sacred Spaces in Attica
… about Attic roads, ancient travel, and Greek religion, this study presents the literary testimonia, the epigraphical evidence, and the archaeological material related to Attic and Athenian roadside religious spaces between the Archaic and the Early Roman periods. Roadside shrines took …
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Reconstructing the Dedicatory Experience: Flexibility and Limitation in the Ancient Greek Dedicatory Process
… an area of consideration in the study of ancient Greek religion. However, this discussion is largely dominated by two concepts, those of divine specialization and appropriateness. Whereas the former assumes that divine beings had responsibilities specific to them and that this specialization …
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Adaptation and Tradition in Hellenistic Sacred Laws
… change. Through the lens of inscribed Greek sacred laws we see communities balancing the twin requirements of innovation and tradition. The epigraphic record shows significant changes to the choreography of religious experience in response to demographic change; experimentation in …
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The Regional Cults of Thessaly
Regionalism was a defining feature of Greek society in all periods of antiquity. The implications of this regionalism for the history of religion are crucial: No two areas of the Greek world worshipped the same pantheon of gods in the same way. Regional variation was the norm. This dissertation …
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Historic case studies reflecting sources of change in the theory of musical scales and modes in the West
… that theory. The selection, ranging from ancient Greek to contemporary theories, is intended not only to cover a broad chronological sampling, but also to demonstrate different sorts of change-change as conscious synthesis of available materials, change as intensification, change as …
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Ancient Greek Maenads: Comparing Mythological Worshippers of Dionysos to Reality
… incorporated historical elements. The ancient Greek tragedy by Euripides examines the introduction of a new deity, Dionysos, to the well-established religion of the ancient Greek world. In this world, Dionysos leads and commands a group of female devotees—the maenads. These women make up both …
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Listening to Birth: Metallurgy, Maternity, and Vocality in the Reproduction of the Patriarchal State
… Egyptians to later materials from the Iron Age Greeks, Israelites, and Romans—my goal is to demonstrate both the ubiquity and the continual reproduction of metallurgical ideology across the ancient world. I also present my preliminary research into the lasting impact that antique notions of …