RT Book
T1 The Cosmos in Ancient Greek Religious Experience: Sacred Space, Memory, and Cognition
A1 Boutsikas, Efrosyni
LA English
PP New York
PB Cambridge University Press
YR 2020
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1788006291
AB Cover -- Half-title -- Title page -- Copyright information -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- List of Graphs and Tables -- Acknowledgements -- Plates -- One Introduction -- Archaeoastronomy - Boundaries and Limitations -- Greek Timekeeping -- Research Aims and Context -- Two Methodological Advances, Approaches, and Considerations -- Temples and Alignments: Past Approaches and Methodologies -- Astronomical and Observational Considerations -- Memory and Experience -- The Importance of Place -- Three Worship in Space and Time -- Introduction -- General Astronomical Considerations on the Orientation of Greek Temples -- Analysis by Chronological Period -- Analysis by Deity -- Chthonic Deities and Heroes versus Ouranic Deities -- Discussion -- Four Astronomy and Perceptual Cognition in Apolline Cults -- Apollo's Cosmic Significance -- Festivals and Sanctuaries of Apollo -- Delphi and Boeotia -- Attica -- Delos -- Dreros -- Miletos and Didyma -- Klaros -- Bassae -- Timekeeping and Experience of Apolline Cults: A Summary -- Five The Cosmos in Manifestations of Identity, Memory, and Remembrance -- The Athenian Acropolis: Autochthony and Identity in the Panathenaia and Arrephoria -- The Erechtheion, the Panathenaia, and Draco -- The Daughters of Erechtheus, the Arrephoria, and the Hyades -- Overview of the Athenian Acropolis within the Cosmos -- Memory and Identity in Female Initiation Rites of Sparta and Messene -- Alkman's Partheneion: Ritual Timing and the Identity of the Goddess -- The Sanctuary and Astronomy of Artemis Orthia in Sparta -- Ritual Performance at the Sanctuary of Artemis Orthia in Messene -- Discussion: Memory, Remembrance, and Identity -- Six Cosmic Time in Greek Mystery Cults -- The Role of Time in the Eleusinian Mysteries -- Topography of the Eleusinian Sanctuary -- The Cult and the Mysteries -- Astronomy.
AB Mysteries of Despoina in Lykosoura -- The Samothracian Mysteries -- Discussion -- Seven Epilogue -- Time, Place, Experience -- Shared Experience and the Creation of Memories -- Ritual Mnemonics and Astronomy as Educational Props -- Appendix -- List of structures. In grey are western orientations. -- Glossary -- Notes -- Chapter 1 -- Chapter 2 -- Chapter 3 -- Chapter 4 -- Chapter 5 -- Chapter 6 -- Chapter 7 -- References -- Index.
AB Reconstructs ancient rituals in their day/night/season combining them with relevant mythology and astronomical observations to understand the ritual's cosmological links
CN BL788 .B688 2020
SN 9781108847728
K1 Rites and ceremonies-Greece-History-To 1500
K1 Cosmology, Ancient
K1 Astronomy-Religious aspects
K1 Astronomy, Greek
K1 Greece-Religious life and customs