Aspects of Ancient Greek Cult

Context - Ritual - Iconography

George Hinge, Jesper Tae Jensen, Peter Schultz, Bronwen Wickkiser

• Publisher: Aarhus University Press
• Year: 2009
• ISBN:
  9788779346642
• Topic: Historia
• Subtopic: Historia de la antigua Grecia

The papers in this volume illustrate the interplay between the studies of classical archaeology, religion, history, and musicology. The eight papers by the young scholars and their Nestor, Richard Hamilton, offer a fresh look at various aspects of ancient cult, including the use of the word cult in the academic disciplines of Archaeology and the History of Religion; the introduction of Asklepios to Athens, and a detailed study of the same god's sanctuary on the south slope of Akropolis, where it will be demonstrated that the layout of the early sanctuary on the east terrace was carefully designed after one central monument. The book also contains an innovative study of the Philippeion at Olympia, where it is argued that the tholos with its sculpture was a proto-type for the use of divine images and royal ideology by Hellenistic rulers. Other papers include a statistical approach to the illustration of baskets on Classical votive reliefs, a theoretical study of the role of music in ancient Greek cult, and analysis of the use of the chorus as one of the most important expressions of ancient cult in Sparta.

Table of contents

• Front Matter
• Contents
• Preface
• Introduction
• “Cult” in the Study of Religion and Archaeology
• Basket Case: Altars, Animals and Baskets on Classical Attic Votive Reliefs
• Banishing Plague: Asklepios, Athens, and the Great Plague Reconsidered
• Der Altar des Asklepieions von Athen
• The Athenian Asklepieion on the South Slope of the Akropolis: Early Development, ca. 420-360 B.C.
• Divine Images and Royal Ideology in the Philippeion at Olympia
• Music and Cult in Ancient Greece: Ethnomusicological Perspectives
• Cultic Persona and the Transmission of the Partheneions
• Index
• Contributors