Placing the Gods: Sanctuaries and Sacred Space in Ancient Greece.

From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - Slightly rubbed, overall very good and clean. / Leicht berieben, insgesamt sehr gut und sauber. - CONTENTS: 1. Mediation, Competition, and Sovereignty: The Evolution of Rural Sanctuaries in Geometric Greece, FRAN�IS DE POLIGNAC -- 2. After the �Big Bang��What? or Minoan Symbols and Shrines beyond Palatial Collapse, ALAN PEATFIELD -- 3. The Spatial Configuration of Belief: The Archaeology of Mycenaean Religion, JAMES C. WRIGHT -- 4. Placing the Past: the Bronze Age in the Cultic Topography of Early Greece, CARLA M. ANTONACCIO -- 5. The Evolution of a Sacral �Landscape�: Isthmia, Perachora, and the Early Corinthian State, CATHERINE MORGAN -- 6. Archaeology, the Salaminioi, and the Politics of Sacred Space in Archaic Attica, ROBIN OSBORNE -- 7. Sanctuaries in the Chora of Metaponto, JOSEPH COLEMAN CARTER -- 8. Demeter in the Ancient Greek City and its Countryside, SUSAN GUETTEL COLE -- 9. The Distribution of Sanctuaries in Civic Space in Arkadia, MADELEINE JOST -- 10. Trees in the Landscape of Pausanias� Periegesis, DARICE BIRGE -- 11. Minding the Gap in Hellenistic and Roman Greece, SUSAN E. ALCOCK. - No one disputes the centrality of cult activity in the lives of individuals and communities in ancient Greece. The significance of where people worshipped their gods, and its influence on their conceptual geography, has been less acknowledged. In 1984 Fran�s de Polignac argued that the placing of cult centres played a major part in establishing the concept of the city-state in archaic Greece. The essays in this collection, headed by that of de Polignac himself in which he reassesses his position, critically examine the social and political importance of sanctuary placement, not only by re-examining the case of archaic Greece discussed by Polignac, but by extending analysis both back to Mycenaean times and onwards to Greece under Roman occupation. These essays reveal something of the complexity of relations between religion and politics in ancient Greece, demonstrating how vital factors such as tradition, gender relations, and cult identity were in creating and maintaining the religious mapping of the Greek countryside. - Susan E. Alcock is Assistant Professor in Classical Archaeology and Classics, University of Michigan, and Robin Osborne is a University Lecturer in Ancient History and Fellow and Tutor at Corpus Christi College, Oxford. ISBN 9780198149477