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Naming and Mapping the Gods in the Ancient Mediterranean
Spaces, Mobilities, Imaginaries
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English, French, Italian
Published/Copyright:
2022
About this book
Ancient religions are definitely complex systems of gods, which resist our understanding. Divine names provide fundamental keys to gain access to the multiples ways gods were conceived, characterized, and organized. Among the names given to the gods many of them refer to spaces: cities, landscapes, sanctuaries, houses, cosmic elements. They reflect mental maps which need to be explored in order to gain new knowledge on both the structure of the pantheons and the human agency in the cultic dimension. By considering the intersection between naming and mapping, this book opens up new perspectives on how tradition and innovation, appropriation and creation play a role in the making of polytheistic and monotheistic religions.
Far from being confined to sanctuaries, in fact, gods dwell in human environments in multiple ways. They move into imaginary spaces and explore the cosmos. By proposing a new and interdiciplinary angle of approach, which involves texts, images, spatial and archeaeological data, this book sheds light on ritual practices and representations of gods in the whole Mediterranean, from Italy to Mesopotamia, from Greece to North Africa and Egypt. Names and spaces enable to better define, differentiate, and connect gods.
Far from being confined to sanctuaries, in fact, gods dwell in human environments in multiple ways. They move into imaginary spaces and explore the cosmos. By proposing a new and interdiciplinary angle of approach, which involves texts, images, spatial and archeaeological data, this book sheds light on ritual practices and representations of gods in the whole Mediterranean, from Italy to Mesopotamia, from Greece to North Africa and Egypt. Names and spaces enable to better define, differentiate, and connect gods.
Reviews
"Overall, this publication makes a valuable contribution to the study of ancient religious topography. [...] While the text is dense at times, scholars of religion, literature, and archaeology will find this publication a worthy contribution to the study of sacred topography." Hannah B. Smagh in: BMCR 2024.04.18
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Frontmatter
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Contents
V - Volume 1
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Introduction
1 - 1 Naming and Locating the Gods: Space as a Divine Onomastic Attribute
- 1.1 Egypt and Near East
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The Names of Osiris in the Litany of the So-Called Spell 141/142 of the Book of the Dead in Ancient Egypt
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Divine Epithets as Perspectival Discourse
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Nomina nuda tenemus: The God Elyon (ʿlyn)
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Naming and Mapping the Gods in Cyprus: a Matter of Scales?
89 - 1.2 Greece: Literature
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Regional Loyalties in the Iliad: The Cases of Zeus, Apollo, and Athena
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Agrotera: Situating Artemis in Her Landscapes
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πολύθεοι ἕδραι: Terms for Spatio-Cultic Relationships in Greek
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Les épiclèses toponymiques comme outil interprétatif chez Hérodote : quelques exemples
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ΚΥΠΡΙΣ. Ovvero l’interpretazione degli epiteti divini nel Περὶ θεῶν di Apollodoro di Atene (244 FGrHist 353)
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Place Names as Divine Epithets in Pausanias
187 - 1.3 Greece: Local and Regional Approaches
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Artemis and Her Territory: Toponymic and Topographical Cult-Epithets of Artemis in Attica
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Alla ricerca della “Buona Fama”: Eukleia tra epiclesi di Artemide e teonimo indipendente
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Insights into the Cult of Apollo and Artemis at the Parian Sanctuaries
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Founders, Leaders, or Ancestors? Ἀρχηγέτης/-ις: Variations on a Name
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Zeus « qui-règne-sur Dodone (Hom., Il. 16.233–234) » et ses épigones. Les attributs onomastiques construits sur medeôn, -ousa + toponyme
289 - 1.4 Rome and the West
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The Quadruviae: Cult Mobility and Social Agency in the Northern Provinces of the Roman Empire
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Naming the Gods in Roman Sicily: The Case of Enguium
335 - 2 Mapping the Divine: Presenting Gods in Space
- 2.1 Egypt and Near East
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Khnoum d’Éléphantine et Isis de Philae : la lutte pour le contrôle de la première cataracte du Nil et du Dodécaschène
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From High to Low: Reflections about the Emplacement of Religion in Ancient Mesopotamia
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A New Mobilities Approach to Naming and Mapping Deities: Presence, Absence, and Distance at Kuntillet ‘Ajrud
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Entre espace et puissance : le séjour des morts et la persistance de structures polythéistes dans la Bible hébraïque
407 - 2.2 Phoenician and Punic World
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Death at the Centre of Life: Some Notes on Gods and the Dead, Temples and Tombs in the Phoenician Context
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In and Out What Archaeology Can Tell Us About the Role of Liminality in the Phoenician Rites
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Graeco-Phoenician Figurines in Phoenicia. A Medley of Imports, Derivatives, Imitations, and Hybrids
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The Gods of the Others: Images of Foreign Deities in the Hellenistic Cult Place of Kharayeb
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Remarques sur le rôle du sel dans les pratiques votives de Kition : un exemple d’interaction entre les figurines divines et leur milieu
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On Gods and Caves: Comparing Cave-Sanctuaries in the Ancient Western Mediterranean
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Between Astarte, Isis and Aphrodite/Venus. Cultural Dynamics in the Coastal Cities of Sardinia in the Roman Age: The Case Study of Nora
561 - 2.3 Archaic and Classical Greece
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Déplacements, mobilité, communication. Quelques réflexions sur le mode d’action d’Iris dans la poésie archaïque
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Spatialité, performance, choralité divines et humaines : les Charites de Pindare et Bacchylide
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Linking Centre and Periphery: Nymphs and Their Cultic Space in Euripides, Electra 803–843
617 - 2.4 Rome and its Empire
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La plebs des dieux. Réflexions sur la hiérarchie et la spatialité des dieux romains
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A Contest for the Control of Ideological Space in Ovid’s Metamorphoses XI 146–94: Apollo/Augustus, Pan, and an Allegory of the Romanization of Hellenistic Lydia
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The Gods at Play: Mapping the Divine at the Amphitheatres in Hispania
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Spaces of Reinvented Religious Traditions in the Danubian Provinces
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Where Did the Gods Speak? A Proposal for (Re)defining “Oracular Sanctuaries” on the Basis of Anatolian Data of the Hellenistic and Roman Period
707 - Volume 2
- 3 Gods and Cities: Urban Religion, Sanctuaries and the Emergence of Towns
- 3.1 Egypt and Near East
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Akhenaten and His Aten Cult in Abydos and Akhmim
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Nippur: City of Enlil and Ninurta
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Urban Religion in First Millennium BCE Babylonia
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Hatra of Shamash. How to assign the city under the divine power?
791 - 3.2 Greek World
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Un réseau de rapports symboliques. Santuari, territorio e pratiche collettive nella Sparta arcaica
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Spatializing ‘Divine Newcomers’ in Athens
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L’articulation de l’espace religieux et de l’espace civique : l’exemple du sanctuaire de Zeus sur l’agora de Thasos
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Squaring Nemesis: Alexander’s Dream, the Oracle, and the Foundation of the New Smyrna
871 - 3.3 Rome and the West
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Gods in the City
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« Religious Ancient Placemaking » : une nouvelle approche méthodologique pour l’évaluation des religions à l’époque antique
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Cybele and Attis from the Phrygian Crags to the City. History, Places and Forms of the Cult of Magna Mater in Rome
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La ritualisation des territoires ibériques : les sanctuaires urbains de l’Âge du Fer
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Jumping Among the Temples: Early Christian Critique of Polytheism’s “Spatial Fix”
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The Space of “Paganism” in the Early Medieval City: Rome’s Polytheistic Past along the Real and Imaginary Topography of the Pilgrims’ Paths
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Que faut-il pour faire un sanctuaire ?
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Index Nominum
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Publishing information
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eBook published on:
December 31, 2022
eBook ISBN:
9783110798432
Hardcover published on:
December 31, 2022
Hardcover ISBN:
9783110796490
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
Front matter:
20
Main content:
1069
Illustrations:
34
Coloured Illustrations:
86
Tables:
24
Coloured Tables:
1
Audience(s) for this book
Students and scholars of ancient history, classical studies, religious studies and spacial studies
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