Ascending and descending the Acropolis
Author | : Wiebke Friese |
Publisher | : Aarhus Universitetsforlag |
Total Pages | : 277 |
Release | : 2019-01-28 |
ISBN-10 | : 9788771848625 |
ISBN-13 | : 8771848622 |
Rating | : 4/5 (25 Downloads) |
Book excerpt: Ascending and Descending the Acropolis - Mobility in Athenian Religion provides new perspectives on religious mobilities within the geographically limited region of Attica in Greece from the Late Bronze Age to the second century AD. Attica is a particularly fruitful region to study these forms of mobility, as it provides rich evidence across a range of material and textual sources for a variety of different mobile situations - both inside the city of Athens itself (such as on and circumnavigating the Acropolis) and to sanctuaries in its hinterland (for example, those of Demeter and Kore at Eleusis and that of Artemis at Brauron), as well to as more distant sanctuaries, such as Delphi.