Demeter and Persephone in Ancient Corinth - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Demeter and Persephone in Ancient Corinth write by Nancy Bookidis. This book was released on 1987. Demeter and Persephone in Ancient Corinth available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. When the Roman tourist Pausanias visited Corinth around A.D. 160, he saw many shrines and buildings high up to the south of the city, on the slopes of Acrocorinth. This booklet describes excavations at one of these, the Sanctuary of Demeter and Persephone (Kore). The details of religious rites revealed are of particular interest since the cult of the two goddesses, also celebrated at Eleusis, is one of the most mysterious in antiquity, and no literary testimony exists to explain what may have happened behind the high walls. Terracotta dolls, ritual meals of pork, and miniature models of food-filled platters hint at a vigorous religious tradition associated with human and agricultural fertility.
Demeter and Persephone
Demeter and Persephone - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Demeter and Persephone write by Joanna Korba. This book was released on 2006. Demeter and Persephone available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Perform this ancient Greek myth about Persephone and her mother.
The Sanctuary of Demeter and Kore
The Sanctuary of Demeter and Kore - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Sanctuary of Demeter and Kore write by Ronald S. Stroud. This book was released on 2013-09-30. The Sanctuary of Demeter and Kore available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Excavations conducted by the American School of Classical Studies at Athens in the Sanctuary of Demeter and Kore on Acrocorinth, 1961-1975, produced more than 170 inscribed objects of stone, bronze, bone, lead weights, pottery (graffiti and dipinti), clay pinakes, magical lead tablets, and in a mosaic. In this new Corinth volume, Ron Stroud presents all of these inscriptions, and he relates them to an overall interpretation of the activities, secular and religious, attested in this shrine during its long period of use from the 7th century B.C. until the end of the 4th century A.D. Where possible, Stroud also draws out their implications for and contribution to the history of ancient Corinth, the worship of the goddesses Demeter and Kore, and the practice of magic-especially in the Roman period. This is the final publication of the inscribed objects from the sanctuary, excluding loomweights and stamped amphora handles, which will be included in a later publication.
Corinth in Late Antiquity
Corinth in Late Antiquity - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Corinth in Late Antiquity write by Amelia R. Brown. This book was released on 2018-02-22. Corinth in Late Antiquity available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Late antique Corinth was on the frontline of the radical political, economic and religious transformations that swept across the Mediterranean world from the second to sixth centuries CE. A strategic merchant city, it became a hugely important metropolis in Roman Greece and, later, a key focal point for early Christianity. In late antiquity, Corinthians recognised new Christian authorities; adopted novel rites of civic celebration and decoration; and destroyed, rebuilt and added to the city's ancient landscape and monuments. Drawing on evidence from ancient literary sources, extensive archaeological excavations and historical records, Amelia Brown here surveys this period of urban transformation, from the old Agora and temples to new churches and fortifications. Influenced by the methodological advances of urban studies, Brown demonstrates the many ways Corinthians responded to internal and external pressures by building, demolishing and repurposing urban public space, thus transforming Corinthian society, civic identity and urban infrastructure. In a departure from isolated textual and archaeological studies, she connects this process to broader changes in metropolitan life, contributing to the present understanding of urban experience in the late antique Mediterranean.
Demeter and Persephone
Demeter and Persephone - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Demeter and Persephone write by Tamara Agha-Jaffar. This book was released on 2002-09-12. Demeter and Persephone available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The classical Greek myth of Demeter and her daughter Persephone as told in Homer's Hymn to Demeter has been used most often to explain the cycle of the seasons. However, a closer examination will reveal insights on living and dying, loss and reconciliation, and suffering and healing. This work demostrates the continued importance and relevance of the myth of Demeter and Persephone to today's society. The first three chapters provide a summary of the Homeric story and examine the myth from the perspectives of the mother and daughter. The following chapters discuss the symbolism of critical objects, the role of female mentoring, the role of Hades and the meaning of the underworld, the subject of rape, and the masculinist perspective presented by Zeus and Helios, and derive lessons useful for healing and knowledge. The Hymn to Demeter as translated by Helene Foley is included as an appendix in order to provide a basis for the discussion in the text. Notes and a bibliography also follow the text.
