Greek Religion in Tauric Chersonesos

Greek Religion in Tauric Chersonesos
Author: Tetiana Shevchenko
Publisher: Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Total Pages: 226
Release: 2023-08-17
Genre: History
ISBN: 1803275634

Tauric Chersonesos was one of the prominent ancient Greek centres on the north coast of the Black Sea. This comprehensive study of the cults of the gods of the Chersonesan polis, firmly based on the available sources, sheds new light on the religious life of this ancient Greek centre at various stages in its development.

Greek Religion and Cults in the Black Sea Region

Greek Religion and Cults in the Black Sea Region
Author: David Braund
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 332
Release: 2018-05-31
Genre: History
ISBN: 1316865495

This is the first integrated study of Greek religion and cults of the Black Sea region, centred upon the Bosporan Kingdom of its northern shores, but with connections and consequences for Greece and much of the Mediterranean world. David Braund explains the cohesive function of key goddesses (Aphrodite Ourania, Artemis Ephesia, Taurian Parthenos, Isis) as it develops from archaic colonization through Athenian imperialism, the Hellenistic world and the Roman Empire in the East down to the Byzantine era. There is a wealth of new and unfamiliar data on all these deities, with multiple consequences for other areas and cults, such as Diana at Aricia, Orthia in Sparta, Argos' irrigation from Egypt, Athens' Aphrodite Ourania and Artemis Tauropolos and more. Greek religion is shown as key to the internal workings of the Bosporan Kingdom, its sense of its landscape and origins and its shifting relationships with the rest of its world.

The Chora of Metaponto 5

The Chora of Metaponto 5
Author: Elisa Lanza Catti
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Total Pages: 508
Release: 2014-08-15
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0292761031

This volume in the Institute of Classical Archaeology’s series on rural settlements in the countryside (chora) of Metaponto is a study of the fourth-century BC farmhouse known as Fattoria Fabrizio, located in the heart of the surveyed chora in the Venella valley (at Ponte Fabrizio). This simple structure richly illustrates the life of fourth-century BC Metapontine farmers of modest means. Thorough interpretations of the farmhouse structure in its wider historical and socioeconomic contexts are accompanied by comprehensive analyses of the archaeological finds. Among them is detailed evidence for the family cult, a rare archaeological contribution to the study of Greek religion in Magna Grecia. The entire range of local Greek ceramics has been studied, along with a limited number of imports. Together they reveal networks within the chora and trade beyond it, involving indigenous peoples of southern Italy, mainland Greeks, and the wider Mediterranean world. Along with the studies of traditional archaeological finds, archaeobotanical analyses have illuminated the rural economy of the farmhouse and the environment of the adjacent chora. Abundant Archaic pottery also documents an important occupation, during the first great flowering of the chora in the sixth century BC. This study provides an ideal complement to the four volumes of The Chora of Metaponto 3: Archaeological Field Survey—Bradano to Basento and an eloquent example of hundreds of farmhouses of this date identified throughout the chora by their surface remains alone.

Adventures with Iphigenia in Tauris

Adventures with Iphigenia in Tauris
Author: Edith Hall
Publisher: Oxford University Press (UK)
Total Pages: 416
Release: 2013-01-10
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 0195392892

This book presents a cultural history of the Greek tragedy and its influence on subsequent Greek and Roman art and literature.

Ancient Greek Housing

Ancient Greek Housing
Author: Lisa C. Nevett
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 351
Release: 2023-04-30
Genre: History
ISBN: 0521198720

Provides an accessible and extensively illustrated introduction to housing and domestic life in the ancient Greek world.

The Numismatic Chronicle

The Numismatic Chronicle
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 652
Release: 2002
Genre: Electronic journals
ISBN:

"The rules of the Numismatic Society of London" bound with New Ser., v. 1.