- Title Pages
- Frontispiece
- Preface
- List of Contributors
- List of Abbreviations
-
1 ‘The Coming of the Greeks’ and All That -
2 Archaeology and the Archaeology of the Greek Language: On the Origin of the Greek Nouns in-εύς -
3 Survey, Excavation and the Appearance of the Early Polis: A Reappraisal -
4 Homer and the Ekphrasists: Text and Picture in the Elder Philostratus’ ‘Scamander’ (Imagines I.1) -
5 Homer’s Audience: What Did They See? -
6 Homer and the Sculptors -
7 Potters, Hippeis and Gods at Penteskouphia (Corinth), Seventh to Sixth Centuries BC -
8 Space, Society, Religion: A Short Retrospective and Prospective Note -
9 Modelling the Territories of Attic Demes: A Computational Approach -
10 Hesiod and the Disgraceful Shepherds: Pastoral Politics in a Panhellenic Dichterweihe? -
11 ‘Is Painting a Representation of Visible Things?’ Conceptual Reality in Greek Art: A Preliminary Sketch -
12 Coins in a ‘Home Away from Home’: The Case of Sicily -
13 Life on Earth and Death from Heaven: The Golden Pectoral of the Scythian King from the Tolstaya Mogila (Ukraine) -
14 The Idea of an Archetype in Texts Stemming from the Empire Founded by Cyrus the Great -
15 Loropéni and Other Large Enclosed Sites in the South-West of Burkina Faso: An Outside Archaeological View -
16 The Poetics of Ruins in Ancient Greece and Rome -
17 Context Matters: Pliny’s Phryges and the Basilica Paulli in Rome -
18 Anthony in Edinburgh -
19 Anthony McElrea Snodgrass and the Classics Faculty in Cambridge: A Personal Appreciation -
20 The First Thirty-Six Years of the Boeotia Project, Central Greece - Index
Space, Society, Religion: A Short Retrospective and Prospective Note
Space, Society, Religion: A Short Retrospective and Prospective Note
- Chapter:
- (p.183) 8 Space, Society, Religion: A Short Retrospective and Prospective Note
- Source:
- The Archaeology of Greece and Rome
- Author(s):
François de Polignac
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
It is now a well-established fact in the human and social sciences that the study of the spatial distribution of social life, including religion, is one of the best accesses to the analysis and understanding of societies. But it has not always been so. For quite a long time, in Classical studies, the only approach to space was traditional ‘historical geography’, the scope of which was primarily to identify the places mentioned in the ancient sources or known through archaeological or epigraphic evidence. This was and remains an important contribution to the study of ancient societies. But in these works the study of topography does not sustain a general conception of space as such and as a fundamental aspect of social life; and in fact, space as a category of study was not formalised as such.
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- Title Pages
- Frontispiece
- Preface
- List of Contributors
- List of Abbreviations
-
1 ‘The Coming of the Greeks’ and All That -
2 Archaeology and the Archaeology of the Greek Language: On the Origin of the Greek Nouns in-εύς -
3 Survey, Excavation and the Appearance of the Early Polis: A Reappraisal -
4 Homer and the Ekphrasists: Text and Picture in the Elder Philostratus’ ‘Scamander’ (Imagines I.1) -
5 Homer’s Audience: What Did They See? -
6 Homer and the Sculptors -
7 Potters, Hippeis and Gods at Penteskouphia (Corinth), Seventh to Sixth Centuries BC -
8 Space, Society, Religion: A Short Retrospective and Prospective Note -
9 Modelling the Territories of Attic Demes: A Computational Approach -
10 Hesiod and the Disgraceful Shepherds: Pastoral Politics in a Panhellenic Dichterweihe? -
11 ‘Is Painting a Representation of Visible Things?’ Conceptual Reality in Greek Art: A Preliminary Sketch -
12 Coins in a ‘Home Away from Home’: The Case of Sicily -
13 Life on Earth and Death from Heaven: The Golden Pectoral of the Scythian King from the Tolstaya Mogila (Ukraine) -
14 The Idea of an Archetype in Texts Stemming from the Empire Founded by Cyrus the Great -
15 Loropéni and Other Large Enclosed Sites in the South-West of Burkina Faso: An Outside Archaeological View -
16 The Poetics of Ruins in Ancient Greece and Rome -
17 Context Matters: Pliny’s Phryges and the Basilica Paulli in Rome -
18 Anthony in Edinburgh -
19 Anthony McElrea Snodgrass and the Classics Faculty in Cambridge: A Personal Appreciation -
20 The First Thirty-Six Years of the Boeotia Project, Central Greece - Index
