Proceedings of international conference held in May 2011 at the European Cultural Centre of Delphi and it was organized and sponsored by the Graduate School Human Development in Landscapes of Kiel University. Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Contents:
Memory in stone : ritual lanscapes and concepts of monumentality in prehistoric societies / Bettina Schulz Paulsson -- Greek landscapes : profane and sacred / Oliver Rackham -- Sacred groves : nature between religion , philisophy and politics / Lukas Thommen -- Under the open sky : imagining the Dionysian landscape / Susan Guettel Cole -- Landscape and the cosmos in the Apolline rites of Delphi, Delos and Dreros / Efronsyni Boutsikas -- From Delos to Delphi : how Appolo comes home / Jeremy McInerney -- Barren landscapes and sacrificial offerings in the Homeric hymn to Apollo / Sarah Hitch -- Landscape and females in hte Odyssey : Calypso, Circe and Nausicaa / Mercedes Aguirre Castro -- An orge in three landscapes : cyclops in Homer, Euripides amd Theokritos / Richard Buxton -- Landscape and the magic of music in Pindar's twelfth Pythian ode / Lutz Käppel -- The distribution of cult in the landscape of Eleia / James Roy -- Newbown babies and newborn islands : insularity and politics / Vassiliki Pothou -- A Greek landscape with God and his saints : a case study from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries AD / Hamish Forbes -- The role of archaeological museums in Greece for contemporary societies : approaches and perspectives / Michael Teichmann.
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