Cults, territory, and the origins of the Greek city-state /
[Book]
François de Polignac ; translated by Janet Lloyd ; with a new foreword by Claude Mossé.
Chicago :
University of Chicago Press,
1995.
xvi, 187 pages ;
23 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 155-187).
Foreword / Claude Mosse -- 1. Cults, Offerings, and Sanctuaries. New Sites and New Religious Practices. The Importance of Nonurban Sanctuaries. Deities and Offerings: A Mismatch or a Coherent Pattern? -- 2. The Nonurban Sanctuary and the Formation of the City. The Sanctuary, the Land, and the Territory. The Agrarian Space: Fecundity and Kourotropheia. The Territory: Warfare, Appropriation, and Sovereignty. Social Integration and the Constitution of the Polis. The Bipolar City and the Athenian Exception -- 3. Cults and Colonial Foundations. Cults: Classifications and Interpretations. Sanctuaries and Taking Possession of the Territory. Mediatory Cult Sites. The Formation of a Colonial Society -- 4. The Hero and the Political Elaboration of the City. The Last of the Princes, the First of the Heroes. The Masters of the Land: The Veneration and Appropriation of the Past. The Invention of the Mythical Founder.
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Naissance de la cité grecque.
English
FernUniversität in Hagen
Cities and towns, Ancient-- Greece-- History.
Cults-- Greece-- History.
Cultes-- Grèce-- Histoire
Villes antiques-- Grèce-- Histoire
Antiquities.
Cities and towns, Ancient-- Greece-- Growth-- Religious aspects.
Cities and towns, Ancient.
City-states-- Greece-- Growth-- Religious aspects.