Greek Sanctuaries as Places of Communication through Rituals: An Archaeological Perspective

Mylonopoulos, Joannis

doi:10.4000/books.pulg.1135

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“…More concretely, and perhaps more importantly, the continuity of the plan ensured that the cultic, religious spatial arrangement inside and outside the temple remained unchanged. Ancient cults were embedded in space (Wescoat and Ousterhout 2012;Mylonopoulos 2006) and any significant change in their physical environment potentially jeopardized their very identity (Roux 1984, 162-6;Jacquemin 2017, 33-4). In this sense, the plan of the new temple of Apollo was not "archaizing"; it was, quite literally, "archaic", as was the cult that it articulated.…”

Section: Anchoring Innovation and Changementioning

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Innovation and Resilience: Post-Disaster Architecture in Fourth-Century Delphi

Broeck-Parant¹

2021

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In the 370s BC, Delphi was struck by a natural disaster. The temple of Apollo itself was severely damaged and needed to be rebuilt almost entirely. A few years later, the Third Sacred War (356-346 BC) interrupted the reconstruction. These two events must have been traumatic, yet the reconstruction of the temple of Apollo started relatively quickly after the catastrophe of the 370s and resumed swiftly after the end of the war. In addition to the temple of Apollo, other monuments were erected in the aftermath of these events. This paper focuses on the temple of Apollo, the Treasury of the Thebans and the so-called Limestone Temple and offers an interpretation of their architectural features in light of the distressing events that preceded them, using the concepts of anchoring innovation and conspicuous consumption. Resilience, it is argued, is not only evident in the vast funding scheme for reconstructing the temple of Apollo, but also in the design and construction of the monuments erected during that period.

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Section: Anchoring Innovation and Changementioning

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Innovation and Resilience: Post-Disaster Architecture in Fourth-Century Delphi

Broeck-Parant¹

2021

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“…There was a long debate, and still it is, about whether women were permitted to sacrifice or not [84]. It would seem that women were only able to conduct slaughtering of sacrificial animals in specific ritual contexts such as Thesmophoria [84]. In the Greek world, on the basis of iconographic evidence, two of the most important communicative tasks, guarding the temple and making the bloody sacrifice, were assigned exclusively to priests.…”

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ArkaeVision VR Game: User Experience Research between Real and Virtual Paestum

Pagano¹,

Palombini²,

Bozzelli³

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The design of a virtual reality (VR) cultural application is aimed at supporting the steps of the learning process-like concrete experimentation, reflection and abstraction—which are generally difficult to induce when looking at ruins and artifacts that bring back to the past. With the use of virtual technologies (e.g., holographic surfaces, head-mounted displays, motion—cation sensors) those steps are surely supported thanks to the immersiveness and natural interaction granted by such devices. VR can indeed help to symbolically recreate the context of life of cultural objects, presenting them in their original place of belonging, while they were used for example, increasing awareness and understanding of history. The ArkaeVision VR application takes advantages of storytelling and user experience design to tell the story of artifacts and sites of an important cultural heritage site of Italy, Paestum, creating a dramaturgy around them and relying upon historical and artistic content revised by experts. Visitors will virtually travel into the temple dedicated to Hera II of Paestum, in the first half of the fifth century BC, wearing an immersive viewer–HTC Vive; here, they will interact with the priestess Ariadne, a digital actor, who will guide them on a virtual tour presenting the beliefs, the values and habits of an ancient population of the Magna Graecia city. In the immersive VR application, the memory is indeed influenced by the visitors’ ability to proceed with the exploratory activity. Two evaluation sessions were planned and conducted to understand the effectiveness of the immersive experience, usability of the virtual device and the learnability of the digital storytelling. Results revealed that certainly the realism of the virtual reconstructions, the atmosphere and the “sense of the past” that pervades the whole VR cultural experience, characterize the positive feedback of visitors, their emotional engagement and their interest to proceed with the exploration.

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“…As Bell puts it, "Relationships of power are drawn from the social body and then reappropriated by the social body as experience" (1992: 207).16 A sample, with no claim to be comprehensive, includesCalame 1977;Lonsdale 1993; Versnel 1993;Burkert 1996;Naerebout 1997;Bierl 2009. In work on the role of the body in the performance of religious rituals within sacred space, along with the interaction of ritual and architectural spaces has received greater focus, see, e.g.,Mylonopoulos 2006; Naerebout 2006. …”

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Ancient Greco-Roman Magic and the Agency of Victimhood

Eidinow

2017

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Scholarship on ancient Greco-Roman magic over time and place, has largely focused on the role and identity of ritual practitioners, investigating the nature and source of their perceived expertise and often locating it in their linguistic skills. Less attention has been paid to those identified as the targets of magical rituals, who tend to be described as passive recipients of the ritual or victims of the social power of another. In contrast, drawing on the theory of ritual form developed by Robert McCauley and E. Thomas Lawson, alongside the ritualization theories of Catherine Bell, this article argues that victims of magic were also agents of ritual. Focusing on an experience of hostile magic reported by the fourth-centuryc.e.orator Libanius, it explores how conceptions of magical power were co-created by spell-makersandtheir so-called victims and should be regarded as relational, that is, as emerging from the interactions of people and groups.

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Greek Sanctuaries as Places of Communication through Rituals: An Archaeological Perspective

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Innovation and Resilience: Post-Disaster Architecture in Fourth-Century Delphi

Innovation and Resilience: Post-Disaster Architecture in Fourth-Century Delphi

ArkaeVision VR Game: User Experience Research between Real and Virtual Paestum

Ancient Greco-Roman Magic and the Agency of Victimhood

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