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  • 2 - Refitting the Local Horizon of Ancient Greek Religion (Including Some Remarks on the Sanctuary of Poseidon on Kalaureia)

  • Edited by Hans Beck, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Germany, Julia Kindt, University of Sydney
  • Book:
    The Local Horizon of Ancient Greek Religion
    Published online:
    06 April 2023
    Print publication:
    13 April 2023, pp 28-66

  • Summary

    Shaped by the confinement to place and a limited number of participants, the local horizon of Greek religion is typically circumscribed as subject to a smallness in importance and meaning; at best, it is viewed as a canvas for the projection of local idiosyncrasy. This chapter calls for a reassessment of the prevailing orthodoxy. In the first section, Hans Beck gauges the vectors that lent particular, culture-specific traits to the local as a source domain of ancient Greek belief and cult practice. The second part applies the findings to an exemplary case study, the Sanctuary of Poseidon at Kalaureia. Contextualising the site in space and time, Beck argues that Kalaureia gained religious prominence as a satellite sanctuary of the city of Troizen. Kalaureia documents not only the merits of the local perspective, but exemplifies the role of the local as a feeder of religious practice and purpose.

The Local Horizon of Ancient Greek Religion
  • Edited by Hans Beck, Julia Kindt
  • Published online:
    06 April 2023
    Print publication:
    13 April 2023
  • Which dimensions of the religious experience of the ancient Greeks become tangible only if we foreground its local horizons? This book explores the manifold ways in which Greek religious beliefs and practices are encoded in and communicate with various local environments. Its individual chapters explore 'the local' in its different forms and formulations. Besides the polis perspective, they include numerous other places and locations above and below the polis-level as well as those fully or largely independent of the city-state. Overall, the local emerges as a relational concept that changes together with our understanding of the general or universal forces as they shape ancient Greek religion. The unity and diversity of ancient Greek religion becomes tangible in the manifold ways in which localizing and generalizing forces interact with each other at different times and in different places across the ancient Greek world.

  • The Many Faces of “the People” in the Ancient World

  • Edited by Hans Beck, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Germany, Griet Vankeerberghen, McGill University, Montréal
  • Book:
    Rulers and Ruled in Ancient Greece, Rome, and China
    Published online:
    19 January 2021
    Print publication:
    04 February 2021, pp 1-22

  • Summary

    Few words in the historian’s vocabulary have such a wide semantic gulf as “the people.” Add to this the vast range of different languages, cultures, and layers of time in which “the people” are invoked, and the term translates into a commonplace. The present volume reclaims some of the conceptual capacity of “the people” in history. It looks at the ancient worlds of Greece, Rome, and China through the lens of cross-cultural comparison, addressing some of the key issues that related to the notion of “the people” in the variant of each civilization. In this vein of inquiry, the book raises a set of questions: the positional question of who “the people” were, also in relation to other people; the participatory question of how groups of “the people” constituted themselves through patterns of belonging and exclusion, and how their status, or nonstatus, was charged with meaning; and the conversational question of how “the people” communicated about their group cohesion and negotiated the omnipresence of imbalances in, for instance, gender, social status, political entitlement, economic ability, or cultural expertise.

  • Chapter 6 - Registers of “the People” in Greece, Rome, and China

  • from Part II - The People as Agents and Addressees
  • Edited by Hans Beck, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Germany, Griet Vankeerberghen, McGill University, Montréal
  • Book:
    Rulers and Ruled in Ancient Greece, Rome, and China
    Published online:
    19 January 2021
    Print publication:
    04 February 2021, pp 193-224

  • Summary

    Studies in cross-cultural comparison strike a delicate balance between specificity and generalization. For one, comparative approaches to ancient Greek, Roman, and Chinese history draw on the particularities of each of those civilizations, with close attention to the cultural complexities that make each one of them distinct. On the other hand, while committed to the disclosure of culture and context, comparative research seeks to extrapolate macrohistorical stereotypes and project broad, or bold, generalizations. If the investigation gravitates too much toward the specific, the comparison becomes treacherous. If it is too close to generalization, it is in danger of being meaningless.

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