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7 X 11.5 Long Title.P65 Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-00635-4 - Sanctuaries and the Sacred in the Ancient Greek World John Pedley Index More information INDEX Note: Illustration pages are listed in bold italics. abaton, 92 and Poseidonia, 43, 167, 168, 169, amphora Academy, see Athens, environs, 182 as offering, 165 Akademeia Alexander the Great, 23, 58, 128, Panathenaiac, 46, 203, 203 Achaia, 206, 210, 212 201, 202, 213 for water, 85 Achaian League, 206, 210, 212 successors, 206, 210, 211, 213 see also pottery Acheron, 146 Alkamenes, 200–1 Anacreon, 156 Achilles, 143 Alkmaeonids, 90, 138 Anavysos, 109 acrobatics, competition at Panathe- Alkyoneus, 178 ancestor cult, 23, 34–5 naia, 203 alliance, political, 55; see also specific Andros, 64 acropolis, 45, 54, 59, 168; see also league Angelitos, 111, 111 Athens, Acropolis Alpheios (river), 119, 211 animal Action Française, 108 alsos, 119 farming, 88, 146 Adler, Friedrich, 234 altar figure, as offering, 120 Aegean, 3, 54, 156, 164 in bouleuterion, 38 bronze, 46, 101, 111, 121 Aegina at sanctuary, 6, 7, 16, 27, 47, 51, gold, 146 Sanctuary of Demeter, 58 112, 140, 218, 240 terra-cotta, 47, 101, 110 Temple of Aphaia, 66, 69, 232 as ash pile, 29–30, 61, 119, 176 see also myth, beasts of aegis, worn by Athena, 20, 104, 111, bones and, 88, 166 image, carved, relief, 62, 162 215 built structure, 30, 53, 61, 157, part of group, 196 Aegospotami, Battle of, 150 176; monumental, 62, 146, sacrificial Aeschines, 201 161, 161 bone as evidence, 27, 165, 166, Aetolia, 212 dance around, 50, 81, 84, 96, 97 182; see also bone, animal Aetolian League, 211 hearth as, 7, 29, 51, 61, 168, 182 choice of, 80–1, 101, 166 Agamemnon, 92 indoor, 16, 62 consecration and killing, 81 Agesilaos, 129 main, for public ritual, 8, 16; entrails roasted, 7, 82 Aglauros, cave, on Acropolis, 36, 38 location, 7–8, 29, 61, 180, 208 fleece for sleeping, 34 agora, 45, 53; see also Athens, Agora multiple, 7, 8, 61, 62, 152, 152, led to altar, 79, 81, 204 as civic center, 38 172, 176, 180 penned, 132 gods and, 12, 35 open-air, 7, 16, 29, 38, 51, 63, portion burned for gods, 8, 82, as sanctuary site, 25 176, 225 166, 204 agriculture, see farming sculptural decoration, 62, 161, on Parthenon frieze, 71 Agrippa, 210 161–2 see also specific animal Agropoli, 167, 169 secondary, 8, 81, 180, 196 wild, not sacrificial, 80; see also sanctuary at, 168 shape, 61, 62, 63, 69, 161, 161 specific animal and Poseidonia, 43, 167, 168, 169 smoke dispersal, 8, 82 Artemis and, 20, 50, 96, 104, 106 Ajax, 178 Alte Heratempel in Paestum, Der anta, 59, 64 Akragas (Mertens), 237 anthropomorphism, of gods, 15– sanctuaries at, 232 Alyattes, 146 16 Sanctuary of Demeter, 43, 183 Amalfi, 236 anti-Dreyfusard, 108 akrolith, 101 Amazon, warrior statue, 214, 215 Antigonos Gonatas, 213 akroterion, 63, 140, 142, 196 amber, as offering, 185 Antigonos Monophthalmos, 210 alabastron, 185 Amphiaraos, 32–3, 89; see also Antilochos, 143 Alaric, and Visigoths, 219 Oropos, Sanctuary of Antiochos Epiphanes, 215 Albanella (Poseidonia/Paestum), Amphiaraos antithesis, 53 Sanctuary of Demeter, 51, 53, amphictyony, 138 Antonine period, Olympia in, 210 168, 169, 182–5, 183, 221, 237 Amphipolis, cult of Brasidas, 35 Antonius, Marcus, 221 255 © Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-00635-4 - Sanctuaries and the Sacred in the Ancient Greek World John Pedley Index More information 256 efh Index Aphrodite, 17, 19, 22, 38, 112, 113, offerings at Delphi, 146–7, 147, 150 askoliasmos, 82, 83 114, 156 and Samos, 157 Astarte, 155, 156, 185 cult/sanctuary Sanctuary of Hera asylon, 97 at Athens, 35, 36, 38 extraurban (Argive Heraion), 53, asylum, at sanctuary, 57–8, 97–8, 207, at Dion, 23 63, 64, 146 220 at Gravisca, 156 urban, 53 Atarbos base, 83 at Poseidonia, 184–5 aristocracy Athena, 17, 20, 98 see also Santa Venera, Sanctuary and polis, 27, 34, 110 birth, 70 of Aphrodite and sanctuary, 10–11, 139, 155–6 cult/sanctuary images Aristophanes, 47, 95, 96, 204 at Akademeia, 44 figurine, 185 Aristotle, 44, 52, 168 at Delphi, 151–3, 152, 153, 205 statue, 115, 117 Arkadia, 22, 232 at Smyrna, 64–5, 65 Apollo, 17, 19, 38, 98, 134, 135 monument at Delphi, 150 at Tegea, 66 birthplace, 141, 147 Temple of Hermes, cult statue, 100 see also sanctuary at Athens, cult/sanctuary arktos, and arkteia ceremony at Acropolis; Poseidonia at/near Athens, 35, 36, 38, 43–4, Brauron, 10, 50, 95, 96 festival honoring, see Panathenaia 44, 202 armor, 200 image: on amphora, 203, 203; at Bassae, 66, 232 as offering, 27, 40, 47, 48, 114, 202 helmeted, 20, 192; see also at Corinth, 69 and pyrrhic dance, 83 Athena, statues at Cyrene, 45 Arrhephoria, festival, 95–6 offerings to, 108, 112, 201 at Eretria, 64 arrhephoros, 95–6, 107, 161, 181, 200 as protector of Athens, see Athena at Klaros, oracle, 89 Arsinoe, 210 Polias at Miletos, 54, 83 art history, Greek, and study of in sculptural decoration, 126, 141, at Poseidonia, 170, 224 sanctuaries, 13, 232 143, 230 see also sanctuary at Delos; Delphi; Artemis, 20 statues, 20, 145, 196 Didyma and Apollo, 17, 104, 106, 118, 141, on Acropolis, see Athena Parthe- interactions with humans, 125, 125 143, 148 nos; Athena Polias, life-size music and, 19, 82, 118 cult/sanctuary statue; Athens, Acropolis, in sculptural decoration, 139, 141, at Athens, see Artemis Brauronia Sanctuary of Athena, statues 142, 143 at Delos, 104, 105 of Athena statues, 108, 145, 150, 151, 193 at Delphi, 152 bronze, colossal, 164, 191, 221 see also Artemis, and Apollo at Dion, 23 see also priestess, of Athena Apollo Delphinios, 54, 83 at Sparta, see Artemis Orthia Athena Boulaia (of the Council), 38 Apollo Loxias, 151 see also Brauron, Sanctuary of Athena Ergane, 187, 195 Apollo Lykeios, 44 Artemis; Ephesos, Sanctuary of Athena Nike, 187, 188, 196; see also Apollo Patroös, 202 Artemis Athens, Acropolis, Temple of apotropaism, 28, 118, 215 images, 141, 143, 201 Athena Nike Aqua che Bolle, 182 and Isis, 23 Athena Parthenos, 187 aqueduct, at Samos, 156 and wild animals, 20, 50, 96, 104, colossal statue, Parthenon, 25, 68, archaeology 106 69, 100, 213, 215, 219 and sanctuaries, 234–9 Artemis Boulaia (of the Council), 38 Athena Polias, 20, 70, 95–6, 187, 199, impact on, 14, 225, 239 Artemis Brauronia, 50, 95 218 verification of Pausanias, 26, 206 sanctuary, on Acropolis, 12, 50, life-size statue, 191, 198 see also sanctuary, as archaeolog- 187, 189, 195, 200, 201 peplos for, 71, 72, 95, 202–3, 204 ical park Artemis Orthia (Upright Artemis), Athena Promakhos, 21 and tourism, 239–40 26, 84, 101 bronze statue, on Acropolis, 191, archaic period artisanry, 20 219 sanctuaries in, 52, 128, 187, 188–90 at sanctuary, 41, 47 Athena Pronaia, 153; see also Delphi, statuary, 100, 112 arts, 20, 22, 26, 41 Sanctuary of Athena Pronaia temples, 138, 151–2, 170; see also Samos and, 162 Athens, 32, 44, 54, 89, 98 specific temple ash Acropolis, 12, 23, 36, 44, 78, 186– archery, and Apollo/Artemis, 106 as altar, 29–30, 119 204, 231 architect as evidence of dining, 47 in Bronze Age, 186–7 ancient Asia, as Roman provincia, 206, 220 Cave of Aglauros, 36, 38 experimentation, 12–13, 172 Asia Minor, 1, 25, 154 Cave of Apollo, 35, 36, 38 specific, 68, 123, 156, 160, 195–6 Greek colonies, 14, 24, 139 Cave of Pan, 22, 36 18th–20th c., visits to sanctuaries, sanctuary in, 24, 32, 54, 62, 208; excavations, 27, 106, 238 14, 232, 234, 237, 238 Ionic order and, 65, 66; oracles, Klepsydra (fountain), 35 architectural sculpture, 11, 62, 143, 89 military character, 186, 187, 188, 179, 181, 188; see also specific kingdoms 190, 200, 219, 227, 238 location or type and Greek sanctuaries, 146; see museum, 74, 190, 239 archives, of polis, stored in temple, also Pergamon, and Athens Odeion (Roman), 206 63, 100 and Rome, 206, 216 Pausanias on, 26, 200–1, 215 Ares, 17, 19, 73 Asklepios, 31, 99 Plutarch on, 25, 193, 196 arete, 110 cult, 31–2, 208 procession to, see Panathenaia, Argonaut, as Poseidonia founder, and dreams, 32, 92 procession myth, 170 see also sanctuary at Athens; Sanctuary of Aphrodite Argos, 32, 56, 115 Epidauros Pandemos, 35, 36 © Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-00635-4 - Sanctuaries and the Sacred in the Ancient Greek World John Pedley Index More information Index egh 257 Sanctuary of Asklepios, 32, 36, Athens, Acropolis, Sanctuary of Periklean program, 25, 192–8 38, 208, 208, 225 Athena, 12, 14, 42, 240 Persian destruction, 190–1, 192, Sanctuary of Athena, see separate Altar of Athena, 188, 195 195 entry following Chalkotheke, 195, 200, 201 Propylaia, 35, 58, 194, 195, 196, Sanctuary of Dionysos, 36, 38, decline, 219 197, 200, 201, 215, 218, 219 78, 202 entrance; cf. Propylaia chapel built in, 225 Shrine of Aphrodite and Eros, 36, early/archaic, 186, 188, 190 as Frankish palace/tower, 196, 38 ramp, 188, 196, 218 227, 227, 238 siege/capture by Turks, 227, 232 Erechtheion, 194–5, 195, 198, 200, Venetian bombardment, 196 slopes, 35, 36, 38; South Slope, 213 Roman period, 216–18 32, 38, 79, 201, 206, 225 altars in, 62, 203 Sanctuary of Artemis Brauronia, Temple of Athena Nike: early, as church, 209, 209, 225 12, 50, 187, 189, 195, 200, 201 188; Periklean, 194–5, 195, 196, earlier structures south of, 187, Sanctuary of Zeus Polieus, 187, 198, 200, 215; razed/rebuilt, 188, 191, 195 195, 200 238, 239 gods worshiped, 198, 199 Shrine of Athena Ergane, 195 Theater of Dionysos, 36, 80, 202 as harem, 227 statues of Athena, 107, 111, 111, Turkish housing, 227, 232, 238 porches, Ionic, 198, 217; Porch of 190, 191, 195, 219 Venetian bombardment, 196, the Caryatids (South Porch), Stoa of Attalos,
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