Landscapes of Samos
Author | : Michael Anderson, Jr. |
Publisher | : A & C Black |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1994-04 |
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ISBN | : 9780856910418 |
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Author | : Michael Anderson, Jr. |
Publisher | : A & C Black |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1994-04 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780856910418 |
Author | : Brian Anderson |
Publisher | : Hunter Publishing, Inc |
Total Pages | : 328 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : 9781856911870 |
A guide to Samos, an island of increasing interest to British tourists. It is designed for walkers, botanists, or anyone who wants to get off the beaten track, and contains information about the local flora. There are 25 short walk or picnic suggestions, suitable for hot summer days or for those who have young children. This fourth edition is revised since the devastating forest fires of the year 2000. There are colour topographical walking maps and a fold-out touring map, showing the location of all the walks. Bus timetables are included.
Author | : Brian Anderson |
Publisher | : A & C Black |
Total Pages | : 176 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Aegean Islands (Greece and Turkey) |
ISBN | : 9781856911221 |
A pocket guide to the landscapes of Samos, which is intended to take visitors away from the tourist centres and out into the countryside, exploring by private or public transport or on foot. It covers car tours, picnics and walks. The book also includes timetables for public transport.
Author | : William Latham Bevan |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 722 |
Release | : 1867 |
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Author | : William Latham Bevan |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 740 |
Release | : 1875 |
Genre | : Geography, Ancient |
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Author | : Susan Guettel Cole |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 313 |
Release | : 2004-03-31 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0520929322 |
The division of land and consolidation of territory that created the Greek polis also divided sacred from productive space, sharpened distinctions between purity and pollution, and created a ritual system premised on gender difference. Regional sanctuaries ameliorated competition between city-states, publicized the results of competitive rituals for males, and encouraged judicial alternatives to violence. Female ritual efforts, focused on reproduction and the health of the family, are less visible, but, as this provocative study shows, no less significant. Taking a fresh look at the epigraphical evidence for Greek ritual practice in the context of recent studies of landscape and political organization, Susan Guettel Cole illuminates the profoundly gendered nature of Greek cult practice and explains the connections between female rituals and the integrity of the community. In a rich integration of ancient sources and current theory, Cole brings together the complex evidence for Greek ritual practice. She discusses relevant medical and philosophical theories about the female body; considers Greek ideas about purity, pollution, and ritual purification; and examines the cult of Artemis in detail. Her nuanced study demonstrates the social contribution of women's rituals to the sustenance of the polis and the identity of its people.
Author | : Ralph Haussler |
Publisher | : Oxbow Books |
Total Pages | : 360 |
Release | : 2020-07-31 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1789253349 |
From generation to generation, people experience their landscapes differently. Humans depend on their natural environment: it shapes their behavior while it is often felt that deities responsible for both natural benefits and natural calamities (such as droughts, famines, floods and landslides) need to be appeased. We presume that, in many societies, lakes, rivers, rocks, mountains, caves and groves were considered sacred. Individual sites and entire landscapes are often associated with divine actions, mythical heroes and etiological myths. Throughout human history, people have also felt the need to monumentalize their sacred landscape. But this is where the similarities end as different societies had very different understandings, believes and practices. The aim of this new thematic appraisal is to scrutinize carefully our evidence and rethink our methodologies in a multi-disciplinary approach. More than 30 papers investigate diverse sacred landscapes from the Iberian peninsula and Britain in the west to China in the east. They discuss how to interpret the intricate web of ciphers and symbols in the landscape and how people might have experienced it. We see the role of performance, ritual, orality, textuality and memory in people’s sacred landscapes. A diachronic view allows us to study how landscapes were ‘rewritten’, adapted and redefined in the course of time to suit new cultural, political and religious understandings, not to mention the impact of urbanism on people’s understandings. A key question is how was the landscape manipulated, transformed and monumentalized – especially the colossal investments in monumental architecture we see in certain socio-historic contexts or the creation of an alternative humanmade, seemingly ‘non-natural’ landscape, with perfectly astronomically aligned buildings that define a cosmological order? Sacred Landscapes therefore aims to analyze the complex links between landscape, ‘religiosity’ and society, developing a dialectic framework that explores sacred landscapes across the ancient world in a dynamic, holistic, contextual and historical perspective.
Author | : William Latham Bevan |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 736 |
Release | : 1861 |
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Author | : Almudena Orejas Saco del Valle |
Publisher | : Editorial CSIC - CSIC Press |
Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 2009-01-12 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9788400089726 |
Este volumen es el resultado de las colaboraciones científicas internacionales iniciadas o desarrolladas en el seno de una red europea de investigación, la Acción COST A27 Understanding preindustrial structures in rural and mining landscapes (LANDMARKS). Esta comunidad académica trata de contribuir a la construcción de un campo de estudios sobre paisajes culturales, interdisciplinares y socialmente relevantes.
Author | : José Carlos Sánchez-Pardo |
Publisher | : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd |
Total Pages | : 246 |
Release | : 2020-07-02 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1789695422 |
By presenting case studies from across Eastern and Western Medieval Europe, this volume aims to open up a Europe-wide debate on the variety of relations and contexts between ecclesiastical buildings and their surrounding landscapes between the 5th and 15th centuries AD.