Ascending and descending the Acropolis

Wiebke Friese

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Ascending and Descending the Acropolis - Mobility in Athenian Religion provides new perspectives on religious mobilities within the geographically limited region of Attica in Greece from the Late Bronze Age to the second century AD. Attica is a particularly fruitful region to study these forms of mobility, as it provides rich evidence across a range of material and textual sources for a variety of different mobile situations - both inside the city of Athens itself (such as on and circumnavigating the Acropolis) and to sanctuaries in its hinterland (for example, those of Demeter and Kore at Eleusis and that of Artemis at Brauron), as well to as more distant sanctuaries, such as Delphi.

Sujets

• Géographie
• Géographie
• Géographie
• Géographie
• Religious studies
• Ancient Greece
• Ancient history
• History of religions
• Classics
• Région
• Religion

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• Publié par: Aarhus University Press
• Date de parution: 28 janvier 2019
• Nombre de lectures: 1
• EAN13: 9788771848625
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 37 Mo

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Ascending
and Descending
the Acropolis
Movement in Athenian Religion
Edited by Wiebke Friese, Søren Handberg and Troels Myrup Kristensen
Monographs of the Danish Institute at Athens
Volume 2ASCENDING AND DESCENDING THE
ACROPOLIS
Movement in Athenian Religion
Edited by
Wiebke Friese, Søren Handberg and Troels Myrup Kristensen
Monographs of the Danish Institute at Athens,
Volume 23Ascending and Descending the Acropolis. Movement in Athenian Religion.
© Aarhus University Press and Te Danish Institute at Athens 2019
Monographs of the Danish Institute at Athens, Volume 23
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Danish Council for Independent Research (DFF) and Aarhus University Research Foundation (AUFF)Contents
7 Preface
INTRODUCTION
11 New Approaches to Movement in Athenian Religion
Troels Myrup Kristensen
PART I MOVEMENT IN THE CITY
23 Performing Piety: A Phenomenological Approach to Athenian Processions
Erin Warford
43 On the Peripatos: Accessibility and Topography of the Acropolis Slope Sanctuaries
Wiebke Friese
63 Under the Care of Daemons: From the Athenian Acropolis to Kallirrhoe on the Ilissos
Maria Salta
103 Pausanias and the Intellectual Travellers of the Roman Imperial Period:
Te Acropolis and the Historical Imagination
Maria Pretzler
PART II MOVEMENT BEYOND THE CITY
121 Te Beginning of Sacred Travel in Ancient Athens and Its Countryside
Søren Handberg145 “To the Mountain”: Te Ritual Space of Maenadism in the Athenian Imaginary
Ariadne Konstantinou
161 Journeys to the Eleusinian Mysteria (with an Appendix on the Procession at the Andanian
Mysteria)
Kevin Clinton
179 Individuals and Polis in Cult: Te Procession from Athens to Eleusis in Classical Times
Soi Agelidis
191 Te Route of the Athenian Pythaïs across the City and Its Territory
Daniele Pirisino
221 Refections on Pilgrimage at the Acropolis of Brauron during the Late Helladic Period
Konstantinos Kalogeropoulos
EPILOGUE
255 Ritual in Its Space
Fritz Graf
267 List of Contributors
269 Index of Place Names
275 Index of Ancient NamesPreface
Te majority of the papers published here were frst Sapere Aude excellence programme under the
Danpresented in preliminary form in the “Ascending ish Council for Independent Research (DFF) and
and Descending the Acropolis: Sacred Travel in A-t directed by Troels Myrup Kristensen. We would like
tica and Its Borderlands” workshop held at the Dan- to thank the staf of the Danish Institute at Athens
ish Institute at Athens on 15 November 2014 and for their help in organizing the conference, and the
organized by Wiebke Friese and Søren Handberg. Aarhus University Research Foundation (AUFF) for
Te workshop was organized under the auspices a generous grant to cover the costs of publishing this
of “Te Emergence of Sacred Travel: Experience, volume. For editorial assistance, we are grateful to
Economy and Connectivity in Ancient Mediter- Nicola Daumann, Martine Petlund Breiby and Isak
ranean Pilgrimage” collaborative research project Roalkvam.
(www.sacredtravel.dk), generously funded by the
Aarhus, Hamburg, and Oslo
April 2018
7
◀ CONTENTS
Tis page is protected by copyright and may not be redistributed.INTRODUCTIONNew Approaches to Movement in Athenian
Religion*
Troels Myrup Kristensen
Te aim of this volume is to provide new perspec- fascinating window into the role that specifc kinds
tives on religious movement in the city of Athens of ritualised movement could play within Athenian
and the broader region of Attica from the Late religious and social imaginary.
1Bronze Age to the 2nd century AD. Since the 1990s, Tis brief introduction consists of three parts.
work on the ancient Greek world has increasingly Te frst outlines some key aspects of movement in
focused on diferent aspects of movement, such as Athenian (and more broadly, Greek) religion, and
processions and pilgrimages, and how they feed into why they matter. Te second suggests some ways
the cultural, political, and religious imagination of through which archaeology may contribute to the
2cities and sanctuaries across the Mediterranean. study of Athenian religious movement by taking in -
Athens and Attica are particularly fruitful places in spiration from the so-called “new mobilities para -
the study of these phenomena, as the region provides digm”. Te third presents a brief overview of the
rich evidence across a range of textual and material individual case studies presented in the following
sources for a variety of diferent types of religious chapters.
movement – both inside the city of Athens itself
(such as to, on, and around the Acropolis) and from
its centre to sanctuaries in the hinterland (such as Movement Matters
those of Demeter and Kore at Eleusis and that of
Artemis at Brauron), as well as to more distant sanc- In spite of the obvious perils and dangers that faced
tuaries, such as Delphi. Te evidence for maenadism ancient travellers, religious movement on a variety
in both drama and vase-painting provides another of diferent scales was integral to the development of
Greek religion. From the Greek world at large, there
is evidence for some 356 processions ( pompai) in * I thank Anna Collar and Søren Handberg for reading
drafs of this introduction. total, clocking in at varying lengths and durations,
1 For scholarship on later periods, see Kaldellis 2009 and but each demonstrating how frmly embedded this
forthcoming work by Elizabeth Key Fowden.
form of communal and highly performative mov-e
2 Processions: Graf 1996; Agelidis 2017. Pilgrimage:
ment was in the religious life of cities and sanctua-rColeman & Elsner 1995; Dillon 1997; Elsner &
Ruther3ford 2000; Rutherford 2013. For a useful historiogra- ies. Te role of movement in enabling both religious
phy, see Elsner 2017. Outside of the present volume, and political constellations is central to François de
other work by the Emergence of Sacred Travepl roject
Polignac’s infuential study of extramural
sanctuarfocuses on the Mediterranean as a whole; see
Kristensen & Friese 2017; Collar & Kristensen forthcoming
11a and b; Kristensen forthcoming a. 3 True et al. 2004.
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8ies and their role in the rise of the Greek polis in assortment of ritual paraphernalia. Processions
the 8th and 7th centuries BC, where his focus is on were headed by a young man or a maiden, and the
their role as territorial demarcations of individual pompe could accordingly be personifed as a young
4 9cities (see also Handberg, this volume). Processions woman in Greek iconography. In this sense,
reliofen served to manifest links between a city and gious movement was also a highly gendered
pracoutlying sanctuaries, such as in the case of the pro- tice (see Konstantinou, this volume). Characteristic
cession from Athens to Eleusis that demonstrated forms of movement closely linked with processions
Athenian control over the sanctuary of Demeter and included dancing and singing (both on the road and
Kore and its mystery cult (see Agelidis and Clinton, in sanctuaries), as well as the performance of other
this volume). rituals along the way, contributing to a certain
car10 However, it is important not to approach Greek nivalesque quality. Joan Connelly has, for example,
processions as a sort of black box, or indeed “as described the spectacle of the Panathenaic
proces5an empty container for social processes”, as this sion as “the ultimate multi-media kinetic display”
11obscures much of their potential signifcance. Te (see also Warford, this volume).
manner in which individual processions were staged From the Archaic period onwards, religious
and conducted is indeed of pivotal importance. In movement on a more “international” scale was
an important paper on Greek processions, Fritz Graf institutionalised through the journeys of civic
thus noted that a procession “is not just a journey ofcials as part of the phenomenon of theoria
from A from B: undoubtedly, it matters where A (sometimes glossed as “state pilgrimage”) that
6and B are, and who is doing the journey”. Graf has received renewed scholarly interest in recent
12presents two models of Greek processions, one in years. Representati