In Ancient Greece, century-old sanctuaries or newly founded ones were supposed to continue to attract worshippers indefinitely. However, not all sanctuaries met the same fate and some were abandoned, alongside the cult of the deities worshipped, while other deities continued to be worshipped at a different location. This study first aims at analysing the literary, epigraphic and above all archaeological evidence for such abandonments of sanctuaries and transfers of cults. The focus on two different kinds of urban relocations, synoecisms and metoecisms, during which sanctuaries are known to have been abandoned and cults transferred, then allows to consider the reasons that lead to the abandonment of some sanctuaries rather than others. It ca...
The paper explores the interaction between different kinds of social agents in the funding and manag...
<p>This dissertation examines the adaptability of civic cults during the Hellenistic period. Faced w...
The thesis investigates so-called extra-temenal areas at Greek rural sanctuaries 700–200 BCE. Extra-...
The archeological identification of the abandonment of cults faces two main difficulties. First, the...
A couple of Greek inscriptions show that it was possible to transfer a cult, that is to no longer ho...
International audienceGiven the limited number of written sources about the disappearance of cults i...
The author explores the relationship between sanctuaries and society through the management of voti...
The fact that Greek shrines have been used by Christian communities is part of the wider issue of th...
Votive offerings are the durable remains of the largely lost dialogue between worshipper and deity. ...
This dissertation investigates the occasional phenomenon of cultic personnel residing at or near anc...
Depuis les travaux fondateurs de M. Nilsson, on admet que les cultes grecs de l’époque archaïque hér...
Many of the important sanctuaries of ancient Greece were established during the Early Iron Age (EIA)...
This thesis argues that sanctuaries of the gods played a significant role in the political life of t...
International audienceHow can archaeology assign the last moments of frequentation of a sanctuary an...
From a political point of view, 3rd century BCE Athens represents a shattered unity. Parts of the At...
The paper explores the interaction between different kinds of social agents in the funding and manag...
<p>This dissertation examines the adaptability of civic cults during the Hellenistic period. Faced w...
The thesis investigates so-called extra-temenal areas at Greek rural sanctuaries 700–200 BCE. Extra-...
The archeological identification of the abandonment of cults faces two main difficulties. First, the...
A couple of Greek inscriptions show that it was possible to transfer a cult, that is to no longer ho...
International audienceGiven the limited number of written sources about the disappearance of cults i...
The author explores the relationship between sanctuaries and society through the management of voti...
The fact that Greek shrines have been used by Christian communities is part of the wider issue of th...
Votive offerings are the durable remains of the largely lost dialogue between worshipper and deity. ...
This dissertation investigates the occasional phenomenon of cultic personnel residing at or near anc...
Depuis les travaux fondateurs de M. Nilsson, on admet que les cultes grecs de l’époque archaïque hér...
Many of the important sanctuaries of ancient Greece were established during the Early Iron Age (EIA)...
This thesis argues that sanctuaries of the gods played a significant role in the political life of t...
International audienceHow can archaeology assign the last moments of frequentation of a sanctuary an...
From a political point of view, 3rd century BCE Athens represents a shattered unity. Parts of the At...
The paper explores the interaction between different kinds of social agents in the funding and manag...
<p>This dissertation examines the adaptability of civic cults during the Hellenistic period. Faced w...
The thesis investigates so-called extra-temenal areas at Greek rural sanctuaries 700–200 BCE. Extra-...