By John Pedley
This e-book explores the diversity of historical Greek sanctuaries--their settings, areas, shapes, and structures--and the rituals linked to them, reminiscent of fairs and processions, sacrifice and libation, eating and ingesting, prayer and providing, dance, initiation, session, and purification. next chapters hint the results of the Roman conquest, the triumph of Christianity, in addition to the impression of Turks, tourists, archaeologists, and travelers on those websites. that includes an exhaustive word list and bibliography, the quantity offers an obtainable, authoritative advent to old Greek sanctuaries and their ritual actions.
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