Hellenistic Sanctuaries

Milena Melfi is a lecturer in classical art and archaeology at New College, Oxford, and a curator of casts of Greek and Roman sculptures at the Ashmolean Museum.Olympia Bobou is a research assistant in the Cast Gallery at the Ashmolean Museum.

...the volume's contributions bring to light the sheer diversity of the period, and the wide spectrum of concerns which guided its religious practices. By and large the collection brings forward fascinating case studies that will inspire debate and further consideration

• Preface ; List of Figures ; List of Contributors ; 1. Introduction ; 2. Euergetism and Religion in the Cities of the Peloponnese (First Century BC to the First Century AD): Between Civic Traditions and Self-assertion of the Elites ; 3. Re-shaping the Sacred Landscape through Benefaction: The Sanctuary of Lykosoura in the Peloponnese ; 4. Artemis Lykoatis and the Bones of Arcas: Sanctuaries and Territoriality ; 5. Traditionalism in the Cult Practice from Hellenistic to Roman Times in Kameiros ; 6. Damophon of Messene in the Ionian Coast of Greece: Making, Re-making, and Updating Cult Statues in the Second Century BC ; 7. Hellenistic Divine Images and the Power of Tradition ; 8. Sacred Space and the Politics of Multiculturalism in Demetrias (Thessaly) ; 9. Renaissance or Decline? The Shrine of Dodona in the Hellenistic Period ; 10. Architecture and Rituals in the Hellenistic Age: The Case of the Asklepieon in Kos ; 11. New Images for New Gods: Changes in Votive Habits in the Hellenistic Period ; 12. Wreaths, Shields and Old-statues: Roman Magistrates in Sanctuaries of Greece ; 13. The Making of a Colonial Pantheon in the Colonies of Caesar in Greece: The Case of Corinth ; 14. Tauromenion (Taormina, Sicily): The Hellenistic Sacred Area Near the Church of Santa Caterina and Its Transformations during the Roman Imperial Age ; Bibliography ; Index