Ascending and Descending the Acropolis : Movement in Athenian Religion

by: Friese, W. Handberg, S. Kristensen, T.M.

This volume sheds new light on religious movement in the city of Athens and the broader region of Attica from the Late Bronze Age to the second century AD. Athens and Aticca are particularly fruitful places in the study of this phenomenon, as the region provides rich evidence across a range of textual and material sources for a variety of different types of religious movement - both inside the city of Athens itself (to, on, and around the Acropolis) and from its centre to sanctuaries in the hinterland (for example, those of Demeter and Kore at Eleusis and that of Artemis at Brauron), as well as to more distant sanctuaries, such as Delphi.

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:
!e Acropolis and the Historical Imagination
Maria Pretzler
PART II MOVEMENT BEYOND THE CITY
121 !e Beginning of Sacred Travel in Ancient Athens and Its Countryside
Søren Handberg
145 “To the Mountain”: !e 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: !e Procession from Athens to Eleusis in Classical Times
Soi Agelidis
191 !e Route of the Athenian Pythaïs across the City and Its Territory
Daniele Pirisino
221 Reflections 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 Names

Ascending and Descending the Acropolis : Movement in Athenian Religion

by: Friese, W. Handberg, S. Kristensen, T.M.

• ISBN-13: 9788771844672 / 978-87-7184-467-2
• ISBN-03: 8771844678 / 87-7184-467-8
• Aarhus University Press, Aarhus, 2019