| Contents |
Introduction: On sanctuaries and poleis / Milena Melfi. -- Euergetism and religion in the cities of the Peloponnese (first century BC to first century AD): between civic traditions and self-assertion of the elites / Yves Lafond. -- Re-shaping the sacred landscape through benefaction: the sanctuary of Lykosoura in the Peloponnese / Maria Kantirea. -- Artemis Lykoatis and the bones of Arkas: sanctuaries and territoriality / Björn Forsén. -- Traditionalism in cult practice from Hellenistic to Roman times in Kameiros / Luigi M. Caliò. -- Damophon of Messene in the Ionian coast of Greece: making, re-making, and updating cult statues in the second century BC / Milena Melfi. -- Hellenistic divine images and the power of tradition / Joannis Mylonopoulos. -- Sacred space and the politics of multiculturalism in Demetrias (Thessaly) / Sofia Kravaritou. -- Renaissance or decline? The shrine of Dodona in the Hellenistic period / Jessica Piccinini. -- Architecture and rituals in the Hellenistic age: the case of the Asklepieion in Kos / Elisabetta Interdonato. -- New images for new gods: changes in votive habits in the Hellenistic period / Olympia Bobou. -- Wreaths, shields, and old statues: Roman magistrates in sanctuaries of Greece / Annalisa Lo Monaco. -- The making of a colonial Pantheon in the colonies of Caesar in Greece: the case of Corinth / Milena Melfi. -- Tauromenion (Taormina, Sicily): the Hellenistic sacred area near the church of Santa Caterina and its transformations during the Roman Imperial age / Lorenzo Campagna. |
| General note | "This volume originated in a two-day international conference that was held in Oxford on 22-23 September 2010"--p. vii. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-317) and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2015946020 |
| ISBN | 0199654131 |
| ISBN | 9780199654130 |
