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Walls and the Ancient Greek ritual experience : the sanctuary of Demeter and Kore at Eleusis
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Scott, Michael (2022) Walls and the Ancient Greek ritual experience : the sanctuary of Demeter and Kore at Eleusis. In: Eidinow, Esther and Geertz, Armin, (eds.) Cognitive Approaches to Ancient Religious Experience. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 193-217. ISBN 9781009019927
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009019927.013
Abstract
The shape and form of boundary walls around and within Greek sanctuaries, and the impact those boundaries had on the experience of the ritual happening within, have attracted little scholarly attention, especially in comparison to work on the powerful impacts of other elements of sanctuary architecture, and architecture more widely. This article, using the case study of the high temenos walls and those of the Telesterion temple structure of the sanctuary of Demeter and Kore at Eleusis, explores the active impact these walls had on particularly the sight- and sound-scapes engaged with by participants. As such it argues for the crucial importance of these walls at Eleusis in creating the intensity, emotion, power, and conviction of the ritual experience of the Mysteries for participants.
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Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BL Religion D History General and Old World > DF Greece N Fine Arts > NA Architecture |
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Divisions: | Faculty of Arts > Classics and Ancient History | ||||||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Temples -- Greece , Architecture -- Designs and plans, Eleusinion (Athens, Greece) , Sanctuary of Demeter (Eleusis, Greece), Shrines -- Greece, Sacred space -- Greece -- History | ||||||||
Publisher: | Cambridge University Press | ||||||||
Place of Publication: | Cambridge | ||||||||
ISBN: | 9781009019927 | ||||||||
Book Title: | Cognitive Approaches to Ancient Religious Experience | ||||||||
Editor: | Eidinow, Esther and Geertz, Armin | ||||||||
Official Date: | August 2022 | ||||||||
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Page Range: | pp. 193-217 | ||||||||
DOI: | 10.1017/9781009019927.013 | ||||||||
Status: | Not Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||||
Description: | Over three conferences in London and Aarhus during 2015-6, we explored how cognitive psychology can be applied to ancient evidence to better understand the nature of ancient religious ritual and experience. |
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Date of first compliant deposit: | 14 November 2022 | ||||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 28 January 2023 | ||||||||
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