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Religion and Social Transformations in Cyprus: From the Cypriot Basileis to the Hellenistic Strategos

By Girogos Papantoniou

Book information

Publisher
Brill Academic Publishers
Year
2012
ISBN
9004224351, 9789004224353
ISSN
0169-8958
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
169 MB (177625971 bytes)
Series
Mnemosyne Supplements 347
Pages
xxviii+604\633
Topic
History Archaeology
Orientation
yes
Paginated
yes
Scanned
portrait
Time added
2015-10-30 21:27:45
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Description

This monograph focuses on religion to explore how the socio-cultural infrastructure of Cyprus was affected by the transition from segmented administration by many Cypriot kings to the island-wide government by a foreign Ptolemaic correspondent. It approaches politico-religious ideological responses and structures of symbolism through the study of sacred landscapes, specific iconographic elements, and archaeological contexts and architecture, as well as through textual and epigraphic evidence. A fresh approach to the transition is put forward, connecting the island more emphatically with its longue duree. Moving beyond the field of Cypriot studies, this work also serves as a paradigm for the study of religion in relation to social power in other fields of classics and, in particular, for the enrolment of other areas of the Mediterranean into the political and cultural Hellenistic oikoumene.

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