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BY 4.0 license Open Access Published by De Gruyter 2022

Squaring Nemesis: Alexander’s Dream, the Oracle, and the Foundation of the New Smyrna

From the book Naming and Mapping the Gods in the Ancient Mediterranean

  • Daniela Bonanno
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110798432-045
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Naming and Mapping the Gods in the Ancient Mediterranean
Naming and Mapping the Gods in the Ancient Mediterranean

Chapters in this book (55)

Frontmatter
Contents
Volume 1
Introduction
1 Naming and Locating the Gods: Space as a Divine Onomastic Attribute
1.1 Egypt and Near East
The Names of Osiris in the Litany of the So-Called Spell 141/142 of the Book of the Dead in Ancient Egypt
Divine Epithets as Perspectival Discourse
Nomina nuda tenemus: The God Elyon (ʿlyn)
Naming and Mapping the Gods in Cyprus: a Matter of Scales?
1.2 Greece: Literature
Regional Loyalties in the Iliad: The Cases of Zeus, Apollo, and Athena
Agrotera: Situating Artemis in Her Landscapes
πολύθεοι ἕδραι: Terms for Spatio-Cultic Relationships in Greek
Les épiclèses toponymiques comme outil interprétatif chez Hérodote : quelques exemples
ΚΥΠΡΙΣ. Ovvero l’interpretazione degli epiteti divini nel Περὶ θεῶν di Apollodoro di Atene (244 FGrHist 353)
Place Names as Divine Epithets in Pausanias
1.3 Greece: Local and Regional Approaches
Artemis and Her Territory: Toponymic and Topographical Cult-Epithets of Artemis in Attica
Alla ricerca della “Buona Fama”: Eukleia tra epiclesi di Artemide e teonimo indipendente
Insights into the Cult of Apollo and Artemis at the Parian Sanctuaries
Founders, Leaders, or Ancestors? Ἀρχηγέτης/-ις: Variations on a Name
Zeus « qui-règne-sur Dodone (Hom., Il. 16.233–234) » et ses épigones. Les attributs onomastiques construits sur medeôn, -ousa + toponyme
1.4 Rome and the West
The Quadruviae: Cult Mobility and Social Agency in the Northern Provinces of the Roman Empire
Naming the Gods in Roman Sicily: The Case of Enguium
2 Mapping the Divine: Presenting Gods in Space
2.1 Egypt and Near East
Khnoum d’Éléphantine et Isis de Philae : la lutte pour le contrôle de la première cataracte du Nil et du Dodécaschène
From High to Low: Reflections about the Emplacement of Religion in Ancient Mesopotamia
A New Mobilities Approach to Naming and Mapping Deities: Presence, Absence, and Distance at Kuntillet ‘Ajrud
Entre espace et puissance : le séjour des morts et la persistance de structures polythéistes dans la Bible hébraïque
2.2 Phoenician and Punic World
Death at the Centre of Life: Some Notes on Gods and the Dead, Temples and Tombs in the Phoenician Context
In and Out What Archaeology Can Tell Us About the Role of Liminality in the Phoenician Rites
Graeco-Phoenician Figurines in Phoenicia. A Medley of Imports, Derivatives, Imitations, and Hybrids
The Gods of the Others: Images of Foreign Deities in the Hellenistic Cult Place of Kharayeb
Remarques sur le rôle du sel dans les pratiques votives de Kition : un exemple d’interaction entre les figurines divines et leur milieu
On Gods and Caves: Comparing Cave-Sanctuaries in the Ancient Western Mediterranean
Between Astarte, Isis and Aphrodite/Venus. Cultural Dynamics in the Coastal Cities of Sardinia in the Roman Age: The Case Study of Nora
2.3 Archaic and Classical Greece
Déplacements, mobilité, communication. Quelques réflexions sur le mode d’action d’Iris dans la poésie archaïque
Spatialité, performance, choralité divines et humaines : les Charites de Pindare et Bacchylide
Linking Centre and Periphery: Nymphs and Their Cultic Space in Euripides, Electra 803–843
2.4 Rome and its Empire
La plebs des dieux. Réflexions sur la hiérarchie et la spatialité des dieux romains
A Contest for the Control of Ideological Space in Ovid’s Metamorphoses XI 146–94: Apollo/Augustus, Pan, and an Allegory of the Romanization of Hellenistic Lydia
The Gods at Play: Mapping the Divine at the Amphitheatres in Hispania
Spaces of Reinvented Religious Traditions in the Danubian Provinces
Where Did the Gods Speak? A Proposal for (Re)defining “Oracular Sanctuaries” on the Basis of Anatolian Data of the Hellenistic and Roman Period
Volume 2
3 Gods and Cities: Urban Religion, Sanctuaries and the Emergence of Towns
3.1 Egypt and Near East
Akhenaten and His Aten Cult in Abydos and Akhmim
Nippur: City of Enlil and Ninurta
Urban Religion in First Millennium BCE Babylonia
Hatra of Shamash. How to assign the city under the divine power?
3.2 Greek World
Un réseau de rapports symboliques. Santuari, territorio e pratiche collettive nella Sparta arcaica
Spatializing ‘Divine Newcomers’ in Athens
L’articulation de l’espace religieux et de l’espace civique : l’exemple du sanctuaire de Zeus sur l’agora de Thasos
Squaring Nemesis: Alexander’s Dream, the Oracle, and the Foundation of the New Smyrna
3.3 Rome and the West
Gods in the City
« Religious Ancient Placemaking » : une nouvelle approche méthodologique pour l’évaluation des religions à l’époque antique
Cybele and Attis from the Phrygian Crags to the City. History, Places and Forms of the Cult of Magna Mater in Rome
La ritualisation des territoires ibériques : les sanctuaires urbains de l’Âge du Fer
Jumping Among the Temples: Early Christian Critique of Polytheism’s “Spatial Fix”
The Space of “Paganism” in the Early Medieval City: Rome’s Polytheistic Past along the Real and Imaginary Topography of the Pilgrims’ Paths
Epilogue
Que faut-il pour faire un sanctuaire ?
Index Nominum
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