Beyond the Polis. Ritual Practices and the Construction of Social Identity in Early Greece (12th - 6th Centuries B.C.) : Change of location, 25 & 26 September 2015 at the Palais des Académies, Ecuries royales, Espace Baudouin
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Introduction to the volume Beyond the Polis, Rituals, Rites, and Cults in Early and Archaic Greece (12th-6th centuries BC) edited by Irene S. Lemos and Athena Tsingarida
2019
This peer reviewed volume is the proceedings of an international conference and the sequel to the publication of the research that resulted from a three-year joint project between the University of Oxford and the Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB), initially entitled “Beyond the polis. Ritual practices and the construction of social identities in Early and Archaic Greece (12th-6th centuries BC)”.
CONSTRUCTING SOCIAL IDENTITIES IN EARLY IRON AGE AND ARCHAIC GREECE
This volume focuses on collective practices, such as religious, feasting and burial rites, reconstructed from material evidence. The aim is to understand how collective practices were employed to articulate distinctive social identities in Early and Archaic Greece. Three sites located in important geographical areas are presented as study cases: the Late Helladic III-Early Iron Age Amyklaion in Laconia, the Late Geometric " Sacred Houses " in Attica, and a number of Archaic Necropoleis in Northern Greece. Taking into account new evidence, the three study-cases offer the opportunity to discuss important issues: the continuity of practices between the Late Bronze and Early Iron Age at the Amyklaion; the formation of social identities in feasting activities at particular buildings such as the " Sacred Houses " in Attica; and finally the observed changes in the funerary rites at a number of culturally diverse contexts in Northern Greece.
Ritual and Its Transgressions in Ancient Greece
. Ginzburg (ed.), A Historical Approach to Casuistry. Norms and Exceptions in a Comparative Perspective, London: Bloomsbury, 47-64 , 2019
What happens when rituals are transgressed? When a ritual works normally, we hear very little about the religious, social, or cultural expectations surrounding its performance. When it fails or is infringed upon, however, the anomaly highlights accepted norms and reveals what is usually hidden or taken for granted. In this chapter, I will frst look at the etymology and semantic development of the term “ritual,” since the former has only recently become clearer and the latter is still a matter of ongoing research (see the section Ritual: Etymology and Semantic Development). Next, I will look at two case studies of ritual transgressions taken from famous festivals in ancient Greece—the Tesmophoria and the Eleusinian Mysteries. Finally, I draw some conclusions based on these examples.
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Papantoniou, G. 2020. Review of Popular Religion and Ritual in Prehistoric and Ancient Greece and the Eastern Mediterranean, by G. Vavouranakis, K. Kopanias & C. Kanellopoulos (eds). Journal of Greek Archaeology 5: 620-25
Journal of Greek Archaeology: http://www.archaeopress.com/ArchaeopressShop/Public/displayProductDetail.asp?id=%7B12F8C822-452F-446A-A1F8-BDB8CDA1C072%7D
The Performative Aspect of Greek Ritual: The Case of the Athenian Oschophoria, in: M. Haysom – J. Wallensten (eds.), Current Approaches to Religion in Ancient Greece. Papers presented at a Symposium at the Swedish Institute at Athens, 17–19 April 2008, ActaAth 8°, 21 (Stockholm 2011) 151‒167
Although concepts of performance theory were successfully applied to the study of rituals in the social sciences, research on ancient Greek ritual practice was not affected by such approaches to any significant degree. To a large extent, this might be due to the fragmentary character of the available evidence, consisting mainly of material remains of ritual activities in the archaeological record, and representations of rituals in art. In the absence of detailed descriptions of ritual practice in literary sources, it is therefore difficult to reconstruct whole ritual sequences, which would greatly facilitate their interpretation as performative acts. Criticizing a view of ritual as primarily non-verbal and action orientated, this paper emphasizes the role of speech in Greek rituals and examines some of the evidence for mimetic and narrative ritual performances. Drawing on the example of the Athenian Oschophoria, the performative aspect of a specific ritual is investigated. In addition, the simplified interpretation of the Oschophoria as an “ephebes’ rite” is dismissed in favour of a more balanced reading that adequately considers not only the eminent agricultural aspect of the festival but also the different groups of participants.
Ritual Spaces and Performances in the Asklepieia of Roman Greece
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INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
BEYOND THE POLIS:
RITUAL PRACTICES AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF SOCIAL IDENTITY
IN EARLY GREECE (12th -6th CENTURIES B.C.)
24-26 SEPTEMBER 2015, BRUSSELS ULB
THURSDAY 24 SEPTEMBER
Keynote lecture, lecture room A.Y.2.107
17.45-18.00: Registration
18.00-18.45: Rituals in Context. Scales and Horizons of Interpretation
FRANÇOIS DE POLIGNAC (École Pratique des Hautes Études, Paris)
FRIDAY 25 SEPTEMBER
Lecture room NB-2VIS
8.45-9.00: Welcome note
KRISTIN BARTIK (ULB & Executive Director of the Ph. Wiener-M. Anspach Foundation)
THEORETICAL CONSIDERATIONS ON RITUAL PRACTICES
CHAIR: VINCIANE PIRENNE (Université de Liège)
9.00-9.30: The Role of Sanctuaries and the Formation of Greek Identities
in the LBA/EIA Transition
BIRGITTA EDER (Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna)
9.30-10.00: Ritual, Social Practice and Religion:
Making the Most of Overlapping Spheres in Archaeology
MATTHEW HAYSOM (British School at Athens)
10.00-10.30: Communal Rituals and Religious Acts. Problems of Definition
KATJA SPORN (Deutsche Archäologische Institut, Athens)
10.30-10.45: Coffee break
10.45-11.15: Panem et circenses. Ritual Meals and Performances in Early Greek Sanctuaries as
Means of Exclusion
YANNIS MYLONOPOULOS (Columbia University)
11.15-11.45: Greek Sacrificial Practices Overseas: a Mediterranean Perspective
SANDRINE HUBER (Université de Lorraine)
11.45-12.15: Discussion
12.15-14.00: Lunch break
REGIONAL CASES: ISLANDS
CHAIR: ALEXANDROS MAZARAKIS AINIAN (University of Thessaly)
14.00-14.30: Ritual Practices in Abandoned Settlements in the Cyclades from the 12th to the
6th Century B.C.: Mobility or Fixity?
IRENE SANCHEZ (EPHE, Paris-National and Kapodistrian University of Athens)
14.30-15.00: Tracing Earliest Cult Activities at the Sanctuary of Despotiko (Antiparos) in the
Central Cyclades
ALEXANDRA ALEXANDRIDOU (FNRS-Université libre de Bruxelles)
15.00-15.30: Between Poleis: Constructing Social Identities at the Sanctuary of Palaikastro,
Eastern Crete
MIEKE PRENT (VU Universiteit Amsterdam)
15.30-16.00: Dining with the Ancestors: The ‘Westkomplex’ in Aegina-Kolonna
GUDRUN KLEBINDER-GAUSS (University of Salzburg, Austria)
16.00-16.30: Discussion
16.30-16.45: Coffee break
REGIONAL CASES: MAINLAND
CHAIR : IRENE LEMOS (University of Oxford)
16.45-17.15: Enduring Rituals in the Arcadian Mountains: The Case of the Sanctuary of Zeus
at Mt. Lykaion
MARY VOYATZIS (University of Arizona)
17.15-17.45: Invention of Tradition at the Cult of Demeter in Eleusis: the Post-Bronze Age
Remains and the Hymn to Demeter
FLORIS VAN DEN EIJNDE (Universiteit Utrecht)
17.45-18.15: Destruction and Deposition: the Mycenaean Figurines from the Ritual Zone at
Xeropolis-Lefkandi
CAROLINE THURSTON (University of Oxford)
18.15-18.45: Sanctuary Assemblages in North-central Greece: Coping with Similarity and
Difference
MARIA MILI (British School at Athens)
18h45-19h15: Changing social identities of the clientele of the sanctuary of Apollon at Abai
(Kalapodi) from the Mycenaean to the Archaic periods as reflected in the ritual practices
WOLF-DIETRICH NIEMEIER (Deutsche Archäologische Institut, Athens)
19h15-19h45: Discussion
SATURDAY 26 SEPTEMBER
Lecture room A.Y.2.107
REGIONAL CASES: NORTHERN AEGEA AND WESTERN GREECE
CHAIR : FRANÇOIS DE POLIGNAC (École Pratique des Hautes Études, Paris)
9.00- 9.30: Community Ritual Practices at Troy from the Early Iron Age to the Archaic Period
CAROLYN ASLAN (Koç University, Istanbul)
9.30-10.00: The Use of Golden Funerary Masks in Archaic Macedonia: Continuity or
Convergence?
VIVI SARIPANIDI (FNRS-Université libre de Bruxelles)
10.00-10.30: Coffee break
10.30-11.00: Funerary Practices and Social Identities in the Western Greek Colonies (8th-5th
Century B.C.)
REINE-MARIE BERARD (École française de Rome)
11.00-11.30: Discussion
11.30-4.00: Lunch break
SACRICIFE AND RITUAL DINING
CHAIR: ATHENA TSINGARIDA (Université libre de Bruxelles)
14.00-14.30: Beyond the Domestic: Food and Plant Use in Temples, Altars and Funerary
Pyres
EVI MARGARITI (University of Cambridge)
14.30 – 15.00: Evidence for Ritual Activity in Region II at Lefkandi? A Zooarchaeological
Perspective
ALEX MULHALL (University College London)
15.00-15.30: Coffee break
15.30-16.00: An Exploration of the Social Role of Plants at Xeropolis, Lefkandi, Euboea
GEORGIA KOTZAMANI (Ephorate of Western Attica, Piraeus and Islands, Hellenic Ministry
of Culture)
ALEXANDRA LIVARDA (University of Nottingham)
16.00-16.30: Ritualizing the Sea: Aspects of Ritual Activities related to the Sea in the Aegean
from the 12th Century to the 6th Century B.C.
TATIANA THEODOROPOULOU (CNRS-UMR 7041, Maison René Ginouvès, Nanterre,
Paris)
16.30-17.30: Discussion
17.30-18.00: Conclusions
IRENE LEMOS (University of Oxford)
ATHENA TSINGARIDA (Université libre de Bruxelles)
In order to attend the symposium, you need to register with Dr VIVI SARIPANIDI:
vivi.saripanidi@gmail.com
For any further information, please address:
Dr VIVI SARIPANIDI: vivi.saripanidi@gmail.com
or Dr ALEXANDER VACEK: Alexander.Vacek@ulb.ac.be
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