Christina Williamson
Biographic Data
| ID | 5626946 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Christina Williamson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Christina |
| FAMILY NAME | Williamson |
| SIGNATURE | WILLIAMSON C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Groningen |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5922-1957 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 14 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1931 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Biography of the Ancient City, Historiographies and Intellectual Traditions
Volume I offers a broad perspective on urban culture in the ancient European world. It begins with chronological overviews which paint in broad brushstrokes a picture that serves as a frame for the thematic chapters in the rest of the volume. Positioning ancient Europe within its wider context, it touches on Asia and Africa as regions that informed and were later influenced by urban development in Europe, with particular emphasis on the Mediterra…
Ephemeral Rituals and Urban Timescapes
Sanctuaries for Asklepios, the Greek god of healing, were in some cases powerful urban microcosms that played important roles in establishing and maintaining socio-political hierarchies through material culture. This article focuses specifically on the representations of families at the Asklepieia of Epidauros and Pergamon during the Hellenistic and Roman Imperial period ( c. 300 bc – ad 200) from the perspective of object agency. These sacred sp…
Deep Mapping the Asklepieion of Pergamon
Deep mapping is a recent concept in the humanities that approaches the “thick descriptions” of place, i.e., the complexity of human interactions with space and the many narratives arising as a result. Sacred places are particularly suitable for deep mapping, as they triangulate space with the authority of the divine but also key moments in the lives of humans. With its embrace of the variety of dynamics of space, its multi-vocality and temporal d…
Making Place with the Divine
In the wake of Alexander the Great, city founding across the Greek world surged, coinciding with a sharp rise in festival culture, with cities profiling themselves through their main gods. These were often old deities with a regional attraction and established sacred landscapes of their own that had become the new face of the city, even though their sanctuaries were at a distance from the urban nucleus. Using place-making as a lens, this paper ex…
Making Place in the Ancient City
This special issue explores the potential application of one of the classic — but in our view still underappreciated — concepts of urban studies, namely place-making, as a lens to better understand the very diverse and highly complex interwoven layers of meaning invested in a specific form of settlement characterized by density and diversity, namely the city. ‘Owning’ a particular place in the city was an essential factor in identifying with the …
Ritual ties, ‘portable communities’, and the transmission of common knowledge through festival networks in the Hellenistic world
Panhellenic festivals, such as at Olympia, have long been understood as a unifying factor in the Greek world as it expanded during the archaic and classical periods. In the Hellenistic period, this took a new turn as individual cities began organising inter-urban festivals of their own, modelled on the great panhellenic games. Delegates, athletes, and performers travelled across the Mediterranean, leaving behind a trail of honorific monuments, vi…
Urban Rituals in Sacred Landscapes in Hellenistic Asia Minor
In Urban Rituals in Sacred Landscapes in Hellenistic Asia Minor, Christina G. Williamson examines the phenomenon of monumental sanctuaries in the countryside of Asia Minor that accompanied the second rise of the Greek city-state in the Hellenistic period. Moving beyond monolithic categories, Williamson provides a transdisciplinary frame of analysis that takes into account the complex local histories, landscapes, material culture, and social and p…
Filters of Light
In the ancient Greek world contact with the divine was primarily regulated through the ritual of sacrifice and the exchange it represented. Temples were not essential to places of cult, but those that had them were clearly dominated by them and they lent prestige to their local communities. Once studied primarily for their exterior architecture and perfection of design, temples are increasingly considered an integral part of the ritual context of…
Mountain, Myth, and Territory
Sacred Way (Greek World)
Sacred ways were roads that led to major sanctuaries, typically those located at a distance from the urban center, and were the vehicles for the processions involved in civic festivals at these shrines.
Civic Producers at Stratonikeia The Priesthoods of Hekate at Lagina and Zeus at Panamara
Scientific Racism on Display
Through the analysis of photographs and newspapers, I analyze specific representations of indigenous people and cultures in the public arena, such as in museums and World’s Fairs. Using and modifying Edward Said’s model of Orientalism, I argue that these representations reinforced problematic and damaging ideas about aboriginal people
The Years of Challenge
Mechanics of Zoning Adjustments
N dealing with the matter of the mechanics of zoning adjustments, it is necessary to trace briefly the steps that led up to the necessity for any adjustments in a zoning plan. The ideal situation, of course, would be to take raw acreage, and, at the time of subdividing, to zone at source in such a balanced manner that upon the ultimate development of the particular area in question, the various uses would be in the proper ratio and be located cor…
Urban Rituals in Sacred Landscapes in Hellenistic Asia Minor
In Urban Rituals in Sacred Landscapes in Hellenistic Asia Minor, Christina G. Williamson examines the phenomenon of monumental sanctuaries in the countryside of Asia Minor that accompanied the second rise of the Greek city-state in the Hellenistic period. Moving beyond monolithic categories, Williamson provides a transdisciplinary frame of analysis that takes into account the complex local histories, landscapes, material culture, and social and p…
Scientific Racism on Display
Through the analysis of photographs and newspapers, I analyze specific representations of indigenous people and cultures in the public arena, such as in museums and World’s Fairs. Using and modifying Edward Said’s model of Orientalism, I argue that these representations reinforced problematic and damaging ideas about aboriginal people
Mechanics of Zoning Adjustments
N dealing with the matter of the mechanics of zoning adjustments, it is necessary to trace briefly the steps that led up to the necessity for any adjustments in a zoning plan. The ideal situation, of course, would be to take raw acreage, and, at the time of subdividing, to zone at source in such a balanced manner that upon the ultimate development of the particular area in question, the various uses would be in the proper ratio and be located cor…
The Years of Challenge
Scientific Racism on Display
Through the analysis of photographs and newspapers, I analyze specific representations of indigenous people and cultures in the public arena, such as in museums and World’s Fairs. Using and modifying Edward Said’s model of Orientalism, I argue that these representations reinforced problematic and damaging ideas about aboriginal people
Civic Producers at Stratonikeia The Priesthoods of Hekate at Lagina and Zeus at Panamara
Sacred Way (Greek World)
Sacred ways were roads that led to major sanctuaries, typically those located at a distance from the urban center, and were the vehicles for the processions involved in civic festivals at these shrines.
Mountain, Myth, and Territory
Filters of Light
In the ancient Greek world contact with the divine was primarily regulated through the ritual of sacrifice and the exchange it represented. Temples were not essential to places of cult, but those that had them were clearly dominated by them and they lent prestige to their local communities. Once studied primarily for their exterior architecture and perfection of design, temples are increasingly considered an integral part of the ritual context of…
Urban Rituals in Sacred Landscapes in Hellenistic Asia Minor
In Urban Rituals in Sacred Landscapes in Hellenistic Asia Minor, Christina G. Williamson examines the phenomenon of monumental sanctuaries in the countryside of Asia Minor that accompanied the second rise of the Greek city-state in the Hellenistic period. Moving beyond monolithic categories, Williamson provides a transdisciplinary frame of analysis that takes into account the complex local histories, landscapes, material culture, and social and p…
Ritual ties, ‘portable communities’, and the transmission of common knowledge through festival networks in the Hellenistic world
Panhellenic festivals, such as at Olympia, have long been understood as a unifying factor in the Greek world as it expanded during the archaic and classical periods. In the Hellenistic period, this took a new turn as individual cities began organising inter-urban festivals of their own, modelled on the great panhellenic games. Delegates, athletes, and performers travelled across the Mediterranean, leaving behind a trail of honorific monuments, vi…
Making Place with the Divine
In the wake of Alexander the Great, city founding across the Greek world surged, coinciding with a sharp rise in festival culture, with cities profiling themselves through their main gods. These were often old deities with a regional attraction and established sacred landscapes of their own that had become the new face of the city, even though their sanctuaries were at a distance from the urban nucleus. Using place-making as a lens, this paper ex…
Making Place in the Ancient City
This special issue explores the potential application of one of the classic — but in our view still underappreciated — concepts of urban studies, namely place-making, as a lens to better understand the very diverse and highly complex interwoven layers of meaning invested in a specific form of settlement characterized by density and diversity, namely the city. ‘Owning’ a particular place in the city was an essential factor in identifying with the …
The Biography of the Ancient City, Historiographies and Intellectual Traditions
Volume I offers a broad perspective on urban culture in the ancient European world. It begins with chronological overviews which paint in broad brushstrokes a picture that serves as a frame for the thematic chapters in the rest of the volume. Positioning ancient Europe within its wider context, it touches on Asia and Africa as regions that informed and were later influenced by urban development in Europe, with particular emphasis on the Mediterra…
Ephemeral Rituals and Urban Timescapes
Sanctuaries for Asklepios, the Greek god of healing, were in some cases powerful urban microcosms that played important roles in establishing and maintaining socio-political hierarchies through material culture. This article focuses specifically on the representations of families at the Asklepieia of Epidauros and Pergamon during the Hellenistic and Roman Imperial period ( c. 300 bc – ad 200) from the perspective of object agency. These sacred sp…
Deep Mapping the Asklepieion of Pergamon
Deep mapping is a recent concept in the humanities that approaches the “thick descriptions” of place, i.e., the complexity of human interactions with space and the many narratives arising as a result. Sacred places are particularly suitable for deep mapping, as they triangulate space with the authority of the divine but also key moments in the lives of humans. With its embrace of the variety of dynamics of space, its multi-vocality and temporal d…
Classical Antiquity Studies (10 works) · Ancient Mediterranean Archaeology and History (7 works) · Art (6 works) · History (6 works) · Engineering (5 works) · Geography (5 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Archaeology (3 works) · Archaeology and Historical Studies (3 works) · Historical and Architectural Studies (3 works)