Wiebke Friese
Biographic Data
| ID | 6408559 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Wiebke Friese |
| GIVEN NAMES | Wiebke |
| FAMILY NAME | Friese |
| SIGNATURE | FRIESE W |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universität Hamburg |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 2 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Excavating Pilgrimage
Amphiaraos
Amphiaraos was a seer and king of Argos. Fighting against Thebes, he was swallowed up by the earth as he was fleeing, and was subsequently worshiped as a hero and a chthonic god. His main sanctuary was in Oropos on the Boeotian–Attic border, where he was said to appear in dreams. From the fifth century bce to the third century ce , Oropos was a famous and prosperous healing sanctuary.
Facing the Dead
The first written evidence for necromancy is Odysseus's consultation of the dead Tiresias in the Homeric Odyssey (c.700–650 BC). Before this, already Near Eastern and Egyptian seers or shamans used a particular magical environment (such as graveyards by night) for the evocation of dead people, though we cannot speak of an institutionalized oracle sanctuary at a particular place. Only from the fifth century BC do we hear of so-called nekuomanteia,…
Facing the Dead
The first written evidence for necromancy is Odysseus's consultation of the dead Tiresias in the Homeric Odyssey (c.700–650 BC). Before this, already Near Eastern and Egyptian seers or shamans used a particular magical environment (such as graveyards by night) for the evocation of dead people, though we cannot speak of an institutionalized oracle sanctuary at a particular place. Only from the fifth century BC do we hear of so-called nekuomanteia,…
Facing the Dead
The first written evidence for necromancy is Odysseus's consultation of the dead Tiresias in the Homeric Odyssey (c.700–650 BC). Before this, already Near Eastern and Egyptian seers or shamans used a particular magical environment (such as graveyards by night) for the evocation of dead people, though we cannot speak of an institutionalized oracle sanctuary at a particular place. Only from the fifth century BC do we hear of so-called nekuomanteia,…
Amphiaraos
Amphiaraos was a seer and king of Argos. Fighting against Thebes, he was swallowed up by the earth as he was fleeing, and was subsequently worshiped as a hero and a chthonic god. His main sanctuary was in Oropos on the Boeotian–Attic border, where he was said to appear in dreams. From the fifth century bce to the third century ce , Oropos was a famous and prosperous healing sanctuary.
Excavating Pilgrimage
Ancient history (3 works) · History (3 works) · Archaeology (2 works) · Art (2 works) · Historical, Religious, and Philosophical Studies (2 works) · Literature (2 works) · Ancient Near East History (1 work) · Antike (1 work) · Archäologie (1 work) · Art history (1 work)