Ritual Dynamics in the Eastern Mediterranean
Case Studies in Ancient Greece and Asia Minor
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23720721 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Angelos Chaniotis (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2005 |
| Pages | 141-166 |
| Publication date | 2005-01-20 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | Rethinking the Mediterranean (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Oxford University PressOxford (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1093/oso/9780199265459.003.0006 |
| OpenAlex | W4388392454 |
| ISBN | 9780199265459 |
| Open Library | OL15570029M |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
One of the many monuments the Athenians proudly showed their youth and the visitors to their city was the ship with which Theseus was believed to have sailed to Crete. In the course of the centuries the ship’s wooden parts rotted, and the Athenians had to replace them, providing ancient philosophers with an unsolved puzzled: did Theseus’ ship remain the same even though its rotten components were continually being replaced? I cannot help thinking about this puzzle when I am confronted with diachronic studies on ‘the’ Mediterranean. Can the Mediterranean be a somehow distinctive object of historical and cultural study, given the continual change of its living (and therefore, ephemeral) components (human populations and their cultures, animals, and plants)? Or is the Mediterranean as a historical and cultural entity just a construct of the collective imagination of scholars who contribute to journals, books, or conferences that have the name ‘Mediterranean’ in their title? The question of the unity of the Mediterranean should be asked not only ‘vertically’ (with regard to diachronic developments); it must be asked ‘horizontally’ as well.
Ancient history · Archaeology · Art · Biology · Construct (python library) · Dynamics (music) · Ephemeral key · Geography · Humanities · Linguistics · Literature · Mediterranean climate · Minor (academic) · Object (grammar) · Sociology · Archaeology and Historical Studies · Byzantine Studies and History · Classical Antiquity Studies · Classics · Ecology · History · Philosophy
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| Citations per year | 0.41 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2009 - 2023 (15) |
| Highly cited | No |