Colonial religion and indigenous society in the archaic western Mediterranean, c. 750-400 BCE

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Abstract: This project examines the long-term responses of indigenous societies in Sicily and Sardinia to colonial religion in the ancient western Mediterranean. It conducts a comparative analysis of religious developments among indigenous, Greek, and Phoenician communities between the 8th and 5th centuries BC. It shows that while indigenous communities near Greek colonies in Sicily integrated Greek-style material culture and practices into their religious lives, those near Phoenician colonies in Sardinia and Sicily showed much less interest in Phoenician material culture and religion. This contrast is then explained in terms of the greater social accessibility and more communal features of Greek polis religion, which made its practices and material culture broadly attractive across cultural divides in a time of rapid social change.

Type of resource	text
Form	electronic; electronic resource; remote
Extent	1 online resource.
Publication date	2010
Issuance	monographic
Language	English

Associated with	Urquhart, Lela Manning
Associated with	Stanford University, Department of Classics
Primary advisor	Morris, Ian
Thesis advisor	Morris, Ian
Thesis advisor	Ceserani, Giovanna
Thesis advisor	Martin, Richard P
Thesis advisor	Ober, Josiah
Advisor	Ceserani, Giovanna
Advisor	Martin, Richard P
Advisor	Ober, Josiah

Genre	Theses

Statement of responsibility	Lela Manning Urquhart.
Note	Submitted to the Department of Classics.
Thesis	Thesis (Ph.D.)--Stanford University, 2010.
Location	electronic resource

License: This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC).

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