Scholarly study of ancient Greek sanctuaries has tended to focus on religion and ritual, monuments, deities, sacrifice, and topography. Logistics in Greek Sanctuaries takes a completely novel perspective by shifting the focus away from the religious sphere and monumental aspects of sanctuaries to practical activity and the experience of the human visitor. Close examination of the more mundane and everyday life and activity in Greek cult places, e.g., sanitation, water and food supply, accommodation, markets, managing crowds and behavior, workers, and finances, reveals relatively unexplored facets of ancient Greek sanctuaries and offers new paths of investigation for the future.
MGR Editorial Preface to Introduce the Subseries Monumenta Graeca et
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Introduction
Judith M. Barringer, Gunnel Ekroth, and David Scahill
1 Managing the Ebb and Flow of Competing Claims on Sacred Space
Laura Gawlinski
2 Locked in/Locked out: How Was Access to Greek Sanctuaries and Temples
Controlled in Practice?
Jenny Wallensten
3 Policing Sanctuaries in Ancient Greece
Jan-Mathieu Carbon and Edward Harris
4 Tegean Regulations for the Panegyris in Alea Athenas Sanctuary: An
Arkadian Festwiese (c.400380 BCE)
Christophe Chandezon
5 Utilitarian Uses of Water at Greek Sanctuaries
Patrik Klingborg
6 Sanitation in Greek Sanctuaries
Monika Trümper
7 Hotels, Tents and Sacred Houses: Spaces for Human Accommodation in Greek
Sanctuaries
Gunnel Ekroth
8 The Architectural Evidence for Dining in Greek Sanctuaries
David Scahill
9 The Divine Symposion: Logistics and Significance of Drinking Wine in Greek
Sanctuaries
Floris van den Eijnde
10 Whats for Dinner? The Menu in Greek Sanctuaries
Michael MacKinnon
11 Food in Sanctuaries: Markets and Consumption
Annalisa Lo Monaco
12 The Question of Temple Merchants: Buying and Selling in Greek Sanctuaries
Véronique Chankowski
13 A Piglet to Clean the Sanctuary: Recurring Costs and the Logistics of
Greek Sanctuaries
Jeremy McInerney
14 Handworkers and Repair in Greek Sanctuaries
Judith M. Barringer
15 Handling of Hides in Greek Sanctuaries: Practical, Spatial, and Conceptual
Considerations
Petra Pakkanen
Index of Inscriptions
Index Locorum
General Index
Judith M. Barringer, Ph.D. (1990), Yale University, is Professor Emerita of Greek Art and Archaeology at the University of Edinburgh. Her scholarly work centers on the archaeology, art, and culture of ancient Greece from the Archaic through Hellenistic periods. She has published several monographs, most recently, Olympia: A Cultural History (Princeton 2021), as well as numerous articles and essays. Her textbook on The Art and Archaeology of Ancient Greece (Cambridge 2014) has received two book prizes.
Gunnel Ekroth, Ph.D. (1999), Stockholm University, is Professor of Classical Archaeology and Ancient History at the University of Uppsala. Her research focuses on ancient Greek religion, from both a practical and a theoretical perspective, integrating ancient texts, inscriptions, iconography and archaeological remains, including animal bones. Her most recent publications are the co-edited From snout to tail (Stockholm 2024) and Revisiting the work of Marin P. Nilsson (Stockholm 2024).
David Scahill, Ph.D. (2012), University of Bath, is a Senior Researcher at the Austrian Archaeological Institute in Athens and a member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. His research, field projects and publications focus on architecture, craft production and transmission of design. He is co-editor of New Directions and Paradigms for the Study of Greek Architecture (Brill 2020).
With contributions by Laura Gawlinski, Jenny Wallensten, Jan-Mathieu Carbon & Edward Harris, Christophe Chandezon, Patrik Klingborg, Monika Trümper, Gunnel Ekroth, David Scahill, Floris van den Eijnde, Michael MacKinnon, Annalisa Lo Monaco, Véronique Chankowski, Jeremy McInerney, Judith M. Barringer and Petra Pakkanen.
