Sanctuaries of Euboea island (Greece) and its colonies: recent excavations and studies EAA 2019 Bern (original) (raw)
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"Karystos revisited: Interaction networks of an Aegean island polity (sources and finds)". Due to geographical and other reasons, connectivity or isolation are two of a large number of lenses one can use to explore political, religious and economic aspects of life in an ancient city through study of relevant finds. Cult is connected to polis identity, since what was religious and what was political were never quite separate in ancient Greek cities. Karystos, as one of the main Euboean city-states, is in this paper shown to have participated in a number of religious, political and trade networks that expanded for large part in the Aegean region and centered on Athens and Delos, as well as on Delphi in the mainland. An attempt is therefore made to revisit the cultic landscape of the polis of Karystos through a presentation of some of its attested relations to sanctuaries in other poleis and regional or Pan-Hellenic sanctuaries. In some aspects, local cult and trade relations are shown to have often co-existed, together with realistic political responses in cases polis survival or autonomy was threatened.
From our correspondents : Greece (Islands). Includes contributions by : Vassiliki Patsiada (exhibition « Rhodes: a Greek Island at the gateway to the East 15th - 5th century BC ») Dora Katsonopoulou (Conference « Fourth International Conference on the Archaeology of Paros and the Cyclades: Paros and its Colonies ») Ludovic Laugier (« The conservation of the Winged Victory of Samothrace ») Dimitris Athanasoulis (« Re-tracing the network of monuments and museums of an international touristic destination ») Katerina Kopaka (« The Gavdos project. An island culture on the Cretan and Aegean fringe ») Christina Marangou (general structure of the Correspondence, conference « Recent Archaeological Research on Samothrace », exhibition « Samothrace: The mysteries of the Great Gods », new journal publication, as well as translation from Greek of some reports)
Euboean myths and cults outside Euboea. Archaeology, Epigraphy and Literary sources
Ž. Tankosić, F. Mavridis & M. Kosma (eds.), An Island between Two Worlds: The Archaeology of Euboea from Prehistoric to Byzantine Times. Proceedings of the international conference held at Eretria July 12-14, 2013, Papers and Monographs from the Norwegian Institute at Athens 6, Athens, , 2017
This paper is focused on Euboean myths and cults and is aimed to better define two interesting elements in connection with the core/periphery topic: Poseidon and Briareos. They appear strictly connected to the maritime routes and travels which started from three main centres of the island (Eretria, Chalkis, Karystos) towards the near or the far shores of the Mediterranean, during the Geometric and Archaic ages. We will try to point out, on one hand, how cults of colonizers can inform us on unknown cultual practices of their homeland but, at the same time, can change due to the new conditions they find abroad. On the other hand, the analysis of data will hopefully show the importance of Chalkis in spreading myths such the one of Briareos/Aigaios and will prove the importance to investigate deeper on the role of Karystos.