Riva, C;
(2021)
Violence, power and religion in the South Etruscan Archaic city-state.
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Religion and Urbanity Online.
De Gruyter
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Abstract
Changes in architectural terracotta decoration of temple buildings in Archaic southern Etruria indicate changing attitudes towards the encounter with divinity, which, in turn, shaped religious experience for worshippers, as well as offering an opportunity for the exploitation of that experience to political ends. This paper explores this entanglement by comparing Greek and Etruscan religion and its related material expression, and by taking the city-state of Caere and its temple decoration as a case study and particularly the cult and iconography of Greek hero Herakles and related myths into account in order to examine the intersection between ritualization and political power in a phase of urban growth across Tyrrhenian Central Italy.
| Type: | Book chapter |
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| Title: | Violence, power and religion in the South Etruscan Archaic city-state |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1515/urbrel |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1515/urbrel.16039815 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © Walter de Gruyter GmbH 2021. This is an Open Access publication distributed under the terms of a Creative Commons licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
| Keywords: | Antiquity; Buddhism; Christianity; Cities; Early Modern; Islam; Middle Ages; Religion; Spatial Theory; Urban History; Urbanity |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS > Institute of Archaeology UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS > Institute of Archaeology > Institute of Archaeology Gordon Square |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10126808 |
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