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It furthers the University’s mission by disseminating knowledge in the pursuit of education, learning, and research at the highest international levels of excellence. University Printing House, Cambridge cb2 8bs, United Kingdom One Liberty Plaza, 20th Floor, New York, ny 10006, USA 477 Williamstown Road, Port Melbourne, vic 3207, Australia 314–321, 3rd Floor, Plot 3, Splendor Forum, Jasola District Centre, New Delhi – 110025, India 79 Anson Road, #06–04/06, Singapore 079906 Cambridge University Press is part of the University of Cambridge. THE COSMOS IN ANCIENT GREEK RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE SACRED SPACE, MEMORY, AND COGNITION EFROSYNI BOUTSIKAS University of Kent Efrosyni Boutsikas is Senior Lecturer in Classical Archaeology at the University of Kent. Her study revolutionises our understanding of ancient emotionality and cognitive experience, demonstrating how Greek religious spaces were vibrant arenas of shared experiences of the cosmos. She illustrates how they shaped the emotions, cosmological beliefs, and ritual memory of the participants. The author’s digital and virtual reconstructions of ancient skyscapes and religious structures during such occurrences unveil a deeper understanding of the importance of time and place in religious experience.
Boutsikas also explores how natural light or the night sky may have assisted in intensifying the experience of these rituals, and how they may have determined ancient perceptions of the cosmos. These various elements were unified in ways that integrated the body within cosmic space and made the sacred extraordinary. In this book, Efrosyni Boutsikas shows that ancient Greek religious performances were intricately orchestrated displays comprising topography, architecture, space, cult, and myth. THE COSMOS IN ANCIENT GREEK RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE
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