Take me to the River: Sanctuaries, Connectivity and Genealogy in Southern Boiotia and Euboia (800–300 BCE)
This article explores how the Asopos-river in Southern Boiotia constituted a conduit of people, ideas and goods before evolving into a sacred landscape that brought together the numerous communities along its banks. The river provided a natural anchor in the landscape. Through it people would travel...
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| Τόπος έκδοσης: | URI:https://journals.openedition.org/kernos, |
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| Μορφή: | Article ou chapitre numérique |
| Γλώσσα: | Anglais |
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Kernos
2025
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| Διαθέσιμο Online: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Περίληψη: | This article explores how the Asopos-river in Southern Boiotia constituted a conduit of people, ideas and goods before evolving into a sacred landscape that brought together the numerous communities along its banks. The river provided a natural anchor in the landscape. Through it people would travel in the direction of Euboia, Corinth and Eleusis, or north-eastern Attica. The first part of the article collects testimonies on the Asopos-corridor as a corridor of people, goods and ideas, reflected in stories of travel and common genealogy related to Asopos and other mythological figures. In the second part, the article delves in the evolution of the sacred landscape across the corridor. Founded upon the initial sensory input at sites, these places became loci of interaction through monumentalisation and ritualisation that brought together people from all across the corridor. Within the context of an increased awareness of Boiotian belonging, some of these sanctuaries lost their supra-local importance. Others evolved into places to confirm Boiotian cohesion in the contested borderlands. The conduit gradually evolved into a key facet of Boiotian togetherness from the late fifth century onward. This mirrored processes underway in the stretch of land between Thebes and Orchomenos in the sixth century. |
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