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Aniconism in Greek Antiquity (Hardcover, New)
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Aniconism in Greek Antiquity (Hardcover, New)
Series: Oxford Studies in Ancient Culture Representation
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In this volume, Milette Gaifman explores a phenomenon known as
aniconism - the absence of figural images of gods in Greek
practiced religion and the adoption of aniconic monuments, namely
objects such as pillars and poles, to designate the presence of the
divine. Shifting our attention from the well-known territories of
Greek anthropomorphism and naturalism, it casts new light on the
realm of non-figural objects in Greek religious art. Drawing upon a
variety of material and textual evidence dating from the rise of
the Greek polis in the eighth century BC to the rise of
Christianity in the first centuries AD, this book shows that
aniconism was more significant than has often been assumed.
Coexisting with the fully figural forms for representing the divine
throughout Greek antiquity, aniconic monuments marked an undefined
yet fixedly located divine presence. Cults centered on rocks were
encountered at crossroads and on the edges of the Greek city.
Despite aniconism's liminality, non-figural markers of divine
presence became a subject of interest in their own right during a
time when mimesis occupied the center of Greek visual culture. The
ancient Greeks saw the worship of stones and poles without images
as characteristic of the beginning of their own civilization.
Similarly, in the Hellenistic and Roman periods, the existence of
aniconism was seen as physical evidence for the continuity of
ancient Greek traditions from time immemorial.
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