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Karila-Cohen, Karine. "Les pythaïstes athéniens et leurs familles : étude sur la religion à Athènes à la basse époque hellénistique (IIème et Ier siecle avant J.-C.)." Paris 4, 2003. http://www.theses.fr/2003PA040244.
Full textThe Pythaïs is an athenian festival worshipping Apollo in Delphi. It is mostly known thanks to the lists of about a thousand persons who took part in the four ceremonies of the 2nd and the 1st century B. C. Despite various works on this subject, no prosopographic catalogue has ever been made out so far. It sets a basis of a work dealing with religion in late hellenistic Athens. The kind of sources as well as the deeply social definition of Greek religion bring naturally to a sociological study about the actors of the ceremony, the festival, but also about the whole Pythaïstai cult practice in the city. It deals as well with the religious feeling – a topic which could seem at the opposite of the prosographic exploitation. In studying a particular festival, we shall actually intend to propose a new point of view on religion at that time – described for ages by traditional historiography as a civic cult decadence
Darthou, Sonia. "Poséidon en terre d'Athènes : un dieu entre séisme et fondation." Phd thesis, Ecole pratique des hautes études - EPHE PARIS, 2000. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00825331.
Full textPébarthe, Christophe. "Conservation et utilisation des écrits publics et privés à Athènes : de l'époque archai͏̈que à la fin du IVe siècle avant J.-C." Bordeaux 3, 2002. http://www.theses.fr/2002BOR30011.
Full textPierrot, Antoine. "Les grandes familles athéniennes à l'époque archaïque." Paris 10, 2006. http://www.theses.fr/2006PA100137.
Full textThere is a tradition, starting with Aristotle, that in Athens, before Solon, the oligarchy of the Eupatrids controlled almost all the political powers (Areopagus, archontes, phylobasileis). This is not a fourth century invention: the word “eupatrid” already occurs in the archaic period with a clear social meaning (inscriptions and scolion). Wealth is also presented by Aristotle as a condition for entering the oligarchy even before Solon. Analysis of attic funeral materials from Dark Ages does confirm the very old existence of a social hierarchy. Membership of the elite is demonstrated, not only through the mere right to the necropolis, but also through the use of social markers in funerals : weapons, diadems, huge vases as semata, orientalia, Opferrinnen, kouroï. Sixth century political struggles cannot be interpreted as the revenge of the “parvenus” against the Eupatrids, identified as the “sacerdotal” gene: the Athenian prosopography shows that modern scholarship has overestimated the importance of hereditary priesthoods in these struggles and even in the definition of the Eupatrids, whose origins were probably quite diverse
Machado, Sonia Maria Farriá. "La beauté agissante (Athènes VIe-Ve siècles)." Paris 1, 1997. http://www.theses.fr/1997PA010527.
Full textThe objective of this research is to determine the esthetic causes for the fall of Athens. In the course of our work, we have understood that the esthetic causes represent the faithful reflection of the social and political reality experienced by the athenians. Moreover, these socio-political values are solidly anchored in the official religion consisting of myths coming from a distant past. During the entire course of our research, we were constantly confronted by the specific plastic-esthetic model of the heroic archetype. This archetype, the fundamental element of athenian ideation, born in the collective unconscious and torn between dionysian and appolonian forces, was the determining cause of athen's annihilation
Ismard, Paulin. "La communauté des communautés : les associations à Athènes, VIe-Ier siècles." Paris 1, 2008. http://www.theses.fr/2008PA010720.
Full textO'Hare, Wilson Maureen. "Le spectateur et la frise équestre du Parthénon." Grenoble 2, 2004. http://www.theses.fr/2004GRE29018.
Full textMuller, Adrien. "Les déplacements de populations en Attique, du 6ème siècle avant au 3ème siècle après J. -C." Paris 1, 2010. http://www.theses.fr/2010PA010540.
Full textNiddam, Noémie. "Objets dans le champ et champs de l'objet dans la peinture sur vase à figures rouges attiques autour du Ve siècle av. J. -C." Paris 1, 2009. http://www.theses.fr/2009PA010563.
Full textDamet, Aurélie. "La Septième Porte : réalités et représentations des conflits familiaux dans l'Athènes classique." Paris 1, 2009. http://www.theses.fr/2009PA010706.
Full textVillacèque, Noémie. "Théatai logôn, histoire de la démocratie comme spectacle : politique et théâtre à Athènes à l'époque classique." Toulouse 2, 2008. http://www.theses.fr/2008TOU20090.
Full textThe object of this study is twofold, to apprehend the actual interaction between Athenian theatre and politics, and to follow the evolution of the topos of democracy as performance, from the end of the 6th c. BC to 322 BC. The demos in Athens was sovereign, thus the origins of the topos for the demos-spectator in no way reflects any historical reality akin to present day notions of political apathy. Indeed, in the theatre, even for a tragedy, the audience is neither ignored nor silent; the citizen-spectators actively participate in the theatrical performance. Thus the poets, by transforming the performance into an assembly, demonstrate that the similarity between the actual places – in particular the theatre of Dionysos and the Pnyx, but also the lawcourts – accentuated in the eyes of the Athenians the analogy between political and judicial assemblies and theatrical ones. Lack of evidence precludes determining exactly when people establish this analogy, nonetheless, it is clear that it was during the last thirty years of the 5th century BC that the topos of democracy as performance really flourished. At this era, Athenians were clearly conscious of the theatrical nature of the lawcourts. In the theatre, the topos is staged by Aristophanes. Above all, it became an important argument in anti-democratic rhetoric. Theorized by Plato at the beginning of the 4th c. BC, the topos tended afterwards to lose its ideological value, becoming a simple insult, whereas at the same time, the theatralization of politics is generally admitted: for the orator, this means exploiting his qualities as an actor at the tribune. Skills taught henceforth in the schools of rhetoric
Brulé, Pierre. "La fille d'Athènes : La religion des jeunes filles à Athènes à l'époque classique : mythes, cultes et société." Besançon, 1985. http://www.theses.fr/1985BESA1006.
Full textWilgaux, Jérôme. ""Le mariage dans un degré rapproché" : anthropologie historique du mariage athénien des demi-germains à l'époque classique." Bordeaux 3, 2000. http://www.theses.fr/2000BOR30051.
Full textTouzé, Rachel. "Des couronnes végétales en Grèce ancienne : entre matière et imaginaire." Thesis, Rennes 2, 2012. http://www.theses.fr/2012REN20023.
Full textAbout a hundred plants used in Antiquity for the making of wreaths are mentioned in greek literature. Some of these plants are linked to the gods through specific relationships : ivy, laurel, myrtle, oak, olive and oleaster are connected with Dionysos, Apollo, Aphrodite, Zeus, Athena and Heracles. How do these material and imaginary worlds meet? In which ways does the phusis of these plants come into play in the dialectic process where the imaginary world is nurtured by sense perception, and where sense perceptions are themselves informed by the imaginary world ? Through Botanical and medical literature -both very informative on the qualities of the plants- we sometimes identify these peculiarities that allow us to establish the congruency between a plant and a god. These few plants are not, by far, all the plants used for the making of wreaths. The violet, the rose, the hyacinth, the asphodel, the chaste-tree, the pine, the celery and lots of other plants suggest a world made of odours, colours and symbols, from which we only perceive a few fragments through the literary and botanical sources. No matter the quality and the amount of information available to us for each of these plants, evidentiary sources show us how much the stéphanomata were part of the ancient's Greeks daily life. Wreaths made of plants mark moments of joy, pleasure, happiness, they single out the winners of numerous games and the virtuous men. Worn or offered,they characterize this contemplative moment when human being seeks the favor or the protection of the gods, as well as this instant when he pays homage to a departed parent
Chauvet, Julie. "Les Argiens et leurs dieux : espaces et temps sacrés, acteurs du culte et rites : de l'organisation de la cité (VIIIe s. avant notre ère) à la visite de Pausanias à Argos (IIe s. de notre ère)." Thesis, Tours, 2010. http://www.theses.fr/2010TOUR2009.
Full textThe main purpose of this thesis is to clarify the Argive cultic ground and the web of relationships woven between the Argives and their Gods, thanks to numerous religious practices performed from the Eighth century BC, date of the organization of the polis, till the Second century AD, when Pausanias visited this city. Studying the ancient sources at our disposition, I propose an account of the Argive sacred spaces and time, following a range of multiple scales : from the oikoi to the city sanctuaries, from the rites of the everyday life to those performed during annual and civic festivals, from the individual pious acts to those implicating a restricted group - cultic or professional associations - or the city as a whole. Proceeding step by step, I always tried to put men and women at the centre of all these questions in order to show not only the relationship they established with their gods but also their roles as actors - anonymous individuals or those taking hold or sharing a religious charge - playing a part in cultic practices
Assimacopoulou, Fotini. "Gobineau et la Grèce." Paris 1, 1996. http://www.theses.fr/1996PA010633.
Full textArthur de Gobineau (1816-1882), writer, diplomat and theorist of the races, was send as minister in Athens at 1864-1868. The essai sur l'inégalité des races humaines, a Gobineau work which made him well-known to the posterity, has been published at 1853-1855. This work refers to the ancient Greece : Athens, mother of the democracy and of the fatherland-idol, bequeaths to the modern societies its political institutions. Gobineau, lover of feudalism of the hierarchy of the aryan tribes of the past, was an enemy of the modern democracy as the ancient Greeks had transmitted it to the europeans through the French revolution. During his stay in Greece, Gobineau certifies on the spot his racial theory. The degeneration of the Greek race, is proved by the actual events. His theories had an influence on his diplomatic activities. Although he had an exact view of the events, his actions obeyed to his ideas on the Greek race. Enemy of all revolutionary movement, he defended the satus quo concerning the Orient, and has been many times inconsistent with the French department of foreign affairs
Fouchard, Alain. "Recherches sur la crise de l'idéologie aristocratique en Grèce au Ve siècle av. J. -C." Besançon, 1987. http://www.theses.fr/1987BESA1020.
Full textBroder, Philippe Alexandre. "La cité en marche : histoire des processions civiques en Grèce ancienne du VIe au Ier s. av. J.-C." Paris 1, 2008. http://www.theses.fr/2008PA010718.
Full textMalagardis, Athanasia-Nassi. "Skyphoi : typologie et recherches à partir des skyphoi à figures noires du musée du Louvre." Paris 1, 1986. http://www.theses.fr/1986PA010589.
Full textAubriot-Sévin, Danièle. "Recherches sur la prière dans les conceptions religieuses de la Grèce ancienne, jusqu'à la fin du 5ème siècle avant J. C." Paris 4, 1990. http://www.theses.fr/1989PA040108.
Full textAntoniou, Anastasie-Florence. "La religion et la condition de la femme à Athenes à l'époque classique." Paris 10, 1986. http://www.theses.fr/1986PA100130.
Full textThe participation of the Athens, during the classical age, at the religious worship, offers to them compensation and a consolation, considering the lack of political rights and their reclusion. The same function of this participation can be observed, through the survival of the ritual, considering the status of the Greek women up to the 20th century
Crippa, Sabina. "Pour une anthropologie de la voix en Grèce ancienne." Paris, EPHE, 2001. http://www.theses.fr/2001EPHE5026.
Full textThis dissertation offers an original approach, based on the ethnography of the communication, to the theology of the voice in ancient Greece and develops a broader analysis of the conceptualisation of the voice. The dissertation includes three sections. The first section explores the theories of the voice formulated in the Greek world through theological and scientific considerations as well as in the lexicon of the voice. This semantic analysis mainly focuses on the lexemes of the phtheggomai family, due to their fundamental role in sacred contexts. The second section concerns the voice in the field of the prophecy. Focusing on the study of marginal prophetic voices, and particularly of the voice of the Sibyl, the author offers an interpretation of the ritual status and different modes of the prophetic voice. The third section, based on the Corpus of the Papyri Graecae Magicae addresses the contribution of the magic ritual context to the ancient Greek theory of divine voices and explores a number of ritual uses of the speech and specifically vocal rituals, as well as their relationship with writing and images. Within the double framework of linguistic and religious tradition, this ethnolinguistic approach sheds a new light on the complex status of the voice in the sacred contexts of ancient Greece. This work points out that the voice, and all its non linguistic utterances, represent the distinguishing feature of the divine enunciation and the ideal mode of communication with the divine. All these sacred voices imply a metalinguistic analysis of the voice, revealing a whole range of concepts of vocality which cannot be assimilated to that of the articulated and meaningful phonè imposed by the philosophical-grammatical tradition
Vincent, Jean-Christophe. "Recherches sur le vocabulaire religieux chez Pausanias : espaces sacrés, temples et statuaire." Lyon 2, 2001. http://theses.univ-lyon2.fr/documents/lyon2/2001/vincent_j_c.
Full textThis dissertation is concerned with the Greek religion. Studying the religious vocabulary in the ten books of Pausanias's Periegesis (2d c. A. D. ), we try to definite a more specific sense of usual Greek words like alsos (sacred grove), temenos and peribolos (sacred precincts), bômos (altar), hieron (shrine), naos (temple), agalma and xoanon (cult statues). . . Etc. The study is both philological (with the history of the words) and historical (comparisons with the religious realities and, when it's possible, archaeological remains). This research reaches several conclusions. First, the vocabulary of the Perieget is very precise, and we can trust him when he describes a temple, a statue or a ritual. For example, the word alsos, traditionally translated "sacred grove", means actually "damp area where vegetation grow" (this profane sense is attested by Pausanias). However, we can find words with senses very large, like hieron used for sanctuary and temple (instead of naos). But we have to recognise that the meaning of a word depend on the religious mentality of Pausanias. The study of vocabulary show us how this author choose a word because of his own vision of the Greek religious world, a world where humans can not share divine honours
Fenet, Annick. "Caractères et cultes marins des divinités olympiennes dans le monde grec d'Homère à la fin de l'époque hellénistique : contribution à l'étude de la religion des marins grecs." Paris 10, 1998. http://books.openedition.org/efr/5550.
Full textThe religious approach of the sea by Greeks is commonly classed as the figure of Poseidon and deities so said + marine; like nereids, ino or Dioscuri. But, in the reality it turns out that the majority of worships make in maritime context or in travel by sea address to the Olympian deities or twelve gods. All this study aims to define the religious practices of Greek sailors and to consider the primordial place of the Olympian deities. In the first part, are reviewed relationships of all these gods with the sea : by the mythological and epic words, then geographically through all Greek world, region by region, sanctuary by sanctuary. In the second part, are described the religious practices specific to maritime world. By sea, the presence of gods emerge aboard ships by different ways : by nautical ornamentation, by theophoric names, by anchors with inscriptions or decorations by land, in connection with nautical travel, are dedicated in sanctuaries boats in different forms, anchors and fishing gifts. The duration of period examined permit to discern evolutions in the features of gods and in the maritime worships, and importance of these in the archaic time. There repartition and the topography of sanctuaries present coherences connected to methods and conditions of ancient seamanship. The worship of Olympian deities demonstrate a large adaptability of Greek religion - adaptation of sacred personalities in a geographical or social context - making an arranged whole
Meublat, Evelyne. "La fiction ménadique : les cités grecques, les femmes, un dieu, Dionysos." Paris, EHESS, 1995. http://www.theses.fr/1995EHES0334.
Full textWhy did the greek men of the cities welcome dionysus, the stranger, and allow the community of women, in particular their wives, possessed by mania, to worship him? we will here analyse, by way of a study of rituals, myths and tragedies, different representations of women : female warriors and hunters, identified with men, animal-like women, untamed fillies, murderous mothers run amok. This figure, the most threatening of all, echoes, for us, the "all-brothers", born of earth, as if it were an otherness subversive of the "myth of one" citizen that denies the existence of a relation between sexes. This recurrent act of murder reveals a particular feminine "jouissance", while unveiling the sacrifice concealed beneath the murder of the son. Dionysus is, then, the one who purifies, acting through women, good wives, mothers. Beyond pleas ure, dionysiac mania is sign of death for all the humans. This leads us to draw an anology between orphism and maenadism
Grosjean, Sophie. "Le culte de Déméter et de Coré à Cyrène." Thesis, Paris 4, 2009. http://www.theses.fr/2009PA040182.
Full textThe objective of this thesis is to study Demeter and Persephone’s singularity at Cyrene. Throught the personnality of the two deities and the rites performed in their honour, we explain how they worship and how original they were. The rapid expansion of their worship in Cyrene and the popular appeal that it raised were due to a prior chtonic goddess of fertility whose personality was strong enough not to be literally swallowed up by the Greek goddess of the colonizers. The Libyan Demeter hides under the mask of a canonical deity, a fantastic green power rooten in the soil and connected to the world of the dead. This is not a simple analogy between two existing cults and cannot occur without a movement of deep faith. The changes undergone by the goddesses of Cyrene existed potentially in the imported deities by the first Cyrenians. But barbaric rituals were introduced to enable them to flourishin Libyan territory. This phenomenon doesn’t merge into a confusion between the characteristics of the Libyan deities and the Greek gods, but rather deities living together and allowing goddesses being richer as they mingle together. Finaly, the contact between the two civilisations did not upset the Greeks and the natives : the Cyrenian Demeter, just like the Libyan deities of fertility, remained totally original even when the syncretism phenomenal took place
Sarrazanas, Clément. "Agonothésie, athlothésie et chorégie à Athènes : organisation et organisateurs des concours civiques aux époques hellénistique et impériale." Thesis, Montpellier 3, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015MON30002.
Full textThis doctoral thesis examines the modalities of organizing and financing the contests (agônes) taking place in the city of Athens in Hellenistic and Imperial periods (from 320 BC until the middle of the 3rd century AD). It consists of a comprehensive corpus gathering all the available evidence (mostly inscriptions), with a French translation and a specific commentary (Volume I) ; a historical and analytic synthesis on the topic as a whole (Volume II) ; and appendixes and illustrations (Volume III).This study first aims at a definition of the institutions Athenians chose to create at the head of the civic contests. It mostly deals with agonothesia, a civic office created at the beginning of the Hellenistic period and was maintained until the Roman Empire. We have defined the fields of expertise and of actions of the Athenian agonothetes and their evolutions, paying a specific attention to both the history of this office and of the city. A similar inquiry has been carried on about athlothesia, a magistracy concerned only with Panathenaia, and choregia, which was recreated in the 1st century AD (both of them being well less known than agonothesia). The tasks implied by these offices, often overlooked, reveal a very important personal involvement from the office-holders.Contrary to what is generally assumed, the agonothetes did not fund the contests exclusively from their own pockets, as a close examination shows. At least until the Imperial period, the city continued to provide most of the money needed. Finally, a social study investigates on who were the Athenian agonothetes and which milieu they were coming from ; it scrutinizes the importance of agonothesia in a public career, and the perception of this office by the average fellow-citizens. Agonothesia usually brought popularity to its holder, and quite often motivated public honors from the city.This thesis is a monography on the organization of Athenian games throughout six centuries, which allows a study on the long term, in a coherent space, geographically and politically. It shows the importance of the agonistic life in Athens, notably from institutionnal, cultural, economical and political points of view
Deschodt, Gaëlle. "Aspect du visible et de l'invisible dans la religion grecque." Thesis, Paris 1, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014PA010696.
Full textThis work relies on the importance of visible and invisible in the structural Greek thought in order to analyse ritual practices as a whole by means of the visual si.de : starting from the point of view of the Greek man, the main purpose was to apprehend Greek religiosity. The Greeks lived in a mixed system of visibility : it was quite open, but it had some pieces of closing. Besides, architectural changes tended to close spaces though the aim was to enhance the beauty of the sanctuaries. That system expressed itself in architecture by opened, well visible places of worship, whereas some structures were closed with high walls. Therefore, rites, such as mystery cults and inspired divination, that took place in it could not be seen. Greek piety was ostentatious because memory was used as evidence. It was necessary to stand out visually in order to keep those memories in mind many years later and to show its power. The boundaries between piety and the display of power were often blurred. Demonstrations of piety underlined current social hierarchies, that were ahead in ci vie rituals. Onlookers were present around these rituals, although sources rarely quoted them. A beautiful show was offered to the gods in order to establish communication. For this purpose, gods were often presentified in rituals through a mediation. Gods' presence was transmitted by a wide range of sensations going from the seen, the visible, to the unseen, but could also be felt by other senses
Niteros, Euthymios. "Les traces du débat politique du cercle de Périclès chez Sophocle." Aix-Marseille 1, 2005. http://www.theses.fr/2005AIX10090.
Full textThe Periclean Athens showed great tensions and significant social inequalities. Authority and its limits, the ideal regime and political art as the relation between public interest and individual freedom, are the main central questions of political debate, supported by Sophocles, Herodotus and Protagoras. Pericles wants to reconcile the tendencies inside the city : the aristocratic mind and the democracy of all citizens. As such, the institution of democracy is achieved, in an imaginary way. On one hand, the self creation of the society and its transformation into a rational society takes place based on its own norms, values, laws (dèmokratia, philosophia, ta koina, politikè technè, astynomoi orgai). On the other hand, the aristocratic values (arétè, déos, agraphoi nomoi, aidôs, dikè), enrich the civic life of Athenians. So, archaic ethics have to be considered as an indispensable component of the identity of the secularised Periclean regime
Collard, Hélène. "Montrer l'invisible : recherche sur la mise en image de la présence divine au sein de l'espace rituel sur les vases attiques." Paris, EHESS, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014EHES0014.
Full textIn the Greek world, an important mode of divine perception, although this is not the only one, is the visual perception. This was especially made possible by means of images, which are part of the visible but enable to “show the invisible” and, therefore, to embody the divine. To shed light on the issue of divine representation in the Greek religious system, this study intends to provide an analysis of various processes for imaging the divine presence within a specific artistic production: attic vase-painting of the sixth and fifth centuries BC. While figurative representation of the gods could take many forms, vase-painting is a particularly interesting case study for it works on a proper mode and then offers a specific sight on the way the Greeks perceived the world and themselves. By reading and analysing these images, this study also address some broader issues, as the possible cultual referent of these pictures, the relationship established through the ritual between worshipers and deities, and the picture the Greeks had of their gods and of the ways in which they could manifest themselves
Garcia, Marine. "Recherches sur les cultes domestiques dans les cités grecques aux époques classique et hellénistique." Thesis, Bordeaux 3, 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019BOR30058.
Full textThis study proposes a new approach of Greek domestic cults, more precisely an archaeological approach. As a matter of fact, archaeological aspects of this topic have been neglected up until now, but excavations reveal the presence in many houses of altars (portable or not), hearths and a lot of religious artefacts and sacrificial remains (both animal and vegetable). All these elements are evidence of religious activities in the domestic area, and they must be taken into account for the current discussions. By making an inventory and by analyzing these evidences in a sample of houses situated in the Greek continent and in Greek isles, it is possible to question a well-established narrative based on literary sources since the end of the 19th century
Balduini, Émilie. "Les plantes dans le monde minoen : espèces, préparation, utilisations." Thesis, Strasbourg, 2013. http://www.theses.fr/2013STRAG016.
Full textToday, Crete offers a rich and partially unique flora. The aim of this thesis is to study plants in the Minoan world (Crete and Akrotiri, Thera), by identifying the species thanks to diverse media, by analyzing the methods of preparation and uses which Minoans could make of these plants. The first part of our work is an iconographic catalog which lists plants in art, writings and scientific analyses. Previous studies focus on the identification of floral patterns or a specific plant, and relationships between men and plants are not or not much analyzed. The special feature of our approach is to be completed by a contextual analysis which allows to compensate for this gap. The second part of our researches concerns the preparation of plants, that is to say the attention which they required before being used in everyday life. The possible fields being numerous, our study focuses on the use of plants in religion and in textile industry
Augier, Marie. "Le magistrat, la femme et le prêtre, le contrôle des rituels fémins en Grèce ancienne." Thesis, Strasbourg, 2012. http://www.theses.fr/2012STRAG020.
Full textGreek literature often gives a pejorative image of women and presents an idealised woman whose qualities are silence and invisibility. If it is true that women had quite a reduced place in Greek city, nevertheless they played an important role through their religious activities. This study, which pays particular attention to the social implications of ritual practices, aims to examin the masculine control over feminine rituals by comparing the rules supervising women with their literary representation.The research intends to establish the woman's place in sacred locations and tries to outline their role and the rules they had to follow (access to sanctuaries, funerals, participation in rituals). It also focuses on religious feminine magistrates. It therefore also deals with the implication of women in cities through their citizenship, ritual activity, office and evergetism. A supplementary volume collects the corpus of epigraphic inscriptions, texts and translations used in this work
Bastide, Maguelone. "Métamorphoses rituelles : la vie cultuelle en Thrace du VIIIe au IIIe s. avant J.-C." Thesis, Paris 10, 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019PA100148.
Full textThis thesis studies cult life in Thrace in light of archaeological and epigraphical data. We start with the beginning of Greek colonization in the Northern Aegean at the close of the 8th c. BC, and end with Celtic invasions in the beginning of the 3rd c. BC. The study area covers the land between the Haimos mountain range, the Black, Propontic and Aegean Seas up to the Strymon valley to the West, including the islands of Thasos and Samothrace. The first three chapters account for the history of research on this subject, the general views on Thracian cult life among Ancient writers, and the main events taking place in this time-span. The fourth chapter examines sites from the main catalogue, that is, sites where archaeological remains allow us to identify a specific cult place, with the exclusion of funerary or domestic cults. The sites are collated with epigraphical documents which provided clues for identifying the place or its tutelary deity. We present new hypotheses for identifying the divine owners several cult places, showing that, generally, a city’s cults rely heavily on their own colonial history, but also on other local distinctive features. The appended catalogue includes epigraphical documents providing information on cult places unrelated to any known archaeological site, and the archaeological sites where the label “cult place” should be revised. Our last chapter demonstrates that these archaeological sites can be understood otherwise, and that our failure to identify Thracian cult places finds explanations both in methodological biases and a historical reality. A more detailed study of Thracian everyday life allows us to understand what a cult life of which so little has remained might have been
Μελετάμε την λατρευτική ζωή στην Θράκη από τα αρχαιολογικά και τα επιγραφικά δεδομένα που χρονολογούνται από την αρχή του ελληνικού αποικισμού στα τέλη του 8oυ αι. π. Χ., μέχρι τις κελτικές εισβολές στις αρχές του 3oυ αι. π. Χ. Πρόκειται για δεδομένα στην περιοχή μεταξύ των βουνών του Αίμου, την Μαύρη θάλασσα, την Προποντίδα, το Αιγαίο (συμπεριλαμβανομένων των νησιών της Θάσου και της Σαμοθράκης), και τον Στρυμόνα. Τα τρία πρώτα κεφάλαια παρουσιάζουν την ιστορία της έρευνας στο θέμα αυτό, οι απόψεις των αρχαίων για την θρακική λατρευτική ζωή, και τα κύρια γεγονότα αυτού του χρονικού διαστήματος. Στο τέταρτο κεφάλαιο μελετάμε τους αρχαιολογικούς χώρους του κύριου κατάλογου, αυτούς στους οποίους μπορούμε να αναγνωρίσουμε την ύπαρξη λατρευτικού χώρου υπό την βάση των αρχαιολογικών καταλοίπων, εκτός από των ταφικών ή οικιακών λατρειών. Μελετάμε παράλληλα τα επιγραφικά μαρτύρια οποία διευκόλυναν την αναγνώριση του χώρου ή της κατοχικής θεότητας. Προτείνουμε καινούργιες θεότητες για μερικούς λατρευτικούς χώρους, και δείχνουμε ότι οι λατρείες των πόλεων είναι στενά δεμένες στην δική τους αποικιακή ιστορία, αλλά και σε τοπικές ειδικότητες. Το προσαρτημένο κατάλογο περιέχει τα επιγραφικά μαρτυρία οποία αφορούν λατρευτικούς χώρους της περιοχής που δεν έχουν ακόμα τοποθετηθεί, και τους αρχαιολογικούς χώρους για τα οποία διορθώνουμε την δημοσίευση ως ιερά. Στο τελευταίο κεφάλαιο, δείχνουμε ότι αυτοί οι αρχαιολογικοί χώροι μπορούν να ερμηνευτούν διαφορετικά, και δείχνουμε ότι η απουσία ανεύρεσης θρακικών λατρευτικών χώρων εξηγείται από μεθοδολογικά προβλήματα αλλά και αρχαίες ιστορικές συνθήκες. Μια πιο λεπτομερειακή σπουδή της θρακικής καθημερινότητα είναι δυνατή να ξεσκεπάσει τι ήταν αυτή την λατρευτική ζωή με λιγοστά ίχνη
Rivière, Karine. "Les actes de culte en Grèce : de l’époque mycénienne à la fin de l’époque archaïque." Thesis, Paris 10, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017PA100148.
Full textSince M. Nilsson’s work, it is accepted that the Greeks of the Archaic Period have inherited some of their religious habits from the Mycenaean era. From the XIIIth down to the VIth century BCE, the Greeks offered to their gods parts taken from domestic animals, cultivated plants, and drinkable liquids by burning them, depositing them in an appropriate place, or pouring them. Still, during eight centuries where there have been huge crisis, political disruptions, and population displacements, major religious changes took place. Those suggest that even practices that seem to have been the same have enventually been adapted to new contexts. This is especially the case for those associated with food offerings. Because they are closely related to the basic needs of humans, but can still be pretty distant from them, food offerings encourage researchers to focus on what religious practices tell us about how sacred matters were embeded into Greek mutating societies. From the Mycenaean down to the Archaic period, cult is an instrument of power. The social and political organisation of Greek communities was both represented and reinforced by the distribution of religious privileges, the definition of which goods were suitable for the offerings, and the possibility, or impossibility, for everyone to share with the gods. Religion and politic share an intimate relationship, but cult practices also closely reflect how the Greeks thought the world they lived in. New questions about religion and the definition of sacred space naturally followed the development of philosophy during the archaic period
Villard, Pierre. "Recherches sur l'ivresse dans le monde grec." Aix-Marseille 1, 1988. http://www.theses.fr/1988AIX10033.
Full textLandau, Cécilia. "Les courtisanes dans la Grèce classique : entre réalité et représentation : approche prosopographique, philologique et rhétorique." Thesis, Strasbourg, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018STRAC029/document.
Full textThe purpose of this thesis is to offer a Who's who of the courtesans ("hetairai") of the classical period, including all those texts which relate to them written from the classical period to the Byzantine period, in Greek and Latin, with their French translation. The survey also discusses the term "hetaira" when it is associated with a woman from the classical period, and examines the contexts in which it is used. The study seeks to understand what hetaira meant to the Greeks, and te reveal the mecanisms that governed citizenship and non-citizenship. The social discourse regarding women and their involvement in Athenian society is also analyzed, including a study of the "Against Neaera". Because of the exhaustive corpus, several parallels with well-known courtesans, such as Aspasia, Lais, and Phryne, as well as other less well-known people, provide keys to evaluating how original a given career was. At the same time, the comparison of these women with the world of prostitution reconsiders the appropriateness of the link between "hetairai" and prostitution
Amory, Annabelle. "La place des animaux dans la relation mortelles-divinités : le cas d’Artémis et de Déméter." Thesis, Lille 3, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017LIL30032/document.
Full textThis thesis is based on literary, epigraphic, archaeological, iconographic and archaeozoological sources and studies the symbolic of the animals in the relationship between women and divinities. Two goddesses have been chosen for this purpose: Artemis and Demeter. They have in common the fact they take care of women at different moments of their lives. Two main parts compose the survey. First, a catalog lists 83 sanctuaries of Artemis and Demeter who have a link with animals, together with offerings found inside and myths and inscriptions associated with. A second index classifies all the animals connected with Artemis and Demeter: offerings of the sanctuaries from the first corpus, imageries and texts no connected with a shrine but showing a link between an animal species and a goddess.A synthetic analysis of information from the catalogs talks about three main interpretations on the presence of animals beside Artemis and Demeter. At first, fertility of women is very important in ancient Greece because it permits to renewing the civic body. The pig has a special relationship with Demeter about fecundity: during the Thesmophoria, the animal is used to assure the fertility of both women and fields. With Artemis, wetland animals are connected with the water and the life. The cattle are also offered to both goddesses in order to assure the perpetuation of the herd and the city at the same time. Then, the woman before her marriage is like a savage animal and she must be domesticated. Artemis takes care of young girls because she is the goddess of passages and transitions. She allows the domestication of the girls with an initiation called arkteia: during this ritual, the little girls make “the bear”. As divinity of the wild nature, Artemis also is assimilated to the Pόtnia Théron and has the power of life and death on both animals and women. She punishes the girls who transgress the rules: Callisto and Atalante. Artemis and Demeter are kourotrophic goddesses taking care of all gender children. However, if the animals with the divinities are close to the women, there are in connection too with the boys: the dog and the horse evoke the citizenship status of the men and the formation of the young boys, especially with Artemis. Some species are also chthonic characteristics, as the snake, the pig and the tortoise and make a link between the life and the death. Other animals incarnate the divinity: the boar of Kalydon has been send by Artemis because she was angry and a lot of animals are victims of ritual sacrifices and permit a communication with the gods and goddesses. Unfortunately, there are also some species with no real connection with Artemis and Demeter: there are offered in small number in the sanctuaries of both divinities or there contrariwise are given to all the gods
Gillis, Anne-Catherine. "« Athéna, étends ta main au-dessus du four ». Enquête archéologique sur les pratiques religieuses dans le monde artisanal grec antique." Thesis, Lille 3, 2013. http://www.theses.fr/2013LIL30028.
Full textThe inquiry about the religious practices in the ancient greek craft’s world (from archaic to Hellenistic period) aims to approach craftsmen, not as producers of material goods, but as actors of the religious life. The claim is to examine, by means of the archaeological data, the social and psychological conditions of the production, and to highlight practices which are not any more a matter of technique but of religious sphere. The inquiry extends over three fields. The first one concerns the Polis : the data relative to festivals, to votive or to oraculare practices give evidence of the place of craftsmen in the religious life of the greek Polis. The research continues into the work’s spaces: from the quarries to the urban workshops, the work places supply many testimonies as wealthy as diversified. Finally, the inquiry ends in the funeral field : the study of the craftsman’s graves moves on their relationship to death.The worship, the magico-religious ritual and the funeral practices are as many religious phenomena investigated in this book. All these aspects are certainly illustrated by, for the most part, discreet and scattered clues : their accumulation nevertheless forms a coherent set which draws little by little a new profile of the craft’s world not only with religious, but also cultural and social specificities. Touch by touch a portrait of the craftsmen is appearing alive and colored which somewhat pulls out the shadow the " secret hero of the greek history "
Bonnin, Grégory. "L'impérialisme athénien vu des Cyclades (478-338 a.C.)." Thesis, Bordeaux 3, 2012. http://www.theses.fr/2012BOR30079.
Full textThis PhD thesis reveals the story of the relationship between Athens and the Cyclades during the Classical era, from the Persian Wars to the period of Delian Independence. Athenian Imperialism is questioned here from a new perspective, inspired by subaltern studies. Central to this book is the way the Islanders lived under Athenian domination: how they understood and perceived it and, ultimately, how they reacted to it. This study helps change our understanding of Athenian power, which until now has only ever been understood in terms of its coercive ways. Switching the focus is to restore an active role to the subalterns: with no means of resisting the intrusive Athenian hegemony, the Islanders accepted it and enjoyed the benefits of the pax Atheniensis. This work also offers the story of the creation of a new place, in which inhabitants assert their common identity under Athenian domination. In the minds of Athenians and islanders alike, the islands come to be known as the Cyclades
Brouillet, Manon. "Des chants en partage : l'épopée homérique comme expérience religieuse." Paris, EHESS, 2016. https://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-01503016.
Full textIn the Homeric epics, gods and men are regularly presented in contact with each other. Far from considering the Iliad and the Odyssey as texts that allow us to know how the Greeks represented the gods, this dissertation focuses on the "presentification" of the gods: they enter into relation with the men who experience their presence. Moreover, from an anthropological perspective, I take into account context of the epic performance as a moment when gods are made present. Such a link between men and gods requires and at the same time makes possible that the audience is constituted as a community. Through to the singer's song, reciprocity, kharis, binds the men together with each other and with the gods. Thus, the "songs between gods and men" are a religious experience. I ground my work in a comparatist approach in order to explore the ritual dimension of the oral performance. Through close-reading, I analyze inspiration, divination and the gods' presence in the Homeric epics. The epic action and the poetic performance are characterized by co-agency. Indeed, men and gods need to collaborate for the efficacy of the performance, but they also collaborate in various epic actions. Heroes, diviners, and singers are not manipulated by th gods, nor are they mere mouthpieces. But they are able to be in contact and co-act with the gods. Thus, the Homeric epics shape polytheism while the performance as an event embodies it
Calès, Sabrina. "L'oikonomos dans les cités grecques aux époques classique et hellénistique." Thesis, Bordeaux 3, 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019BOR30045.
Full textIn Greek cities, and especially in democratic systems, many citizens had to deal with public money. The oikonomos is one of the civic financial magistracies that spread throughout the Greek world in classical and Hellenistic times but especially in Asia Minor and Pont-Euxin.Firstly, the oikonomos refers to the administration of the oikos, the economic and social unit of Greek society. The organisation of the oikos and the practices implemented to ensure the survival and development of its members correspond to elementary principles known since epic poems. From the end of the 5th century onwards, the oikonomos has been identified as the holder of a technè that stimulated philosophical reflection in the city of Athens. The oikonomos was identified as the agent of the practice of oikonomia, the science of domestic management. In an era of significant economic, political and social change, philosophers established the link between domestic management and the administration of the city's affairs. The analysis of literary sources has made it possible to identify and understand the transition that took place at the end of the 4th century between the oikonomos, the manager of the oikos, and the civic magistracy. Secondly, the study of epigraphic sources highlights the role and place of the oikonomos in the cities where it is documented. In most cases, there was only one holder of the magistracy. The oikonomos was involved both in the payment of expenses and in the material support for the honours decreed by the city. Sometimes it may has been associated with other people. Treasurers, neopes or other financial or non-financial magistrates worked with the oikonomos. The analysis of their relationships provides elements for understanding not only the attributions of oikonomoi, the chain of the responsibilities involved in the process of honours publication and resolution but also on the management of the cities' finances
de, Tilly Dion Laurence. "Recherches sur la plasticité du discours oraculaire: l'exemple de l'oracle du "Mur de bois" (Hérodote, 7, 140-146)." Thèse, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/1866/10584.
Full textThe aim of this thesis is to apply the study of oracles in Greece to the long mistreated case of the oracle of the Wooden Wall. While modern historians are becoming increasingly critical of oracular literature since the discoveries of epigraphy, this oracle appears to resist this new wave: anything and everything were alleged to preserve it from the label of post eventum. The components of this oracle, which predicts the outcome of the second Persian War, and according to which the Athenians would find their salvation behind the now famous Wooden Wall, will be dissected in light of the historical context surrounding Herodotus’ work. The “Decree of Themistocles” found in Troezen, which ordered the evacuation of Athens, will also be addressed. In the conclusion of this thesis, the episode of the wooden wall will be seen to be definitely post eventum.
Petrisor, (Cursaru) Gabriela. "Structures spatiales dans la pensée religieuse grecque de l'époque archaïque : la représentation de quelques espaces insondables: l'éther, l'air, l'abîme marin." Thèse, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1866/3275.
Full textThe present dissertation aims to study the ways in which archaic Greek thought symbolically came to grips with three elements of physical reality, which can never be thoroughly accessed by humans: the ether, the air, and the marine abyss. Due to the rather fathomless character of the different spaces underlying these elements, human imagination and abstract thought endeavored to apprehend them through a specific discourse and system of knowledge and beliefs. Both this discourse and its inherent epistemological system were specific to the abovementioned historical period. They assigned the spaces in question a place in the universe via a hierarchy of the cosmological order. Thus, these spaces acquired a definite shape, while their contents have been classified and connected with patterns of the known world, while being combined in multifarious ways. In my doctoral work, I argue that it is possible to define the various forms of representations of such inaccessible domains of being, together with the patterns of their spatial organization, by paying close attention to the manner in which the archaic Greek thought expressed itself through literature and iconography. Drawing on the particular dialectic that pertains to the relation between space and movement, this thesis wishes to analyze the corpus of ancient Greek sources from multiple vantages which so far have been only vaguely explored. To exemplify, I shall tackle the way, in which space is understood in view of journeys other than terrestrial. I also discuss how certain paradigms of movement in space have emerged in this regard. Another question I shall answer concerns the manner, in which certain dichotomies of archaic logic related to space (up/down, right/left, east/west, within/beyond, etc.) have influenced the structuring of space. With that in mind, I expand upon the issue of the types of spatiality revealed through the journeys across the different levels of the world, namely the journeys of the gods, mortals, and other forces involved in the human interaction with the divine and any other superior region. These analyses will jointly show that the philosophical structuring of space and the emergence of an image of the world understood as κόσμος – i.e., as a world ordered by and obeying both physical and divine laws – are the result of imagination and abstract reflective efforts rather than subjective experience.