LEADER 03272nam 22004573a 450 001 9910861957203321 005 20251116152930.0 010 $a9781803277509 010 $a1803277505 035 $a(CKB)31999411600041 035 $a(ScCtBLL)311dae70-6b1e-42a4-92df-11dd3c1ea119 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC31324073 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL31324073 035 $a(EXLCZ)9931999411600041 100 $a20240703i20242024 uu 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 00$aApotropaia and Phylakteria: Confronting Evil in Ancient Greece$fMaria G. Spathi 205 $a1st ed. 210 1$a[s.l.] :$cArchaeopress Publishing Ltd,$d2024. 215 $a1 online resource (280 p.) 311 08$a9781803277493 311 08$a1803277491 330 $a<p><em>Apotropaia and Phylakteria: Confronting Evil in Ancient Greece </em>is the outcome of the conference held in Athens in June 2021 and hosted by the Swedish Institute at Athens.</p><p><br></p><p>The belief in the existence of evil forces was part of ancient everyday life and a phenomenon deeply embedded in popular thought of the Greek world. Fear of such malevolent powers generated the need for protection and we find clear traces of these concerns in both textual and archaeological sources. From the beginnings of literature, there is mention of ghosts and other daemonic beings that needed appeasement, and of ways of repulsing evil, such as the use of baskania and antibaskania (apotropaia). Repeatedly, we meet rituals of an apotropaic or prophylactic character conducted as part of everyday and family life, as for example on the occasion of a birth, marriage or death in the oikos (the cleansing of the house and household, libations and sacrifices in honour of oikos ancestors), and other practices that focused on the protection of the community as a whole, i.e. the Pharmakos ritual. Archaeology reveals an abundance of material objects thought to have the power to attract benevolent, and avert evil, forces. Traces of ritual practices necessary to ensure prosperity and avert personal disaster are manifest today in the form of amulets, certain semi-precious stones believed to protect women and children, eye-beads found in large numbers in many archaeological assemblages, possibly various types of terracotta figurines, such as nude female grotesques and various ithyphallic characters, to name a few. In addition, symbols and certain iconographic motifs, such as the phallus, the open hand, the Gorgoneion, images of triple Hekate, and Hermes, have been subject to a number of differing interpretations relative to apotropaic power.</p> 606 $aSocial Science / Archaeology$2bisacsh 606 $aHistory / Ancient / Greece$2bisacsh 606 $aSocial sciences 615 7$aSocial Science / Archaeology 615 7$aHistory / Ancient / Greece 615 0$aSocial sciences. 676 $a170 702 $aSpathi$b Maria G. 801 0$bScCtBLL 801 1$bScCtBLL 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910861957203321 996 $aApotropaia and Phylakteria: Confronting Evil in Ancient Greece$94166504 997 $aUNINA