Editorial for Rosetta Issue 2.
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The aim of this paper is to deal with a feature that has been only briefly addressed within discussions of sanctuaries from the Late Bronze to Early Iron Age of Greece. That feature, or non-existent feature, is ‘space’. By this I mean the provision of space within sanctuaries, along with the space available directly outside the shrine for participation of worshippers. This feature will be used in conjunction with a discussion of the sanctuaries’ direct ‘surroundings’, that is, were they urban or isolated sanctuaries, and what features can be directly associated with them?
This article considers one of the most ancient musical expressions of the Greeks: the lament. It was not only an ornamental element of various rituals but it was also a social reality. It hides specific meanings that need to be explained or, at the least, investigated. This article is far from being exhaustive but has the objective of explaining the importance of laments whilst underlining the difficulty of interpreting the literary and iconographic sources by using the Linos-song as a case study.
In Byzantium the choice of a specific site for imperial patronage represented a means for the emperor and empress to make visible their own conceptions of rulership and the religious values that they wished to promote. However, in the case of female ruler, the issue is more complex, raising issues of gender with regard to the significance and the visibility itself of a woman’s ‘matronage’. From this perspective, this paper analyses the case of the chapel dedicated to Christ Antiphonetes which the empress Zoe (AD 1028 – ca. 1050), belonging to the last generation of the Macedonian dynasty, chose as her personal burial place. This study considers and discusses the most important sources which allow us to understand the significance of these expressions of imperial display and the meanings they convey.
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