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Ορατό και αόρατο: οι συμβολικές αξίες του χώρου και η αρχιτεκτονική των ελληνικών ιερών

Στις 19 Μαΐου 2008 και ώρα 20:00, στο Αμφιθέατρο της Αρχιτεκτονικής (Πεδίο του ’ρεως)θα δοθεί διάλεξη του François de Polignac (Directeur d'études, EPHE) με θέμα Visible and invisible: the symbolic values of space and the architecture of Greek sanctuaries.

Η ομιλία διοργανώνεται σε συνεργασία του ΙΑΚΑ με το Τμήμα Αρχιτεκτονικής, και θα γίνει στην αγγλική γλώσσα.

Περίληψη

A research programme, launched two years ago at the Centre Louis Gernet in Paris, aims at creating a topographical inventory of all archaeologically-known cult places in ancient Greece for the period from the 10th cent. BC.- 5th cent. AD. The first scope of this inventory is to help understanding the context of relations, both symbolic (rituals, offerings...) and practical (circulations, exchanges...), within which a cult acquires meaning, independently of any predetermined spatial category. But the research also sustains a critical approach of our categories of spatial definition. From the very beginning of the data collecting, the necessity was felt to proceed to a critical reexamination of the vocabulary currently used by scholars to describe cultural structures, rituals and offerings. Entering information in a database clearly reveals the frequent confusion between terms that can be considered as purely descriptive and those which openly or inavertedly imply a part of interpretation. Transferring this confusion in the data base would mean transmitting strong bias in the information fixed and diffused by the new support. The reevaluation of these terms therefore opens a wide area of research and reflection.

The lecture will focus on one example of this reevaluation, examining the various uses of the word adyton in modern studies on ancient Greek sanctuaries, the meanings consciously or unconsciously associated with these uses, and the contradictions which result in the interpretation of ancient architecture.

ΙΑΚΑ: Κεντρική σελίδα Πανεπιστήμιο Θεσσαλίας