Search for dissertations about: "monumentality"

Found 2 swedish dissertations containing the word monumentality.

  2. 1. The Performative Structure : Ritualizing the pyramid of Pepy I

    Author : Nils Billing; Eva Hellman; Harold Hays; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : Pyramid Texts; monumentality; iconicity; performativity; Pepy I; reconstitution; manifestation; resurrection; ascension; ritual agency; mortuary temple; cult; pyramid; Religionshistoria; History of Religions;

    Abstract : This study investigates the ancient Egyptian pyramid complex as a ritualized structure. In accordance with an indigenous cultural pattern, the category of an eternal architecture had been created at the beginning of the Old Kingdom (ca. 2700 B.C. READ MORE

  4. 2. A city on a hill cannot be hidden: Function and symbolism of Ancient Greek akropoleis

    Author : Robin Rönnlund; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Antik historia; Klassisk arkeologi; akropolis; acropolis; citadel; hillfort; fortifications; polis; city state; Ancient Greece; archaeology; monumentality; Thessaly; Boeotia;

    Abstract : En akropolis (plur. akropoleis), en befäst kulle högt över en antik grekisk stad, utgör en av de mest välkända vyerna från antiken, men ingen har än studerat akropoleis systematiskt. READ MORE