This contribution aims to deepen the complex iconographic dossier of Potnia theron¹ by focusing attention on its early stages of reception in protohistoric peninsular Italy. The analysis of the mode of recognition and elaboration of this mythical archetypal model offers important insights for the understanding of cultural and religious dynamics of interaction among the proto-historic populations of ours Peninsula, central Europe and the Mediterranean world during the 8th century BCE.

The Dawn of the Potnia.: Reception and Re-Interpretation of an Archetypal Model in Protohistoric Peninsular Italy

NIZZO V
2023-01-01

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This contribution aims to deepen the complex iconographic dossier of Potnia theron¹ by focusing attention on its early stages of reception in protohistoric peninsular Italy. The analysis of the mode of recognition and elaboration of this mythical archetypal model offers important insights for the understanding of cultural and religious dynamics of interaction among the proto-historic populations of ours Peninsula, central Europe and the Mediterranean world during the 8th century BCE.
2023
9781789259179
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