Verity Platt
Verity Platt is professor of classics and history of art at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York.
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Six: Clever Devices and Cognitive Artifacts: Votive Giving in the Ancient World
Verity Platt
Description: Agents of Faith: Votive Objects in Time and Place
Agents of Faith: Votive Objects in Time and Place
In his Description of Greece, the second-century travel writer Pausanias recounts a revealing anecdote about a votive dedication in the sanctuary of Apollo at Delphi:
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Verity Platt
PublisherBard Graduate Center
Copyright© 2018 Bard Graduate Center: Decorative Arts, Design History, Material Culture
Related print edition pages: pp.141-157
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00203.009
Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-20154
Chapter subject tags:Votive offeringsSculpture, GreekAthena (Greek deity)--CultAnimal sacrifice in artHuman anatomy--Models