DOI Artikel:
Floryan, Margrethe: Sacred woods and sacred ways: Ariccia revisited
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.14576#0058
MARc.Rin iii: iloryan
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11. Leochares, Artemis of Versailles, сору, XVIII е., in the Park of Oranienbaum
are again being appreciated and indulged in. It remains a privileged place, and it indeed continues speaking
the language preferred by idealists such as Henry David Thoreau and Joseph Beuys, who were both quoted
at the very heading of this essay14.
In Roman times, Ariccia was, as argued above, a much cultivated topos in various religious and martial
traditions. Later it became a favourite retreat for a few and very influential families, and several architectural
The following quotation from Thoreau also seems very much to the point: "I would that our farmers when they eut down
a forest felt some of that awe whieh the old Romans did when they came to thin, or let in the light to, a consecrated grove (lucum
conlucaré), that is, would believe that it is sacred to some god. The Roman made an expiatory offering, and prayed Whatever god
or goddess thou art to whom this grove is sacred, be propitious to me, my family, and children, etc."; H.D. Thoreau, Walden,
1854, extraet from Chapter 13, quoted from http://eserver.0rg/thoreau/waldenOO.html#toc.
' i, ÉiÉfÉtfi
11. Leochares, Artemis of Versailles, сору, XVIII е., in the Park of Oranienbaum
are again being appreciated and indulged in. It remains a privileged place, and it indeed continues speaking
the language preferred by idealists such as Henry David Thoreau and Joseph Beuys, who were both quoted
at the very heading of this essay14.
In Roman times, Ariccia was, as argued above, a much cultivated topos in various religious and martial
traditions. Later it became a favourite retreat for a few and very influential families, and several architectural
The following quotation from Thoreau also seems very much to the point: "I would that our farmers when they eut down
a forest felt some of that awe whieh the old Romans did when they came to thin, or let in the light to, a consecrated grove (lucum
conlucaré), that is, would believe that it is sacred to some god. The Roman made an expiatory offering, and prayed Whatever god
or goddess thou art to whom this grove is sacred, be propitious to me, my family, and children, etc."; H.D. Thoreau, Walden,
1854, extraet from Chapter 13, quoted from http://eserver.0rg/thoreau/waldenOO.html#toc.