Temenos (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Temenos (Greek: ) is a piece of land cut off and assigned as an official domain, especially to kings and chiefs, or a piece of land marked off from common uses and dedicated to a god, a sanctuary, holy grove or holy precinct: The Pythian race-course is called a temenos, the sacred valley of the Nile is the, the Acropolis is the (of Pallas). The word derives from the Greek verb (temn ), "to cut"; plural:, temene. The earliest attested form of the word is the Mycenaean Greek te-me-no, written in Linear B syllabic script.