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Author: Fritz Graf
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2015-11-05
Total Pages: 381
ISBN-13: 1107092116
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book explores how festivals of Rome were celebrated in the Greek East and their transformations in the Christian world.
Author: Fritz Graf
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2015-11-05
Total Pages: 636
ISBN-13: 1316425258
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis study explores the development of ancient festival culture in the Greek East of the Roman Empire, paying particular attention to the fundamental religious changes that occurred. After analysing how Greek city festivals developed in the first two Imperial centuries, it concentrates on the major Roman festivals that were adopted in the Eastern cities and traces their history up to the time of Justinian and beyond. It addresses several key questions for the religious history of later antiquity: who were the actors behind these adoptions? How did the closed religious communities, Jews and pre-Constantinian Christians, articulate their resistance? How did these festivals change when the empire converted to Christianity? Why did emperors not yield to the long-standing pressure of the Church to abolish them? And finally, how did these very popular festivals - despite their pagan tradition - influence the form of the newly developed Christian liturgy?
Author: J. Rasmus Brandt
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2012-08-30
Total Pages: 424
ISBN-13: 0199696098
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGreek and Roman Festivals addresses the multi-faceted and complex nature of Greco-Roman festivals and analyses the connections that existed between them, as religious and social phenomena, and the historical dynamics that shaped them. It contains twelve articles which form an interdisciplinary perspective of classical scholarship on the topic.
Author: William Warde Fowler
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Published: 1899
Total Pages: 414
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: J. Rasmus Brandt
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Published: 2012-08-30
Total Pages: 432
ISBN-13: 0199696098
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGreek and Roman Festivals addresses the multi-faceted and complex nature of Greco-Roman festivals and analyses the connections that existed between them, as religious and social phenomena, and the historical dynamics that shaped them. It contains twelve articles which form an interdisciplinary perspective of classical scholarship on the topic.
Author: Nathanael Andrade
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Published: 2019
Total Pages: 0
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAmong the imperial states of the ancient world, the Roman empire stands out for its geographical extent, its longevity and its might. This collective volume investigates how the many peoples inhabiting Rome's vast empire perceived, experienced, and reacted to both the concrete and the ideological aspects of Roman power. More precisely, it explores how they dealt with Roman might through their religious and political rituals; what they regarded as the empire's distinctive features, as well as its particular limitations and weaknesses; what forms of criticism they developed towards the way Romans exercised power; and what kind of impact the encounter with Roman power had upon the ways they defined themselves and reflected about power in general. This volume is unusual in bringing Jewish, and especially rabbinic, sources and perspectives together with Roman, Greek or Christian ones. This is the result of its being part of the research program "Judaism and Rome" (ERC Grant Agreement no. 614 424), dedicated to the study of the impact of the Roman empire upon ancient Judaism.
Author: Byron MacDougall
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2022-10-04
Total Pages: 204
ISBN-13: 9004521402
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGregory's festal orations are foundational for Byzantine literature. This book shows how besides his priestly role, Gregory plays that of a rhetor performing philosophy for a festival audience, channeling traditions of Classical philosophy and the Second Sophistic into Christian culture.
Author: Alison Futrell
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2021
Total Pages: 769
ISBN-13: 019959208X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis Handbook presents innovative research on sport and spectacle in ancient Greece and Rome, exploring historical perspectives, contest forms, and civic and social aspects such as class, spaces, health, gender, and sexuality. Greek and Roman topics are interwoven to simulate contest-like tensions and complementarities between the two cultures.
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Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2018-08-13
Total Pages: 415
ISBN-13: 9004375961
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRound Trip to Hades in the Eastern Mediterranean Tradition explores the theme of visits to the underworld in the ancient Greek and Byzantine traditions from a broad perspective including written sources, iconography and archaeology.
Author: Garrett Ryan
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2021-07-29
Total Pages: 193
ISBN-13: 1000424952
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume uses the travels of Roman governors to explore how authority was defined in and by the public places of Greek cities. By demonstrating that the places where imperial officials and local notables met were integral to the strategies by which they communicated with one another, Greek Cities and Roman Governors sheds new light on the significance of civic space in the Roman provinces. It also presents a fresh perspective on the monumental cityscapes of Roman Asia Minor, epicenter of the greatest building boom in classical history. Though of special interest to scholars and students of Roman Asia Minor, Greek Cities and Roman Governors offers broad insights into Roman imperialism and the ancient city.
