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Author: Richard Lindsay Gordon
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 737
ISBN-13: 9004179046
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMost studies of Graeco-Roman magic focus on the Greek texts. Stimulated by important recent finds of Latin curse-tablets, this collection of essays for the first time tries to define the nature and extent of the originality of magical practice in the Latin West
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Published: 1941
Total Pages: 660
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Robin Briggs
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 418
ISBN-13: 0198225822
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBased on the richest archive of witchcraft trials found in Europe, this book paints a vivid picture of life amongst the people of a small duchy on the border of France. Robin Briggs' examination of their beliefs in phenomena such as shapeshifting and werewolves proves a vital contribution to historical understanding of witchcraft.
Author: Clifford Ando
Publisher: Franz Steiner Verlag
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 180
ISBN-13: 9783515088541
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLaw is a particularly fruitful means by which to investigate the relationship between religion and state. It is the mechanism by which the Roman state and its European successors have regulated religion, in the twin actions of constraining religious institutions to particular social spaces and of releasing control over such spaces to those orders. This volume analyses the relationship from the late Republic to the final codification of Roman law in Justinian's Constantinople.
Author: John Petropoulos
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2008-06-12
Total Pages: 209
ISBN-13: 1134459246
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGreek Magic presents a well-illustrated introduction to the often-neglected aspect of the Ancient Greeks’ legacy to western culture – numerous magical beliefs, practices and figures like the medieval and modern witch and warlock.
Author: John Bodel
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2012-11-12
Total Pages: 277
ISBN-13: 1134819250
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEpigraphic Evidence is an accessible guide to the responsible use of Greek and Latin inscriptions as sources for ancient history. It introduces the types of historical information supplied by inscriptional texts and the methods with which they can be used. It outlines the limitations as well as the advantages of the different types of evidence covered. Epigraphic Evidence includes a general introduction, a guide to the arrangement of the standard corpora inscriptions and individual chapters on local languages and native cultures, epitaphs and the ancient economy amongst others.
Author: Steven H. Rutledge
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2002-01-04
Total Pages: 494
ISBN-13: 1134560591
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDelatores (political informants) and accusatores (malicious prosecutors) were a major part of life in imperial Rome. Contemporary sources depict them as cruel and heartless mercenaries, who bore the main responsibility for institutionalising and enforcing the 'tyranny' of the infamous rulers of the early empire, such as Nero, Caligula and Domitian. Stephen Rutledge's study examines the evidence to ask if this is a fair portrayal. Beginning with a detailed examination of the social and political status of known informants and prosecutors, he goes on to investigate their activities - as well as the rewards they could expect. The main areas covered are: * checking government corruption and enforcing certain classes of legislation * blocking opposition and resistance to the emperor in the Senate * acting as a partisan player in factional strife in the imperial family * protecting the emperor against conspiracy. The book includes a comprehensive guide to every known political informant under the early empire, with their name, all the relevant primary and secondary sources, and an individual biography.
Author: Keith Hopkins
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1981-01-31
Total Pages: 296
ISBN-13: 9780521281812
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe enormous size of the Roman empire and the length of time it endured call for an understanding of the institutions which sustained it. In this book, Keith Hopkins, who is both classicist and sociologist, uses various sociological concepts and methods to gain new insights into how traditional Roman institutions changed as the Romans acquired their empire. He examines the chain reactions resulting from increased wealth; various aspects of slavery, especially manumission and the cost of freedom; the curious phenomenon of the political power wielded by eunuchs at court; and in the final chapter he discusses the Roman emperor's divinity and the circulation of untrue stories, which were a currency of the political system. Professor Hopkins has developed an exciting approach to social questions in antiquity and his book should be of interest to all students of ancient history and of historical sociology.
Author: Marion Witteyer
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Published: 2004
Total Pages: 80
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Jaime Alvar
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2008-07-31
Total Pages: 506
ISBN-13: 9047441842
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe traditional grand narrative correlating the decline of Graeco-Roman religion with the rise of Christianity has been under pressure for three decades. This book argues that the alternative accounts now emerging significantly underestimate the role of three major cults, of Cybele and Attis, Isis and Serapis, and Mithras. Although their differences are plain, these cults present sufficient common features to justify their being taken typologically as a group. All were selective adaptations of much older cults of the Fertile Crescent. It was their relative sophistication, their combination of the imaginative power of unfamiliar myth with distinctive ritual performance and ethical seriousness, that enabled them both to focus and to articulate a sense of the autonomy of religion from the socio-political order, a sense they shared with Early Christianity. The notion of 'mystery' was central to their ability to navigate the Weberian shift from ritualist to ethical salvation.
