La praxis municipale dans l'Occident romain
La praxis municipale dans l'Occident romain

Author: Laurent Lamoine

Publisher: Presses Universitaires Blaise-Pascal

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 652

ISBN-13:

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Ce volume est né de la collaboration entre deux équipes de chercheurs français e internationaux : l'une à Paris, qui appartient à l'UMR 8210 ANHIMA du CNRS, était codirigée par Clara Berrendonner et Mireille Cébeillac-Gervasoni (programme EMIRE), l'autre à Clermont-Ferrand, qui appartient au Centre d'Histoire "Espaces et Cultures" de l'Université Blaise-Pascal est cordonnée par Mireille Cébeillac-Gervasoni et Laurent Lamoine (programme "Les pouvoirs locaux depuis l'Antiquité"). La Praxis municipale dans l'Occident romain présente le bilan de trois années de recherches (2008-2010) sur le fonctionnement des cités locales de l'Occident durant le Haut-Empire avec des points de comparaison pris dans le monde grec et dans l'Europe médiévale. Le livre rassemble les résultats de la dernière rencontre du programme EMIRE (2009), dédiée à l'importance des sources littéraires dans la connaissance de l'administration locale, et des trois journées clermontoises (2008-2010) consacrées aux relations entre les pouvoirs locaux et les sanctuaires et à la place de l'écrit dans la pratique municipale

The Oxford Handbook of Roman Epigraphy
The Oxford Handbook of Roman Epigraphy

Author: Christer Bruun

Publisher:

Published: 2015

Total Pages: 929

ISBN-13: 0195336461

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The study of inscriptions is critical for anyone seeking to understand the Roman world, whether they regard themselves as literary scholars, historians, archaeologists, anthropologists, or religious scholars. The Oxford Handbook of Roman Epigraphy is the fullest collection of scholarship on the study and history of Latin epigraphy produced to date.

Sanctuaries in Roman Dacia
Sanctuaries in Roman Dacia

Author: Csaba Szabo

Publisher: Archaeopress Publishing Ltd

Published: 2018-11-27

Total Pages: 254

ISBN-13: 178969082X

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This book focuses on lived ancient religious communication in Roman Dacia. Testing for the first time the ‘Lived Ancient Religion’ approach in terms of a peripheral province from the Danubian area, this work looks at the role of ‘sacralised’ spaces, known commonly as sanctuaries in the religious communication of the province.

A Companion to Ancient Agriculture
A Companion to Ancient Agriculture

Author: David Hollander

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2020-11-10

Total Pages: 736

ISBN-13: 1118970942

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The first book-length overview of agricultural development in the ancient world A Companion to Ancient Agriculture is an authoritative overview of the history and development of agriculture in the ancient world. Focusing primarily on the Near East and Mediterranean regions, this unique text explores the cultivation of the soil and rearing of animals through centuries of human civilization—from the Neolithic beginnings of agriculture to Late Antiquity. Chapters written by the leading scholars in their fields present a multidisciplinary examination of the agricultural methods and influences that have enabled humans to survive and prosper. Consisting of thirty-one chapters, the Companion presents essays on a range of topics that include economic-political, anthropological, zooarchaeological, ethnobotanical, and archaeobotanical investigation of ancient agriculture. Chronologically-organized chapters offer in-depth discussions of agriculture in Bronze Age Egypt and Mesopotamia, Hellenistic Greece and Imperial Rome, Iran and Central Asia, and other regions. Sections on comparative agricultural history discuss agriculture in the Indian subcontinent and prehistoric China while an insightful concluding section helps readers understand ancient agriculture from a modern perspective. Fills the need for a full-length biophysical and social overview of ancient agriculture Provides clear accounts of the current state of research written by experts in their respective areas Places ancient Mediterranean agriculture in conversation with contemporary practice in Eastern and Southern Asia Includes coverage of analysis of stable isotopes in ancient agricultural cultivation Offers plentiful illustrations, references, case studies, and further reading suggestions A Companion to Ancient Agriculture is a much-needed resource for advanced students, instructors, scholars, and researchers in fields such as agricultural history, ancient economics, and in broader disciplines including classics, archaeology, and ancient history.

Municipal Freedmen and Intergenerational Social Mobility in Roman Italy
Municipal Freedmen and Intergenerational Social Mobility in Roman Italy

Author: Jeffrey A. Easton

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2023-12-11

Total Pages: 381

ISBN-13: 9004686355

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This book challenges prevailing models of the ways formerly enslaved individuals in Ancient Rome navigated their social and economic landscape. Drawing on the rich epigraphic evidence left behind by municipal freedmen and freedwomen, who had been owned and manumitted by the communities of Roman Italy, it pushes back against ameliorating views of slavery as a temporary condition and positive notions of a prosperous and consciously proud Roman freedman class. Manumission was a far more complex process, and it did not always put former slaves and their descendants on the straight and narrow path of upward mobility.

Freed Persons in the Roman World
Freed Persons in the Roman World

Author: Sinclair W. Bell

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2024-05-31

Total Pages: 307

ISBN-13: 1009438557

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How were freed people represented in the Roman world? This volume presents new research about the integration of freed persons into Roman society. It addresses the challenge of studying Roman freed persons on the basis of highly fragmentary sources whose contents have been fundamentally shaped by the forces of domination. Even though freed persons were defined through a common legal status and shared the experience of enslavement and manumission, many different interactions could derive from these commonalities in different periods and localities across the empire. Drawing on literary, epigraphic, and archaeological evidence, this book provides cases studies that test the various ways in which juridical categories and normative discourses shaped the social and cultural landscape in which freed people lived. By approaching the literary and epigraphic representations of freed persons in new ways, it nuances the impact of power asymmetries and social strategies on the cultural practices and lived experiences of freed persons.

Urban Dreams and Realities in Antiquity
Urban Dreams and Realities in Antiquity

Author:

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2014-11-20

Total Pages: 547

ISBN-13: 9004283897

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A unique variety of approaches to all aspects of urban culture in the ancient world can be found in Urban Dreams and Realities in Antiquity, a collection of 19 essays addressing ancient cities from an interdisciplinary perspective. As the title indicates, the volume considers both how ancient people lived in their cities as physical structures and how they thought with them as ideas and symbols. Essays in this volume deal with texts and sites from Spain to South India, but there is a particular focus on the archaeology and epigraphy of Roman-era Italy, civic identity in the Roman provinces, the Hebrew Bible and Early Christian literature, Vergil and other imperial Latin authors.

What's in a Divine Name?
What's in a Divine Name?

Author: Alaya Palamidis

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Published: 2024-03-18

Total Pages: 896

ISBN-13: 3111326519

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Divine Names are a key component in the communication between humans and gods in Antiquity. Their complexity derives not only from the impressive number of onomastic elements available to describe and target specific divine powers, but also from their capacity to be combined within distinctive configurations of gods. The volume collects 36 essays pertaining to many different contexts - Egypt, Anatolia, Levant, Mesopotamia, Greece, Rome - which address the multiple functions and wide scope of divine onomastics. Scrutinized in a diachronic and comparative perspective, divine names shed light on how polytheisms and monotheisms work as complex systems of divine and human agents embedded in an historical framework. Names imply knowledge and play a decisive role in rituals; they move between cities and regions, and can be translated; they interact with images and reflect the intrinsic plurality of divine beings. This vivid exploration of divine names pays attention to the balance between tradition and innovation, flexibility and constraints, to the material and conceptual parameters of onomastic practices, to cross-cultural contexts and local idiosyncrasies, in a word to human strategies for shaping the gods through their names.

Individuals and Materials in the Greco-Roman Cults of Isis (SET)
Individuals and Materials in the Greco-Roman Cults of Isis (SET)

Author: Valentino Gasparini

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2018-10-16

Total Pages: 1191

ISBN-13: 9004381341

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In Individuals and Materials in the Greco-Roman Cults of Isis Valentino Gasparini and Richard Veymiers present a collection of reflections on the individuals and groups which animated one of Antiquity’s most dynamic, significant and popular religious phenomena: the reception of the cults of Isis and other Egyptian gods throughout the Hellenistic and Roman worlds. These communities, whose members seem to share the same religious identity, for a long time have been studied in a monolithic way through the prism of the Cumontian category of the “Oriental religions”. The 26 contributions of this book, divided into three sections devoted to the “agents”, their “images” and their “practices”, shed new light on this religious movement that appears much more heterogeneous and colorful than previously recognized.

The Roman Empire
The Roman Empire

Author: Peter Garnsey

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2015

Total Pages: 352

ISBN-13: 0520285980

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During the Principate (roughly 27 BCE to 235 CE), when the empire reached its maximum extent, Roman society and culture were radically transformed. But how was the vast territory of the empire controlled? Did the demands of central government stimulate economic growth or endanger survival? What forces of cohesion operated to balance the social and economic inequalities and high mortality rates? How did the official religion react in the face of the diffusion of alien cults and the emergence of Christianity? These are some of the many questions posed here, in the new, expanded edition of Garnsey and Saller's pathbreaking account of the economy, society, and culture of the Roman Empire. This second edition includes a new introduction that explores the consequences for government and the governing classes of the replacement of the Republic by the rule of emperors. Addenda to the original chapters offer up-to-date discussions of issues and point to new evidence and approaches that have enlivened the study of Roman history in recent decades. A completely new chapter assesses how far Rome’s subjects resisted her hegemony. The bibliography has also been thoroughly updated, and a new color plate section has been added.