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Author: Peter F. Dorcey
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 1992
Total Pages: 244
ISBN-13: 9789004096011
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOne of the few studies that deals with Roman domestic religion as practised by the lower classes. The author collects and analyzes the enormous epigraphic and archaeological evidence for Silvanus, The Roman god of agriculture and forests, challenging the widely-held view that private cult was subordinate or inferior to civic paganism.
Author: Ljubica Perinić
Publisher: Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Published: 2017-02-06
Total Pages: 132
ISBN-13: 1784915130
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Nature and Origin of the Cult of Silvanus in the Roman Provinces of Dalmatia and Pannonia deals with the cult of Silvanus and presents the evidence and current state of research of the cult in Dalmatia and Pannonia to the wider scholarly community.
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Publisher: American Philosophical Society
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Total Pages: 108
ISBN-13: 9781422370889
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Cavan Concannon
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016-03-17
Total Pages: 277
ISBN-13: 131718579X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAcross the Corrupting Sea: Post-Braudelian Approaches to the Ancient Eastern Mediterranean reframes current discussions of the Mediterranean world by rereading the past with new methodological approaches. The work asks readers to consider how future studies might write histories of the Mediterranean, moving from the larger pan-Mediterranean approaches of The Corrupting Sea towards locally-oriented case studies. Spanning from the Archaic period to the early Middle Ages, contributors engage the pioneering studies of the Mediterranean by Fernand Braudel through the use of critical theory, GIS network analysis, and postcolonial cultural inquiries. Scholars from several time periods and disciplines rethink the Mediterranean as a geographic and cultural space shaped by human connectivity and follow the flow of ideas, ships, trade goods and pilgrims along the roads and seascapes that connected the Mediterranean across time and space. The volume thus interrogates key concepts like cabotage, seascapes, deep time, social networks, and connectivity in the light of contemporary archaeological and theoretical advances in order to create new ways of writing more diverse histories of the ancient world that bring together local contexts, literary materials, and archaeological analysis.
Author: Laura Salah Nasrallah
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2019
Total Pages: 329
ISBN-13: 0199699674
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis study illuminates the social, political, economic, and religious lives of those to whom the apostle Paul wrote. It articulates a method for bringing together biblical texts with archaeological remains.
Author: Ghislaine van der Ploeg
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2018-07-03
Total Pages: 337
ISBN-13: 9004372776
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn The Impact of the Roman Empire on The Cult of Asclepius Ghislaine van der Ploeg offers an overview and analysis of how worship of the Graeco-Roman god Asclepius adapted, changed, and was disseminated under the Roman Empire. It is shown that the cult enjoyed a vibrant period of worship in the Roman era and by analysing the factors by which this religious changed happened, the impact which the Roman Empire had upon religious life is determined. Making use of epigraphic, numismatic, visual, and literary sources, van der Ploeg demonstrates the multifaceted nature of the Roman cult of Asclepius, updating current thinking about the god.
Author: John S. Kloppenborg
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Published: 2011-06-30
Total Pages: 525
ISBN-13: 3110253461
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPrivate associations organized around a common cult, profession, ethnic identity, neighbourhood or family were common throughout the Greco-Roman antiquity, offering opportunities for sociability, cultic activities, mutual support and a context in which to display and recognize virtuous achievement. This volume collects a representative selection of inscriptions from associations in Attica, Central Greece, Macedonia, Thrace, published with English translations, brief explanatory notes, commentaries and full indices. This volume is essential for several areas of study: ancient patterns of social organization; the organization of diasporic communities in the ancient Mediterranean; models for the structure of early Christian groups; and forms of sociability, status-displays, and the vocabularies of virtue.
Author: Lily Ross Taylor
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Published: 1913
Total Pages: 116
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Alberta Mildred Franklin
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Published: 1921
Total Pages: 116
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Saint Augustine (of Hippo)
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 221
ISBN-13: 0856688789
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis edition of St Augustine's City of God is the only one in English to provide a text and translation as well as a detailed commentary of this most influential document in the history of western Christianity. In these books, written in the aftermath of the sack of Rome in AD 410 by the Goths, Augustine replies to the pagans, who attributed the fall of Rome to the Christian religion and its prohibition of the worship of the pagan gods. Books VI and VII focus on the figure of Terentius Varro ? a man revered by Augustines pagan contemporaries. By exploiting Varro's learned researches on Roman religion, Augustine condemns Roman religious practices and beliefs in order to refute pagan claims that the Roman deities had guaranteed a blessed life in the hereafter for their devotees. These books are therefore not only an invaluable source for the study of early Christianity but also for any student of Classical Rome, who is provided here with a detailed account of one of the most learned figures of Roman antiquity - one whose own works have not survived in the same state.
