Continuity and Change in Roman Religion
Title | Continuity and Change in Roman Religion PDF eBook |
Author | John Hugo Wolfgang Gideon Liebeschuetz |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 388 |
Release | 1979 |
Genre | History |
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This book, first published in 1979 and out of print since 1986, surveys religious attitudes reflected in Latin literature from the late Republic to the time of Constantine. Liebeschuetz focuses on the development of the Roman public religion, particularly the relation between Roman religion and morality.
Roman Religion
Title | Roman Religion PDF eBook |
Author | Clifford Ando |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 424 |
Release | 2003 |
Genre | History |
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Historiography and method -- Religious institutions and religious authority -- Ritual and myth -- Theology -- Roman and alien -- Continuity and change from Republic to Empire.
Empire and Religion
Title | Empire and Religion PDF eBook |
Author | Elena Muñiz Grijalvo |
Publisher | BRILL |
Total Pages | 239 |
Release | 2017-07-10 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9004347119 |
This volume explores the nature of religious change in the Greek-speaking cities of the Roman Empire. Emphasis is put on those developments that apparently were not the direct result of Roman actions: the intensification of idiosyncratically Greek features in the religious life of the cities (Heller, Muñiz, Camia); the active role of a new kind of Hellenism in the design of imperial religious policies (Gordillo, Galimberti, Rosillo-López); or the locally different responses to central religious initiatives, and the influence of those local responses in other imperial contexts (Cortés, Melfi, Lozano, Rizakis). All the chapters try to suggest that religion in the Greek cities of the empire was both conservative and innovative, and that the ‘Roman factor’ helps to explain this apparent paradox.
A Companion to Roman Religion
Title | A Companion to Roman Religion PDF eBook |
Author | Jörg Rüpke |
Publisher | John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | 578 |
Release | 2011-04-18 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 1444339249 |
A comprehensive treatment of the significant symbols and institutions of Roman religion, this companion places the various religious symbols, discourses, and practices, including Judaism and Christianity, into a larger framework to reveal the sprawling landscape of the Roman religion. An innovative introduction to Roman religion Approaches the field with a focus on the human-figures instead of the gods Analyzes religious changes from the eighth century BC to the fourth century AD Offers the first history of religious motifs on coins and household/everyday utensils Presents Roman religion within its cultural, social, and historical contexts
Cult Places and Cultural Change in Republican Italy
Title | Cult Places and Cultural Change in Republican Italy PDF eBook |
Author | Tesse Dieder Stek |
Publisher | Amsterdam University Press |
Total Pages | 277 |
Release | 2009 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 9089641777 |
Summary: This study throws new light on the Roman impact on Italic religious structures in the last four centuries BC and, more generally, on the complex processes of change and accommodation set in motion by the Roman expansion in Italy. Cult places had a pivotal function among the various 'Italic' tribes known to us from the ancient sources, which had been gradually conquered and subsequently controlled by Rome. Through an analysis of archaeological, literary and epigraphic evidence from rural cult places in Central and Southern Italy including a case study on the Samnite temple of San Giovanni in Galdo, the authors investigate the fluctuating function of cult places in among the non-Roman Italic communities, before and after the establishment of Roman rule.
The Cambridge Companion to the Hellenistic World
Title | The Cambridge Companion to the Hellenistic World PDF eBook |
Author | Glenn R. Bugh |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 319 |
Release | 2006-05-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1139827111 |
This Companion volume offers fifteen original essays on the Hellenistic world and is intended to complement and supplement general histories of the period from Alexander the Great to Kleopatra VII of Egypt. Each chapter treats a different aspect of the Hellenistic world - religion, philosophy, family, economy, material culture, and military campaigns, among other topics. The essays address key questions about this period: To what extent were Alexander's conquests responsible for the creation of this new 'Hellenistic' age? What is the essence of this world and how does it differ from its Classical predecessor? What continuities and discontinuities can be identified? Collectively, the essays provide an in-depth view of a complex world. The volume also provides a bibliography on the topics along with recommendations for further reading.
Cretan Sanctuaries and Cults
Title | Cretan Sanctuaries and Cults PDF eBook |
Author | Mieke Prent |
Publisher | BRILL |
Total Pages | 813 |
Release | 2005-06-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9047406907 |
This volume offers a contextual study of sanctuaries and cults in Crete in the transitional period from the end of the Late Bronze Age into the Archaic period (c.1200 to 600 BC). It provides a dynamic picture of the interplay of religious tradition and societal change in a period long considered a 'Dark Age' by Classical scholarship.