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Greek and Roman Religion

Nielsen, Inge
The 'Cultic theatre' was different to other types of theatres designed for staging plays and so forth, in that it formed a venue for the performance of ritual drama designed to appease the gods. In this study Inge Nielsen explores the form of the structures, i.e. the setting, and their function, both as isolated features and as part of the overall sanctuary that they were typically a part. In particular the book takes the ancient Near East, ...
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More Than Men, Less Than Gods: Studies on Royal Cult and Imperial Worship
edited by Panagiotis P. Iossif, Andrzej S. Chankowski and Catherine C. Lorber
The essays in this volume take an in-depth look at the phenomenon of divine kingship in the Classical world. They are organised in three sections, the first exploring the origins of conceptions of divine kingship in Achaemenid Persia and Teucrian Salamis ...
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From Artemis to Diana: The Goddess of Man and Beast
edited by Tobias Fischer-Hansen and Birte Poulsen
This book contains 19 articles dealing with various aspects of the Greek goddess Artemis and the Roman goddess Diana. The themes presented in the volume deal with the Near Eastern equivalents of Artemis, the Bronze Age Linear B testimonies, and Artemis in ...
Paperback. Price GB £67.99

Religion und Region: Götter und Kulte aus dem östlichen Mittelmeeraum
edited by Elmar Schwertheim and Engelbert Winter
Eleven papers, from a colloquium held in Münster in 2001, examine and contrast religious beliefs in the ancient Mediterranean, with emphasis on the Greek East. These include general regional overviews of cults in Phoenician, Greek and Roman Cyprus, ...
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Alltag der Gotter: Nordrhein-Westfalische Akademie der Wissenschaften 385
by Nikolaus Himmelmann
Proceedings of the Nordrhein-Westfalische Akademie der Wissenschaften, G 385. Gods in Everyday Life. In German. 124p, b/w illus (Verlag Ferdinand Schoningh 2002)
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Nier les Dieux, Nier Dieu
edited by Gilles Dorival and Didier Pralon
Twenty-eight papers from a colloquium held in Aix-en-Provence in 1999 discuss the history of atheism in antiquity and the medieval and modern worlds. Deny and Gods, Deny the God covers atheism in pharaonic Egypt, Greece and Rome, looks at the Bible ...
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Ancient Pathways, Hidden Pursuits: Religion, Morals, and Magic in the Ancient World
by Georg Luck
This books brings together a collection of more than twenty articles on Greek magic and religion written over the past thirty years and now all brought together in English translation. Georg Luck discusses Stoic cosmogony, forms of worship in ...
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Corinth: The First City of Greece: An Urban History of Late Antique Cult and Religion
by Richard M. Rothaus
This study looks at the major societal and religious transformations that took place in Cornith from the 4th to 7th century AD. After setting the scene for the city during the Late Antique period, Rothaus explores, through literary and archaeological ...
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The Daily Life of the Greek Gods
by Giulia Sissa and Marcel Detienne, translated by Janet Lloyd
The omnipresent Greek gods were an essential part of everyday life and, as Homer wrote, born from the same mother as the human race. The authors interpret sources in new and innovative ways to study the similarities, differences and the intricate ...
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Encyclopedia of Ancient Deities
by Charles Russell Coulter and Patricia Turner
This substantial volume, aimed at both the general reader and the scholar, contains over 10,000 entries on gods from all recorded mythologies, including Inuit, Native American and African cultures. The entries include discussions of the origin and ...
Hardback. Price GB £65.00