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Greek and Roman Religion

Cambridge History of Religion in the Ancient World, Volume 2
Adler, William
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Dieux, Fetes, Sacre dans la Grece
Ries, Julien
These fourteen essays derive from a colloquium organised by the Asociation `Homo Religiosus-Luxembourg' in 1996 and address the subject of religious celebrations in the Greco-Roman world. Both specific topics, such as the origins of Greek religious celebrations in the Minoan and Mycenaean worlds, conflict between imperial cults and Christianity, celebrations in Homer and Pindar, and the Dionysus cult in Asia Minor, and more general manifestations ...
Paperback. Price GB £41.00

Greek Religion
Burkert, Walter
This is the first major synthesis of Greek religion to appear for a generation. A clearly structured and readable survey for classical scholars and students, it will also be generally welcomed as the best modern account of any polytheistic religious ...
Paperback. Price GB £19.99

Household and Family Religion in Antiquity
Bodel, John
This volume adopts a comparative approach to the study of ancient domestic religion, with contributors looking at civilizations from throughout the Mediterranean and Middle East, including Mesopotamia, Syria, Philistia, Ugarit, Israel, Greece and Rome. 324p b/w illus (Blackwell 2008, Pb 2012)
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Magic, Witchcraft & Ghosts in Greek & Roman Worlds
Ogden, Daniel
This is an invaluable sourcebook containing excerpts from 300 texts, in new translation and with commentary, on many different aspects of Greek and Roman magic, witchcraft and ghosts. Literary and documentary sources, including curse tablets, various inscriptions, spells and so on, in both Greek and Latin, and by writers such as Plutarch, Socrates, Pliny, Virgil, Sophocles, Herodotus, Plato and Aristotle, are cited. The entries are ...
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Pilgrimage in Graeco-Roman and Early Christian Antiquity
Elsner, Jas
Oxbow says: The practice of pilgrimage is traditionally associated with Christianity and has generally been denounced as a term which adequately describes more ancient, pre-Christian practices. This collection of seventeen essays, many of which stem from a conference held at Reading University in 2000, highlight the fact that pilgrimage did exist in the ancient world, albeit in different forms from the inherited Christian and modern ...
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Miasma: Pollution and Purification in Early Greek Religion
by Robert Parker
432p, (Oxford UP 1996)
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Ancient Judaism in its Hellenistic Context
Bakhos, Carol
These nine papers, from a conference held at the University of California in 2003, examine the problems of identity that arose when Judiasm encountered Hellenism and how Jews maintained that identity despite being outnumbered by Greeks and Romans. ...
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Ancient Mediterranean Sacrifice
Knust, Jennifer Wright
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Burgerrecht und Kultteilnahme: Politische & Kultische
Krauter, Stefan
In the ancient world, where politics and religion went hand in hand, citizenship came at the cost of religious obligations. That is the premise of this detailed study in which Stefan Krauter examines the extent to which religion, especially religious law, ...
Hardback. Price GB £115.00