Religion

ISBN: 9780856687938
Published by : Aris & Phillips
Series: Classical Texts
This 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 this book, written in the af... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9783515093477
Published by : Franz Steiner Verlag
Series: Potsdamer Altertumswissenschaftliche Beiträge (PAwB)
Volume: 28
During antiquity, urbanization and urbanity were already considered some of the most incisive changes that Roman rule brought to the provinces. Urban culture and its ideology still characterize our view of the Roman Empire. To the Romans thems... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9783515092500
Published by : Franz Steiner Verlag
Series: Potsdamer Altertumswissenschaftliche Beiträge (PAwB)
Volume: 26
The most important innovation of Mithraism was the cult of hyper-cosmic deities who ruled the cosmos but existed outside nature. One of them was depicted with a lions head, another was a perfect young man encircled by a serpent, and the third w... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9783515088282
Published by : Franz Steiner Verlag
Series: Potsdamer Altertumswissenschaftliche Beiträge (PAwB)
Volume: 17
The Rome of the 2nd and 1st centuries BC witnessed religion becoming a topic of written reflection. What is the essence of this knowledge that does not stand in a theological tradition but appears in plays, orations, poems and antiquaria? What ... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9789638046925
Published by : Archaeolingua
La religion gauloise est fort mal connue, et sa mythologie ne subsiste qu'à l'état de fragments épars. Le but de ce recueil d'essais n'est donc pas de révéler cette mythologie, mais d'en éclairer certains aspect, en comparant ce qui subsiste avec ... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780953891443
Published by : School of Archaeology
In 1875 an extraordinary hoard of over 4,500 Augustan coins was discovered in a hot spring in Bourbonne-les-Bains, France. Mystified at why this discovery has been ignored for 130 years, even though it is the largest known single deposit of August... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781841718224
Published by : British Archaeological Reports
This analysis of the extent to which Roman domination impacted on and changed the religion of north-western Hispania is based upon an analysis of many inscriptions, which reveal the names of indigenous and classical deities, including those wit... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781905125050
Published by : Classical Press of Wales
Herakles and Hercules: two names for a figure of pervasive appeal in Antiquity. He was a hero of myth and a god with cult associations. He was ancestor of Macedonian kings, patron of Carthaginian generals and of Roman emperors, and a role model... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780977409457
Published by : Bannerstone Press
"There was once a dream that was Rome." So says the old emperor Marcus Aurelius in Ridley Scott's epic Gladiator . It was a Rome of free citizens, brave, incorruptible, loved by the gods. It had its own myths, the stories that defined what th... .... Learn More