Religion

ISBN: 9781407311067
Published by : British Archaeological Reports
Series: Bar S
Volume: 2492
This monograph examines the religious and mythological concepts of Zeus from prehistoric times until the Early Archaic period. The research was performed as an interdisciplinary study involving the evidence of the Homeric poems, a... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781407311098
Published by : British Archaeological Reports
Series: Bar S
Volume: 2495
The present collection refers not only to the remains of the pagan religion of Greeks and Romans, but also to those of Edomites, Nabataeans and Itureans in the Hellenistic and Roman period. Furthermore, it also includes motifs whi... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780415300681
Published by : Routledge Ltd
The latest in Routledge's Gods and heroes of the ancient world series, this book tackles the most complex of all Graeco-Roman deities, both God and hero, and with a highly developed series of legends surrounding his birth, deeds, madness and d... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780521720076
Published by : Cambridge University Press
From the age of Homer until late antiquity the culture of ancient Greece and Rome was permeated by images of Greek myths. Gods and heroes were represented as statues, on vase and wall paintings, on temples, on sarcophagi as well as in other med... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9783110258073
Published by : Walter de Gruyter
Using the abundant documentation and material record from post-classical Athens as a case study, the essays in this volume explore the ways in which the roles of priests and priestesses were constructed in social and political terms. The approa... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9783110267570
Published by : Walter de Gruyter
The inscribed text referred to as the sacred law of Andania contains almost 200 lines of regulations about a mystery festival and the sanctuary in which it took place. This examination of the inscription includes a new and accurate edition of i... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9789004224353
Published by : Brill Academic Publishers
This book tracks the development of social complexity in Ireland from the late prehistoric period on into the Middle Ages. Using a range of methods and techniques, particularly data from settlement patterns, Blair Gibson demonstra... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780415282338
Published by : Routledge Ltd
Arranged chronologically with sections on ancient, Byzantine and modern Greece, this set of studies shows how magic provides a unifying theme through Greek history. As the contributors show, magic was, even in ancient times a private practice r... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780195339369
Published by : Oxford University Press
'Nympholepsy' - being seized by a nymph or goddess - is a fairly common topos in Ancient Greek poetry, often representing the moment of poetic inspiration. It can also have a religious dimension, as an encounter with the divine that leads to th... .... Learn More