Religion

ISBN: 9780199743186
Published by : Oxford University Press
Kraemer is a distinguished scholar who has produced a large body of work on ancient religion and gender. This study builds on previous books to explore women's religious practice in the Graeco-Roman and Jewish traditions. She argues that, gend... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780801477355
Published by : Cornell Univ Press
Robert Parker offers a provocative and wide-ranging entrée into the world of ancient Greek religion, focusing especially on the interpretive challenge of studying a religious system that in many ways remains desperately alien from the vantage p... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780300140422
Published by : Yale University Press
Herodotus tells us that when Croesus, the king of Lydia, asked the Delphic Oracle whether he should attack the Persians, he was told that if he did so he would destroy a great empire. Delighted, he proceeded with the invasion, but the empire th... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9789004207103
Published by : Brill Academic Publishers
Cult and Koinon in Hellenistic Thessaly examines the territorial expansion of the Thessalian League ca. 196-27 BCE and the development of the state religion of the League. Individual chapters trace the adoption of a common Thessalian calendar b... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9789042924703
Published by : Peeters Press
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 Teucri... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780415775229
Published by : Routledge Ltd
This latest addition to the gods and heroes of the ancient world series explores the many myths and meanings of the Greek goddess of love, sex and beauty. One of the most widely worshipped and popular deities in Greek antiquity, Aphrodite emer... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780415775236
Published by : Routledge Ltd
This latest addition to the gods and heroes of the ancient world series explores the many myths and meanings of the Greek goddess of love, sex and beauty. One of the most widely worshipped and popular deities in Greek antiquity, Aphrodite emer... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780748637980
Published by : Edinburgh University Press
This book presents a synchronic and diachronic view of the gods as they functioned in Greek culture until the triumph of Christianity. It looks at individual gods, but also asks to what extent cult, myth and literary genre determine the nature ... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781405149273
Published by : Blackwell Publishing Ltd
Containing over 200 primary sources or extracts from them, this book addresses the subject of Greek religion in all its complexity from the archaic period to the 4th century BC. The sources selected include not only literary extracts but also ... .... Learn More