Religion

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: 9781107012035
Published by : Cambridge University Press
From the first century BC onwards the traditionally hostile attitude of Greek and Roman philosophy was abandoned in favour of the view that religion was a source of philosophical knowledge. This book studies that change, not from the usual pers... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780521897242
Published by : Cambridge University Press
This book examines the connection between political and religious power in the pagan Roman Empire through a study of senatorial religion. Presenting a new collection of historical, epigraphic, prosopographic and material evidence, it argues tha... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780199561902
Published by : Oxford University Press
Alexia Petsalis-Dionidis investigates texts and material evidence associated with healing pilgrimage in the Roman empire during the second century AD. Her focus is upon one particular pilgrim, the famous orator Aelius Aristides, whose Sacred Ta... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780500251645
Published by : Thames and Hudson
Mystery cults have a perennial fascination, with their mix of ecstatic religious experience, initiation ceremonies, and the presumed secret knowledge impracted to initiates. Here Hugh Bowden sets out the evidence for such cults in a clear and ... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780521194167
Published by : Cambridge University Press
This book discusses pagan monotheism in its philosophical and intellectual context, traces the evolution of new religious ideas in the time of the Roman empire, and evaluates the usefulness of the term 'monotheism' as a way of understanding the... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781407305622
Published by : British Archaeological Reports
This volume presents and analyses sculpture, inscriptions and monuments relating to the cult of Cybele and Attis from modern Croatia, amounting to more than 120 pieces in total. Nikoloska is able to trace both the geographic spread of the cult ... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780199731558
Published by : Oxford University Press
Using models drawn from anthropology, this book demonstrates that Roman religious activity beginning in the middle Republic (early third century B.C.E.) contributed to redrawing the boundaries of Romanness. The methods by which the Romans absor... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9783896467348
Published by : Verlag Marie Leidorf GmbH
This study provides an overview of religious centres in the rural regions of the southern Germania inferior between the rivers Rur and Rhine, the province border, and the Cologne-Bavai road. A particular focus is on the cult of the matronae, wh... .... Learn More