Religion
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Roman Religion in the Danubian Provinces: Space Sacralisation and Religious Communication during the Principate (1st–3rd century AD) [Paperback]
Csaba Szabó (Author)
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ISBN: 9781789257830
Published by : Oxbow Books
The Danubian provinces represent one of the largest macro-units within the Roman Empire, with a large and rich heritage of Roman material evidence. Although the notion itself is a modern 18th-century creation, this region represents a unique area,... .... Learn More -
Celtic Religions in the Roman Period: Personal, Local, and Global [Paperback]
Ralph Haeussler (Editor); Thomas King (Editor)
£39.95ISBN: 9781891271250
Published by : Celtic Studies Publications
Series: Celtic Studies Publications
Volume: 20
This multi-authored book brings together new work, from a wide range of disciplinary vantages, on pre-Christian religion in the Celtic-speaking provinces of the Roman Empire. The chapters are the work of international experts in the fields of clas... .... Learn More -
Religious Deviance in the Roman World: Superstition or Individuality? [Hardback]
Jorg Rupke (Author)
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ISBN: 9781107090521
Published by : Cambridge University Press
Religious individuality is not restricted to modernity. This book offers a new reading of the ancient sources in order to find indications for the spectrum of religious practices and intensified forms of such practices only occasionally denounced ... .... Learn More -
Religious Dissent in the Roman Empire: Violence in Judaea at the Time of Nero [Hardback]
Vasily Rudich (Author)
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ISBN: 9780415161060
Published by : Routledge
Religious Dissent in the Roman Empire is the third installment in Vasily Rudich’s trilogy on the psychology of discontent in the Roman Empire at the time of Nero. Unlike his earlier books, it deals not with political dissidence, but with religious... .... Learn More -
The Individual in the Religions of the Ancient Mediterranean [Hardback]
Jörg Rupke (Editor)
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ISBN: 9780199674503
Published by : Oxford University Press
Ancient religions are usually treated as collective and political phenomena and, apart from a few towering figures, the individual religious agent has fallen out of view. Addressing this gap, the essays in this volume focus on the individual and i... .... Learn More -
Dressing the Dead in Classical Antiquity [Paperback]
Maureen Carroll (Editor); John Peter Wild (Editor)
£25.00ISBN: 9781445603001
Published by : Amberley Publishing
Naked we come into the world, but we are extraordinarily unlucky if naked we leave it. It is a human reaction to cover the dead with textiles. This volume presents the results of new and ground-breaking research in the UK and abroad on clothing an... .... Learn More -
Classical Mythology [Paperback]
M. P. O. Morford (Author)
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ISBN: 9780195397703
Published by : Oxford University Press
A good introduction to Greek and Roman mythology based largely on literary works, although with some mention of art and architecture. The authors divide their subject according to the myths of creation, the Greek sagas, the nature of Roman myth... .... Learn More -
Cult Places and Cultural Change in Republican Italy [Hardback]
Tesse Stek (Author)
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ISBN: 9789089641779
Published by : Amsterdam University Press
Cult places had a pivotal function among the various 'Italic' tribes known to us from the ancient sources, which had been gradually conquered and subsequently controlled by Rome. Through an analysis of archaeological, literary and epigraphic ev... .... Learn More -
Ritual Landscapes of Roman South-East Britain [Paperback]
David Rudling (Author)
£24.95ISBN: 9781905223183
Published by : Heritage Publications
Roman Britain was a multi-cultural mix of Celtic natives of different tribes and religions, of Romans with their own pantheon of deities, and of the soldiers and traders who brought their own practices and beliefs from all parts of Europe and N... .... Learn More -
The World of Roman Song: From Ritualized Speech to Social Order [Hardback]
thomas Habinek (Author)
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ISBN: 9780801881053
Published by : Johns Hopkins University Press
The Roman word carmen , usually translated as song, Thomas Habinek argues, encompasses a rang of practices including ritualized speech, poetry and storytelling. In this study he seeks to explore the world of verbal production and its significan... .... Learn More
