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Economy of the Sacred in Hellenistic and Roman Asia Minor
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 382

Economy of the Sacred in Hellenistic and Roman Asia Minor

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2002-12-12
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  • Publisher: OUP Oxford

This original study challenges the idea that sanctuaries in Hellenistic and Roman Asia Minor were fully institutionalized within the poleis that hosted them. Examining the forms of interaction between rulers, cities, and sanctuaries, the book proposes a triangular relationship in which the rulers often acted as mediators between differing interests of city and cult. A close analysis of the epigraphical evidence illustrates that neither the Hellenistic kings nor the representatives of Roman rule appropriated the property of the gods but actively supported the functioning of the sanctuaries and their revenues. The powerful role of the sanctuaries was to a large extent based on economic features, which the sanctuaries possessed precisely because of their religious character. Nevertheless, a study of the finances of the cults reveals frequent problems concerning the upkeep of cults and a particular need to guard the privileges and property of the gods. Their situation oscillated between glut and dearth. When the harmonious identity between city and cult was disturbed, those closely attached to the cult acted on behalf of their domain.

A Cultural History of Memory in Antiquity
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 225

A Cultural History of Memory in Antiquity

A thematic overview of the cultural history of memory in antiquity.

A Cultural History of Memory in Antiquity
  • Language: en

A Cultural History of Memory in Antiquity

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2020
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Rome and Persia in Late Antiquity
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 365

Rome and Persia in Late Antiquity

A narrative history, with sourcebook, of the turbulent relations between Rome and the Sasanian Empire.

A Companion to Greek Religion
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 521

A Companion to Greek Religion

This major addition to Blackwell’s Companions to the Ancient World series covers all aspects of religion in the ancient Greek world from the archaic, through the classical and into the Hellenistic period. Written by a panel of international experts Focuses on religious life as it was experienced by Greek men and women at different times and in different places Features major sections on local religious systems, sacred spaces and ritual, and the divine

Practitioners of the Divine
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 308

Practitioners of the Divine

"What is a Greek priest?" The volume, which has its origins in a symposium held at the Center for Hellenic Studies in Washington, D.C., focuses on the question through a variety of lenses: the visual representation of cult personnel, priests as ritual experts, variations of priesthood, ideal concepts and their transformation, and the role of manteis. Each chapter looks at how priests and religious officials used a potential authority to promote themselves and their posts, how they played a role in conserving, shaping and reviving cult activity, how they acted behind the curtain of polis institutions, and how they performed as mediators between men and gods. It becomes clear that Greek priests had many faces, and that the factors that determined their roles and activities are political as well as historical, religious as well as economic, idealistic as well as pragmatic, personal as well as communal.

Historical and Religious Memory in the Ancient World
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 359

Historical and Religious Memory in the Ancient World

Book celebrates the work of Simon Price.

Wandering Myths
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 481

Wandering Myths

In spite of the growing amount of important new work being carried out on uses of myth in particular ancient contexts, their appeal and reception beyond the framework of one culture have rarely been the primary object of enquiry in contemporary debate. Highlighting the fact that ancient societies were linked by their shared use of mythological narratives, Wandering Myths aims to advance our understanding of the mechanisms by which such tales were disseminated cross-culturally and to investigate how they gained local resonances. In order to assess both wider geographic circulations and to explore specific local features and interpretations, a regional approach is adopted, with a particular focus on Anatolia, the Near East and Italy. Contributions are drawn from a range of disciplines, and cross a wide chronological span, but all are interlinked by their engagement with questions focusing on the factors that guided the processes of reception and steered the facets of local interpretation. The Preface and Epilogue evaluate the material in a synoptic way and frame the challenging questions and views expressed in the Introduction.

Economy of the Sacred in Hellenistic and Roman Asia Minor [ebook]
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 364

Economy of the Sacred in Hellenistic and Roman Asia Minor [ebook]

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2002
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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A Different God?
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 751

A Different God?

Within modern frameworks of knowledge and representation, Dionysos often appears to be atypical for ancient culture, an exception within the context of ancient polytheism, or even an instance of a difference that anticipates modernism. How can recent research contribute to a more precise understanding of the diverse transformations of the ancient god, from Greek antiquity to the Roman Empire? In this volume, which is the result of an international conference held in March 2009 at the Pergamon Museum Berlin, scholars from all branches of classical studies, including history of scholarship, consider this question. Consequently, this leads to a new look on vase paintings, sanctuaries, rituals and religious-political institutions like theatre, and includes new readings of the texts of ancient poets, historians and philosophers, as well as of papyri and inscriptions. It is the diversity of sources or methods and the challenge of former views that is the strength of this volume, providing a comprehensive, innovative and richly faceted account of the “different” god in an unprecedented way.