Cult Places And Cult Personnel In The Roman Empire

Author : Duncan Fishwick
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781003420989
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cult Places and Cult Personnel in the Roman Empire written by Duncan Fishwick and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The twenty-one studies assembled in this volume focus on the apparatus and practitioners of religions in the western Roman empire, the enclaves, temples, altars and monuments that served the cults of a wide range of divinities through the medium of priests and worshippers. Discussion focuses on the analysis or reconstruction of the centres at which devotees gathered and draws on the full range of available evidence. While literary authorities remain of primary concern, these are for the most part overshadowed by other categories of evidence, in particular archaeology, epigraphy, numismatics and iconography, sources in some cases confirmed by the latest geophysical techniques - electrical resistivity tomography or ground-probing radar. The material is conveniently presented by geographical area, using modern rather than Latin terminology: Rome, Italy, Britain, Gaul, Spain, Hungary, along with a broader section that covers the empire in general. The titles of the various articles speak for themselves but readers may find the preface of interest in so far as it sets out my ideas on the use of ancient evidence and the pitfalls of some of the approaches favoured by modern scholars. Together with the wide range of individual papers the preface makes the book of interest to all students of the Roman empire as well as those specifically concerned with the history of religions.

Author : Duncan Fishwick
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000940276
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cult Places and Cult Personnel in the Roman Empire written by Duncan Fishwick and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-05-31 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The twenty-one studies assembled in this volume focus on the apparatus and practitioners of religions in the western Roman empire, the enclaves, temples, altars and monuments that served the cults of a wide range of divinities through the medium of priests and worshippers. Discussion focuses on the analysis or reconstruction of the centres at which devotees gathered and draws on the full range of available evidence. While literary authorities remain of primary concern, these are for the most part overshadowed by other categories of evidence, in particular archaeology, epigraphy, numismatics and iconography, sources in some cases confirmed by the latest geophysical techniques - electrical resistivity tomography or ground-probing radar. The material is conveniently presented by geographical area, using modern rather than Latin terminology: Rome, Italy, Britain, Gaul, Spain, Hungary, along with a broader section that covers the empire in general. The titles of the various articles speak for themselves but readers may find the preface of interest in so far as it sets out my ideas on the use of ancient evidence and the pitfalls of some of the approaches favoured by modern scholars. Together with the wide range of individual papers the preface makes the book of interest to all students of the Roman empire as well as those specifically concerned with the history of religions.

Author : Ghislaine van der Ploeg
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004372776
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Impact of the Roman Empire on the Cult of Asclepius written by Ghislaine van der Ploeg and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-07-03 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Impact of the Roman Empire on The Cult of Asclepius Ghislaine van der Ploeg offers an analysis of the cult of Asclepius during the Roman imperial period and how worship was adapted and disseminated at this time.

Author : Tesse Dieder Stek
Publisher : Amsterdam University Press
ISBN 13 : 9089641777
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cult Places and Cultural Change in Republican Italy written by Tesse Dieder Stek and published by Amsterdam University Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Summary: This study throws new light on the Roman impact on Italic religious structures in the last four centuries BC and, more generally, on the complex processes of change and accommodation set in motion by the Roman expansion in Italy. 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 evidence from rural cult places in Central and Southern Italy including a case study on the Samnite temple of San Giovanni in Galdo, the authors investigate the fluctuating function of cult places in among the non-Roman Italic communities, before and after the establishment of Roman rule.

Author : Jörg Rüpke
Publisher : Kohlhammer Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3170292250
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Religion in the Roman Empire written by Jörg Rüpke and published by Kohlhammer Verlag. This book was released on 2021-10-06 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Roman Empire was home to a fascinating variety of different cults and religions. Its enormous extent, the absence of a precisely definable state religion and constant exchanges with the religions and cults of conquered peoples and of neighbouring cultures resulted in a multifaceted diversity of religious convictions and practices. This volume provides a compelling view of central aspects of cult and religion in the Roman Empire, among them the distinction between public and private cult, the complex interrelations between different religious traditions, their mutually entangled developments and expansions, and the diversity of regional differences, rituals, religious texts and artefacts.

Author : Louis Matthews Sweet
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Roman Emperor Worship written by Louis Matthews Sweet and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Tesse Dieder Stek
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781905670581
Total Pages : 331 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Impact of Rome on Cult Places and Religious Practices in Ancient Italy written by Tesse Dieder Stek and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : S. R. F. Price
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521312684
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.8X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rituals and Power written by S. R. F. Price and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1984 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Simon Price attempts to discover why the Roman Emperor was treated like a god.

Author : Eric Orlin
Publisher : OUP USA
ISBN 13 : 0199731551
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Foreign Cults in Rome written by Eric Orlin and published by OUP USA. This book was released on 2010-08-27 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduction -- Foreign cults in Rome -- Cult introductions of the third century -- Foreign priests in Rome -- Prodigies and expiations -- Ludi -- Establishing boundaries in the second century -- The challenges of the first century.

Author : Duncan Fishwick
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9789004125391
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Imperial Cult in the Latin West written by Duncan Fishwick and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2002 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume analyzes the priesthood of the provincial cult in every province of the Latin West where evidence has survived in the period from Augustus down to the mid-third century. Particular attention is paid to the epigraphic record, notably the Testimony of honorific statues.