Author: Gaius Glenn Atkins
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Category : Religions
Languages : en
Pages : 551

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Author: Gaius Glenn Atkins
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Category : Religions
Languages : en
Pages : 600

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Author: Mary Zeiss Stewart
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Category : Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 306

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Author: Zongyuan Wu
Publisher: Royal Collection of Imperi
ISBN: 9781487801588
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Handscroll; Ink on silk; 420cm(width)*22cm(height) The painting depicts a procession of Daoist gods, with deities of the highest rank making their way to pay homage to the "primordial," or Dao. In the painting, celestial generals open the way, with the emperor wearing a halo among them. Numerous other gods and goddesses hold banners and umbrellas attending to the emperor, marching from right to left. Although there are numerous characters in the painting, it is not at all chaotic. Its lines are smooth and the clothing flows, fluttering in the wind as if the gods truly float on air. The figures are in high spirits, each with a different bearing and wearing different headgear and guards of honor, thoroughly expressing the majesty of the emperor, the might of the celestial generals, and the grace of the fairies.

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Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 902

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Includes the Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society, formerly published separately.

Author: Jacob A. Latham
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1316692426
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 369

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The pompa circensis, the procession which preceded the chariot races in the arena, was both a prominent political pageant and a hallowed religious ritual. Traversing a landscape of memory, the procession wove together spaces and institutions, monuments and performers, gods and humans into an image of the city, whose contours shifted as Rome changed. In the late Republic, the parade produced an image of Rome as the senate and the people with their gods - a deeply traditional symbol of the city which was transformed during the empire when an imperial image was built on top of the republican one. In late antiquity, the procession fashioned a multiplicity of Romes: imperial, traditional, and Christian. In this book, Jacob A. Latham explores the webs of symbolic meanings in the play between performance and itinerary, tracing the transformations of the circus procession from the late Republic to late antiquity.

Author: H. S. Versnel
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9789004023253
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 426

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Author: Beate Pongratz-Leisten
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 1614514267
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 572

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Addressing the relationship between religion and ideology, and drawing on a range of literary, ritual, and visual sources, this book reconstructs the cultural discourse of Assyria from the third through the first millennium BCE. Ideology is delineated here as a subdiscourse of religion rather than as an independent category, anchoring it firmly within the religious world view. Tracing Assur's cultural interaction with the south on the one hand, and with the Syro-Anatolian horizon on the other, this volume articulates a "northern" cultural discourse that, even while interacting with southern Mesopotamian tradition, managed to maintain its own identity. It also follows the development of tropes and iconic images from the first city state of Uruk and their mouvance between myth, image, and royal inscription, historiography and myth, and myth and ritual, suggesting that, with the help of scholars, key royal figures were responsible for introducing new directions for the ideological discourse and for promoting new forms of historiography.

Author: Alessandra Gilibert
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 3110222256
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 241

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The ceremonial centers of the Syro-Hittite city-states (1200-700 BC) were lavishly decorated with large-scale, open-air figurative reliefs - an original and greatly influential artistic tradition. But why exactly did the production of such an array of monumental images ever start? This volume explores how Syro-Hittite monumental art was used as a powerful backdrop to important ritual events, and opens up a new perspective by situating monumental art in the context of public performances and civic spectacles of great emotional impact, such as processions, royal triumphs, and dynastic funerals.