Author: M J VermaserenPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004671838
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 700
Book Description
Excavations in the Mithraeum of the Church of Santa Prisca in Rome
Author: M J VermaserenPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004671838
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 700
Book Description
The Excavations in the Mithraeum of the Church of Santa Prisca in Rome
Author: Maarten Jozef VermaserenPublisher: Brill Archive
ISBN:
Category : Excavations (Archaeology)
Languages : en
Pages : 706
Book Description
The excavations in the Mithraeum of the Church of Santa Prisca in Rome
Author: The Excavation in the Mithraeum of the Church of Santa Prisca in Rome
Author: The Excavations in the Mithraeum of the Church of Santa Prisca Ill Rome
Author: The Excavations in the Mithraeum of the Church of Santa Pricsa in Rome
Author: Carel Claudius van EssenPublisher: Brill Archive
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 704
Book Description
Mithriaca III
Author: Maarten Jozef VermaserenPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9789004065000
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
Rome
Author: Stephen L. DysonPublisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 1421401010
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 489
Book Description
Stephen L. Dyson has spent a lifetime studying and teaching the history of ancient Rome. That unparalleled knowledge is reflected in his magisterial overview of the Eternal City. Rather than look only at the physical development of the city—its buildings, monuments, and urban spaces—Dyson also explores its social, economic, and cultural histories. This unique approach situates Rome against a background of comparative urban history and theory, allowing Dyson to examine the dynamic society that once thrived there. In his personal effort to reconstruct the city, Dyson populates its streets with the hurried politicians, hawking vendors, and animated students that once lived, worked, and studied there, bringing the ancient city to life for a new generation of students and tourists. Dyson follows Rome as it developed between the third century BC and the fourth century AD, dividing the great megalopolis into distinct neighborhoods and locales. He shows how these communities, each with its own unique customs and colorful inhabitants, eventually grew into the great imperial capital of the Italian Empire. Dyson integrates the full range of sources available—literary, artistic, epigraphic, and archaeological—to create a comprehensive history of the monumental city. In doing so, he offers a dramatic picture of a complex and changing urban center that, despite its flaws, flourished for centuries.
Roman Cult of Mithras
Author: Manfred ClaussPublisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 147446579X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 223
Book Description
Since its publication in Germany, Manfred Clauss's introduction to the Roman Mithras cult has become widely accepted as the most reliable, as well as the most readable, account of its elusive and fascinating subject. For the English edition the author has revised the work to take account of recent research and new archaeological discoveries. The mystery cult of Mithras first became evident in Rome towards the end of the first century AD. During the next two centuries, carried by its soldier and merchant devotees, it spread to the frontier of the western empire from Britain to Bosnia. Perhaps because of odd similarities between the cult and their own religion the early Christians energetically suppressed it, frequently constructing churches over the caves (Mithraea) in which its rituals took place. By the end of the fourth century the cult was extinct.Professor Clauss draws on the archaeological evidence from over 400 temples and their contents including over a thousand representations of ritual in sculpure and painting to seek an understanding of the nature and purpose of the cult, and what its mysteries and secret rites of initiation and sacrifice meant to its devotees. In doing so he introduces the reader to the nature of the polytheistic societies of the Roman Empire, in which relations and distinctions between gods and mortals now seem strangely close and blurred. He also considers the connections of Mithraicism with astrology, and examines how far it can be seen as a direct descendant of the ancient cult of Mitra, the Persian god of contract, cattle and light. The book combines imaginative insight with coherent argument. It is well-structured, accessibly written and extensively illustrated. Richard Gordon, the translator and himself a distinguished scholar of the subject, has provided a bibliography of further reading for anglophone readers.
A Companion to Roman Religion
Author: Jörg RüpkePublisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1444339249
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 578
Book Description
A comprehensive treatment of the significant symbols and institutions of Roman religion, this companion places the various religious symbols, discourses, and practices, including Judaism and Christianity, into a larger framework to reveal the sprawling landscape of the Roman religion. An innovative introduction to Roman religion Approaches the field with a focus on the human-figures instead of the gods Analyzes religious changes from the eighth century BC to the fourth century AD Offers the first history of religious motifs on coins and household/everyday utensils Presents Roman religion within its cultural, social, and historical contexts