Author: Eftychia StavrianopoulouPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Greece
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
Klassisches Altertum - Ritual - Kult - Gesellschaft.
Ritual and Communication in the Graeco-Roman World
Author: Eftychia StavrianopoulouPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Greece
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
Klassisches Altertum - Ritual - Kult - Gesellschaft.
Ritual and Communication in the Graeco-Roman World :
Author: Eftychia StavrianopoulouPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Greece
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
Tears in the Graeco-Roman World
Author: Thorsten FögenPublisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 3110201119
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 498
Book Description
This volume presents a wide range of contributions that analyse the cultural, sociological and communicative significance of tears and crying in Graeco-Roman antiquity. The papers cover the time from the eighth century BCE until late antiquity and take into account a broad variety of literary genres such as epic, tragedy, historiography, elegy, philosophical texts, epigram and the novel. The collection also contains two papers from modern socio-psychology.
Rez. Eftychia Stavrianopoulou (ed.): Ritual and communication in the Greco-Roman world
Author: Martina SeifertRitual Dynamics and Religious Change in the Roman Empire
Author: Impact of Empire (Organization). WorkshopPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004174818
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 393
Book Description
This volume presents the proceedings of the eighth workshop of the international network 'Impact of Empire', which concentrates on the history of the Roman Empire and brings together ancient historians, archaeologists, classicists and specialists in Roman law from some thirty European and North American universities. The eighth volume focuses on the impact of the Roman Empire on religious behaviour, with a special focus on the dynamics of ritual. The volume is divided into three sections: ritualising the empire, performing civic community in the empire and performing religion in the empire.
Divine Images and Human Imaginations in Ancient Greece and Rome
Author: Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9047441656
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 455
Book Description
The polytheistic religious systems of ancient Greece and Rome reveal an imaginative attitude towards the construction of the divine. One of the most important instruments in this process was certainly the visualisation. Images of the gods transformed the divine world into a visually experienceable entity, comprehensible even without a theoretical or theological superstructure. For the illiterates, images were together with oral traditions and rituals the only possibility to approach the idea of the divine; for the intellectuals, images of the gods could be allegorically transcended symbols to reflect upon. Based on the art historical and textual evidence, this volume offers a fresh view on the historical, literary, and artistic significance of divine images as powerful visual media of religious and intellectual communication.
Facing the Gods
Author: Verity Jane PlattPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521861713
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 501
Book Description
This book explores divine manifestations and their representations not only in art, but also in literature, histories and inscriptions. The cultural analysis of epiphany is set within a historical framework that examines its development from the archaic period through the Hellenistic world and into the Roman Empire.
Text, Image, and Christians in the Graeco-Roman World
Author: Aliou Cissé NiangPublisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1725246732
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 438
Book Description
Twenty-four scholars join their efforts to congratulate David Lee Balch for a long career of dedication to scholarship and teaching. Topics range from the life of early Christian house churches to the kinds of challenges that early Christians needed to negotiate in their artistic and literary worlds as they established their own identity. Contributors Edward Adams Frederick E Brenk Warren Carter John R. Clarke Everett Ferguson John T. Fitzgerald Richard A. Freund Ronald F. Hock Robin M. Jensen Davina C. Lopez Margaret Y. MacDonald Abraham J. Malherbe Aliou Cisse Niang Peter Oakes Todd Penner Leo G. Perdue Turid Karlsen Seim Dennis E. Smith Yancy W. Smith Stephen V. Sprinkle Hal Taussig Oliver Larry Yarbrough
Pilgrimage in Graeco-Roman and Early Christian Antiquity
Author: Jas' ElsnerPublisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191566756
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 533
Book Description
This book presents a range of case-studies of pilgrimage in Graeco-Roman antiquity, drawing on a wide variety of evidence. It rejects the usual reluctance to accept the category of pilgrimage in pagan polytheism and affirms the significance of sacred mobility not only as an important factor in understanding ancient religion and its topographies but also as vitally ancestral to later Christian practice.
Drawing Down the Moon
Author: Radcliffe G. Edmonds (III)Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 069115693X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 492
Book Description
One of the foremost experts on magic, religion, and the occult in the ancient world provides an unparalleled exploration of magic in the Greco-Roman world, giving insight into the shifting ideas of religion and the divine in the ancient past and in the later Western tradition.