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Author : Gudrun Heedemann
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 167 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (749 download)
Download or read book Neue Forschungen zur Religionsgeschichte Kleinasiens written by Gudrun Heedemann and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Gudrun Heedemann
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Neue Forschungen zur Religionsgeschichte Kleinasiens written by Gudrun Heedemann and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Annette Merz
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004233016
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)
Download or read book The Letter of Mara bar Sarapion in Context written by Annette Merz and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2012-09-14 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Letter of Mara bar Sarapion in Context Merz and Tieleman present an interdisciplinary collection of studies examining an intriguing yet neglected Syriac letter and its historical context.
Author : Attilio Mastrocinque
Publisher : Mohr Siebeck
ISBN 13 : 9783161551123
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (511 download)
Download or read book The Mysteries of Mithras written by Attilio Mastrocinque and published by Mohr Siebeck. This book was released on 2017-08-07 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Attilio Mastrocinque explains the mysteries of Mithras in a new way, as a transformation of Mazdean elements into an ideological and religious reading of Augustus' story. The author shows that the character of Mithras played the role of Apollo in favoring Augustus' victory and the birth of the Roman Empire.
Author : Herman Brijder
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 1614516227
Total Pages : 694 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (145 download)
Download or read book Nemrud Dagi written by Herman Brijder and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2014-08-25 with total page 694 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This richly illustrated book presents in detail the sanctuaries built during the reign of Antiochus I of Commagene (ca. 75-36 BCE), including the three large tombs and ten cult places, and discusses Antiochus’ rule in the context of his religious program and cult of the divine ruler. This book is the final publication of the results of the International Nemrud Daği Project 2001–2003.
Author : Finney
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0802890164
Total Pages : 822 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (28 download)
Download or read book The Eerdmans Encyclopedia of Early Christian Art and Archaeology written by Finney and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 2017 with total page 822 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than 400 distinguished scholars, including archaeologists, art historians, historians, epigraphers, and theologians, have written the 1,455 entries in this monumental encyclopedia--the first comprehensive reference work of its kind. From Aachen to Zurzach, Paul Corby Finney's three-volume masterwork draws on archaeological and epigraphic evidence to offer readers a basic orientation to early Christian architecture, sculpture, painting, mosaic, and portable artifacts created roughly between AD 200 and 600 in Africa, Asia, and Europe. Clear, comprehensive, and richly illustrated, this work will be an essential resource for all those interested in late antique and early Christian art, archaeology, and history. -- Provided by publisher.
Author : Andreas J. M. Kropp
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0199670722
Total Pages : 519 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (996 download)
Download or read book Images and Monuments of Near Eastern Dynasts, 100 BC - AD 100 written by Andreas J. M. Kropp and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2013-06-27 with total page 519 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An archaeological and art-historical study of the images and monuments of Roman 'client' kings in the Near East from the Taurus to Edom during the transitional period between 100 BC and AD 100. Kropp treats images and monuments as historical documents and aims at uncovering royal identities and ideological aspirations.
Author : Miguel John Versluys
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108210880
Total Pages : 333 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (82 download)
Download or read book Visual Style and Constructing Identity in the Hellenistic World written by Miguel John Versluys and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-06-29 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Located in the small kingdom of Commagene at the upper Euphrates, the late Hellenistic monument of Nemrud Dağ (c.50 BC) has been undeservedly neglected by scholars. Qualified as a Greco-Persian hybrid instigated by a lunatic king, this fascinating project of bricolage has been written out of history. This volume redresses that imbalance, interpreting Nemrud Dağ as an attempt at canon building by Antiochos I in order to construct a dynastic ideology and social order, and proving the monument's importance for our understanding of a crucial transitional phase from Hellenistic to Roman. Hellenistic Commagene therefore holds a profound significance for a number of discussions, such as the functioning of the Hellenistic koine and the genesis of Roman 'art', Hellenism and Persianism in antiquity, dynastic propaganda and the power of images, Romanisation in the East, the contextualising of the Augustan cultural revolution, and the role of Greek culture in the Roman world.
Author : Marietta Horster
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110318482
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (13 download)
Download or read book Cities and Priests written by Marietta Horster and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2013-10-29 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cultural records such as dedications, honorific statues and decrees are keys to understanding the manifold and diverse social roles and religious functions of priesthoods in the cities of Asia Minor and the Aegean islands from the classical period to late antiquity. These texts and images indicate how the priests and priestesses saw themselves and were viewed by others. The approaches in this volume are historical, religious, and archaeological, and they elucidate the religious functions that the cult personnel fulfilled for the city, and the perception of priests and priestesses as citizens of the polis. The volume focuses on developments from the Hellenistic period into Imperial times. Subjects include: gendered priesthoods and family traditions, the topography of honorary statues and the presentation of funerary monuments, federal and civic priesthoods as well as priests of private cult-foundations, benefactions and social pressure, and the religious, social and political functions of priests and priestesses within cities.
Author : D. Clint Burnett
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110691884
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (16 download)
Download or read book Christ’s Enthronement at God’s Right Hand and Its Greco-Roman Cultural Context written by D. Clint Burnett and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2021-01-18 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Given the dearth of non-messianic interpretations of Psalm 110:1 in non-Christian Second Temple Jewish texts, why did it become such a widely used messianic prooftext in the New Testament and early Christianity? Previous attempts to answer this question have focused on why the earliest Christians first began to use Ps 110:1. The result is that these proposals do not provide an adequate explanation for why first century Christians living in the Greek East employed the verse and also applied it to Jesus’s exaltation. I contend that two Greco-Roman politico-religious practices, royal and imperial temple and throne sharing—which were cross-cultural rewards that Greco-Roman communities bestowed on beneficent, pious, and divinely approved rulers—contributed to the widespread use of Ps 110:1 in earliest Christianity. This means that the earliest Christians interpreted Jesus’s heavenly session as messianic and thus political, as well as religious, in nature.
Author : Philippa Adrych
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192511114
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (925 download)
Download or read book Images of Mithra written by Philippa Adrych and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017-03-23 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With a history of use extending back to Vedic texts of the second millennium BC, derivations of the name Mithra appear in the Roman Empire, across Sasanian Persia, and in the Kushan Empire of southern Afghanistan and northern India during the first millennium AD. Even today, this name has a place in Yazidi and Zoroastrian religion. But what connection have Mihr in Persia, Miiro in Kushan Bactria, and Mithras in the Roman Empire to one another? Over the course of the volume, specialists in the material culture of these diverse regions explore appearances of the name Mithra from six distinct locations in antiquity. In a subversion of the usual historical process, the authors begin not from an assessment of texts, but by placing images of Mithra at the heart of their analysis. Careful consideration of each example's own context, situating it in the broader scheme of religious traditions and on-going cultural interactions, is key to this discussion. Such an approach opens up a host of potential comparisons and interpretations that are often side-lined in historical accounts. What Images of Mithra offers is a fresh approach to the ways in which gods were labelled and depicted in the ancient world. Through an emphasis on material culture, a more nuanced understanding of the processes of religious formation is proposed in what is but the first part of the Visual Conversations series.
Author : Stella Georgoudi
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004210911
Total Pages : 644 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)
Download or read book La raison des signes written by Stella Georgoudi and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2011-12-09 with total page 644 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Le recueil compare les procédures de fabrication et d’interprétation des signes dans les sociétés polythéistes ou monothéistes de la Méditerranée ancienne. Il analyse les rites ou l’argumentation critique visant à endiguer les signes et à préserver l’initiative humaine face aux injonctions du destin. The essays compare the procedure of fabrication and interpretation of signs in the polytheistic and monotheistic societies of the ancient Mediterranean Sea. The writers analyze the rites or the critical argumentation intending to stem the signs and to preserve the human initiative facing the injunctions of destiny.
Author : Guy MacLean Rogers
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300178638
Total Pages : 530 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)
Download or read book The Mysteries of Artemis of Ephesos written by Guy MacLean Rogers and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2012-11-27 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Artemis of Ephesos was one of the most widely worshiped deities of the Graeco-Roman World. Her temple, the Artemision, was one of the seven wonders of the ancient world, and for more than half a millennium people flocked to Ephesos to learn the great secret of the mysteries and sacrifices that were celebrated every year on her birthday. In this work Guy MacLean Rogers sets out the evidence for the celebration of Artemis's mysteries against the background of the remarkable urban development of the city during the Roman Empire and then proposes an entirely new theory about the great secret that was revealed to initiates into Artemis's mysteries. The revelation of that secret helps to explain not only the success of Artemis's cult and polytheism itself but, more surprisingly, the demise of both and the success of Christianity. Contrary to many anthropological and scientific theories, the history of polytheism, including the celebration of Artemis's mysteries, is best understood as a Darwinian tale of adaptation, competition, and change.
Author : Xenia Charalambidou
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1784915734
Total Pages : 470 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (849 download)
Download or read book Interpreting the Seventh Century BC written by Xenia Charalambidou and published by Archaeopress Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2017-08-31 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book has its origin in a conference held at the British School at Athens in 2011 which aimed to explore the range of new archaeological information now available for the seventh century in Greek lands.
Author : Vesta Sarkhosh Curtis
Publisher : Oxbow Books
ISBN 13 : 1785702084
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (857 download)
Download or read book The Parthian and Early Sasanian Empires written by Vesta Sarkhosh Curtis and published by Oxbow Books. This book was released on 2016-08-30 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although much of the primary information about the Parthian period comes from coins, there has been much new research undertaken over the past few decades into wider aspects of both the Parthian and Sassanian Empires including the Arsacid Parthians, and their material culture. Despite a change of ruling dynasty, the two empires were closely connected and cannot be regarded as totally separate entities. The continuation of Parthian influence particularly into the early Sasanian period cannot be disputed. An historic lack of detailed information arose partly through the relative lack of excavated archaeological sites dating to the Parthian period in Iran and western scholars’ lack of knowledge of recent excavations and their results that are usually published in Persian, coupled with the inevitable difficulties for academic research engendered by the recent political situation in the region. Although an attempt has been made by several scholars in the west to place this important Iranian dynasty in its proper cultural context, the traditional GrecoRoman influenced approach is still prevalent. The present volume presents 15 papers covering various aspects of Parthian and early Sasanian history, material culture, linguistics and religion which demonstrate a rich surviving heritage and provide many new insights into ideology, royal genealogy, social organisation, military tactics, linguistic developments and trading contacts.
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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004335315
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)
Download or read book Cassius Dio: Greek Intellectual and Roman Politician written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2016-11-28 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cassius Dio: Greek Intellectual and Roman Politician brings together case studies that highlight various aspects of Cassius Dio’s Roman History. It puts emphasis on Dio’s text in its historiographical setting, thus allowing us to link and understand the different parts of his work.
Author : Gwynaeth McIntyre
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004398376
Total Pages : 94 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)
Download or read book Imperial Cult written by Gwynaeth McIntyre and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-02-11 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This article surveys the range of ancient literary sources and modern scholarly debates on how individuals became gods in the Roman world and the practices classified under the modern collective heading ‘imperial cult’.
