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Book Synopsis On the New Pergamene"Lex Sacra" by : Franciszek Sokołowski
Download or read book On the New Pergamene"Lex Sacra" written by Franciszek Sokołowski and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 7 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Truly Beyond Wonders by : Alexia Petsalis-Diomidis
Download or read book Truly Beyond Wonders written by Alexia Petsalis-Diomidis and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2010-03-04 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Truly Beyond Wonders Alexia Petsalis-Diomidis investigates texts and material evidence associated with healing pilgrimage in the Roman empire during the second century AD. Her focus is upon one particular pilgrim, the famous orator Aelius Aristides, whose Sacred Tales, his fascinating account of dream visions, gruelling physical treatments, and sacred journeys, has been largely misunderstood and marginalized. Petsalis-Diomidis rehabilitates this text by placing it within the material context of the sanctuary of Asklepios at Pergamon, where the author spent two years in search of healing. The architecture, votive offerings, and ritual rules which governed the behaviour of pilgrims are used to build a picture of the experience of pilgrimage to this sanctuary. Truly Beyond Wonders ranges broadly over discourses of the body and travel and in so doing explores the place of healing pilgrimage and religion in Graeco-Roman society and culture. It is generously illustrated with more than 80 drawinsg and photographs, and four colour plates.
Book Synopsis Beyond Priesthood by : Richard L. Gordon
Download or read book Beyond Priesthood written by Richard L. Gordon and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2017-08-21 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The last decade has seen a surge of scholarly interest in these religious professionals and a good number of high quality publications. Our volume, however, with its unique intercultural character and its explicit focus on appropriation and contestation of religious expertise in the Imperial Era is substantially different. Unlike the rather narrow focus of earlier studies of civic priests, the papers presented here examine a wider range of religious professionals, their dynamic interaction with established religious authorities and institutions, and their contributions to religious innovation in the ancient Mediterranean world, from the late Hellenistic period through to Late Antiquity, from the City of Rome to mainland Greece, Asia Minor, Syria and Egypt, from Greek civic practice to ancient Judaism. A further advantage of our volume is the wide range of media of transmission taken into account. Our contributors look at both old and new materials, which derive not only from literary sources but also from papyri, inscriptions, and material culture. Above all, this volume assesses critically convenient terminological usage and offers a unique insight into a rich gamut of ancient Mediterranean religious specialists.
Download or read book Greek Sacred Law written by Eran Lupu and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2004-11-01 with total page 555 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work contains two parts. Part I constitutes a guide to the corpus of Greek sacred law and its contents. A discussion of the history of the corpus and the principles governing its composition is followed by a detailed review of its contents, in which the evidence is classified according to subject matter. Part II contains inscriptions published since the late 1960s from all around the Greek world excluding Cos and Asia Minor (checklists for these are appended). The text of each inscription is presented alongside restorations, epigraphical commentary, translation, and a comprehensive running commentary. Most of the inscriptions are illustrated. The volume should prove useful to scholars of Greek religion, historians, and epigraphists.
Download or read book Ancient Greece written by and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-10-24 with total page 727 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Book Synopsis Patients and Healers in the High Roman Empire by : Ido Israelowich
Download or read book Patients and Healers in the High Roman Empire written by Ido Israelowich and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2015-04-01 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive study of both patients and healers in the High Roman Empire. Patients and Healers in the High Roman Empire offers a fascinating holistic look at the practice of ancient Roman medicine. Ido Irsaelowich presents three richly detailed case studies—one focusing on the home and reproduction; another on the army; the last on medical tourism—from the point of view of those on both sides of the patient-healer divide. He explains in depth how people in the classical world became aware of their ailments, what they believed caused particular illnesses, and why they turned to certain healers—root cutters, gymnastic trainers, dream interpreters, pharmacologists, and priests—or sought medical care in specific places such as temples, bath houses, and city centers. The book brings to life the complex behavior and social status of all the actors involved in the medical marketplace. It also sheds new light on classical theories about sickness, the measures Romans undertook to tackle disease and improve public health, and personal expectations for and evaluations of various treatments. Ultimately, Israelowich concludes that this clamoring multitude of coexisting forms of health care actually shared a common language. Drawing on a diverse range of sources—including patient testimonies; the writings of physicians, historians, and poets; and official publications of the Roman state—Patients and Healers in the High Roman Empire is a groundbreaking history of the culture of classical medicine.
Book Synopsis The Cuisine of Sacrifice Among the Greeks by : Marcel Detienne
Download or read book The Cuisine of Sacrifice Among the Greeks written by Marcel Detienne and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1989 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the Greeks, the sharing of cooked meats was the fundamental communal act, so that to become vegetarian was a way of refusing society. It follows that the roasting or cooking of meat was a political act, as the division of portions asserted a social order. And the only proper manner of preparing meat for consumption, according to the Greeks, was blood sacrifice. The fundamental myth is that of Prometheus, who introduced sacrifice and, in the process, both joined us to and separated us from the gods—and ambiguous relation that recurs in marriage and in the growing of grain. Thus we can understand why the ascetic man refuses both women and meat, and why Greek women celebrated the festival of grain-giving Demeter with instruments of butchery. The ambiguity coded in the consumption of meat generated a mythology of the "other"—werewolves, Scythians, Ethiopians, and other "monsters." The study of the sacrificial consumption of meat thus leads into exotic territory and to unexpected findings. In The Cuisine of Sacrifice, the contributors—all scholars affiliated with the Center for Comparative Studies of Ancient Societies in Paris—apply methods from structural anthropology, comparative religion, and philology to a diversity of topics: the relation of political power to sacrificial practice; the Promethean myth as the foundation story of sacrificial practice; representations of sacrifice found on Greek vases; the technique and anatomy of sacrifice; the interaction of image, language, and ritual; the position of women in sacrificial custom and the female ritual of the Thesmophoria; the mythical status of wolves in Greece and their relation to the sacrifice of domesticated animals; the role and significance of food-related ritual in Homer and Hesiod; ancient Greek perceptions of Scythian sacrificial rites; and remnants of sacrificial ritual in modern Greek practices.
Book Synopsis Society, Medicine and Religion in the Sacred Tales of Aelius Aristides by : Ido Israelowich
Download or read book Society, Medicine and Religion in the Sacred Tales of Aelius Aristides written by Ido Israelowich and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2012-05-07 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This monograph offers a study of the inter-relations between medicine, religion, and literature in the Sacred Tales of the Second Century CE Greek scholar Aelius Aristides.
Book Synopsis A Lex Sacra from Lavinium by : Stefan Weinstock
Download or read book A Lex Sacra from Lavinium written by Stefan Weinstock and published by . This book was released on 1952 with total page 3 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Orations XVII-LIII by : Aelius Aristides
Download or read book Orations XVII-LIII written by Aelius Aristides and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Vereine, Synagogen und Gemeinden im kaiserzeitlichen Kleinasien by : Andreas Gutsfeld
Download or read book Vereine, Synagogen und Gemeinden im kaiserzeitlichen Kleinasien written by Andreas Gutsfeld and published by Mohr Siebeck. This book was released on 2006 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eines der beherrschenden Phänomene der Städte im römischen Kaiserreich des 1. bis 3. Jahrhundert n. Chr. waren freie Vereinigungen, in denen sich Gleichgesinnte, jenseits ihrer familiären und gemeindlichen Bindungen, freiwillig und auf Dauer zusammenschlossen. Dazu zählten griechisch-römische Vereinigungen (wie Berufskollegien und pagane Kultgenossenschaften) ebenso wie christliche Gemeinden und jüdische Synagogen. Am Beispiel dieser Vereinigungen im griechischen Osten des Reiches erörtern die Autoren der Beiträge des vorliegenden Bandes wichtige Aspekte von Gruppenbildung im römischen Kaiserreich. Mit Beiträgen von:T. Schmeller, A.J.B. Sirks, V. Hirschmann, D. Brabant, S. Sommer, D. Schinkel, J.M.G. Barclay, D.-A. Koch, D. Schinkel, R.S. Ascough
Book Synopsis ACTFL Annual Bibliography of Books and Articles on Pedagogy in Foreign Languages by : David P. Benseler
Download or read book ACTFL Annual Bibliography of Books and Articles on Pedagogy in Foreign Languages written by David P. Benseler and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Pilgrimage in Graeco-Roman and Early Christian Antiquity by : Jas' Elsner
Download or read book Pilgrimage in Graeco-Roman and Early Christian Antiquity written by Jas' Elsner and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2007-12-20 with total page 533 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis Where Dreams May Come (2 vol. set) by : Gil Renberg
Download or read book Where Dreams May Come (2 vol. set) written by Gil Renberg and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2017-06-01 with total page 1130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Where Dreams May Come was the winner of the 2018 Charles J. Goodwin Award of Merit, awarded by the Society for Classical Studies. In this book, Gil H. Renberg examines the ancient religious phenomenon of “incubation", the ritual of sleeping at a divinity’s sanctuary in order to obtain a prophetic or therapeutic dream. Most prominently associated with the Panhellenic healing god Asklepios, incubation was also practiced at the cult sites of numerous other divinities throughout the Greek world, but it is first known from ancient Near Eastern sources and was established in Pharaonic Egypt by the time of the Macedonian conquest; later, Christian worship came to include similar practices. Renberg’s exhaustive study represents the first attempt to collect and analyze the evidence for incubation from Sumerian to Byzantine and Merovingian times, thus making an important contribution to religious history. This set consists of two books.
Book Synopsis Private Associations and Jewish Communities in the Hellenistic and Roman Cities by : Dr. Benedikt Eckhardt
Download or read book Private Associations and Jewish Communities in the Hellenistic and Roman Cities written by Dr. Benedikt Eckhardt and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-07-01 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 'Private Associations and Jewish Communities in the Hellenistic and Roman Cities', Benedikt Eckhardt brings together a group of experts to investigate a problem of historical categorization. Traditionally, scholars have either presupposed that Jewish groups were "Greco-Roman Associations" like others or have treated them in isolation from other groups. Attempts to begin a cross-disciplinary dialogue about the presuppositions and ultimate aims of the respective approaches have shown that much preliminary work on categories is necessary. This book explores the methodological dividing lines, based on the common-sense assumption that different questions require different solutions. Re-introducing historical differentiation into a field that has been dominated by abstractions, it provides the debate with a new foundation. Case studies highlight the problems and advantages of different approaches.
Book Synopsis International bibliography of the history of religions = Bibliographie internationale de l'histoire des religions : 1973, comp. under the supervision of the editor in chief of Numen, the journal of the International Association for the History of Religion by :
Download or read book International bibliography of the history of religions = Bibliographie internationale de l'histoire des religions : 1973, comp. under the supervision of the editor in chief of Numen, the journal of the International Association for the History of Religion written by and published by Brill Archive. This book was released on 1979 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Bibliographie Internationale de L'histoire Des Religions by :
Download or read book Bibliographie Internationale de L'histoire Des Religions written by and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: