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Author : M J Vermaseren
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004671838
Total Pages : 700 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (46 download)
Download or read book Excavations in the Mithraeum of the Church of Santa Prisca in Rome written by M J Vermaseren and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-08-28 with total page 700 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Carel Claudius van Essen
Publisher : Brill Archive
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 704 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book The Excavations in the Mithraeum of the Church of Santa Pricsa in Rome written by Carel Claudius van Essen and published by Brill Archive. This book was released on with total page 704 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Maarten Jozef Vermaseren
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9789004065000
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (65 download)
Download or read book Mithriaca III written by Maarten Jozef Vermaseren and published by BRILL. This book was released on 1982 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Manfred Clauss
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 147446579X
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (744 download)
Download or read book Roman Cult of Mithras written by Manfred Clauss and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2019-06-01 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : Ugo Bianchi
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004295607
Total Pages : 1047 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)
Download or read book Mysteria Mithrae written by Ugo Bianchi and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2015-08-24 with total page 1047 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Stephen L. Dyson
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 1421401010
Total Pages : 489 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (214 download)
Download or read book Rome written by Stephen L. Dyson and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2010-06-14 with total page 489 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : Ida Ostenberg
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1472534492
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (725 download)
Download or read book The Moving City written by Ida Ostenberg and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-08-27 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Moving City: Processions, Passages and Promenades in Ancient Rome focusses on movements in the ancient city of Rome, exploring the interaction between people and monuments. Representing a novel approach to the Roman cityscape and culture, and reflecting the shift away from the traditional study of single monuments into broader analyses of context and space, the volume reveals both how movement adds to our understanding of ancient society, and how the movement of people and goods shaped urban development. Covering a wide range of people, places, sources, and times, the volume includes a survey of Republican, imperial, and late antique movement, triumphal processions of conquering generals, seditious, violent movement of riots and rebellion, religious processions and rituals and the everyday movements of individual strolls or household errands. By way of its longue durée, dense location and the variety of available sources, the city of ancient Rome offers a unique possibility to study movements as expressions of power, ritual, writing, communication, mentalities, trade, and – also as a result of a massed populace – violent outbreaks and attempts to keep order. The emerging picture is of a bustling, lively society, where cityscape and movements are closely interactive and entwined.
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 : Jörg Rüpke
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1444339249
Total Pages : 578 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (443 download)
Download or read book A Companion to Roman Religion written by Jörg Rüpke and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-04-18 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
Author : Philippa Adrych
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192511106
Total Pages : 232 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 2017-03-09 with total page 232 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 : Michael Speidel
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004295615
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)
Download or read book Mithras-Orion written by Michael Speidel and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2015-08-24 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Preliminary material -- INTRODUCTION -- THE BULL SLAYING SCENE AS A SERIES OF EQUATORIAL CONSTELLATIONS -- MITHRAS-ORION -- THE IMAGE OF THE HEAVENS AND THE CULT ICON -- GREEK HERO -- ROMAN GOD -- CONCLUSION -- ABBREVIATIONS -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX.
Author : S. E. Hijmans
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004521585
Total Pages : 638 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (45 download)
Download or read book Sol written by S. E. Hijmans and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023 with total page 638 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hijmans demonstrates that a sophisticated analysis of images of Sol sheds an entirely new light on the role of the sun in Roman religion. This book includes a discussion of relevant theory and a number of case studies. This is part II of a two-part set.
Author : Mary Boyce
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004293914
Total Pages : 616 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)
Download or read book A History of Zoroastrianism, Zoroastrianism under Macedonian and Roman Rule written by Mary Boyce and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2015-11-02 with total page 616 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume traces the history of Zoroastrianism at times and places where its existence has previously been largely ignored, or treated only episodically. Literary, archaeological and numismatic evidence has been drawn on (some of it only recently brought to light), and local developments are distinguished. In Iran itself some 200 years of Macedonian rule had little effect on the national religion. To the east, Zoroastrianism survived in the Greco-Bactrian kingdoms and under Mauryan suzereinty, where it came into contact with Buddhism. In Eastern Mediterranean lands it was maintained by Iranian expatriates well down into Roman imperial times. They adopted Greek for their written tongue, and Zoroastrian doctrines thus became known in the Greco-Roman world. Study is made accordingly of Zoroastrian contributions to Hellenistic thought, and to Judaism, Christianity and Mithraism; and an excursus provides a thorough reassessment of the Zoroastrian pseudepigrapha.
Author : Leif E. Vaage
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
ISBN 13 : 155458809X
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (545 download)
Download or read book Religious Rivalries in the Early Roman Empire and the Rise of Christianity written by Leif E. Vaage and published by Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press. This book was released on 2010-10-30 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Religious Rivalries in the Early Roman Empire and the Rise of Christianity discusses the diverse cultural destinies of early Christianity, early Judaism, and other ancient religious groups as a question of social rivalry. The book is divided into three main sections. The first section debates the degree to which the category of rivalry adequately names the issue(s) that must be addressed when comparing and contrasting the social “success” of different religious groups in antiquity. The second is a critical assessment of the common modern category of “mission” to describe the inner dynamic of such a process; it discusses the early Christian apostle Paul, the early Jewish historian Josephus, and ancient Mithraism. The third section of the book is devoted to “the rise of Christianity,” primarily in response to the similarly titled work of the American sociologist of religion Rodney Stark. While it is not clear that any of these groups imagined its own success necessarily entailing the elimination of others, it does seem that early Christianity had certain habits, both of speech and practice, which made it particularly apt to succeed (in) the Roman Empire.
Author : Michael Mulryan
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
ISBN 13 : 178491021X
Total Pages : 115 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (849 download)
Download or read book Spatial Christianisation in Context: Stratigraphic Intramural Building in Rome from the 4th – 7th C. AD written by Michael Mulryan and published by Archaeopress Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2014-10-10 with total page 115 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first to closely examine the location of the earliest purpose-built Christian buildings inside the city of Rome in their contemporary context.
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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004440143
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)
Download or read book Mystery Cults in Visual Representation in Graeco-Roman Antiquity written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-10-26 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book fills a gap in the study of mystery cults in Graeco-Roman Antiquity. Focusing on the visual language surrounding these cults, it aims to understand how images depict mysteries in different cults: Dionysus, Mithras, Mother of the Gods, and Isiac cults.
Author : Ramsay MacMullen
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300029840
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (298 download)
Download or read book Paganism in the Roman Empire written by Ramsay MacMullen and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1981-01-01 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "MacMullen...has published several books in recent years which establish him, rightfully, as a leading social historian of the Roman Empire. The current volume exhibits many of the characteristics of its predecessors: the presentation of novel, revisionist points of view...; discrete set pieces of trenchant argument which do not necessarily conform to the boundaries of traditional history; and an impressive, authoritative, and up-to-date documentation, especially rich in primary sources...A stimulating and provocative discourse on Roman paganism as a phenomenon worthy of synthetic investigation in its own right and as the fundamental context for the rise of Christianity.”--Richard Brilliant, History "MacMullen’s latest work represents many features of paganism in its social context more vividly and clearly than ever before.”--Fergus Millar, American Historical Review "The major cults...are examined from a social and cultural perspective and with the aid of many recently published specialized studies...Students of the Roman Empire...should read this book.”--Robert J, Penella, Classical World "A distinguished book with much exact observation...An indispensable mine of erudition on a grand theme.” Henry Chadwick, Times Literary Supplement Ramsay MacMullen is Dunham Professor of History and Classics at Yale University and the author of Roman Government’s Response to Crisis, A.D. 235-337 and Roman Social Relations, 50 B.C. to A.D. 284
