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Bona Dea

Author : H.H.J. Brouwer
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 595 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2015-09-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004295773

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Preliminary material -- SUMMARY OF THE SOURCES -- THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND EPIGRAPHIC SOURCES -- THE LITERARY SOURCES -- THE GODDESS -- THE WORSHIPPERS -- THE PROPAGATION OF THE CULT -- THE GODDESS AND HER CULT -- FINDINGS FOR THE CULT BASED ON THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL REMAINS COMPARED WITH OTHER DATA -- GENERAL INDEX -- EPIGRAPHICAL INDEX -- LITERARY INDEX -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS OF THE PLATES -- Plates I-LII and 5 maps.

John Wilkes

Author : John Sainsbury
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 0754656268

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John Wilkes by John Sainsbury Pdf

John Wilkes remains one of the most colourful and intriguing characters of eighteenth-century Britain. While his political career has been much explored, much less has been written about his private life. This biography provides a more comprehensive examination of Wilkes throughout his long life than has hitherto been available. Taking a thematic rather than chronological approach, it is divided into six main chapters covering family, ambition, sex, religion, class and money, which allows a much more rounded picture of Wilkes to emerge.

Bona Dea and the Cults of Roman Women

Author : Attilio Mastrocinque
Publisher : Franz Steiner Verlag Wiesbaden gmbh
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : History
ISBN : 3515107525

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Bona Dea and the Cults of Roman Women by Attilio Mastrocinque Pdf

Bona Dea, also known as Fauna, was a very important goddess of female initiations in Rome, and several features of hers were shared by similar goddesses in ancient Italy. This book sheds light on two hitherto unexplored features: the Dionysiac character and the Lydian style of her festivals. The wife of a consul took on the attitude and the attire of Omphale as the president of Dionysiac ceremonies. Faunus was supposed to precede Bacchus and give fecundity to the bride (i.e. Ariadne), whereas Hercules was thought of as an effeminate musician who created harmony. This was the correct ritual behaviour of prenuptial ceremonies, as it was depicted on many Dionysiac sarcophagi. The iconography of these monuments depicts important features of Faunus and Fauna. Believers are depicted on sarcophagi in the attitude of Bacchus or, in case of women, of either Ariadne or Omphale. A final comparison with initiations among native tribes of Oceania clarifies many rituals of the ancients.

Vestal Virgins, Sibyls, and Matrons

Author : Sarolta A. Takács
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780292773578

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Vestal Virgins, Sibyls, and Matrons by Sarolta A. Takács Pdf

A fascinating exploration of women’s role in Roman religion that facilitates a better understanding of their importance in Rome’s cultural formation. Roman women were the procreators and nurturers of life, both in the domestic world of the family and in the larger sphere of the state. Although deterred from participating in most aspects of public life, women played an essential role in public religious ceremonies, taking part in rituals designed to ensure the fecundity and success of the agricultural cycle on which Roman society depended. Thus religion is a key area for understanding the contributions of women to Roman society and their importance beyond their homes and families. In this book, Sarolta A. Takács offers a sweeping overview of Roman women’s roles and functions in religion and, by extension, in Rome’s history and culture from the republic through the empire. She begins with the religious calendar and the various festivals in which women played a significant role. She then examines major female deities and cults, including the Sibyl, Mater Magna, Isis, and the Vestal Virgins, to show how conservative Roman society adopted and integrated Greek culture into its mythic history, artistic expressions, and religion. Takács’s discussion of the Bona Dea Festival of 62 BCE and of the Bacchantes, female worshippers of the god Bacchus or Dionysus, reveals how women could also jeopardize Rome’s existence by stepping out of their assigned roles. Takács’s examination of the provincial female flaminate and the Matres/Matronae demonstrates how women served to bind imperial Rome and its provinces into a cohesive society.

The Elegiac Cityscape

Author : Tara S. Welch
Publisher : Ohio State University Press
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 9780814210093

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The Roman elegiac poet Propertius was one such author. This final published collection, issued in 16 BCE, has been traditionally read as an abandonment by Propertius of his earlier flippant love poems for a more mature engagement with Roman public life or else a comical send-up of imperial policies as embodied in Rome's public buildings. The Elegiac Cityscape explores Propertius' Rome and the various ways his poetry about the city illuminates the dynamic relationship between one individual and his environment. The relationship between poet and city is complicated at every turn by the presence in the background of the emperor Augustus, whose sustained artistic patronage of Roman monuments brought about the most pervasive transformation that the city had yet seen. Combining the approaches of archaeology and literary criticism, Tara S. Welch examines how Propertius' poems on Roman places scrutinize the monumentalization of various ideological positions in Rome, as they poke and prod Rome's monuments to see what further meanings they might admit. The result is a poetic book rife with different perspectives on the eternal city, perspectives that often call into question any sleepy or complacent adherence to Rome's traditional values. Book jacket.

Bona Dea

Author : Philippe Jacques
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2016-11-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781326850937

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Bona Dea by Philippe Jacques Pdf

En -62 avant J.-C., deux jeunes vestales menent l'enquete a Rome, a la suite du supplice de l'une de leurs s urs de culte, accusee d'avoir laisse s'eteindre le feu sacre du temple de Vesta."

Bona Dea

Author : Hendrik H. J. Brouwer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 507 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Bona Dea (Roman deity)
ISBN : OCLC:1086450361

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A Place at the Altar

Author : Meghan J. DiLuzio
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2016-10-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781400883035

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A Place at the Altar by Meghan J. DiLuzio Pdf

A Place at the Altar illuminates a previously underappreciated dimension of religion in ancient Rome: the role of priestesses in civic cult. Demonstrating that priestesses had a central place in public rituals and institutions, Meghan DiLuzio emphasizes the complex, gender-inclusive nature of Roman priesthood. In ancient Rome, priestly service was a cooperative endeavor, requiring men and women, husbands and wives, and elite Romans and slaves to work together to manage the community's relationship with its gods. Like their male colleagues, priestesses offered sacrifices on behalf of the Roman people, and prayed for the community’s well-being. As they carried out their ritual obligations, they were assisted by female cult personnel, many of them slave women. DiLuzio explores the central role of the Vestal Virgins and shows that they occupied just one type of priestly office open to women. Some priestesses, including the flaminica Dialis, the regina sacrorum, and the wives of the curial priests, served as part of priestly couples. Others, such as the priestesses of Ceres and Fortuna Muliebris, were largely autonomous. A Place at the Altar offers a fresh understanding of how the women of ancient Rome played a leading role in public cult.

Life of Marcus Tullius Cicero

Author : William Forsyth
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1864
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:HN22Z5

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From Good Goddess to Vestal Virgins

Author : Ariadne Staples
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2013-02-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134787883

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From Good Goddess to Vestal Virgins by Ariadne Staples Pdf

The role of women in Roman culture and society was a paradoxical one. On the one hand they enjoyed social, material and financial independence and on the other hand they were denied basic constitutional rights. Roman history is not short of powerful female figures, such as Agrippina and Livia, yet their power stemmed from their associations with great men and was not officially recognised. Ariadne Staples' book examines how women in Rome were perceived both by themselves and by men through women's participation in Roman religion, as Roman religious ritual provided the single public arena where women played a significant formal role. From Good Goddess to Vestal Virgins argues that the ritual roles played out by women were vital in defining them sexually and that these sexually defined categories spilled over into other aspects of Roman culture, including political activity. Ariadne Staples provides an arresting and original analysis of the role of women in Roman society, which challenges traditionally held views and provokes further questions.

The World of Rome

Author : Peter V. Jones,Keith C. Sidwell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1997-03-06
Category : History
ISBN : 0521386004

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The World of Rome by Peter V. Jones,Keith C. Sidwell Pdf

A fascinating introduction to the history and culture of Rome with many illustrations.

Vestal Virgins, Sibyls, and Matrons

Author : Sarolta A. Takács
Publisher : Univ of TX + ORM
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780292794436

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Vestal Virgins, Sibyls, and Matrons by Sarolta A. Takács Pdf

A fascinating exploration of women’s role in Roman religion that facilitates a better understanding of their importance in Rome’s cultural formation. Roman women were the procreators and nurturers of life, both in the domestic world of the family and in the larger sphere of the state. Although deterred from participating in most aspects of public life, women played an essential role in public religious ceremonies, taking part in rituals designed to ensure the fecundity and success of the agricultural cycle on which Roman society depended. Thus religion is a key area for understanding the contributions of women to Roman society and their importance beyond their homes and families. In this book, Sarolta A. Takács offers a sweeping overview of Roman women’s roles and functions in religion and, by extension, in Rome’s history and culture from the republic through the empire. She begins with the religious calendar and the various festivals in which women played a significant role. She then examines major female deities and cults, including the Sibyl, Mater Magna, Isis, and the Vestal Virgins, to show how conservative Roman society adopted and integrated Greek culture into its mythic history, artistic expressions, and religion. Takács’s discussion of the Bona Dea Festival of 62 BCE and of the Bacchantes, female worshippers of the god Bacchus or Dionysus, reveals how women could also jeopardize Rome’s existence by stepping out of their assigned roles. Takács’s examination of the provincial female flaminate and the Matres/Matronae demonstrates how women served to bind imperial Rome and its provinces into a cohesive society.

Plutarch Caesar

Author : Plutarchus
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 549 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2011-10-27
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780198149040

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Plutarch Caesar by Plutarchus Pdf

Plutarch's Life of Caesar deals with the best known Roman of them all, Julius Caesar, and covers virtually all of the major events of the last generation of the Republic. Pelling's volume gives a new translation of the Life, together with an introduction and commentary, while also acknowledging the literary aspects of the narrative.

A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome

Author : Samuel Ball Platner
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 689 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2015-05-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781108083249

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A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome by Samuel Ball Platner Pdf

This 1929 topographical dictionary provides a comprehensive list of the buildings, streets and geographical features in ancient Rome.

Hidden Lives, Public Personae

Author : Emily Hemelrijk
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 648 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2015-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780190463823

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Hidden Lives, Public Personae by Emily Hemelrijk Pdf

Roman cities have rarely been studied from the perspective of women, and studies of Roman women mainly focus on the city of Rome. Studying the civic participation of women in the towns of Italy outside Rome and in the numerous cities of the Latin-speaking provinces of the Roman Empire, this books offers a new view on Roman women and urban society in the Roman Principate. Drawing on epigraphy and archaeology, and to a lesser extent on legal and literary texts, women's civic roles as priestesses, benefactresses and patronesses or 'mothers' of cities and associations (collegia and the Augustales) are brought to the fore. In contrast to the city of Rome, which was dominated by the imperial family, wealthy women in the local Italian and provincial towns had ample opportunity to leave their mark on the city. Their motives to spend their money, time and energy for the benefit of their cities and the rewards their contributions earned them take centre stage. Assessing the meaning and significance of their contributions for themselves and their families and for the cities that enjoyed them, the book presents a new and detailed view of the role of women and gender in Roman urban life.