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Author : R. F. Willetts
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1980-01-29
Category : History
ISBN : UVA:X000082654
Author : Michael Robertson
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2023-11-20
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004685710
This volume argues that Titus’s invocation of Crete affected the ways early readers developed their identities. Using archaeological data, classical writings, and early Christian documents, he describes multiple traditions that circulated on Crete and throughout the Roman Empire concerning Cretan Zeus, Cretan social structure, and Cretan Judaism. He then uses these traditions to interpret Titus and explain how the letter would intersect with and affect readers’ identities. Because readers had differing conceptions of Crete based on their location and access to and evaluation of Cretan traditions, readers would have developed their identities in multiple, conflictual, even contradictory ways.
Author : Mieke Prent
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 813 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2005-06-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9789047406907
This volume offers a contextual study of sanctuaries and cults in Crete in the transitional period from the end of the Late Bronze Age into the Archaic period (c.1200 to 600 BC). It provides a dynamic picture of the interplay of religious tradition and societal change in a period long considered a 'Dark Age' by Classical scholarship.
Author : Dick Geary,Stephen Hodkinson
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2012-03-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781443838092
Slaves have never been mere passive victims of slavery. Typically, they have responded with ingenuity to their violent separation from their native societies, using a variety of strategies to create new social networks and cultures. Religion has been a major arena for such slave cultural strategies. Through participation in religious and ritual activities, slaves have generated important elements of identity, shared humanity, and even resistance, within their lives. This volume presents papers from a conference of the University of Nottingham’s Institute for the Study of Slavery – the only UK centre studying its history from antiquity to the present. It breaks new ground by juxtaposing slave strategies within the diverse religious cultures of Graeco-Roman antiquity and modern Brazil. After a wide-ranging historiographical survey, eleven experts examine how in both societies slave religious activities involved both constraints and opportunities, shedding particular new light on the neglected religious strategies of Graeco-Roman slaves.
Author : Angelos Chaniotis
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2010-05
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780199805013
This ebook is a selective guide designed to help scholars and students of the ancient world find reliable sources of information by directing them to the best available scholarly materials in whatever form or format they appear from books, chapters, and journal articles to online archives, electronic data sets, and blogs. Written by a leading international authority on the subject, the ebook provides bibliographic information supported by direct recommendations about which sources to consult and editorial commentary to make it clear how the cited sources are interrelated. A reader will discover, for instance, the most reliable introductions and overviews to the topic, and the most important publications on various areas of scholarly interest within this topic. In classics, as in other disciplines, researchers at all levels are drowning in potentially useful scholarly information, and this guide has been created as a tool for cutting through that material to find the exact source you need. This ebook is just one of many articles from Oxford Bibliographies Online: Classics, a continuously updated and growing online resource designed to provide authoritative guidance through the scholarship and other materials relevant to the study of classics. Oxford Bibliographies Online covers most subject disciplines within the social science and humanities, for more information visit www.aboutobo.com.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 1172 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Balkan Peninsula
ISBN : 0521086914
Author : J. Wilson Myers,Eleanor Emlen Myers,Gerald Cadogan
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Aerial photography in archaeology
ISBN : 9780520073821
"This marvelous and uniquely comprehensive book sets a new, high standard of excellence in the study of Greek archaeology."--Ronald S. Stroud, University of California, Berkeley
Author : Alain Daniélou
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1992-05-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781620550236
Shiva and Dionysus are the Hindu and Greek gods of magical power, intoxication, ecstatic sexuality, and transcendence who initiate us into communion with the creative forces of life. Revealing the earliest sources of the traditions of Shiva and Dionysus, Alain Danielou reconstructs the fabric of our ancient relationship with creation, vividly relating practices that were observed from the Indus Valley to the coasts of Portugal at least six thousand years ago.
Author : Bernard C. Dietrich
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2016-07-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9783110840872
Nilsson's seminal work on Minoan-Myceanaean religion had its second edition in 1950 prior to the decipherment of Linear B; yet he found much in the archaeological record of the Bronze Age which he associated with later Greek religion. In that respect his insights were vindicated by the reading of those tablets which bore the names of classical Greek divinities, though at tme time new conclusions were needed about Indo-European arrival in Greek lands. Dietrich, with Nilsson very much in mind, starts from the premises that beliefs and their associated rites are inherently conservative; that, even where populations change, they tend to do so gradually, creating fusions rather than wholesale disruptions in ritual practice. An understanding of classical Greek religion thus, necessarily, depends on appreciation of its forerunners in the Bronze Age; and they, in turn, on evidence from the better documented religions of the Middle East. Dietrich's four main chapters deal first with those eastern links; then with the old traditions of Minoan Crete; next with the interplay of pre-Greek Minoan and Greek Mycenaean cultures; and finally he attempts to bridge the commonly assumed divide between bronze age and archaic Greece. Appendixes deal with Minoan peak-sanctuaries, with Apollo at Delphi, and (sympathetically) with Nilsson's pervasive view that Greek mythology was first formulated in the Mycenaean age. In these areas a great deal more work has been done since 1974. Dietrich's thoroughly researched work was at once trend-setting and provocative. It is here made available for the first time in paperback; for it still contains much of importance for the student of Greek religion.
Author : Eugene N. Lane
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2015-08-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004295889
This volume brings together articles on the cult of the mother-goddess Cybele and her consort Attis, from the emergence of the religion in Anatolia through its expansion into Greece and Italy to the latest times of the Roman Empire and its farthest extent west, the Iberian Peninsula. It combines the work of established scholars with that of young researchers in the field, and represents a truly international perspective. The reader will find treatment inter alia of Cybele's emasculated priests, the Galli; the dissemination of Cybele-cult through the harbour city, Miletus; the cult of Cybele in Ephesus; the rock-cut sanctuary of Cybele at Akrai in Sicily; the competition between the Cybele-cult and Christianity; and the role of Attis in Neo-Platonic philosophy.
Author : Jennifer Lynn Larson
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : History
ISBN : 0299143708
This is the first book to show that the worship of heroines, as well as of gods and heroes, was widespread in the Greek world from the eighth through the fourth centuries B.C. Drawing upon textual, archaeological, and iconographic evidence as diverse as ancient travel writing, ritual calendars, votive reliefs, and Euripidean drama, Jennifer Larson demonstrates the pervasiveness of heroine cults at every level of Athenian society. Larson reveals that a broad range of heroic cults existed throughout the Greek world, encompassing not only individuals but couples (Pelops and Hippodameia, Alexandra and Agamemnon, Helen and Menelaos) and families such as those of Asklepios and the Dioskouroi. She shows how heroic cults reinforced the Greeks' gender expectations for both women and men through ritual status, iconography, and narrative motifs. Finally, Larson looks at the intersection of heroine cults with specific topics such as myths of maiden sacrifice, the Amazons, the role of the goddess Artemis, and folk beliefs about female "ghosts."
Author : Apuleius of Madauros
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2015-08-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004295070
Preliminary material /J. GWYN GRIFFITHS -- INTRODUCTION /J. GWYN GRIFFITHS -- SIGLA /J. GWYN GRIFFITHS -- TEXT AND TRANSLATION /J. GWYN GRIFFITHS -- COMMENTARY /J. GWYN GRIFFITHS -- ADDENDA /J. GWYN GRIFFITHS -- A SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY OF WORKS CONSULTED /J. GWYN GRIFFITHS -- GENERAL INDEX /J. GWYN GRIFFITHS.
Author : Joan M. Cichon
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2022-06-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781803270456
This book makes a compelling case for a matriarchal Bronze Age Crete. It is acknowledged that the preeminent deity was a Female Divine, and that women played a major role in Cretan society, but there is a lively, ongoing debate regarding the centrality of women in Bronze Age Crete. a gap in the scholarly literature which this book seeks to fill.
Author : Mircea Eliade
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 508 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2014-02-14
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780226147697
“Everyone who cares about the human adventure will find new information and new angles of vision.”—Martin E. Marty, The New York Times Book Review This extraordinary work delves into the subject of religion in the prehistoric and ancient worlds—humankind’s earliest quests for meaning. From Neanderthal burials to the mythology of the Iron Age, to the religions of Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece, Israel, India, and beyond, it offers both an appreciation of the wide-ranging diversity of religious expression—and a consideration of the fundamental unity of religious phenomena. “Will arouse the interest of all historians of western religion, since it includes chapters on the religions of Canaan and Israel. However, the book must be read cover to cover if one wants to grasp the significance of its gigantic historical scope.”—Church History
Author : Rebecca Armstrong
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2006-02-23
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780199284030
Rebecca Armstrong investigates the myths of three Cretan women - King Minos' wife, Pasiphae, and their daughters Ariadne and Phaedra - as they appear in Latin poetry of the late Republic and early Empire. She offers detailed readings of the most prominent treatments of the stories, alongside a thematic investigation of the ideas of memory, wildness, and morality which recur so prominently in the tales.