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Author : Martin Bommas
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2012-11-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781441116796
The role of memory in shaping religion in the ancient cities of Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece and Rome.
Author : Beate Dignas,R. R. R. Smith
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2012-03-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199572069
Book celebrates the work of Simon Price.
Author : Martin Bommas,Juliette Harrisson,Phoebe Roy
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781441130143
Memory and Urban Religion in the Ancient World brings together scholars and researchers working on memory and religion in ancient urban environments. Chapters explore topics relating to religious traditions and memory, and the multifunctional roles of architectural and geographical sites, mythical figures and events, literary works and artefacts. Pagan religions were often less static and more open to new influences than previously understood. One of the factors that shape religion is how fundamental elements are remembered as valuable and therefore preservable for future generations. Memory, therefore, plays a pivotal role when - as seen in ancient Rome during late antiquity - a shift of religions takes place within communities. The significance of memory in ancient societies and how it was promoted, prompted, contested and even destroyed is discussed in detail. This volume, the first of its kind, not only addresses the main cultures of the ancient world - Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece and Rome - but also look at urban religious culture and funerary belief, and how concepts of ethnic religion were adapted in new religious environments.
Author : Rubina Raja,Jörg Rüpke
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 518 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2020-01-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781119042846
A Companion to the Archaeology of Religion in the Ancient World presents a comprehensive overview of a wide range of topics relating to the practices, expressions, and interactions of religion in antiquity, primarily in the Greco-Roman world. • Features readings that focus on religious experience and expression in the ancient world rather than solely on religious belief • Places a strong emphasis on domestic and individual religious practice • Represents the first time that the concept of “lived religion” is applied to the ancient history of religion and archaeology of religion • Includes cutting-edge data taken from top contemporary researchers and theorists in the field • Examines a large variety of themes and religious traditions across a wide geographical area and chronological span • Written to appeal equally to archaeologists and historians of religion
Author : Markus Tiwald,Jürgen Zangenberg
Publisher : Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2021-04-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9783647564944
Ever since Jesus walked the hills of Galilee and Paul travelled the roads of Asia Minor and Greece, Christianity has shown a remarkable ability to adapt itself to various social and cultural environments. Recent research has demonstrated that these environments can only be very insufficiently termed as "rural" or "urban". Neither was Jesus' Galilee only rural, nor Paul's Asia only "urban". On the background of ongoing research on the diversity of social environments in the Early Empire, this volume will focus on various early Christian "worlds" as witnessed in canonical and non-canonical texts. How did Early Christians experience and react to "rural" and "urban" life? What were the mechanisms behind this adaptability? Papers will analyze the relation between urban Christian beginnings and the role of the rural Jesus-tradition. In what sense did the image of Jesus, the "Galilean village Jew", change when his message was carried into the cities of the Mediterranean world from Jerusalem to Athens or Rome? Papers will not only deal with various personalities or literary works whose various attitudes towards urban life became formative for future Christianity. They will also explore the different local milieus that demonstrate the wide range of Christian cultural perspectives.
Author : Juliette Harrisson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2018-09-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351578394
Human beings have speculated about whether or not there is life after death, and if so, what form that life might take, for centuries. What did people in the ancient world think the next life would hold, and did they imagine there was a chance for a relationship between the living and the dead? How did people in the ancient world keep their dead loved ones alive through memory, and were they afraid the dead might return and haunt the living in another form? What sort of afterlife did the ancient Greeks and Romans imagine for themselves? This volume explores these questions and more. While individual representations of the afterlife have often been examined, few studies have taken a more general view of ideas about the afterlife circulating in the ancient world. By drawing together current research from international scholars on archaeological evidence for afterlife belief, chiefly from funerary sites, together with studies of works of literature, this volume provides a broader overview of ancient ideas about the afterlife than has so far been available. Imagining the Afterlife in the Ancient World explores these key questions through a series of wide-ranging studies, taking in ghosts, demons, dreams, cosmology, and the mutilation of corpses along the way, offering a valuable resource to those studying all aspects of death in the ancient world
Author : Nathan Leach,Daniel Charles Smith,Tony Keddie
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2023-11-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781003800415
This collection of essays from a diverse group of internationally recognized scholars builds on the work of Steven J. Friesen to analyze the material and ideological dimensions of John’s Apocalypse and the religious landscape of the Roman East. Readers will gain new perspectives on the interpretation of John’s Apocalypse, the religion of Hellenistic cities in the Roman Empire, and the political and economic forces that shaped life in the Eastern Mediterranean. The chapters in this volume examine texts and material culture through carefully localized analysis that attends to ideological and socioeconomic contexts, expanding upon aspects of Friesen’s research and methodology while also forging new directions. The book brings together a diverse and international set of experts including emerging voices in the fields of biblical studies, Roman social history, and classical archeology, and each essay presents fresh, critically informed analysis of key sites and texts from the periods of Christian origins and Roman imperial rule. Revelation and Material Religion in the Roman East is of interest to students and scholars working on Christian origins, ancient Judaism, Roman religion, classical archeology, and the social history of the Roman Empire, as well as material religion in the ancient Mediterranean more broadly. It is also suitable for religious practitioners within Christian contexts.
Author : Claudia Moser,Jennifer Knust
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2017-11-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780472130573
An international, cross-disciplinary investigation of ancient religious practices and their material remains yields fresh insights and poses new questions
Author : Lucy Gaynor Audley-Miller,Beate Dignas
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 481 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2018-10-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9783110421453
In spite of the growing amount of important new work being carried out on uses of myth in particular ancient contexts, their appeal and reception beyond the framework of one culture have rarely been the primary object of enquiry in contemporary debate. Highlighting the fact that ancient societies were linked by their shared use of mythological narratives, Wandering Myths aims to advance our understanding of the mechanisms by which such tales were disseminated cross-culturally and to investigate how they gained local resonances. In order to assess both wider geographic circulations and to explore specific local features and interpretations, a regional approach is adopted, with a particular focus on Anatolia, the Near East and Italy. Contributions are drawn from a range of disciplines, and cross a wide chronological span, but all are interlinked by their engagement with questions focusing on the factors that guided the processes of reception and steered the facets of local interpretation. The Preface and Epilogue evaluate the material in a synoptic way and frame the challenging questions and views expressed in the Introduction.
Author : Luca Castagnoli,Paola Ceccarelli
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 445 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2019-01-24
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781108471725
An original exploration of Ancient Greek conceptions of the relationship between memory, time, knowledge and identity across diverse genres.
Author : Karl Galinsky,Kenneth Lapatin
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2016-01-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781606064627
Memory studies — one of the most vibrant research fields of the present day — brings together such diverse disciplines as art and archaeology, history, religion, literature, sociology, media studies, and neuroscience. In scholarship on ancient Rome, studies of social and cultural memory complement traditional approaches, opening up new horizons as we contemplate the ancient world. The fifteen essays presented here explore memory in the Roman Empire, addressing a wide spectrum of cultural phenomena from a range of approaches. Ancient Rome was a memory culture par excellence and memory pervades all aspects of Roman culture, from literature and art to religion and politics. This volume is the first to address the cultural artifacts of Rome through the lens of memory studies. An essential guide to the material culture of Rome, this book brings important new concepts to the fore for both scholars of the ancient world and those of social and cultural memory throughout human history.
Author : Andrew Fox
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2023-07-13
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781350237827
Focusing on the transitional period of the late Republic to the early Principate, Trees in Ancient Rome offers a sustained examination of the deployment of trees in the ancient city, exploring not only the practicalities of their cultivation, but also their symbolic value. The Ruminal fig tree sheltered the she-wolf as she nursed Romulus and Remus and year's later Rome was founded between two groves. As the city grew, neighbourhoods bore the names of groves and hills were known by the trees which grew atop them. From the 1st century BCE, triumphs included trees among their spoils and Rome's green cityscape grew, as did the challenges of finding room for trees within the congested city. This volume begins with an examination of the role of trees as repositories of human memory, lasting for several generations. It goes on to untangle the import of trees, and their role in the triumphal procession, before closing with a discussion of how trees could be grown in Rome's urban spaces. Drawing on a combination of literary, visual and archaeological sources, it reveals the rich variety of trees in evidence, and explores how they impacted, and were used to impact, life in the ancient city.
Author : Davide Nadali
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2016-08-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781474223980
Memory is a constructed system of references, in equilibrium, of feeling and rationality. Comparing ancient and contemporary mechanisms for the preservation of memories and the building of a common cultural, political and social memory, this volume aims to reveal the nature of memory, and explores the attitudes of ancient societies towards the creation of a memory to be handed down in words, pictures, and mental constructs. Since the multiple natures of memory involve every human activity, physical and intellectual, this volume promotes analyses and considerations about memory by focusing on various different cultural activities and productions of ancient Near Eastern societies, from artistic and visual documents to epigraphic evidence, and by considering archaeological data. The chapters of this volume analyse the value and function of memory within the ancient Near Eastern and Egyptian societies, combining archaeological, textual and iconographical evidence following a progression from the analysis of the creation and preservation of both single and multiple memories, to the material culture (things and objects) that shed light on the impact of memory on individuals and community.
Author : Monica S Cyrino
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2015-05-18
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781474400282
Focusing on historical framework, style, themes, and influence on popular culture, this book also engages with production issues and considers the series' place in the tradition of epic films and tv series. Both scholarly and entertaining, it is an invaluable resource for Classics and Ancient History as well as Film and Media Studies.
Author : Lindsey A. Mazurek
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2022-02-24
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781316517017
It introduces a religious dimension to the study of ethnic identity and globalization in the provinces of the Roman Empire.