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Author : Hans-Friedrich Mueller
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2002-09-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134488360
First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author : Valerius Maximus,D. Wardle
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0198150164
Valerius Maximus stands alone as an extant prose author of the early principate who devoted specific interest to the Romans' attitude to religion. In eight chapters he presents a variety of material selected from earlier authors, such as Cicero, Livy, and Varro, to illustrate central areas of Roman religious thought and practice: augury, omens, dreams, and miracles. Valerius has not been translated into English since 1678 and there has never been a detailed commentary on his work in any language. With the growing interest in the non-Judaeo-Christian religions of the Mediterranean world and scholars recognizing that Roman religion should not be approached with Judaeo-Christian presuppositions or through the filter of the Christian Fathers, Valerius Maximus gives us an opportunity to see an unexceptional pagan speaking about his religion.
Author : Clifford Ando
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015058870018
Historiography and method -- Religious institutions and religious authority -- Ritual and myth -- Theology -- Roman and alien -- Continuity and change from Republic to Empire.
Author : Clifford Ando
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2008-02-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520933651
What did the Romans know about their gods? Why did they perform the rituals of their religion, and what motivated them to change those rituals? To these questions Clifford Ando proposes simple answers: In contrast to ancient Christians, who had faith, Romans had knowledge, and their knowledge was empirical in orientation. In other words, the Romans acquired knowledge of the gods through observation of the world, and their rituals were maintained or modified in light of what they learned. After a preface and opening chapters that lay out this argument about knowledge and place it in context, The Matter of the Gods pursues a variety of themes essential to the study of religion in history.
Author : Valerius Maximus
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Anecdotes
ISBN : LCCN:99089336
Valerius Maximus compiled his handbook of notable deeds and sayings during the reign of Tiberius (14-37 CE). The collection was very popular in the Renaissance and has recently attracted renewed scholarly attention. Valerius arranges his instructive examples in short chapters, each focused on a particular virtue, vice, religious practice, or traditional custom--including Omens, Dreams, Anger, Cruelty, Bravery, Fidelity, Gratitude, Friendship, Parental Love. The moral undercurrent of this collection is readily apparent. But Valerius tells us that the book's purpose is practical: he decided to select worthwhile material from famous writers so that people looking for illustrative examples might be spared the trouble of research. Whatever the author's intention, his book is an interesting source of information on Roman attitudes toward religion and moral values in the first century. - Publisher.
Author : Valerius
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2000-08-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0674002644
Valerius Maximus compiled his handbook of notable deeds and sayings during the reign of Tiberius (A.D. 14-37). The collection was very popular in the Renaissance and has recently attracted renewed scholarly attention. Yet to date there has been no modern English translation of Memorable Doings and Sayings. This work is now added to the Loeb Classical Library, a freshly edited Latin text facing D. R. Shackleton Bailey's pleasing and authoritative translation. Valerius arranges his instructive examples in short chapters, each focused on a particular virtue, vice, religious practice, or traditional custom -- including Omens, Dreams, Anger, Cruelty, Bravery, Fidelity, Gratitude, Friendship, Parental Love. The moral undercurrent of this collection is readily apparent. But Valerius tells us that the book's purpose is practical: he decided to select worthwhile material from famous writers so that people looking for illustrative examples might be spared the trouble of research. Whatever the author's intention, his book is an interesting source of information on Roman attitudes toward religion and moral values in the first century.
Author : Jörg Rüpke
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2016-05-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107090521
Offers a new reading of the ancient sources in order to find indications for religious deviance practices in the Roman world.
Author : Robert E. A. Palmer
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2017-01-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781512818352
This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.
Author : Robin Lorsch Wildfang
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2006-09-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134151653
Comprehensive and thoroughly up-to-date, this volume offers a brand new analysis of the Vestal Virgins’ ritual function in Roman religion. Undertaking a detailed and careful analysis of ancient literary sources, Wildfang argues that the Vestals’ virginity must be understood on a variety of different levels and provides a solution to the problem of the Vestals’ peculiar legal status in ancient Rome. Addressing the one official state priesthood open to women at Rome, this volume explores and analyzes a range of topics including: the rituals enacted by priestesses (both the public rituals performed in connection with official state rites and festivals and the private rites associated only with the order itself) the division and interface between religion, state and family structure the Vestals’ participation in rights that were outside the sphere of traditional female activity. New and insightful, this investigation of one of the most important state cults in ancient Rome is an essential addition to the bookshelves of all those interested in Roman religion, history and culture.
Author : Jörg Rüpke
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2016-10-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781501706790
Provocative reading for anyone interested in Roman culture in the late Republic and early Empire.― Religious Studies Review Was religious practice in ancient Rome cultic and hostile to individual expression? Or was there, rather, considerable latitude for individual initiative and creativity? Jörg Rüpke, one of the world’s leading authorities on Roman religion, demonstrates in his new book that it was a lived religion with individual appropriations evident at the heart of such rituals as praying, dedicating, making vows, and reading. On Roman Religion definitively dismantles previous approaches that depicted religious practice as uniform and static. Juxtaposing very different, strategic, and even subversive forms of individuality with traditions, their normative claims, and their institutional protections, Rüpke highlights the dynamic character of Rome’s religious institutions and traditions. In Rüpke’s view, lived ancient religion is as much about variations or even outright deviance as it is about attempts and failures to establish or change rules and roles and to communicate them via priesthoods, practices related to images or classified as magic, and literary practices. Rüpke analyzes observations of religious experience by contemporary authors including Propertius, Ovid, and the author of the "Shepherd of Hermas." These authors, in very different ways, reflect on individual appropriation of religion among their contemporaries, and they offer these reflections to their readership or audiences. Rüpke also concentrates on the ways in which literary texts and inscriptions informed the practice of rituals.
Author : Sophia Papaioannou,Andreas Serafim,Kyriakos Demetriou
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2021-10-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110699623
It is perhaps a truism to note that ancient religion and rhetoric were closely intertwined in Greek and Roman antiquity. Religion is embedded in socio-political, legal and cultural institutions and structures, while also being influenced, or even determined, by them. Rhetoric is used to address the divine, to invoke the gods, to talk about the sacred, to express piety and to articulate, refer to, recite or explain the meaning of hymns, oaths, prayers, oracles and other religious matters and processes. The 13 contributions to this volume explore themes and topics that most succinctly describe the firm interrelation between religion and rhetoric mostly in, but not exclusively focused on, Greek and Roman antiquity, offering new, interdisciplinary insights into a great variety of aspects, from identity construction and performance to legal/political practices and a broad analytical approach to transcultural ritualistic customs. The volume also offers perceptive insights into oriental (i.e. Egyptian magic) texts and Christian literature.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Historiography of Rome and Its
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2021-12-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9004499407
From footnote-fodder to intellectual: Valerius Maximus, a generally under-appreciated minor author of the early first century AD emerges as a holder of distinct views on Rome's dynasty, their world, on how to behave within that world, and as an influencer of later thought both pagan and Christian.
Author : Jack J. Lennon
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107037908
A detailed study of pollution and impurity in Roman religion, offering new theories on a previously neglected, yet vital, subject.
Author : Valerius Maximus
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2004-03-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781603840712
Popular in its day both as a sourcebook for writers and orators and as a guidebook for living a moral life, this remarkably rich document serves as an engaging introduction to the cultural and moral history of ancient Rome. Valerius' "thousand tales" are arranged thematically in ninety-one chapters that cover nearly every aspect of life in the ancient world, including such wide-ranging topics as military discipline, child rearing, and women lawyers. As a whole, the work gives the reader fascinating insights into what it felt like to be an ancient Roman, what the ancient Romans really believed, what their private world was like, how they related to one another, and what they did when nobody was watching.
Author : Valerius
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2000-08-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0674002652
Valerius Maximus compiled his handbook of notable deeds and sayings during the reign of Tiberius (A.D. 14-37). The collection was very popular in the Renaissance and has recently attracted renewed scholarly attention. Yet to date there has been no modem English translation of Memorable Doings and Sayings. This work is now added to the Loeb Classical Library, a freshly edited Latin text facing D. R. Shackleton Bailey's pleasing and authoritative translation. Valerius arranges his instructive examples in short chapters, each focused on a particular virtue, vice, religious practice, or traditional custom -- including Omens, Dreams, Anger, Cruelty, Bravery, Fidelity, Gratitude, Friendship, Parental Love. The moral undercurrent of this collection is readily apparent. But Valerius tells us that the book's purpose is practical: he decided to select worthwhile material from famous writers so that people looking for illustrative examples might be spared the trouble of research. Whatever the author's intention, his book is an interesting source of information on Roman attitudes toward religion and moral values in the first century.