Eastern Cults in Moesia Inferior and Thracia (5th Century B.C.-4th Century A.D.)

Eastern Cults in Moesia Inferior and Thracia (5th Century B.C.-4th Century A.D.)
Author: Margarita Tacheva-Hitova
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 435
Release: 2015-08-25
Genre: History
ISBN: 9004295739

Preliminary material -- THE CULT OF SARAPIS AND ISIS -- THE CULT OF THE (GREAT) MOTHER OF GODS -- THE CULT OF SABAZIOS -- MONUMENTS WITH DEDICATIONS TO THE GOD (OR ZEUS) HYPSISTOS -- V. THE CULT OF ZEUS (JUPITER) DOLICHENUS -- THE GODDESSES ON THE BRONZE PLAQUES FROM RAZGRAD AND THEIR PARALLELS -- DEA SYRIA -- THE HOLY AND THE RIGHTEOUS GODS -- THE CAPITOLINE TRIAD IN ITS ANATOLIAN VARIANT (IX, 1-2) -- PRIAPUS -- GLYCON. THE MONUMENT FROM TOMI -- MÊN -- NOTES -- INDICES -- PLATES.

Early Christianity in Contexts

Early Christianity in Contexts
Author: William Tabbernee
Publisher: Baker Academic
Total Pages: 737
Release: 2014-11-18
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1441245715

This major work draws on current archaeological and textual research to trace the spread of Christianity in the first millennium. William Tabbernee, an internationally renowned scholar of the history of Christianity, has assembled a team of expert historians to survey the diverse forms of early Christianity as it spread across centuries, cultures, and continents. Organized according to geographical areas of the late antique world, this book examines what various regions looked like before and after the introduction of Christianity. How and when was Christianity (or a new form or expression of it) introduced into the region? How were Christian life and thought shaped by the particularities of the local setting? And how did Christianity in turn influence or reshape the local culture? The book's careful attention to local realities adds depth and concreteness to students' understanding of early Christianity, while its broad sweep introduces them to first-millennium precursors of today's variegated, globalized religion. Numerous photographs, sidebars, and maps are included.

Ancient Greece and Rome

Ancient Greece and Rome
Author: Keith Hopwood
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Total Pages: 472
Release: 1995
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780719024016

Sir Thomas Fairfax, not Oliver Cromwell, was creator and commander of Parliament's New Model Army from 1645 to1650. Although Fairfax emerged as England's most successful commander of the 1640s, this book challenges the orthodoxy that he was purely a military figure, showing how he was not apolitical or disinterested in politics. The book combines narrative and thematic approaches to explore the wider issues of popular allegiance, puritan religion, concepts of honour, image, reputation, memory, gender, literature, and Fairfax's relationship with Cromwell. 'Black Tom' delivers a groundbreaking examination of the transformative experience of the English revolution from the viewpoint of one of its leading, yet most neglected, participants. It is the first modern academic study of Fairfax, making it essential reading for university students as well as historians of the seventeenth century. Its accessible style will appeal to a wider audience of those interested in the civil wars and interregnum more generally.

Near Eastern Royalty and Rome, 100-30 Bc

Near Eastern Royalty and Rome, 100-30 Bc
Author: Richard D. Sullivan
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Total Pages: 540
Release: 1990-12-15
Genre: History
ISBN: 1487591217

During the first century BC, the Near and Middle Easy saw a great transition from the Seleucid and Ptolemaic Empires, by way of the brief Pontic and Armenian Empires, to the triumphant Parthian and Roman Empires. Richard D. Sullivan offers a guide to the central role of royalty during this period. He provides, through narrative and citations, a context for the frequent references to Eastern kings and queens by Caesar, Cicero, Strabo, Josephus, Tacitus, Appian, Dio, and others. He also discusses related inscriptions, coins, and papyri. Sullivan focuses on the personnel of the many dynasties which rules the Near and Middle East, from Thrace through Asia Minor and the Levant to Egypt, then eastward to Armenia, Mesopotamia, and Parthia. He studies such famous figures as Mithradates Eupator, Cleopatra, and Herod the Great as well as others now obscure. To ‘locate’ them properly, he provides a narrative history of each dynasty and draws them together in a coherent account of Eastern royal governance and its accommodations with Rome and Parthia.

Traditions of the Magi

Traditions of the Magi
Author: Albert F. de Jong
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 510
Release: 2015-08-27
Genre: History
ISBN: 9004301461

This is the first full treatment of the Greek and Latin references to Zoroastrianism since the pioneering works of Benveniste, Bidez & Cumont, and Clemen. It focuses on the possibilities offered by the classical reports on Zoroastrianism to reconstruct the history of that faith. The book is divided into three sections. The first section deals with introductory problems concerning ancient religious ethnography and current views of the history of Zoroastrianism. The second section consists of commentaries on five selected passages. The third section offers a thematical overview of the materials and their relevance for the history of Iranian religions. Apart from offering introductions to a wide range of debates and topics in Classics and Iranian studies, the book aims to illustrate the diversity of beliefs and practices in ancient Zoroastrianism.

CCIS

CCIS
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Publisher: Brill Archive
Total Pages: 124
Release: 1985
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9789004071490

Corpus Cultus Iovis Sabazii (CCIS), Volume 2

Corpus Cultus Iovis Sabazii (CCIS), Volume 2
Author: E.N. Lane
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 117
Release: 2015-09-07
Genre: History
ISBN: 9004296522

Preliminary material -- INSCRIBED MONUMENTS, EXCLUDING INSCRIBED HANDS -- NON-INSCRIBED MONUMENTS, EXCLUDING HANDS AND STATUETTES ONCE ASSOCIATED WITH HANDS -- DUBIA -- TESTIMONIA ANTIQUA -- TESTIMONIA ANTIQUA DUBIA -- TOPOGRAPHICAL INDEX -- MUSEUM INDEX -- EPIGRAPHICAL INDEX -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS OF THE ILLUSTRATIONS -- PLATES.

Cybele, Attis and Related Cults

Cybele, Attis and Related Cults
Author: Eugene N. Lane
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 454
Release: 2015-08-27
Genre: History
ISBN: 9004295887

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.

Social Interactions and Status Markers in the Roman World

Social Interactions and Status Markers in the Roman World
Author: George Cupcea
Publisher: Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Total Pages: 180
Release: 2018-03-31
Genre: History
ISBN: 1784917494

Proceedings from the ‘People of the Ancient World’ conference held in Cluj-Napoca, Romania in 2016. Ten papers encompass diverse approaches to Roman provincial populations and the corresponding case-studies highlight the multi-faceted character of Roman society.

Roman Religion in the Danubian Provinces

Roman Religion in the Danubian Provinces
Author: Csaba Szabó
Publisher: Oxbow Books
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2022-05-15
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1789257859

The Danubian provinces represent one of the largest macro-units within the Roman Empire, with a large and rich heritage of Roman material evidence. Although the notion itself is a modern 18th-century creation, this region represents a unique area, where the dominant, pre-Roman cultures (Celtic, Illyrian, Hellenistic, Thracian) are interconnected within the new administrative, economic and cultural units of Roman cities, provinces and extra-provincial networks. This book presents the material evidence of Roman religion in the Danubian provinces through a new, paradigmatic methodology, focusing not only on the traditional urban and provincial units of the Roman Empire, but on a new space taxonomy. Roman religion and its sacralized places are presented in macro-, meso- and micro-spaces of a dynamic empire, which shaped Roman religion in the 1st-3rd centuries AD and created a large number of religious glocalizations and appropriations in Raetia, Noricum, Pannonia Superior, Pannonia Inferior, Moesia Superior, Moesia Inferior and Dacia. Combining the methodological approaches of Roman provincial archaeology and religious studies, this work intends to provoke a dialogue between disciplines rarely used together in central-east Europe and beyond. The material evidence of Roman religion is interpreted here as a dynamic agent in religious communication, shaped by macro-spaces, extra-provincial routes, commercial networks, but also by the formation and constant dynamics of small group religions interconnected within this region through human and material mobilities. The book will also present for the first time a comprehensive list of sacralized spaces and divinities in the Danubian provinces.