Ritual and Communication in the Graeco-Roman World
Title | Ritual and Communication in the Graeco-Roman World PDF eBook |
Author | Eftychia Stavrianopoulou |
Publisher | |
Pages | 350 |
Release | 2006 |
Genre | Greece |
ISBN |
Klassisches Altertum - Ritual - Kult - Gesellschaft.
Ritual and Communication in the Graeco-Roman World :
Title | Ritual and Communication in the Graeco-Roman World : PDF eBook |
Author | Eftychia Stavrianopoulou |
Publisher | |
Pages | 360 |
Release | 2006 |
Genre | Greece |
ISBN |
Tears in the Graeco-Roman World
Title | Tears in the Graeco-Roman World PDF eBook |
Author | Thorsten Fögen |
Publisher | Walter de Gruyter |
Pages | 498 |
Release | 2009 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 3110201119 |
This volume presents a wide range of contributions that analyse the cultural, sociological and communicative significance of tears and crying in Graeco-Roman antiquity. The papers cover the time from the eighth century BCE until late antiquity and take into account a broad variety of literary genres such as epic, tragedy, historiography, elegy, philosophical texts, epigram and the novel. The collection also contains two papers from modern socio-psychology.
Rez. Eftychia Stavrianopoulou (ed.): Ritual and communication in the Greco-Roman world
Title | Rez. Eftychia Stavrianopoulou (ed.): Ritual and communication in the Greco-Roman world PDF eBook |
Author | Martina Seifert |
Publisher | |
Pages | 163 |
Release | 2007 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
Divine Images and Human Imaginations in Ancient Greece and Rome
Title | Divine Images and Human Imaginations in Ancient Greece and Rome PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 455 |
Release | 2015-08-27 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9047441656 |
The polytheistic religious systems of ancient Greece and Rome reveal an imaginative attitude towards the construction of the divine. One of the most important instruments in this process was certainly the visualisation. Images of the gods transformed the divine world into a visually experienceable entity, comprehensible even without a theoretical or theological superstructure. For the illiterates, images were together with oral traditions and rituals the only possibility to approach the idea of the divine; for the intellectuals, images of the gods could be allegorically transcended symbols to reflect upon. Based on the art historical and textual evidence, this volume offers a fresh view on the historical, literary, and artistic significance of divine images as powerful visual media of religious and intellectual communication.
Text, Image, and Christians in the Graeco-Roman World
Title | Text, Image, and Christians in the Graeco-Roman World PDF eBook |
Author | Aliou Cissé Niang |
Publisher | Wipf and Stock Publishers |
Pages | 438 |
Release | 2011-11-03 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 1725246732 |
Twenty-four scholars join their efforts to congratulate David Lee Balch for a long career of dedication to scholarship and teaching. Topics range from the life of early Christian house churches to the kinds of challenges that early Christians needed to negotiate in their artistic and literary worlds as they established their own identity. Contributors Edward Adams Frederick E Brenk Warren Carter John R. Clarke Everett Ferguson John T. Fitzgerald Richard A. Freund Ronald F. Hock Robin M. Jensen Davina C. Lopez Margaret Y. MacDonald Abraham J. Malherbe Aliou Cisse Niang Peter Oakes Todd Penner Leo G. Perdue Turid Karlsen Seim Dennis E. Smith Yancy W. Smith Stephen V. Sprinkle Hal Taussig Oliver Larry Yarbrough
The Impact of the Roman Empire on the Cult of Asclepius
Title | The Impact of the Roman Empire on the Cult of Asclepius PDF eBook |
Author | Ghislaine van der Ploeg |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 337 |
Release | 2018-07-03 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9004372776 |
In The Impact of the Roman Empire on The Cult of Asclepius Ghislaine van der Ploeg offers an overview and analysis of how worship of the Graeco-Roman god Asclepius adapted, changed, and was disseminated under the Roman Empire. It is shown that the cult enjoyed a vibrant period of worship in the Roman era and by analysing the factors by which this religious changed happened, the impact which the Roman Empire had upon religious life is determined. Making use of epigraphic, numismatic, visual, and literary sources, van der Ploeg demonstrates the multifaceted nature of the Roman cult of Asclepius, updating current thinking about the god.