Sarapis under the early Ptolemies, etc
Title | Sarapis under the early Ptolemies, etc PDF eBook |
Author | John E. Stambaugh |
Publisher | |
Pages | 12 |
Release | 1972 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
Sarapis under the Early Ptolemies
Title | Sarapis under the Early Ptolemies PDF eBook |
Author | John Stambaugh |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 117 |
Release | 2015-08-24 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9004294902 |
Preliminary material -- INTRODUCTION -- THE HELLENISTIC ICONOGRAPHY OF SARAPIS -- SARAPIS AND PLUTO -- SARAPIS AND OSIRIS -- SARAPIS AND DIONYSUS -- SARAPIS AND THE APIS BULL -- SARAPIS AND APIS THE KING -- SARAPIS AND ASCLEPIUS -- LATER HELLENISTIC IDENTIFICATIONS -- CONCLUSION -- Plates I-IV.
Isis Pelagia: Images, Names and Cults of a Goddess of the Seas
Title | Isis Pelagia: Images, Names and Cults of a Goddess of the Seas PDF eBook |
Author | Laurent Bricault |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 402 |
Release | 2019-11-11 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9004413901 |
In Isis Pelagia, Laurent Bricault offers a new interpretation of many of the various sources on Isis as a goddess of the seas in the Graeco-Roman world.
Settlements of the Ptolemies
Title | Settlements of the Ptolemies PDF eBook |
Author | Katja Mueller |
Publisher | Peeters Publishers |
Pages | 278 |
Release | 2006 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 9789042917095 |
Unlike the Seleukid's the Ptolemies did not at first glance create numerous eye-catching cities.
Ptolemaic and Early Roman Egypt
Title | Ptolemaic and Early Roman Egypt PDF eBook |
Author | John S. Kloppenborg |
Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Pages | 772 |
Release | 2020-08-10 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 3110710390 |
Private associations organized around a common cult, occupation, ethnic identity, neighborhood or family were among the principal means of organizing social and economic life in the ancient Mediterranean. They offered opportunities for sociability, cultic activities, mutual support and contexts in which to display and recognize virtuous achievement. This volume collects 140 inscriptions and papyri from Ptolemaic and early Roman Egypt, along with translations, notes, commentary, and analytic indices. The dossier of association-related documents substantially enhances our knowledge of the extent, activities, and importance of private associations in the ancient Mediterranean, since papyri, unavailable from most other locations in the Mediterranean, preserve a much wider range of data than epigraphical monuments. The dossier from Egypt includes not only honorific decrees, membership lists, bylaws, dedications, and funerary monuments, but monthly accounts of expenditures and income, correspondence between guild secretaries and local officials, price and tax declarations, records of legal actions concerning associations, loan documents, petitions to local authorities about associations, letters of resignation, and many other papyrological genres. These documents provide a highly variegated picture of the governance structures and practices of associations, membership sizes and profiles, and forms of interaction with the State.
The Religious Context of Early Christianity
Title | The Religious Context of Early Christianity PDF eBook |
Author | Hans-Josef Klauck |
Publisher | Fortress Press |
Pages | 550 |
Release | 2003 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 9780800635930 |
Klauck's is a uniquely well-informed and comprehensive guide to the world of religion in the Graeco-Roman environment of early Christianity. Drawing on the most up-to-date scholarship, his volume paints a carefully nuanced portrait of the Christians' religious context. Besides describing ordinary domestic and civic religion and popular belief (including astrology, divination and "magic"), there is extended discussion of mystery cults, ruler and emperor cults, the religious dimensions of philosophy, and Gnosticism. An authoritative work, Klauck's will become a new standard for reference and teaching.
Hellenizing Art in Ancient Nubia 300 B.C. - AD 250 and Its Egyptian Models
Title | Hellenizing Art in Ancient Nubia 300 B.C. - AD 250 and Its Egyptian Models PDF eBook |
Author | László Török |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 511 |
Release | 2011-07-12 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 9004211284 |
Presenting a large body of evidence for the first time, this book offers a comprehensive treatment of Nubian architecture, sculpture, and minor arts in the period between 300 BC-AD 250. It focuses primarily on the Nubian response to the traditional pharaonic, Hellenistic/Roman, Hellenizing, and “hybrid” elements of Ptolemaic and Roman Egyptian culture. The author begins with a history of Nubian art and a critical survey of the literature on Ptolemaic and Roman Egyptian art. Special chapters are then devoted to the discussion of the Egyptian-Greek interaction in the arts of Ptolemaic Egypt, the place of Egyptian Hellenistic and Hellenizing art within the oikumene, the pluralistic visual world of Ptolemaic and Roman Egypt, as well as on the specific genre of terracotta sculpture. Utilizing examples from Meroe City and Musawwarat es Sufra, the author argues that cultural transfer from Ptolemaic and Roman Egypt to Nubia resulted in an inward-focused adaptation. Therefore, the resulting Nubian art from this period expresses only those aspects of Egyptian and Greek art that are compatible with indigenous Nubian goals.