Author : J. Leclant
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 26,64 MB
Release : 2015-08-24
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9004294821
Preliminary material -- Inventaire Bibliographique des Isiaca (L-Q) -- INDEX -- LISTE DES PLANCHES -- PLANCHE.
Author : Leclant
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 19,94 MB
Release : 2015-11-16
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9004296212
Preliminary material /J. Leclant -- Inventaire Bihliographique des Isiaca (E-K) /J. Leclant -- INDEX /J. Leclant -- LISTE DES PLANCHES /J. Leclant -- PLANCHE I /J. Leclant.
Author : J. Leclant
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 22,29 MB
Release : 2015-09-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9004296239
This fourth volume of IBIS completes the first series of this analytical bibliography of publications concerning the spread of cults of Isis published between 1940 and 1969 (nos. 1167 to 1752). Authors have sometimes been driven to look beyond the limits of the Greco-Roman world and the field of the Isiac cults stricto sensu. Such is the case with Egyptian or Egyptisizing documents carried by Greek or Phonecian-Punic commerce towards the distant western coasts of the Mediterranean basin. The Egyptophile tradition in our European culture seems to have taken its place here too. Each of the literature reviews given here is accompanied by very precise bibliographical references for the publications concerned, as well as a detailed analysis of the contents of the publication and its contribution to the general themes of research. The authors have aimed to provide the most complete and practical research tool possible. Furthermore, a number of cross-references and additional bibliographical information have been provided in the notes. A detailed index of more than 150 pages allows not only a rapid consultation of the work, but also fairly direct access to complete bibliographies on the cults of Isis, the Aegyptiaca and Egyptian influences in the Greco-Roman world. Avec ce 4e volume d'IBIS se termine la première série de cette bibliographie analytique des publications relatives à la diffusion des cultes isiaques parues entre 1940 et 1969 (nos. 1167 à 1752). Les auteurs ont été parfois entrâinés à dépasser les limites du monde gréco-romain et le domaine des cultes isiaques stricto sensu. Tel est le cas pour les documents égyptiens ou égyptisants véhiculés par le commerce grec ou phénico-punique jusque vers les côtes lointaines de l'Ouest du bassin méditerranéen. La tradition de l'égyptophilie dans notre culture européenne a semblé également devoir prendre ici sa place. Pour chacune des 585 notices sont données les références bibliographiques très précises de la publication concernée, ainsi qu'une analyse détaillée du contenu de la publication et de son apport à nos thèmes de recherches. L'objectif des auteurs a été de fournir un instrument de travail le plus complet et le plus pratique possible. Aussi, de nombreux renvois et compléments bibliographiques ont-ils été fournis pour la plupart des notices. Un index minutieux de plus de 150 pages permet non seulement une consultation rapide de l'ouvrage, mais encore la constitution en quelque sorte immédiate de bibliographies complètes sur les cultes isiaques, les Aegyptiaca et les influences égyptiennes dans le monde gréco-romain. Destiné aux spécialistes des cultes orientaux, l'IBIS sera utile également à tous ceux qui travaillent sur l'Antiquité classique.
Author : Margreet de Boer
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 578 pages
File Size : 34,51 MB
Release : 2015-08-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9004295437
Preliminary material /Margreet de Boer and T. A. Edridge -- SARAPIACA I /WILHELM HORNBOSTEL -- A NEW INTERPRETATION OF THE BULL-SLAYING MOTIF /S. INSLER -- ISIS OU LA TYCHÉ D'ALEXANDRIE ? /MARIE-ODILE JENTEL -- LA GRENOUILLE D'ÉTERNITÉ DES PAYS DU NIL AU MONDE MÉDITERRANÉEN /JEAN LECLANT -- UN «PIED DE SARAPIS» À TIMGAD, EN NUMIDIE /MARCEL LE GLAY -- EIN GNOMON AUS EINEM SÜDWEST-DEUTSCHEN MITHRÄUM /WOLFGANG LENTZ and WOLFHARD SCHLOSSER -- STRABO AND THE MEMPHITE TAUROMACHY /ALAN B. LLOYD -- DOCUMENTS NOUVEAUX ET POINTS DE VUE RÉCENTS SUR LES CULTES ISIAQUES EN ITALIE /MICHEL MALAISE -- LES CULTES ORIENTAUX À MICIA (DACIA SVPERIOR) /LIVIU MĂRGHITAN and CONSTANTIN C. PETOLESCU -- LE CULTE DE CYBÈLE DANS LA LIBURNIE ANTIQUE /JULIJAN MEDINI -- VERTRAG UND OPFER IN DER RELIGION DES MITHRAS /R. MERKELBACH -- AGDISTIS OU L'ANDROGYNIE MALSÉANTE /MICHEL MESLIN -- LE DIED SOI-DISANT ANONYME À PALMYRE /ROBERT DU MESNIL DU BUISSON -- UN MONUMENT ÉNIGMATIQUE «DUSARI SACRUM» A POUZZOLES /PAUL G. P. MEYBOOM -- THE CULT OF ORIENTAL DIVINITIES IN CYPRUS: Archaic to Graeco-Roman Times /INO MICHAELIDOU-NICOLAOU -- MARKS, NAMES AND NUMBERS: Further Observations on Solar Symbolism and Ancient Numerology /WALTER O. MOELLER -- SOME NOTES ON THE NAME OF SARAPIS /GERARD MUSSIES -- GEMMES, BAGUES ET AMULETTES MAGIQUES DU SUD DE L'URSS /O. YA. NÉVÉROV -- ORIENTAL DIVINITIES REPRESENTED ON THE CLAY SEALINGS OF PAPHOS, CYPRUS /K. NICOLAOU -- MITHRAIC LADDER SYMBOLS AND THE FRIEDBERG CRATER /HIDEO OGAWA -- ÉLÉMENTS POUR UNE ANALYSE DE PRIAPE CHEZ JUSTIN LE GNOSTIQUE /MAURICE OLENDER -- BETRACHTUNGEN ZUM KULT DES THRAKISCHEN REITERS AUF DEM TERRITORIUM DER VR BULGARIEN /M. OPPERMANN -- MONUMENTS RELATIFS AUX CULTES ÉGYPTIENS À L'ÉPOQUE ROMAINE DU MUSÉE ARCHÉOLOGIQUE DE BARCELONE /J. PADRÓ I PARCERISA and E. SANMARTf-GREGO -- LE CULTE MÉTROAQUE CHEZ LES ALLOBROGES /ANDRÉ PELLETIER -- THE NYMPHS AT POSEIDON'S SANCTUARY /JEANNE MARTY PEPPERS -- NEUE JUPITER-DOLICHENUS WEIHUNGEN AUS VIRUNUM /GERNOT PICCOTTINI -- LISTE DES PLANCHES /WILHELM HORNBOSTEL -- PLANCHES /Margreet de Boer and T. A. Edridge.
Author : Armin Lange
Publisher : Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 32,5 MB
Release : 2010-11-17
Category : Religion
ISBN : 3647550167
Light Against Darkness is comprised of articles that put on display the power and pervasiveness of dualistic thought. Dualism has proved a potent cultural tool for clarifying and ordering reality. Particularly in times of social stress and psychological insecurity, it can offer a valuable conceptual grid that provides orientation to the world and a clear sense of identity. At the same time, though, there are important questions to be asked about the social effects of binary thinking. As history amply illustrates, dualistic notions can readily be deployed to legitimate cultural demonization and to rationalize violence. At a deeper level, a dualist worldview can also obscure the possibilities to be found in multiplicity.The articles in this volume treat Dualism across a wide historical spectrum and from multiple methodological perspectives. The studies are organized around the religious and cultural contexts of Ancient Judaism and they include contributions from leading voices on ancient Persia, Israel, Greece, and Egypt.Experts on modern religious and philosophical thought not only lend context to concepts applied to the ancient world, but engage recent European and American experiments in binary thought. All of the studies contribute to a richer and more complete portrait of dualism in ancient Judaism.
Author : John Peradotto
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 20,58 MB
Release : 1987-04-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1438415842
One of the reasons for the study of the Greek and Roman classics is their perpetual relevance. In no area can this position be more clearly defended than in the investigation of the feminine condition, for it was here that basic attitudes derogatory to the sex were molded by legal and social systems, by philosophers and poets, and by the thinking of men long since gone. Women in the Ancient World brings together essays that examine philosophy, social history, literature, and art, and that extend from the early Greek period through the Roman Empire. Their wide range of critical perspectives throws new light on the personal, political, socio-economic, and cultural position of women.
Author : Valentino Gasparini
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 1191 pages
File Size : 36,73 MB
Release : 2018-10-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9004381341
In Individuals and Materials in the Greco-Roman Cults of Isis Valentino Gasparini and Richard Veymiers present a collection of reflections on the individuals and groups which animated one of Antiquity’s most dynamic, significant and popular religious phenomena: the reception of the cults of Isis and other Egyptian gods throughout the Hellenistic and Roman worlds. These communities, whose members seem to share the same religious identity, for a long time have been studied in a monolithic way through the prism of the Cumontian category of the “Oriental religions”. The 26 contributions of this book, divided into three sections devoted to the “agents”, their “images” and their “practices”, shed new light on this religious movement that appears much more heterogeneous and colorful than previously recognized.
Author : Giovanni Casadio
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 583 pages
File Size : 18,34 MB
Release : 2013-08-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0292749945
In Vergil's Aeneid, the poet implies that those who have been initiated into mystery cults enjoy a blessed situation both in life and after death. This collection of essays brings new insight to the study of mystic cults in the ancient world, particularly those that flourished in Magna Graecia (essentially the area of present-day Southern Italy and Sicily). Implementing a variety of methodologies, the contributors to Mystic Cults in Magna Graecia examine an array of features associated with such "mystery religions" that were concerned with individual salvation through initiation and hidden knowledge rather than civic cults directed toward Olympian deities usually associated with Greek religion. Contributors present contemporary theories of ancient religion, field reports from recent archaeological work, and other frameworks for exploring mystic cults in general and individual deities specifically, with observations about cultural interactions throughout. Topics include Dionysos and Orpheus, the Goddess Cults, Isis in Italy, and Roman Mithras, explored by an international array of scholars including Giulia Sfameni Gasparro ("Aspects of the Cult of Demeter in Magna Graecia") and Alberto Bernabé ("Imago Inferorum Orphica"). The resulting volume illuminates this often misunderstood range of religious phenomena.
Author : Richard Valantasis
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 45,52 MB
Release : 2018-06-05
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0691188165
This is an unprecedented collection of nearly seventy Late Antique primary religious texts. These texts--all in new English translation and many appearing in English for the first time--represent every major religious current from the late first century until the rise of Islam. Produced through the efforts of thirty-six leading scholars in the field, they constitute a comprehensive view of religious practice in Late Antiquity. Religious life and performance during this period comprised diverse, often unusual practices. Philosophical ascent, magic, legal pronouncement, hymnography, dietary and sexual restriction, and rhetoric were all part of this deeply fascinating world. Religious and political identity often intertwined, as reflected in the Roman persecution of Christians. And a fluid boundary between religion and superstition was contested in daily life. Many practices, including ascetic training, crossed religious boundaries. Others, such as "incubation" at specific temples and certain divination rites, were distinctive practices of individual groups and orders. Intrinsically interesting, the practice of religion in the Late Antique also edifies modern-day religious life. As this volume shows, the origins of the contemporary Western religious terrain can be gleaned in this period. Rabbinic Judaism flourished and spread. Christianity developed still-important theological categories and structures. And even movements that did not survive intact--such as Neoplatonism and the once-powerful Manichaean churches--continue to influence religion today. This rich sourcebook includes discussions of asceticism, religious organization, ritual, martyrdom, religion's social implications, law, and theology. Its unique emphasis on practice and its inclusion of texts translated from lesser-known languages advance the study of religious history in several directions. A strong interdisciplinary orientation will reward scholars and students of religion, theology, gender studies, classical literatures, and history. Each text is accompanied by an introduction and a bibliography for further reading and research, making the book appropriate for use in any university or seminary classroom.
Author : Walter Burkert
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 13,86 MB
Release : 1989-10-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0674253159
The foremost historian of Greek religion provides the first comprehensive, comparative study of a little-known aspect of ancient religious beliefs and practices. Secret mystery cults flourished within the larger culture of the public religion of Greece and Rome for roughly a thousand years. This book is neither a history nor a survey but a comparative phenomenology, concentrating on five major cults. In defining the mysteries and describing their rituals, membership, organization, and dissemination, Walter Burkert displays the remarkable erudition we have come to expect of him; he also shows great sensitivity and sympathy in interpreting the experiences and motivations of the devotees.
