Gods, objects, and ritual practice /

"Conversations about materiality have helped forge a common meeting ground for scholars seeking to integrate images, sites, texts and implements in their approach to religion in the ancient Mediterranean. The fourteen chapters in this volume explore the productivity of these approaches, with ca...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Blakely, Sandra, 1959- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Atlanta, GA : Lockwood Press, 2017.
Colección:Studies in ancient Mediterranean religions ; no. 1.
Temas:
Material culture > Religious aspects.
Material culture > Mediterranean Region.
Religious articles > Mediterranean Region.
Culture matérielle > Aspect religieux.
RELIGION > Comparative Religion.
RELIGION > Essays.
RELIGION > Reference.
RELIGION > Ancient.
Material culture.
Religious articles.
Mediterranean Region > Religious life and customs.
Mediterranean Region.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : object, image, and text : materiality and ritual practice in the ancient Mediterranean / Sandra Blakely
  • Divine twins or saintly twins : the dioscuri in the early Christian context / Annewies van den Hoek
  • Altars, astragaloi, Achilles : picturing divination on Athenian vases / Sheramy D. Bundrick
  • Incarnating the Aurea aetas : theomorphic rhetoric and the portraits of Nero / Eric R. Varner
  • No more than one candle, torch, or wreath : private citizens and the commemoration of L. Caesar at Pisa / J. Bert Lott
  • The cadence of the language of magic in Greek curse tablets and First Corinthians / Jill E. Marshall
  • Sacred objects, material value, and invective in Cicero's Verrines II 4 / Isabel Köster
  • Local production and domestic ritual use of small rectangular incense altars : a petrographic provenience analysis and examination of craftsmanship of the Tell Halif incense altars / Seung Ho Bang, Oded Borowski, Kook Young Yoon, Yuval Goren
  • Judaean pillar figurines and the making of female piety in ancient Israelite religion / Erin Darby
  • Priestesses in action : ritual instruments employed by Roman women / Meghan J. DiLuzio
  • Rhetoric, repetition, and identity in the frieze of sacred objects on the Temple of Divus Vespasian and Divus Titus / Susan Ludi Blevins
  • Channeling identity : the fountain of Glauke in Corinth and Jacob's well in John 4 / Eric Moore
  • "In this holy place" : incubation at hot springs in Roman and late antique Palestine / Megan S. Nutzman
  • Gods, graves, and extratextual rituals in archaic colonial Sicily / Lela M. Urquhart.

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