Religious convergence in the ancient Mediterranean /

This volume brings together scholars in religion, archaeology, philology, and history to explore case studies and theoretical models of converging religions. The twenty-four essays offered in this volume, which derive from Hittite, Cilician, Lydian, Phoenician, Greek, and Roman cultural settings, fo...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Blakely, Sandra, 1959- (Editor ), Collins, Billie Jean (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Italiano
Publicado: Atlanta : Lockwood Press, [2019]
Colección:Studies in ancient Mediterranean religions ; no. 2.
Temas:
To 1500
Religion and civilization.
Archaeology and religion.
Religion et civilisation.
Archéologie et religion.
RELIGION > Ancient.
Religion and civilization
Archaeology and religion
Religion
Mediterranean Region > Religion > History > To 1500.
Mediterranean Region
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction / Sandra Blakely
  • Section 1: Site. Guardian goddess of the surf-beaten shore : the influence of mariners on sanctuaries of Aphrodite in Magna Graecia / Amelia R. Brown, Rebecca Smith
  • Lilibeo e i suoi culti: Nuovi esempi dalla ricerca archeologica / Rossella Giglio
  • Large temples as cultural banners in western Sicily / Margaret M. Miles
  • Close encounters on Sicily : Molech, Meilichios, and religious convergence at Selinus / Sarah Morris
  • The Temple of Astarte "Aglaia" at Motya and its cultural significance in the Mediterranean realm / Lorenzo Nigro
  • Venere del Mare : Testimonianze del culto nel trapanese / Francesca Oliveri. Section 2: Text. Hittite prayers and their Mesopotamian models / Elisabeth Rieken
  • Mythological passages in Hittite rituals / Susanne Görke
  • Religious convergence in Hittite Anatolia : the case of Kizzuwatna / Amir Gilan
  • The Arzawa rituals and religious production in Hattusa / Billie Jean Collins
  • Survival of "popular" mythology : from Hittite mountain man to Phrygian mountain mother / Mary R. Bachvarova
  • Native religious traditions from a Lydian perspective / Annick Payne. Section 3: Object. Funerary practices and rituals on Sicily from the Neolithic to the Bronze Age (sixth through second millennia BCE) / Sebastiano Tusa
  • The convergence of guardian statues in the ancient world : top-down or bottom-up? / Christopher Athanasious Faraone
  • Across traditions and beyond boundaries : the masks of Carthage / Adriano Orsingher
  • Greek coins, Punic people : an iconographic analysis of the Punic coinage of Sicily / José Miguel Puebla Morón
  • Ritual practices, food offerings, and animal sacrifices : votive deposits in the Temple of the Kothon (Motya) / Federica Spagnoli
  • Romantic receptions, or, The Aeginetan sculptures' long march to Munich / Louis A. Ruprecht Jr. Section 4: Action. From Zalpuwa to Brauron : Hittite-Greek religious convergence on the Black Sea / Ian Rutherford
  • The politics of ritual performance at Assyrian-Period Sam'al : local and imperial identity in the Katumuwa mortuary stele from Zincirli / Virginia R. Herrmann
  • The Tonaia and Samian identity / Aaron Beck-Schachter
  • Sparta and Persia : rituals for invading the land of the gods of others / Irene Polinskaya
  • Using your head : reading a "local style" adapted for foreign ritual / Kevin Dicus
  • Roman Empire and Roman emperor : animal sacrifice as an instrument of religious xonvergence / J. B. Rives.

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