Political religions in the Greco-Roman world : discourses, practices and images /

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Until the 1980s, historical treatments of ancient religion focused mainly on myth, cult and ritual as a way to interpret the mental structures or primary emotions of ancient peoples, but, in the last few decades, a "political turn" in the study of religion has taken hold. This volume serve...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Koulakiotis, Elias (Autor)
Otros Autores: Dunn, Charlotte (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2019
Temas:
600-1500
Church history > Middle Ages, 600-1500.
Christianity and culture > History > Middle Ages, 600-1500.
Église > Histoire > 600-1500 (Moyen Âge)
RELIGION > Christianity > History.
Christianity and culture > Middle Ages
Church history > Middle Ages
Europe > Religious life and customs.
Europe > Vie religieuse.
Europe
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Dionysius I and the woman of Himera: a case study in the perils of political religion / Frances Pownall
  • A contest in charisma: Cynisca's heroization, Spartan royal authority, and the threat of non-royal glorification / Ellen Millender
  • The poleis at the center: attribution of divine honors to living monarchs? The case of Amyntas III and Philip II / Alexandra Bartzoka
  • Arrian the priest: provincial cultural identity and Roman imperial policy / Elias Koulakiotis
  • Cassius Dio, the procession of Alexander's daimon and the manipulation of divine signs in the age of the Severans / Sabine Müller
  • Before the magna mater: the mother of the gods and empire / Mark Munn
  • Aphrodite and imperialistic politics in classical years: from Cimon to Evagoras I / Panos Christodoulou
  • Hellenistic ruler cult: a plutarchan perspective / Michael Lipka
  • War and the lawgiver: the civilizing role of religion in Plutarch's Lycurgus-Numa / Michael Nerdahl
  • The Peplos of Hera and the council of the sixten women of Elis / Ariadne Gartziou-Tatti
  • The manipulation of Panhellenic and local myth in the pedimental compositions of 4th century BCE Peloponnesian temples / Georgios Mostratos
  • Federal cults in Hellenistic Aetolia: Laphrieia and Panaitolika / Jacek Rzepka
  • Arete in a religious context: Eusebeia and other virtues in Hellenistic honorific decrees / Antiopi Argyriou-Casmeridis
  • The topography of the imperial temples in the Greek East: a political answer to a religious question / Maria Kantirea

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