Cults Creeds And Identities In The Greek City After The Classical Age
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Cults Creeds And Identities In The Greek City After The Classical Age
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Author : Richard Alston
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2013
Cults Creeds And Identities In The Greek City After The Classical Age written by Richard Alston and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013 with Aufsatzsammlung categories.
This volume investigates the complex and diverse developments in the religious cultures of Greek cities after the classical age. An international team of scholars considers the continuities of traditional Greek religious practices, and seeks to understand the impact of new influences on those practices, notably the deeper engagement with Judaism and how the emergence of Christianity redefined polis religion. The essays illustrate the inadequacy of 'decline' as a model for understanding Greek religion, exploring how dynamic change in religious life corresponded to the transformations in the Greek city. The volume explores how the citizens of the Greek city after the classical age used religion to construct their cultural identities and political experiences and how many of the features of traditional polis religion survived into and shaped the religious mentalities of the Christian era.
The Origin And Meaning Of Ekkl Sia In The Early Jesus Movement
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Author : Ralph J. Korner
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2017-06-06
The Origin And Meaning Of Ekkl Sia In The Early Jesus Movement written by Ralph J. Korner and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-06-06 with Religion categories.
In The Origin and Meaning of Ekklēsia in the Early Jesus Movement, Ralph J. Korner examines the use of ekklēsia in the context of Greco-Roman and Jewish associations, Greek Imperial poleis, Roman Imperial ideology, and early Jewish and Christ-follower literary works.
Greek Cities And Roman Governors
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Author : Garrett Ryan
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2021-07-29
Greek Cities And Roman Governors written by Garrett Ryan and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-07-29 with History categories.
This volume uses the travels of Roman governors to explore how authority was defined in and by the public places of Greek cities. By demonstrating that the places where imperial officials and local notables met were integral to the strategies by which they communicated with one another, Greek Cities and Roman Governors sheds new light on the significance of civic space in the Roman provinces. It also presents a fresh perspective on the monumental cityscapes of Roman Asia Minor, epicenter of the greatest building boom in classical history. Though of special interest to scholars and students of Roman Asia Minor, Greek Cities and Roman Governors offers broad insights into Roman imperialism and the ancient city.
The Ancient City
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Author : Arjan Zuiderhoek
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2017
The Ancient City written by Arjan Zuiderhoek and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017 with History categories.
This book provides a survey of modern debates on Greek and Roman cities, and a sketch of the cities' chief characteristics.
The Hellenistic Far East
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Author : Rachel Mairs
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2016-08-05
The Hellenistic Far East written by Rachel Mairs and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-08-05 with History categories.
In the aftermath of Alexander the Great’s conquests in the late fourth century B.C., Greek garrisons and settlements were established across Central Asia, through Bactria (modern-day Afghanistan) and into India. Over the next three hundred years, these settlements evolved into multiethnic, multilingual communities as much Greek as they were indigenous. To explore the lives and identities of the inhabitants of the Graeco-Bactrian and Indo-Greek kingdoms, Rachel Mairs marshals a variety of evidence, from archaeology, to coins, to documentary and historical texts. Looking particularly at the great city of Ai Khanoum, the only extensively excavated Hellenistic period urban site in Central Asia, Mairs explores how these ancient people lived, communicated, and understood themselves. Significant and original, The Hellenistic Far East will highlight Bactrian studies as an important part of our understanding of the ancient world.
Sport And Identity In Ancient Greece
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Author : Zinon Papakonstantinou
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2019-04-24
Sport And Identity In Ancient Greece written by Zinon Papakonstantinou and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-04-24 with History categories.
From the eighth century BCE to the late third century CE, Greeks trained in sport and competed in periodic contests that generated enormous popular interest. As a result, sport was an ideal vehicle for the construction of a plurality of identities along the lines of ethnic origin, civic affiliation, legal and social status as well as gender. Sport and Identity in Ancient Greece delves into the rich literary and epigraphic record on ancient Greek sport and examines, through a series of case studies, diverse aspects of the process of identity construction through sport. Chapters discuss elite identities and sport, sport spectatorship, the regulatory framework of Greek sport, sport and benefaction in the Hellenistic and Roman world, embodied and gendered identities in epigraphic commemoration, as well as the creation of a hybrid culture of Greco-Roman sport in the eastern Mediterranean during the Roman imperial period.
Urban Religion
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Author : Jörg Rüpke
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Release Date : 2020-02-24
Urban Religion written by Jörg Rüpke and has been published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-02-24 with Religion categories.
So far religion has been seen as cause for dramatic developments in the history of cities, it has contributed to the monumentalisation of centres and or has given importance to ex-centric places. Very recently, anthropologists have been discovering religion in the contemporary global city. But still awaiting historical investigation is the specific urban character of religious ideas, practices and institutions and the role of urban space shaping this very ‘religion’ in the course of history. The time-span from the Hellenistic age to Late Antiquity was crucial in the establishment of concepts and institutions of ‘religion’ and witnessed extended waves of urbanisation, Rome being central to this. In addressing this problem, this book fills a significant gap in the scholarship on urban religion across time. Taking seriously the proposition that space is condition, medium and outcome of social relations, the development of ‘urban religion’ in lived urban space and urban culture or urbanity offers a lens onto processes of religious change that have been neglected for the history of religion and for the study of urbanism. The key thesis is that city-space engineered the major changes that revolutionised religions. »This stimulating book makes use of archaeology and history to address religion as an essential component of urban life in both the past and the present. -With a strong basis in the ancient Mediterranean as well as an insightful view of modern urban life, Rüpke emphasizes that the practice and performance of religion at the everyday level is as essential in the creation of an urban ethos as the grand temples and institutions promulgated by the elite.« Monica L. Smith, author of Cities: The First 6,000 Years »Jörg Rüpke offers a characteristically original and learned series of reflections on some of the many ways in which the history of religions and the history of cities might be entangled. Urban Religion offers no single overarching thesis, but it is consistently thought-provoking and suggests many intriguing lines of investigation for the future.« Greg Woolf, Institute of Classical Studies, London
Global Classics
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Author : Jacques A. Bromberg
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2021-04-11
Global Classics written by Jacques A. Bromberg and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-04-11 with Business & Economics categories.
What makes Classics "global", and what does it mean to study the ancient world "globally"? How can the study of antiquity contribute to our understanding of pressing global issues? Global Classics addresses these questions by pursuing a transdisciplinary dialogue between Classics and Global Studies. Authoritative and engaging, this book provides the first field-wide synthesis of the recent "global turn" in Classics as well as a comprehensive overview of an emerging field in ancient studies. Through focused readings of ancient sources and modern scholarship, the author introduces readers to three key paradigms that are essential to research and teaching in global antiquities: transborder, transhistorical, and transdisciplinary. Global Classics will appeal to educators, students, and scholars interested in the application of globalization theories and paradigms in ancient studies, in globalizing their teaching and research, and in approaches to contemporary global issues through the study of the remote past.
Persuading Shipwrecked Men
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Author : Lyn M. Kidson
language : en
Publisher: Mohr Siebeck
Release Date : 2020-09-15
Persuading Shipwrecked Men written by Lyn M. Kidson and has been published by Mohr Siebeck this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-09-15 with Religion categories.
"In this work, Lyn M. Kidson moves away from the traditional interpretation of 1 Timothy as a church manual and argues that the coordinating purpose of the letter is to command 'certain men (and women)' not to teach an educational program that is being promoted by factional leaders Hymenaeus and Alexander."--
Cults Territory And The Origins Of The Greek City State
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Author : François de Polignac
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 1995-08-15
Cults Territory And The Origins Of The Greek City State written by François de Polignac and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995-08-15 with History categories.
Combining archaeological and textual evidence the author suggests that most of the 8th Century settlements that would become the city-states of classical Greece were defined as much by the boundaries of civilised' space as by their urban centres.