Literature And Religion At Rome
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Literature And Religion At Rome
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Author : Denis Feeney
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1998-01-13
Literature And Religion At Rome written by Denis Feeney 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 1998-01-13 with History categories.
Recent reevaluations of Roman religion by ancient historians have stressed the vitality and creativity of the Romans' religious system throughout its long history of continual adaptation to new challenges. Capitalising on these insights, Denis Feeney argues that Roman literature was not an artificial or parasitic irrelevance in this context, but an important element of the dynamic religious culture, with its own status as another form of religious knowledge. Since Roman culture, both literary and religious, was so thoroughly Hellenised, the book also makes a case for a reconsideration of the traditional antitheses between Greek and Roman literature and religion, arguing against Hellenocentric prejudices and in favour of a more creative model of cultural interaction.
Literature And Religion At Rome
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Author : Denis C. Feeney
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1998
Literature And Religion At Rome written by Denis C. Feeney and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with categories.
Studies In Roman Literature Culture And Religion
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Author : Hendrik Wagenvoort
language : en
Publisher: Brill Archive
Release Date : 1956
Studies In Roman Literature Culture And Religion written by Hendrik Wagenvoort and has been published by Brill Archive this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1956 with Latin philology categories.
Dionysus And Rome
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Author : Fiachra Mac Góráin
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Release Date : 2019-12-16
Dionysus And Rome written by Fiachra Mac Góráin 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 2019-12-16 with Literary Criticism categories.
While most work on Dionysus is based on Greek sources, this collection of essays examines the god’s Roman and Italian manifestations. Nine contributions address Bacchus’ appearance at the crossroads of Greek and Roman cultures, tracing continuities and differences between literary and archaeological sources for the god. The essays offer coverage of Dionysus in Roman art, Italian epigraphy; Latin poetry including epic, drama and elegy; and prose, including historiography, rhetorical and Christian discourse. The introduction offers an overview of the presence of Dionysus in Italy from the archaic to the imperial periods, identifying the main scholarly trends, with treatment of key Dionysian episodes in Roman history and literature. Individual chapters address the reception of Euripides’ Bacchae across Greek and Roman literature from Athens to Byzantium; Dionysus in Roman art of the archaic and Augustan periods; the god’s relationship with Fufluns and Liber in the 4th and 3rd centuries BCE; Dionysian associations; Bacchus in Cicero; Ovid’s Tristia 5.3; Bacchus in the writings of Christian Latin writers. The collection sheds light on a relatively understudied aspect of Dionysus, and will stimulate further research in this area.
Legible Religion
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Author : Duncan MacRae
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2016-06-07
Legible Religion written by Duncan MacRae and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-06-07 with Religion categories.
Scholars have long separated a few privileged “religions of the Book” from faiths lacking sacred texts, including ancient Roman religion. Looking beyond this distinction, Duncan MacRae delves into Roman treatises on the nature of gods and rituals to grapple with a central question: what was the significance of books in a religion without scripture?
Religions Of Rome Volume 2 A Sourcebook
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Author : Mary Beard
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1998-06-28
Religions Of Rome Volume 2 A Sourcebook written by Mary Beard and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998-06-28 with History categories.
Volume two reveals the extraordinary diversity of ancient Roman religion. A comprehensive sourcebook, it presents a wide range of documents illustrating religious life in the Roman world - from the foundations of the city in the eighth century BC to the Christian capital more than a thousand years later. Each document is given a full introduction, explanatory notes and bibliography, and acts as a starting point for further discussion. Through paintings, sculptures, coins and inscriptions, as well as literary texts in translation, the book explores the major themes and problems of Roman religion, such as sacrifice, the religious calendar, divination, ritual, and priesthood. Starting from the archaeological traces of the earliest cults of the city, it finishes with a series of texts in which Roman authors themselves reflect on the nature of their own religion, its history, even its funny side. Judaism and Christianity are given full coverage, as important elements in the religious world of the Roman empire.
The Matter Of The Gods
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Author : Clifford Ando
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2008-02-13
The Matter Of The Gods written by Clifford Ando 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 2008-02-13 with History categories.
What did the Romans know about their gods? Why did they perform the rituals of their religion, and what motivated them to change those rituals? To these questions Clifford Ando proposes simple answers: In contrast to ancient Christians, who had faith, Romans had knowledge, and their knowledge was empirical in orientation. In other words, the Romans acquired knowledge of the gods through observation of the world, and their rituals were maintained or modified in light of what they learned. After a preface and opening chapters that lay out this argument about knowledge and place it in context, The Matter of the Gods pursues a variety of themes essential to the study of religion in history.
Rituals In Ink
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Author : Alessandro Barchiesi
language : en
Publisher: Franz Steiner Verlag
Release Date : 2004
Rituals In Ink written by Alessandro Barchiesi and has been published by Franz Steiner Verlag this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with History categories.
In order to reconstruct ancient rituals we must rely on ancient texts. That is the premise of these eight papers which are taken from a conference held at Stanford University in 2002 which brought together scholars of Roman religion and scholars of Roman literature to debate the `textuality of ritual'. The papers are followed by six brief essays which discuss the themes of the and consider the problems of retrieving ritual from texts written by such complex authors as Virgil, Ovid and Livy. The essays themselves focus on: the theme of sacrificial ritual in Roman poetry; religious communication in Rome; professional poets and the 2nd-century BC temple of Hercules of the muses; Livy; the Aeneid ; Ovid's use of hymns in the Metamorphoses ; Ovid's depiction of a triumph in Tristia ; the secret name of Rome. The numerous extracts are presented in Latin verse and English prose translation.
Continuity And Change In Roman Religion
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Author : John Hugo Wolfgang Gideon Liebeschuetz
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 1979
Continuity And Change In Roman Religion written by John Hugo Wolfgang Gideon Liebeschuetz and has been published by Oxford University Press, USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1979 with History categories.
This is a survey of the religious attitudes reflected in Latin literature from the late Republic to the time of Constantine. Its main theme is the development of the Roman public religion in that period. Within this theme the most pervasive issue is the relationship between Roman religion and morality. Though the link between the two is shown to be closer than is often supposed, it was also the case that the rise of such systems as Stoicism and Christianity contributed to a sense of morality more detached from traditional conceptions of the collective well-being of the Roman state. Nevertheless, the old religion continued to flourish and to contribute in numerous ways to the working of Roman society until it was fatally weakened by the political and social crisis of the third century. This crisis, and the tendency of the Roman Empire to depend upon and encourage new sources of support, prepared the way for the emergence of Christianity, first as the religion of the Emperor, and then, after a period in which Christians and pagans were able to co-operate by emphasizing their common beliefs, as the official religion of the Empire.
Studies In Greek Culture And Roman Policy
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Author : Erich S. Gruen
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 1996-02
Studies In Greek Culture And Roman Policy written by Erich S. Gruen 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 1996-02 with History categories.
Gruen studies the Hellenization of Rome during the middle Republic years, where changes in arts, religion and philosophy, and politics altered Roman public life by introducing Greek learning.