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Theoretical frameworks for the study of Graeco-Roman religions : adjunct proceedings of the XVIIIth Congress of the International Association for the History of Religions, Durban, South Africa, 2000 / edited by Luther H. Martin & Panayotis Pachis.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Italian
- Subjects (All):
- Greece--Religion--Historiography--Congresses.
- Greece.
- Religion.
- Historiography.
- Rome--Religion--Historiography--Congresses.
- Rome.
- Rome (Empire).
- Genre:
- Conference papers and proceedings.
- Physical Description:
- 281 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Other Title:
- Theoretical framework for the study of Greco-Roman religions
- Place of Publication:
- Thessaloniki [Greece] : University Studio Press.
- Language Note:
- One paper in Italian.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- Euripides as social critic : the morality of revenge / J. Larry Alderink
- Forgery, propaganda and power in Christian antiquity : some methodological remarks / Pier Franco Beatrice
- Canonical representative of the third function in Rome Quirinus / Dominique Briquel
- How to write a survey of Greek religion from the point of view of the comparative study of religion / Giovanni Casadio
- Cult and the ancient urban landscape : a case study of Mithraism and Roman topography / B. Allison Griffith
- Literary sources and archaeological evidence in the history of early Roman religion / Charle Guittard
- Kingship and the Hellenistic consolidation of religio-political power / H. Luther Martin [ i.e. Luther H. Martin]
- The Hellenistic era as an age of propaganda : the case of Isis' cult / Panayotis Pachis
- The encounters of novelty and conservatism in Hellenistic religion and analogical reasoning / Petra Pakkanen
- The teachings of Zosimos : a micro-level study of syncretism / Jonathan Peste
- A few historical-religious frameworks for the study of the oriental cults in the Roman Empire / Ennio Sanzi
- Tempo della storia e tempo della salvezza nello Gnosticismo / Giulia Sfameni Gasparro
- Becoming a different person : baptism as an initiation ritual / Einar Thomassen.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [223]-261).
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the John G. Hartman Memorial Library Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9601211993
- OCLC:
- 85843575
- Publisher Number:
- 2003.
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