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More than men, less than gods : studies on royal cult and imperial worship : proceedings of the international colloquium organized by the Belgian School at Athens (November 1-2, 2007) / edited by Panagiotis P. Iossif, Andrzej S. Chankowski and Catharine C. Lorber.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Studia Hellenistica ; 51.
- Studia Hellenistica
- Language:
- English
- French
- Greek, Ancient (to 1453)
- Subjects (All):
- Cults--Greece--History--Congresses.
- Cults.
- Divine right of kings--History--Congresses.
- Divine right of kings.
- Antiquities.
- Kings and rulers.
- History.
- Greece--Kings and rulers--Religious aspects--History--Congresses.
- Greece.
- Greece--Antiquities--Congresses.
- Genre:
- Conference papers and proceedings.
- Physical Description:
- xvii, 735 pages : illustrations, maps, plans ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Leuven ; Walpole, Mass. : Peeters, 2011.
- Language Note:
- Text in English or French; occasional phrases in Ancient Greek with some translations.
- Summary:
- "More than men, less than gods" is conceived as a demonstration project, with the goal of opening new perspectives in the study of Graeco-Roman ruler worship. A principal emphasis is placed on the effectiveness of a multidisciplinary approach to the subject. The present volume points to some possible forerunners to Hellenistic royal cult and emperor worship, or at least to the concept of the divine king, to supplement the well-studied roots of ruler worship in the cultic life of the Greek polis and in pharaonic Egypt. "More than men ..." aspires to contribute to the debate relative to divine kingship, royal cult and emperor worship by opening new perspectives or reopening old ones. The focus is in eliciting some audacious and innovative approaches to such a complex phenomenon.
- Contents:
- Le culte des souverains aux époques hellénistique et impériale dans la partie orientale du monde méditerranéen : questions actuelles / Andrzej S. Chankowski
- By the favor of Auramazdā : kingship and the divine in the early Achaemenid period / Mark B. Garrison
- Identities of the indigenous coinages of Palestine under Achaemenid rule : the dissemination of the image of the great king / Haim Gitler
- La contribution des Teucrides aux cultes royaux de l'époque hellénistique / Claude Baurain
- The ithyphallic hymn for Demetrios Poliorketes and Hellenistic religious mentality / Angelos Chaniotis
- Never mind the bullocks : taurine imagery as a multicultural expression of royal and divine power under Seleukos I Nikator / Oliver D. Hoover
- Apollo Toxotes and the Seleukids : Comme un air de famille / Panagiotis P. Iossif
- Theos Aigiochos : the Aegis in Ptolemic portraits of divine rulers / Catharine C. Lorber
- Ptolémée III et Bérénice II, divinités cosmiques / Hans Hauben
- The iconography of assimilation : Isis and royal imagery on Ptolemaic seal impressions / Dimitris Plantzos
- The pattern of royal epithets on Hellenistic coinages / François de Callataÿ & Catharine C. Lorber
- Des honneurs divins pour Marc Antoine à Thessalonique? / Emmanuel Voutiras
- The creation of imperial Gods : not only imposition versus spontaneity / Fernando Lozano
- Étude comparative de l'introduction du culte impérial à Pergame, à Athènes et à Éphese / Maria Kantiréa
- Honorific and other dedications to emperors in the Greek east / Mike Kajava
- Le culte impérial en Phénicie : culte civique ou culte provinical? / Ziad Sawaya
- Celebrating superman : divine honors for Roman Emperors in Greek papyri from Egypt / Janneke de Jong
- Royal cult in Arsakid Parthia / Antonio Invernizzi
- More than men, less than Gods : concluding thoughts and new perspectives / Panagiotis P. Iossif & Catharine C. Lorber.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 9789042924703
- 9042924705
- OCLC:
- 745332933
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