Empire and religion : religious change in Greek cities under Roman rule / edited by Elena Muñiz Grijalvo, Juan Manuel Cortes Copete, Fernando Lozano Gomez.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Muñiz Grijalvo, Elena, editor.

Cortés Copete, Juan Manuel, editor.

Lozano, Fernando (Lozano Gómez), editor.

Series:

Impact of Empire 25.

Impact of Empire : Roman Empire, c. 200 B.C.-A.D. 476, 1572-0500 ; Volume 25

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Greeks--Rome--Religion.

Greeks.

City and town life--Rome--History.

City and town life.

Rome--Religious life and customs.

Rome.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (239 pages).

Place of Publication:

Brill 2017

Leiden, [Netherlands] ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : Routledge, 2017.

Summary:

This volume explores the nature of religious change in the Greek-speaking cities of the Roman Empire. Emphasis is put on those developments that apparently were not the direct result of Roman actions: the intensification of idiosyncratically Greek features in the religious life of the cities (Heller, Muñiz, Camia); the active role of a new kind of Hellenism in the design of imperial religious policies (Gordillo, Galimberti, Rosillo-López); or the locally different responses to central religious initiatives, and the influence of those local responses in other imperial contexts (Cortés, Melfi, Lozano, Rizakis). All the chapters try to suggest that religion in the Greek cities of the empire was both conservative and innovative, and that the ‘Roman factor’ helps to explain this apparent paradox.

Contents:

Preliminary Material

Priesthoods and Civic Ideology: Honorific Titles for Hiereis and Archiereis in Roman Asia Minor / Anna Heller

Public Sacrifice in Roman Athens / Elena Muñiz Grijalvo

Cultic and Social Dynamics in the Eleusinian Sanctuary Under the Empire / Francesco Camia

Communication Between Sanctuaries and Rulers: An Analysis of Religious Resistance to Roman Abuses in the Greek East During the Roman Republic / Cristina Rosillo-López

Trajan and Hadrian’s Reorganization of the Agonistic Associations in Rome / Rocío Gordillo Hervás

P.Oxy. 471: Hadrian, Alexandria, and the Antinous Cult / Alessandro Galimberti

Hadrian Among the Gods / Juan Manuel Cortés Copete

Some Thoughts on the Cult of the Pantheon (‘All the Gods’?) in the Cities and Sanctuaries of Roman Greece / Milena Melfi

Emperor Worship and Greek Leagues: The Organization of Supra-Civic Imperial Cult in the Roman East / Fernando Lozano

Le paysage culturel de la colonie romaine de Philippes en Macédoine : cosmopolitisme religieux et différentiation sociale / Athanasios D. Rizakis

Index Geographicus

Index Nominum

Index Rerum Sacrorum

Index Rerum Memorabilium.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

90-04-34711-9

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004347113 DOI