Ritual dynamics in the ancient Mediterranean : agency, emotion, gender, representation / edited by Angelos Chaniotis.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Chaniotis, Angelos, editor.

Series:

Heidelberger althistorische Beiträge und epigraphische Studien

Heidelberger althistorische Beiträge und epigraphische Studien ; v.49

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ritual--Mediterranean Region--History--Congresses.

Ritual.

Rites and ceremonies--Mediterranean Region--History--Congresses.

Rites and ceremonies.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (394 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Stuttgart : Franz Steiner Verlag, [2022]

Contents:

Intro

TABLE OF CONTENTS

PREFACE

Introduction (ANGELOS CHANIOTIS)

Engendered actions: agency and ritual in pre-Roman Veneto (ELISA PEREGO)

Where are the priests? Ritual mastery in Punic shrines (MIREIA LÓPEZ-BERTRAN)

Priests and priestly roles in the Isiac cults: the case of Roman Athens (PARASKEVI MARTZAVOU)

'Promises of continuity': The role of tradition in the forming of rituals in ancient Greece (EFTYCHIA STAVRIANOPOULOU)

Ritual restoration and innovation in the Greek cities of the Roman Imperium (FRITZ GRAF)

Changes and arrangement in the Eleusinian Ritual (IOANNA PATERA)

Continuity and change without individual agency: The Attic ritual theatre and the 'socially unquestionable' in the tragic genre (SYNNØVE DES BOUVRIE)

Construction of consensus: rules and change in Greek funeral rituals (FLAVIA FRISONE)

Representations and the 'meaning' of ritual change: The case of Hadrumetum (MATTHEW M. MCCARTY)

The correlation of rituals, emotions, and literature in ancient Egypt (ALEXANDRA VERBOVSEK)

Emotional community through ritual: initiates, citizens, and pilgrims as emotional communities in the Greek world (ANGELOS CHANIOTIS)

Speech and gesture in rituals: the rituals of supplication and prayer in Homer (FRANÇOISE LETOUBLON)

Ritual movement in sacred space: towards an archaeology of performance (JOAN CONNELLY)

Elevating the unworthy emperor: Ritual failure in Roman historiography (MARTIJN ICKS)

INDEX

CONTRIBUTORS.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Chaniotis, Angelos Ritual Dynamics in the Ancient Mediterranean

ISBN:

3-515-13310-0

OCLC:

1298389402