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Author | : Gaston Halsberghe |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 189 |
Release | : 2015-11-16 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9004296255 |
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Preliminary material /Gaston H. Halsberghe -- THE LITERARY TEXTS /Gaston H. Halsberghe -- THE SUN CULT UP TO THE FIRST CENTURY OF THE EMPIRE /Gaston H. Halsberghe -- THE EASTERN RELIGIONS: THEIR DISTRIBUTION AND ADHERENTS /Gaston H. Halsberghe -- SOL INVICTUS ELAGABAL /Gaston H. Halsberghe -- THE CONTINUATION OF THE CULT OF SOL INVICTUS /Gaston H. Halsberghe -- THE REIGN OF AURELIAN /Gaston H. Halsberghe -- CONCLUSION /Gaston H. Halsberghe.
Author | : Gaston H. Halsberghe |
Publisher | : Brill Archive |
Total Pages | : 198 |
Release | : 1972 |
Genre | : Cults |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Minou Reeves |
Publisher | : Garnet Publishing |
Total Pages | : 192 |
Release | : 2023-10-27 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781902932835 |
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Lucid and perfectly accessible to non-specialists, this extensively illustrated history of Mithras--the great sun god of both the Persian and Roman Empires--is amongst the most comprehensive of such studies available.available.
Author | : Manfred Clauss |
Publisher | : Edinburgh University Press |
Total Pages | : 223 |
Release | : 2019-06-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 147446579X |
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Since its publication in Germany, Manfred Clauss's introduction to the Roman Mithras cult has become widely accepted as the most reliable, as well as the most readable, account of its elusive and fascinating subject. For the English edition the author has revised the work to take account of recent research and new archaeological discoveries. The mystery cult of Mithras first became evident in Rome towards the end of the first century AD. During the next two centuries, carried by its soldier and merchant devotees, it spread to the frontier of the western empire from Britain to Bosnia. Perhaps because of odd similarities between the cult and their own religion the early Christians energetically suppressed it, frequently constructing churches over the caves (Mithraea) in which its rituals took place. By the end of the fourth century the cult was extinct.Professor Clauss draws on the archaeological evidence from over 400 temples and their contents including over a thousand representations of ritual in sculpure and painting to seek an understanding of the nature and purpose of the cult, and what its mysteries and secret rites of initiation and sacrifice meant to its devotees. In doing so he introduces the reader to the nature of the polytheistic societies of the Roman Empire, in which relations and distinctions between gods and mortals now seem strangely close and blurred. He also considers the connections of Mithraicism with astrology, and examines how far it can be seen as a direct descendant of the ancient cult of Mitra, the Persian god of contract, cattle and light. The book combines imaginative insight with coherent argument. It is well-structured, accessibly written and extensively illustrated. Richard Gordon, the translator and himself a distinguished scholar of the subject, has provided a bibliography of further reading for anglophone readers.
Author | : Revd Allen Brent |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 423 |
Release | : 2015-12-22 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9004313125 |
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Recent studies have re-assessed Emperor worship as a genuinely religious response to the metaphysics of social order. Brent argues that Augustus' revolution represented a genuinely religious reformation of Republican religion that had failed in its metaphysical objectives. Against this backcloth, Luke, John the Seer, Clement, Ignatius and the Apologists refashioned Christian theology as an alternative answer to that metaphysical failure. Callistus and Pseudo-Hippolytus gave different responses to Severan images of imperial power. The early, Monarchian theology of the Trinity was thus to become a reflection of imperial culture and its justification that was later to be articulated both in Neo-Platonism, and in Cyprian's view of episcopal Order. Contra-cultural theory is employed as a sociological model to examine the interaction between developing Pagan and Christian social order.
Author | : Roger Beck |
Publisher | : OUP Oxford |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 2006-01-12 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0191518239 |
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A study of the religious system of Mithraism, one of the 'mystery cults' popular in the Roman Empire contemporary with early Christianity. Roger Beck describes Mithraism from the point of view of the initiate engaging with the religion and its rich symbolic system in thought, word, ritual action, and cult life. He employs the methods of anthropology of religion and the new cognitive science of religion to explore in detail the semiotics of the Mysteries' astral symbolism, which has been the principal subject of his many previous publications on the cult.
Author | : Marianne Sághy |
Publisher | : Central European University Press |
Total Pages | : 382 |
Release | : 2017-10-10 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9633862566 |
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Do the terms 'pagan' and 'Christian,' 'transition from paganism to Christianity' still hold as explanatory devices to apply to the political, religious and cultural transformation experienced Empire-wise? Revisiting 'pagans' and 'Christians' in Late Antiquity has been a fertile site of scholarship in recent years: the paradigm shift in the interpretation of the relations between 'pagans' and 'Christians' replaced the old 'conflict model' with a subtler, complex approach and triggered the upsurge of new explanatory models such as multiculturalism, cohabitation, cooperation, identity, or group cohesion. This collection of essays, inscribes itself into the revisionist discussion of pagan-Christian relations over a broad territory and time-span, the Roman Empire from the fourth to the eighth century. A set of papers argues that if 'paganism' had never been fully extirpated or denied by the multiethnic educated elite that managed the Roman Empire, 'Christianity' came to be presented by the same elite as providing a way for a wider group of people to combine true philosophy and right religion. The speed with which this happened is just as remarkable as the long persistence of paganism after the sea-change of the fourth century that made Christianity the official religion of the State. For a long time afterwards, 'pagans' and 'Christians' lived 'in between' polytheistic and monotheist traditions and disputed Classical and non-Classical legacies.
Author | : Jonathan Bardill |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 471 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 0521764238 |
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"Constantine was the first Roman emperor to convert to Christianity. The book explores the emperor's image as conveyed through literature, art, and architecture, and shows how Constantine reconciled the tradition of imperial divinity with his monotheistic faith. It demonstrates how the traditional themes and imagery of kingship were exploited to portray the emperor as the saviour of his people and to assimilate him to Christ. This is the first book to study simultaneously both archaeological and historical information to build a picture of the emperor's image and propaganda. It is extensively illustrated" --Provided by publisher.
Author | : Douglas Boin |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 309 |
Release | : 2013-07-22 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1107024013 |
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'Ostia in Late Antiquity' narrates the life of Ostia Antica, Rome's ancient harbor, during the later empire.
Author | : Robert Turcan |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 205 |
Release | : 2013-10-28 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1136058508 |
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First published in 2001. This is a vivid account of what their gods meant to the Romans from archaic times to late antiquity, and an exploration of the rites and rituals connected to them. After an extensive introduction into the nature of classical religion, the book is divided into three pain main parts: religions of the family and land; religions of the city; and religions of the empire. The book ends with the rise and impact Christianity. Using archaeological and epigraphic evidence, and drawling extensively on a wide range of relevant literary material, this book is ideally suited for undergraduate courses in the history of Rome and its religions. Its urbane style and lightly worn scholarship will broaden its appeal to the large number of non-academic readers with a serious interest in the classical world.