tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-67902430953248564012024-03-05T06:29:13.808-08:00Roman ReligionT. Szabó Csabahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10096362600217235630noreply@blogger.comBlogger18125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6790243095324856401.post-44182186640125167202012-08-12T04:31:00.001-07:002012-08-12T04:31:09.479-07:00Evocatio<div style="text-align: justify;">
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New address: <a href="http://religioacademici.wordpress.com/">http://religioacademici.wordpress.com/</a></div>T. Szabó Csabahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10096362600217235630noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6790243095324856401.post-87297831447084790862012-02-25T03:05:00.000-08:002012-04-06T02:07:27.849-07:00Call for papers: conferences about Roman Religion<div style="background-color: white; font-family: Gentium, 'Palatino Linotype', 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 20px;">
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An Interdisciplinary Conference Sponsored by the Society for Ancient Mediterranean Religions</div>
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Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World</div>
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Brown University, April 27-29th, 2012</div>
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We invite abstracts from 250-500 words, accompanied by a Curriculum Vitae, to socamr@gmail.com. Deadline for submission is midnight of January 28thth, 2012. Participants will be contacted with an invitation to participate by the beginning of March, 2012.</div>
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Other CFP of the same society, see <i><b><a href="http://socamr.wikispaces.com/Calls+for+Papers">HERE</a> </b></i></div>
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Palazzo Falconieri, Academia dell'Ungheria di Roma, Via Giulia 1, Rome, 20 - 21 September, 2012.</div>
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More details: <b><i><a href="http://oxfordpatristics.blogspot.com/2012/03/call-for-papers-pagans-and-christians.html">HERE</a></i></b></div>
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<b>ASPECTS OF ANCIENT GREEK CULTS II: Architecture – Context – Music</b><br />
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4-6 May 2012, Copenhagen</div>
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The Archaeological Institute "Vasile Parvan", Bucharest and itspartener institutions are pleaced to announce the XIII. International Conference of Roman Provincial Art, Bucharest -Constanta - Alba Iulia, May 28- Iune 3., 2013. </div>
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Detailes about the conference and call for paper<b>:<a href="http://mnuai.ro/muzeu/?cat=5"> <i>HERE</i></a></b></div>
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</div>T. Szabó Csabahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10096362600217235630noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6790243095324856401.post-40684652793669021052012-01-14T14:20:00.000-08:002012-01-14T14:23:05.179-08:00Actualities: Law and religion<span style="font-size: large;"><i><b>Felix sit annus novus!</b></i></span><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidQnR1TMTcPqU6Phl80ScU71NE5pf2YjIR8ACeEaA4bpEtcx_iuwIIDh-nEJsfF4hR_i4fp5w1OeQ7DVzE4cXrtm95w5PqFJjX2hdGiSm2uEfqWJzHppQYieROmKP-PZuy6MAi2u1p/s1600/L_R_book_cover.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidQnR1TMTcPqU6Phl80ScU71NE5pf2YjIR8ACeEaA4bpEtcx_iuwIIDh-nEJsfF4hR_i4fp5w1OeQ7DVzE4cXrtm95w5PqFJjX2hdGiSm2uEfqWJzHppQYieROmKP-PZuy6MAi2u1p/s320/L_R_book_cover.jpg" width="213" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The strict relationship between Law and Religion in the Roman civilization was always an obvious observation of the historiography (see the basic book of Wissowa about Roman Religion). The reinterpretation of Roman Law and Religion is now a very fertile topic of the current historiography of Roman Religion.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">The last work of this kind is a collective volume appeared as the 336.th volume of the Brill series "History and Archaeology of Classical Antiquity". The book "<i><b>Law and Religion in the Roman Republic</b></i>" edited by <a href="http://www.tilburguniversity.edu/webwijs/show/?uid=o.e.tellegen">Olga Tellegen - Couperus</a> (223.p.) is the first monograph of this kind in the last years, concentrating on the aspects of Law and Religion in the Roman Republic. After a short introduction by the editor, the book has three parts:</div><div style="text-align: justify;">I. Law and Religion as means to control the future (2 articles by Leon ter Beek and Federico Santangelo)</div><div style="text-align: justify;">II. Priests, magistrates and the state (4 articles by Michel Humm, Jörg Rüpke, Jan Hendrik Valgaeren and Linda Zollschan)</div><div style="text-align: justify;">III. Sacred law, civil law and the citizen (Olga Tellegen - Couperus)</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">A short description of the book: "<i><span style="background-color: white; font-family: GentiumPlusRegular, Gentium, Georgia, Tahoma, 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px;">Over the past two hundred plus years, scholarship has admired Roman law for being the first autonomous legal science in history. This biased view has obscured the fact that, traditionally, law was closely connected to religion and remained so well into the Empire. Building on a variety of sources – epigraphic, legal, literary, and numismatic – this book discloses how law and religion shared the same patrons (magistrates and priests) and a common goal (to deal with life’s uncertainties), and how, from the third century B.C., they underwent a process of rationalization. Today, Roman law and </span><span class="details" style="background-color: white; display: inline; font-family: GentiumPlusRegular, Gentium, Georgia, Tahoma, 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px;">religion deserve our admiration because together they supported and consolidated the growing power of Rome (<a href="http://www.brill.nl/law-and-religion-roman-republic">loc.cit.</a>)</span></i></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i><span class="details" style="background-color: white; display: inline; font-family: GentiumPlusRegular, Gentium, Georgia, Tahoma, 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px;"><br />
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<h3 style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2007/2007-11-21.html">Clifford - Rüpke: <i>Religion and Law in Classical and Christian Rome, 2006</i></a></span></h3><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/3130YMT2HTL._SL500_AA300_.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/3130YMT2HTL._SL500_AA300_.jpg" /></a></div><h3 style="background-color: white;"><br />
</h3>T. Szabó Csabahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10096362600217235630noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6790243095324856401.post-10005703806951713602011-12-22T08:46:00.000-08:002011-12-26T04:37:23.214-08:00Actualities: "New" books about Roman Religion<ul style="font-family: inherit;"><li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;">Jaillard, Dominique; Waldner, Katharina (Hrsg.), La divination dans l’antiquité. Une enquête comparatiste, Cahiers Glotz 16, 2005 [Sammelpublikation von Tagunsbeiträten, erschienen 2007].</span></li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;">Kunz, H. Sicilia. Religionsgeschichte des römischen Sizilien, Tübingen 2006, Mythos 2 n.s. (2008) 166-167.</span></li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;">Kleine Leute und große Helden in Homers Odyssee und Kallimachos’ Hekale, Beiträge zur Altertumskunde 274, De Gruyter: Berlin/New York 2010</span></li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; line-height: 24px;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="line-height: 150%;"><span class="Apple-style-span">CLARK, A., <i>Divine Qualities: Cult and Community in Republican <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Rome, 2007</st1:place></st1:city></i></span></span></span></li>
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<li style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; line-height: 24px;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="line-height: 150%;"><i><st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on"><span class="Apple-style-span"><st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on"><span lang="EN-GB" style="line-height: 150%;">NOGALES</span></st1:place></st1:city><span lang="EN-GB" style="line-height: 150%;">, T. and J. GONZÁLEZ (Eds), <i>Culto imperial: política y poder, 2007</i></span></span></st1:place></st1:city></i></span></span></li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px;">BONNET, C., S. RIBICHINI and D. STEUERNAGEL (Eds), </span><i style="line-height: 24px;">Religioni in contatto nel Mediterraneo antico. Modalità di diffusione e processi di interferenza. Atti <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:state w:st="on">del</st1:state></st1:place> 3 colloquio “Le Religioni Orientali nel Mondo Greco e Romano, 2008</i></span></li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i style="line-height: 24px;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="line-height: 150%;"><span class="Apple-style-span">BOWES, K., <i>Private Worship, Public Values, and Religious Change in Late Antiquity,2008</i></span></span></i></span></li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><i style="line-height: 24px;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="line-height: 150%;"><i> </i></span></i><span lang="EN-GB" style="line-height: 150%;">FRANGOULIDIS, S., <i>Witches, <st1:place w:st="on">Isis</st1:place> and Narrative</i>: <i>Approaches to Magic in Apuleius’ </i>Metamorphoses, 2008</span></span></li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: small; line-height: 150%;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="line-height: 150%;"><span class="Apple-style-span">GARDNER, G. and K. OSTERLOH (Eds), <i>Antiquity in Antiquity: Jewish and Christian Pasts in the Greco-Roman World ,2008</i></span></span></span></li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: small; line-height: 150%;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="line-height: 150%;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; line-height: normal;">Marie Ver Eecke, </span><i style="line-height: normal;">La République et le roi: le mythe de Romulus à la fin de la République romaine. De l'archéologie à l'histoire</i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; line-height: normal;">. Paris: 2008. Pp. 588</span></i></span></span></span></li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: small; line-height: 150%;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="line-height: 150%;"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="line-height: 150%;"><span class="Apple-style-span">VAN ANDRINGA, W. (Ed.), <i>Sacrifices, marché de la viande et pratiques alimentaires dans les cités du monde romain, 2008 </i></span></span></i></span></span></li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: small; line-height: 150%;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="line-height: 150%;"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="line-height: 150%;"><span class="Apple-style-span">KROPP, A., <i>Magische Sprachverwendung in vulgärlateinischen Fluchtafeln (Defixiones), 2008 </i></span></span></i></span></span></li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: small; line-height: 150%;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-GB" style="line-height: 150%;">HIRSCH-LUIPOLD, R., H. GÖRGEMANNS and M. VON ALBRECHT (Eds), <i>Religiöse Philosophie und philosophische Religion der frühen Kaiserzeit: Literaturgeschichtliche Perspektiven, 2009</i></span> </span></span></li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: small; line-height: 150%;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;">Steve Mason, </span><i style="line-height: normal;">Josephus, Judea, and Christian Origins: Methods and Categories</i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;">. Peabody, MA: 2009. Pp. xx, 443.</span></span></span></li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: small; line-height: 150%;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;">Jörg Ulrich, Anders-Christian Jacobsen, Maijastina Kahlos, <i>Continuity and Discontinuity in Early Christian Apologetics. Early Christianity in the Context of Antiquity 5</i>. Frankfurt am Main: 2009. Pp. 130</span></span></span></li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: small; line-height: 150%;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;">John Bodel, Mika Kajava,</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;"> </span><i style="line-height: normal;">Dediche sacre nel mondo greco-romano: diffusione, funzioni, tipologie = Religious Dedications in the Greco-Roman World: Distribution, Typology, Use. Institutum Romanum Finlandiae, American Academy in Rome, 19-20 aprile, 2006. Acta Instituti Romani Finlandiae 35</i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;">. Roma: 2009. Pp. 420.</span></span></span></li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: small; line-height: 150%;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span">Maria Xagorari-Gleißner, </span><i>Meter Theon: die Göttermutter bei den Griechen. Peleus Bd 40</i><span class="Apple-style-span">. Ruhpolding: 2009. Pp. 175</span></span></span></span></li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: small; line-height: 150%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span">Philip Kiernan, <i>Miniature Votive Offerings in the North-west Provinces of the Roman Empire. Mentor Bd. 4</i>. Mainz/Ruhpolding: 2009. Pp. vi, 300</span></span></span></li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: small; line-height: 150%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span">Tesse Dieder Stek, </span><i>Cult Places and Cultural Change in Republican Italy: A Contextual Approach to Religious Aspects of Rural Society after the Roman Conquest. Amsterdam Archaeological Studies 14</i><span class="Apple-style-span">. Amsterdam: 2009. Pp. x, 263</span></span></span></span></li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: small; line-height: 150%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span">Philip A. Harland, <i>Dynamics of Identity in the World of the Early Christians: Associations, Judeans, and Cultural Minorities</i>. New York: 2009. Pp. xii, 239</span></span></span></span></li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: small; line-height: 150%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span">Feyo L. Schuddeboom, <i>Greek Religious Terminology – Telete & Orgia: A Revised and Expanded English Edition of the Studies by Zijderveld and Van der Burg. Religions in the Graeco-Roman World 169</i>. Leiden/Boston: 2009. Pp. xxii, 285.</span></span></span></li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><h3><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Fritz Graf, </span><i style="font-weight: normal;">Apollo. Gods and Heroes of the Ancient World</i>. <span style="font-weight: normal;">London/New York: Routledge, 2009. Pp. xviii,190.</span></span> </h3><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: small; line-height: 150%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span"></span></span></span></li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: small; line-height: 150%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span">Antonella Pautasso, <i>Stipe votiva del santuario di Demetra a Catania, 2: la ceramica greco-orientale. Studi e materiali di archeologia greca 9</i>. Catania: 2009. Pp. 154; 23 p. of plates</span></span></span></li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: small; line-height: 150%;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;">Martino Menghi, </span><i style="line-height: normal;">L'etica della temperanza: fortuna di un ideale nella società antica. Temi metafisici e problemi del pensiero antico 116</i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;">. Milano: 2009. Pp. vii, 204</span></span></span></li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: small; line-height: 150%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span">Dorothee Elm, Thorsten Fitzon, Kathrin Liess, Sandra Linden, <i>Alterstopoi: das Wissen von den Lebensaltern in Literatur, Kunst und Theologie</i>. Berlin/New York: 2009. Pp. vi, 346.</span></span></span></li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: small; line-height: 150%;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;">Agnès Bérenger, Éric Perrin-Saminadayar, </span><i style="line-height: normal;">Les entrées royales et impériales: histoire, représentation et diffusion d'une cérémonie publique, de l'Orient ancien à Byzance. de l'archéologie à l'histoire</i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;">. Paris: 2009. Pp. 292.</span></span></span></li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: small; line-height: 150%;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span">Mariangela Puglisi, </span><i>La Sicilia da Dionisio I a Sesto Pompeo: circolazione e funzione della moneta. Pelorias 16</i><span class="Apple-style-span">. Messina: 2009. Pp. 519</span></span></span></span></li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: small; line-height: 150%;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span"> Anders-Christian Jacobsen, Jörg Ulrich, David Brakke, </span><i>Critique and Apologetics: Jews, Christians, and Pagans in Antiquity. Early Christianity in the Context of Antiquity 4</i><span class="Apple-style-span">. Frankfurt am Main: 2009. Pp. 327.</span></span></span></span></li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: small; line-height: 150%;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span"> Sarah Hitch, </span><i>King of Sacrifice: Ritual and Royal Authority in the Iliad. Hellenic Studies 25</i><span class="Apple-style-span">. Washington, DC: 2009. Pp. ix, 235</span></span></span></span></li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: small; line-height: 150%;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span">Giovanni Casadio, Patricia A. Johnston, </span><i>Mystic Cults in Magna Graecia</i><span class="Apple-style-span">. Austin: 2009. Pp. xv, 372</span></span></span></span></li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: small; line-height: 150%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span">Cristina Mazzoni, <i>She-wolf: The Story of a Roman Icon</i>. Cambridge/New York: 2010. Pp. xiv, 282</span></span></span></li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: small; line-height: 150%;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;">Amar Annus, </span><i style="line-height: normal;">Divination and Interpretation of Signs in the Ancient World. Oriental Institute Seminars, no 6</i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;">. Chicago, IL: 2010. Pp. viii, 351.</span></span></span></li>
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<li style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: small; line-height: 150%;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span"> Laura Nasrallah, Charalambos Bakirtzis, Steven J. Friesen, <i>From Roman to Early Christian Thessalonikê: Studies in Religion and Archaeology. Harvard Theological Studies 64</i>. Cambridge, MA: 2010. Pp. xiv, 437</span></span></span></span></li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: small; line-height: 150%;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span">Paolo Liverani, Giandomenico Spinola, <i>The Vatican Necropoles: Rome's City of the Dead</i>. Turnhout: 2010. Pp. 352.</span></span></span></span></li>
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<span style="font-size: small;"> </span></ul>T. Szabó Csabahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10096362600217235630noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6790243095324856401.post-58419683384536301342011-12-04T05:34:00.000-08:002011-12-04T06:20:07.076-08:00Actualities: Living trough the Dead<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://image.dabook.co.kr/book_image/2011/05/2010F0640110.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://image.dabook.co.kr/book_image/2011/05/2010F0640110.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><i>Living through the Dead - burial and commemoration in the Classical World</i></b> (2011., Oxbow Books,209. p.) by <a href="http://www.shef.ac.uk/archaeology/staff/carroll.html">Maureen Carroll</a> and <a href="http://www.shef.ac.uk/archaeology/staff/rempel.html">Jane Rempel</a> (editors) is a part of the series of <i><a href="http://www.oxbowbooks.com/trade.cfm/Publisher/Oxbow%20Books/SeriesID/1173//Location/Oxbow">Studies of Funerary Archaeology</a> </i>edited by the Oxbow Books, specializing on funerary archaeology from Prehistory to modern archaeological techniques used in this field. The monograph by two leading scholars of the field from the Sheffield University is the result of a Conference held in 2006 at the same University. From the papers presented in the volume, the article of Carroll about the <i>damnatio memoriae</i> on the tombstones of ordinary people as a sociological, religious and cultural phenomena is a quite new topic in the field of funerary religion and concepts. Another article from Roman rituals is about the so called <i>resectum</i>, the retaining a piece of bone of the dead as an act of <i>mos maiorum</i>.<br />
About the book: "<i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; line-height: 16px;">This volume investigates the archaeology of death and commemoration through thematically linked case studies drawn from the Classical world. These investigations stress the processes of burial and commemoration as inherently social and designed for an audience, and they explore the meaning and importance attached to preserving memory. While previous investigations of Greek and Roman death and burial have tended to concentrate on period- or regionally-specific sets of data, this volume instead focuses on a series of topical connections that highlight important facets of death and commemoration significant to the larger Classical world. </span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 16px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">Living through the dead</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; line-height: 16px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">investigates the subject of death and commemoration from a diverse set of archaeologically informed approaches, including visual reception, detailed analysis of excavated remains, landscape, and post-classical reflections and draws on artefactual, documentary and pictorial evidence. The nine papers present recent research by some of the leading voices on the subject, as well as some fresh perspectives. Case studies come from Thermopylae, the Bosporan kingdom, Athens, Republican Rome, Pompeii and Egypt. As a collected volume, they provide thematically linked investigations of key issues in ritual, memory and (self)presentation associated with death and burial in the Classical period. As such, this volume will be of particular interest to postgraduate students and academics with specialist interests in the archaeology of the Classical world and also more broadly, as a source of comparative material, to people working on issues related to the archaeology of death and commemoration" <a href="http://www.oxbowbooks.com/bookinfo.cfm/ID/86803//Location/Oxbow">(loc. cit.)</a> </span></span></i><br />
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</div>T. Szabó Csabahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10096362600217235630noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6790243095324856401.post-54825073577800479532011-11-25T11:33:00.000-08:002011-11-25T11:39:26.586-08:00Actualities: Mithras in Malta<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.peeters-leuven.be/img/9789042921603.gif" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://www.peeters-leuven.be/img/9789042921603.gif" width="266" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">This volume, <i><b>Looking for Mithra in Malta</b></i> (<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;"><a href="http://www.peeters-leuven.be/search_serie_book.asp?nr=182" style="background-color: white; font-style: italic; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">Interdisciplinary Studies in Ancient Culture and Religion</a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><i>, 10, 2009, 121.p Peeters Publishers.) </i>by <a href="http://www.findanexpert.unimelb.edu.au/researcher/person14856.html"><b>Claudia Sagona</b></a> is the 10th volume in the series of the upper named religious studies. </span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">The book of Sagona is a good supplementum of the great work of Vermaseren (CIMRM) which now gradually lost it's actuality. In Vermaseren's corpus Malta doesn't appear (from the Italian islands only Sicily). Sagona lists more than 30 Maltan places, where the cult of the Roman mystery God, Mithras appear. This corpora reflects a new tendency and an urgent need in the research of mithraism begun (but still not accomplished) by <a href="http://www.uhu.es/ejms/cimrm.htm">Richard Gordon</a>: supplements for CIMRM for every province (an other good example for this is the work of <a href="http://okor.tti.btk.pte.hu/pdf.php?id=91&type=contents">Tóth István</a> about the mithraic sources from Pannonia).</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">About the book: <i>"<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;">Many aspects of the mystery cult of Mithra remain enigmatic. It was a belief system that touched the hearts and minds of all manner of people, rich and poor, in the early centuries AD. Secretive, private and exclusive enclaves of believers infiltrated numerous regions of the Roman Empire, assembling in caves and cellars, where strange, sometimes terrifying, initiation rites were carried out.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; text-align: -webkit-auto;"> </span></i></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; text-align: justify;"><i>Never before has the evidence for the mysteries of Mithra been traced to the Maltese archipelago. This group of islands in the central Mediterranean fell under Roman domination, but their somewhat isolated location may have appealed to followers of Mithra. Cult artefacts and possible places of Mithraic worship in the islands have been presented here fore the first time <a href="http://www.peeters-leuven.be/boekoverz.asp?nr=8580">(loc. cit.)</a></i></span><br />
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The second volume will appear next year: </span><i style="background-color: white; line-height: 19px; text-align: left;"><b>Associations in the Greco-Roman World: A Sourcebook</b></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; line-height: 19px;">, Philip Harland, Richard Ascough and John S. Kloppenborg. Baylor University Press / de Gruyter, forthcoming in 2012 <a href="http://www.philipharland.com/publications.html">(here)</a></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><b>About the book</b>: "<i>Private associations organized around a common cult, profession, ethnic identity, neighbourhood or family were common throughout the Greco-Roman antiquity, offering opportunities for sociability, cultic activities, mutual support and a context in which to display and recognize virtuous achievement. This volume collects a representative selection of inscriptions from associations in Attica, Central Greece, Macedonia, Thrace, published with English translations, brief explanatory notes, commentaries and full indices. This volume is essential for several areas of study: ancient patterns of social organization; the organization of diasporic communities in the ancient Mediterranean; models for the structure of early Christian groups; and forms of sociability, status-displays, and the vocabularies of virtue<a href="http://www.degruyter.com/cont/fb/at/detailEn.cfm?isbn=978-3-11-025346-7"> (loc. cit.)</a></i></span></span><br />
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3 Going Up to Jerusalem: Pilgrimage and the Historical Jesus (Susan Haber)<br />
4 Pilgrimage, Place, and Meaning-Making by Jews in Greco-Roman Egypt (Wayne O. McCready)<br />
5 Have Horn, Will Travel: The Journeys of Mesopotamian Deities (Karljürgen G. Feuerherm)<br />
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<i>PROMOTING A DEITY OR WAY OF LIFE</i></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', Arial, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 1em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left;">6 The Divine Wanderer: Travel and Divinization in Late Antiquity (Ian W. Scott)<br />
7 <a href="http://www.philipharland.com/travel/7%20Harland.pdf" style="color: #666633; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Journeys in Pursuit of Divine Wisdom: Stories of Thessalos and Other Seekers</a>(Philip A. Harland)</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', Arial, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 1em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left;">8 “Danger in the Wilderness, Danger at Sea”: Paul and Perils of Travel (Ryan Schellenberg)<br />
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<i>ENCOUNTERING FOREIGN CULTURES</i></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', Arial, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 1em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left;">9 Roman Translation: Tacitus and Ethnographic Interpretation (James Rives)<br />
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<i>MIGRATING</i></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', Arial, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 1em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left;">10 Migration and the Emergence of Greco-Roman Diaspora Judaism (Jack N. Lightstone)<br />
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<i>MAKING A LIVING</i></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', Arial, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 1em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left;">11 Religion and the Nomadic Lifestyle: The Nabateans (Michele Murray)<br />
12 Christians on the Move in Late Antique Oxyrhynchus (Lincoln Blumell)</div><br />
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</b></span></span></div>T. Szabó Csabahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10096362600217235630noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6790243095324856401.post-29443286993655792772011-11-12T16:13:00.000-08:002011-12-09T02:06:28.597-08:00Actualities: Ancient Angels<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://vpr-norman.ou.edu/sites/vpr-norman.ou.edu/files/images/Ancient-Angels.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://vpr-norman.ou.edu/sites/vpr-norman.ou.edu/files/images/Ancient-Angels.png" width="266" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The volume <b><i>Ancient Angels - conceptualizing Angeloi in the Roman Empire</i></b> (BRILL, 2011, 181.p.) by <a href="http://faculty-staff.ou.edu/C/Rangar.H.Cline-1/Rangar_Cline_Website/CV.html">Rangar Cline</a> is probably the first monograph in this topic using a large amount of literary sources. This topic - angels in the Roman "Paganism" - was first researched by Franz Cumont in 1915 ,(<i><b>“Les Anges du Paganisme</b></i>,” Révue de l’histoire des religions 12:159–82.). This work analyzing the concept and various apparition of some minor or secondary deities, named after the II.century B.C. as <i>"angeloi</i>" or "<i>angelus</i>", word used also by ancient auctors (such as Homer) simply as "messeger". Using especially but not only literary sources (one of the most interesting archaeological sources used in this book are the <a href="http://www.jstor.org/pss/147586">Fountain of the Lamps at Corinth</a>) Cline proved in his book, that angels - messengers or avatars of Gods, deities or symbols of the soul- are omnipresent in the Roman Empire and not only in the Jewish or Christian contexts. </div><blockquote class="tr_bq" style="text-align: justify;"><b>About the book:</b> <i>"<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; line-height: 16px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Although angels are typically associated with Judaism, Christianity and Islam, Ancient Angels demonstrates that angels (angeloi) were also a prominent feature of non-Abrahamic religions in the Roman era. Following an interdisciplinary approach, the study uses literary, inscriptional, and archaeological evidence to examine Roman conceptions of angels, how residents of the empire venerated angels, and how Christian authorities responded to this potentially heterodox aspect of Roman religion. The book brings together the evidence for popular beliefs about angels in Roman Religion, demonstrating the widespread nature of speculation about, and veneration of, angels in the Roman Empire"(<a href="http://vpr-norman.ou.edu/images/ancient-angels-conceptualizing-angeloi-roman-empire">loc. cit.</a>)</span></span></i></blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; line-height: 16px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Content of the book:</b></span></span></blockquote><b> </b><i>List of Illustrations .................................................................. vii</i><br />
<i>Acknowledgements ................................................................... ix</i><br />
<i>List of Abbreviations ................................................................ xi</i><br />
<i>List of Epigraphic Sigla ........................................................... xiii</i><br />
<i>Preface ..................................................................................... xv</i><br />
<i>Chapter One Introduction: The Words of Angels ...................... 1</i><br />
<i>Chapter Two Angels of the Aether ........................................... 19</i><br />
<i>Chapter Three Angels of a Pagan God .................................... 47</i><br />
<i>Chapter Four Angels of the Grave .......................................... 77</i><br />
<i>Chapter Five Angels of the Spring: Variations on Local</i><br />
<i>Angelos Veneration and Christian Reaction .......................... 105</i><br />
<i>Chapter Six Angels of a Christian God: Christian Angelos</i><br />
<i>Veneration in Late Roman Anatolia ...................................... 137</i><br />
<i>Conclusion ............................................................................ 167</i><br />
<i>Bibliography ...........................................................................169</i><br />
<i>Index ..................................................................................... 179</i><br />
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</div>T. Szabó Csabahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10096362600217235630noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6790243095324856401.post-13747556346720245972011-11-07T15:15:00.000-08:002011-11-14T23:23:14.615-08:00Titans of the study of religion: Alföldy Géza<div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www2.mta.hu/fileadmin/tagok/000010_maxi.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://www2.mta.hu/fileadmin/tagok/000010_maxi.jpg" width="301" /></a></div><div style="background-color: white; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; line-height: 14px;"> <span style="background-color: white;">I</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; line-height: 14px;">t may seem an exaggeration to call</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'lucida grande',tahoma,verdana,arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px;"> </span><span style="background-color: white;">professor</span> <a href="http://www.uni-heidelberg.de/fakultaeten/philosophie/zaw/sag/alfoeldy.html">Alföldy</a> a "titan" of this field - even if his enormous <a href="http://www.uni-heidelberg.de/fakultaeten/philosophie/zaw/sag/schriften_alfoeldy.html">bibliography </a> on Roman Studies made him one of the greatest classical scholars of our times. This short post wants to be first of all a memento for the recently died scholar, who's great contribution for the field of Roman Studies has religious aspects as well. In his first studies written in Hungarian, he wrote about the cults of Pannonia, many of his studies (especially about the religious life of Aquincum) being a milestone in the field. Being the student of a great generation of archaeologists and classical scholars (Alföldi András, Kerényi Károly, Szabó Árpád, Szilágyi János György) he studied Roman history holistically: written and material sources together, as a historian of ancient history, with German preciosity. </div><div style="background-color: white; text-align: justify;">The research of Alföldy's contribution as a historian and epigraphist became now a historiographical actuality.</div><div style="background-color: white; text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div style="background-color: white; text-align: justify;"><b><i>A short list of his works about Roman Religion</i></b></div><div style="background-color: white; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
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</span></span></div><ol style="background-color: white;"><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 18px;">Rez. von A. Bruhl, Liber pater. Origine et expansion du culte dionysiaque à Rome et dans le monde romain (1953). AnTan 4, 1957, 146-149.</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 18px;">Augustalen- und Sevirkörperschaften in Pannonien. AAntHung 6, 1958, 433-459</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 18px;">Mithras aquincumi kultuszához (Zum Mithraskult in Aquincum) AnTan 5, 1958, 73-74. – Deutsche Zusammenfassung: Bibliotheca Classica Orientalis 7, 1962, 125</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 18px;">Rez. von W. Deonna, De Télesphore au “moine bourru“. Dieux, génies et démons encapouchonnés“ (1955). AnTan 5, 1958, 123-125</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 18px;">Rez. von E. Gose, Der Tempelbezirk des Lenus Mars in Trier (1955). ArchÉrt 85, 1958, 224-225</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 18px;">Liber pater oltára Scarbantiából (Altar des Liber pater aus Scarbantia). Soproni Szemle (Ödenburger Rundschau) 13, 1959, 158-162. – Deutsche Zusammenfassung: Bibliotheca Classica Orientalis 7, 1962, 239-240.</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 18px;">Pannoniciani augures. AAntHung 8, 1960, 145-164 (deutsch). – AnTan 7, 1960, 37-52 (ungarisch). – Deutsche Zusammenfassung: Bibliotheca Classica Orientalis 7, 1962, 240. – Revidierter deutscher Text mit Nachträgen auch in Nr. 338.</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 18px;">Kelta gyógyító istenek tisztelete a római Pannoniában (Die Verehrung keltischer Heilgötter im römischen Pannonien]. Az Országos Orvostörténeti Könyvtár Közleményei (Mitteilungen der Staatlichen Medizinhistorischen Bibliothek) 7, 1960, 105-110.</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 18px;">Rez. von K. Kerényi, Die Herkunft der Dionysosreligion nach dem heutigen Stand der Forschung (1956). AnTan 7, 1960, 100-102</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 18px;">Geschichte des religiösen Lebens in Aquincum. AArchHung 13, 1961, 103-124. – Aquincum vallási életének története. Budapest Régiségei (Altertümer von Budapest) 20, 1963, 47-69</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 18px;">Rez. von P. Merlat, Jupiter Dolichenus (1960). AnTan 8, 1961, 300-302</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 18px;">Rez. von V. Wessetzky, Die ägyptischen Kulte zur Römerzeit in Ungarn (1961). ArchÉrt 90, 1963, 146-148</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 18px;">Zur keltischen Religion in Pannonien. Germania 42, 1964, 54-59</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 18px;">Rez. von K. Latte, Römische Religionsgeschichte (1960). Eirene 3, 1964, 181-183.</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 18px;">Ein Denkmal des Serapis-Isis-Kultes in Pannonien. Alba Regia 4/5, 1963/64 (1965), 87-90.</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 18px;">Barbareneinfälle und religiöse Krisen in Italien. BHAC 1964/65 (1966), 1-19.</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 18px;"> Rez. von L. Zotović, Les cultes orientaux sur le territoire de la Mésie supérieure (1966). Gnomon 39, 1967, 317-318.</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 18px;">FLAMINES PROVINCIAE HISPANIAE CITERIORIS (Anejos de “Archivo Español de Arqueología“ VI), Madrid 1973, XV, 97 S.</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 18px;">Eine frühchristliche Inschrift aus Rom. Arheološki Vestnik 28, 1977 (1978), 455-462.</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 18px;"> Eine Mithras-Inschrift aus Aquileia (CIL V 805). ZPE 29, 1978, 157-160. – Überarbeitet auch in Nr. 436.</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 18px;">Ein Tempel des Herrscherkultes in Comum. Athenaeum 61, 1983, 362-373. – Überarbeitet auch in Nr. 436.</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 18px;">Epigraphica Hispanica VI. Das Diana-Heiligtum von Segobriga. ZPE 58, 1985, 139-159</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 18px;"> Die Mithras-Inschrift aus Riegel am Kaiserstuhl. Germania 64, 1986, 433-440.</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 18px;">Die Krise des Imperium Romanum und die Religion Roms. In: W. Eck (Ed.), Religion und Gesellschaft in der römischen Kaiserzeit. Kolloquium zu Ehren von Friedrich Vittinghoff, Köln – Wien 1989, 53-102. – Mit Nachträgen auch in Nr. 338.</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 18px;"> DER OBELISK AUF DEM PETERSPLATZ IN ROM. EIN HISTORISCHES MONUMENT DER ANTIKE (SitzBerHAW 1990, 2), Heidelberg 1990, 114 S. – Zusammenfassung: JHAW 1989 (1990), 85-86.</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 18px;">Una inscripción funeraria de Tarraco del Bajo Imperio. In: Miscel.lànica arqueològica a Josep M. Recasens, abril 1992, Tarragona 1992, 13-17.</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 18px;">Hadrian als magister der fratres Arvales. ZPE 100, 1994, 464-468.</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 18px;"> Inscripciones, sacrificios y mistérios: El santuario rupestre de Panóias/Portugal. Informe preliminar. MM 36, 1995 (Beiträge zur Fünfzigjahrfeier des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts in Madrid im Juni 1993), 252-258. – Vgl. Nr. 425 und 485.</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 18px;">Eine hadrianische Widmungsinschrift in der Area Sacra di Largo Argentina. In: Fülöp Gy. (Eds.), Festschrift für Jenő Fitz (Bulletin du Musée Roi Saint-Étienne B 47), Székesfehérvár 1996, 9-13. – Italienisch in Nr. 368.</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 18px;">Die Großen Götter von Gorsium. ZPE 115, 1997, 225-241.<span></span></span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 18px;">Die Mysterien von Panóias (Vila Real, Portugal). MM 38, 1997, 176-246. – Vgl. Nr. 397; siehe noch Nr. 485.</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 18px;"> Zeus Theos Megistos en Segobriga (zusammen mit J. M. Abascal). AEA 71, 1998, 157-168.</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 18px;"> Zwei römische Statthalter im Evangelium: die epigraphischen Quellen In: E. dal Covolo – R. Fusco (Eds.), Il contributo delle scienze storiche allo studio del Nuovo Testamento. Atti del Convegno Roma, 2-6 ottobre 2002, Città del Vaticano 2005, 216-242.</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 18px;"> Eine umstrittene Altarinschrift aus Vindobona. Tyche 2012.</span></li>
</ol>T. Szabó Csabahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10096362600217235630noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6790243095324856401.post-2198856523335829712011-11-03T16:10:00.000-07:002011-11-14T23:26:27.685-08:00Actualities: Religious interferences<div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://libraweb.net/immagini_grandi/Religioni.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://libraweb.net/immagini_grandi/Religioni.jpg" width="285" /></a></div><div style="background-color: white; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><i><b>Religioni in contatto nel Mediterraneo antico. Modalità di diffusione e processi di interferenza </b>(</i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><i>2008, pp. 376</i>)</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;">, is the final volume of the papersfrom the conference «</span><i><b><a href="http://libraweb.net/result1.php?dettagliononpdf=1&chiave=2352&valore=sku&name=Religioni.jpg&h=421&w=300">Le religioni orientali nel mondo greco e romano</a></b></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;">», hold in Loveno di Menaggio (Como), 26-28 May 2006, edited by Corinne Bonnet, Sergio Ribichini and Dirk Steuernagel.</span></span></div><div style="background-color: white; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #fffff2; font-family: inherit;">As a result of one of the most important conferences in the topic, this volume is an interesting synthesis of religious interferences. Written in four languages (English, French, German and Italian) the articles are grouped in four topics. Notable, that Christianity and Judaism are included again in the large and controversial (also semiologic) category of "oriental" cults and religions (about the problem of the word see: J. R. Carbó Garcia, <i><a href="http://www.institutarheologie-istoriaarteicj.ro/Articole/eph-XX-03.pdf">Studying Roman Cults of Eastern Origin in Roman Dacia, pp. 61- 62., In: Ephemeris Napocensis XX</a></i>., Cluj, 2010.)</span></div><div style="background-color: white; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">The main contribution of this volume is to share some new approaches in the study of the fusion and spread of the Roman cults, as a socio- cultural and religious phenomena.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #fffff2; font-family: inherit;"><b><i><br />
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</i></b></div><div style="background-color: white; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #fffff2;"><b><i>Content</i></b></span></span></div><div style="background-color: white; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #fffff2;">S. Ribichini, </span><i>Religioni in contatto. Introduzione</i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #fffff2;">.</span><i>Elenco delle abbreviazioni</i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #fffff2;">.</span></div><div style="background-color: white;"><br />
</div><div style="background-color: white; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #fffff2;"> Parte prima. Percorsi e diffusione: </span></span></div><div style="background-color: white; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #fffff2;"> J. Rüpke, </span><i>Medien und Verbreitungswege von Religion im Römischen Reich. Thematische Einführung</i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #fffff2;">;</span></div><div style="background-color: white; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #fffff2;">E. Sanzi, </span><i>La trasmissione dei sistemi religiosi complessi nel secondo ellenismo. Qualche esemplificazione dall'XI</i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #fffff2;"> </span><i>libro de </i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #fffff2;">Le Metamorfosi </span><i>di Apuleio</i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #fffff2;">; </span></div><div style="background-color: white; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #fffff2;">L. Bricault, </span><i>Fonder un lieu de culte</i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #fffff2;">; V. Gasparini, </span><i>Santuari isiaci in Italia: criteri e contesti di diffusione</i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #fffff2;">; A.-K. Rieger, </span><i>Lokale Tradition versus überregionale Einheit: der Kult der Magna Mater</i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #fffff2;">; </span></span></div><div style="background-color: white; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #fffff2;">D. Steuernagel, </span><i>Hafenstädte – Knotenpunkte religiöser Mobilität ?</i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #fffff2;"> </span></span></div><div style="background-color: white; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #fffff2;">Parte seconda. «culti orientali», paganesimo, giudaismo, cristianesimo: </span></span></div><div style="background-color: white; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #fffff2;">N. Belayche, E. Rebillard, </span><i>«Cultes orientaux» et pluralisme religieux. Introduction thématique</i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #fffff2;">; </span></span></div><div style="background-color: white; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #fffff2;">E. Tagliaferro, </span><i>A proposito della </i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #fffff2;">Self-Presentation </span><i>dell'Ebraismo: presenze e assenze nel</i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #fffff2;">Contra Apionem; L. Renaut, </span><i>Les initiés aux mystères de Mithra étaient-ils marqués au front? Pour une relecture de Tertullien, </i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;">De praescr</span><i>. 40, 4</i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #fffff2;">; </span></span></div><div style="background-color: white; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #fffff2;">A. Van den Kerchove, </span><i>La voie d'Hermès, la question des sacrifices et les «cultes orientaux»</i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #fffff2;">; </span></span></div><div style="background-color: white; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #fffff2;">M. Zago,</span><i>L'emploi des noms divins dans la </i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #fffff2;">Kosmopoiia </span><i>(</i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #fffff2;">PGM </span><i>XIII)</i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #fffff2;">; </span></span></div><div style="background-color: white; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #fffff2;">C. Macris, </span><i>Les «hommes divins» et leurs dieux: le cas des cultes «orientaux»</i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #fffff2;">.</span></span></div><div style="background-color: white; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #fffff2;"> Parte terza. Interferenze e interazioni, integrazione e rifiuto, conversione e proselitismo: </span></span></div><div style="background-color: white; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #fffff2;">C. Auffarth, S. Ribichini, </span><i>Pluralität, Pluralismus und Exklusivität. Thematische Einführung</i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #fffff2;">; </span></span></div><div style="background-color: white; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #fffff2;">M.-F. Baslez, </span><i>Du culte de Cybèle au christianisme phrygien: approches d'une identité religieuse régionale</i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #fffff2;">; <span></span></span></span></div><div style="background-color: white; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #fffff2;">M.-Y. Perrin, </span><i>De quelques homologies entre ralliements confessionnels en régime chrétien et adhésions au christianisme dans l'Antiquité tardive</i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #fffff2;">; </span></span></div><div style="background-color: white; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #fffff2;">I. Tanaseanu Döbler,</span><i>Befreiung aus der Finsternis: Kaiser Julian und die orientalischen Kulte</i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #fffff2;">; </span></span></div><div style="background-color: white; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #fffff2;">W. Löhr, </span><i>Konversion und Konversionserzählung. Beobachtungen zur konstruktion des Religionswechsels in der Spätantike am Beispiel Augustins</i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #fffff2;">; </span></span></div><div style="background-color: white; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #fffff2;">B. Clausi, </span><i>Gli spazi del confronto: ascetismo cristiano e «religioni orientali» in Ambrogio e Gerolamo</i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #fffff2;">; C. Auffarth, Religio migrans</span><i>:</i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #fffff2;"> </span><i>Die «Orientalischen Religionen» im Kontext antiker Religion. Ein Theoretisches Modell</i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #fffff2;">.</span></span></div>T. Szabó Csabahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10096362600217235630noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6790243095324856401.post-4138943233669746962011-11-02T17:30:00.000-07:002011-11-24T14:41:37.251-08:00Actualities: The Religion of the Senators in the Roman Empire<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://i43.tower.com/images/mm113983102/religion-senators-in-roman-empire-power-beyond-zsuzsanna-varhelyi-hardcover-cover-art.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://i43.tower.com/images/mm113983102/religion-senators-in-roman-empire-power-beyond-zsuzsanna-varhelyi-hardcover-cover-art.jpg" width="264" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">The new book of the famous Hungarian born American scholar,<i><b><a href="http://www.bu.edu/classics/people/faculty/zsuzsanna-varhelyi/"> Zsuzsanna Várhelyi </a>, The Religion of the Senators in the Roman Empire: power and the beyond,</b></i></span></div><ul style="background-color: white; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><li style="margin: 0.5em 0em; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">270 pages, Cambridge University Press; 1 edition (June 7, 2010) is a great synthesis about the religion of Roman high society, the ordo senatorius. </span></li>
<li style="margin: 0.5em 0em; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">In her book, Várhelyi </span>analyses not only the role and the evolution of the senatorial order from Augustus to the end of the III. century in the mirror of power and state , but<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"> also in a theological context. </span></li>
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</tbody></table><li style="margin: 0.5em 0em; text-align: justify;">About the book in Bryn Mawr: "<i>This book examines the religious life of senators in the Roman empire from Augustus to Severus Alexander. Focusing on the nexus between social status, political authority, and what she calls “imperial religion,” Várhelyi shows that senators during this period were active participants in the construction of a new imperial order that was defined, at least in part, in religious terms, and suggests that it was largely through religious practice and its attendant discourses that senators forged a strong identity (both corporate and individual),expressed their own public power and authority, and engaged with problems of symbolic order and the meanings of life and death. Despite some analytical imprecision and the absence of a central thesis, this study makes a valuable contribution to the history of the senatorial order, religious practice and thought, and the political culture of the early Roman empire" <a href="http://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2011/2011-04-40.html">(loc. cit.</a>)</i></li>
</ul>Presentation in the Classical Review's latest issue: <i><a href="http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=8365538&fulltextType=BR&fileId=S0009840X11001648">HERE.</a></i><br />
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</tbody></table><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;">A short<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"> description of the book at the page o</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">f Yale University Press: "</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; line-height: 16px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><i>Ancient chroniclers, including Julius Caesar himself, made the Druids and their sacred rituals infamous throughout the Western world. But in fact, as Miranda Aldhouse-Green shows in this fascinating book, the Druids’ day-to-day lives were far less lurid and much more significant. Exploring the various roles that Druids played in British and Gallic society during the first centuries B.C. and A.D.—not just as priests but as judges, healers, scientists, and power brokers—Aldhouse-Green argues that they were a highly complex, intellectual, and sophisticated group whose influence transcended religion and reached into the realms of secular power and politics. With deep analysis, fresh interpretations, and critical discussions, she gives the Druids a voice that resonates in our own time" <a href="http://yalepress.yale.edu/book.asp?isbn=9780300124422">(loc. cit.).</a></i></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; line-height: 16px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
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</div>T. Szabó Csabahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10096362600217235630noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6790243095324856401.post-12658805256216036862011-10-31T16:15:00.000-07:002011-11-01T17:02:21.230-07:00Titans of the study of religion<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.mithras.hu/kepek/irodalom/tothistvan/toth_istvan.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="212" src="http://www.mithras.hu/kepek/irodalom/tothistvan/toth_istvan.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b45f06; font-size: x-large;">Tóth István </span></b><br />
<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b45f06;">(1944 - 2006)</span> </b><br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;"><b style="background-color: white;"><u><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b45f06;">Field of research</span></u><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6aa84f;">:</span></b> <i>Roman Religion, Oriental Cults in Pannonia (especially the cult of Mithras), Latin Epigraphy</i><br />
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</i></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><u style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b45f06;">Alumny:</span></u><span style="font-weight: bold;"> </span><i>University of Pécs, Faculty of Humanities, Department of Ancient History, Hungary <a href="http://okor.tti.btk.pte.hu/index.php?p=contents&cid=82">(link)</a></i><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><u style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b45f06;">Major contributions:</span></u><span style="font-weight: bold;"> </span><i>CIMRM Supplementum for Pannonia, important studies related to the Cult of Mithras in Pannonia (the Poetovio system), propagation of ancient history in Hungary</i><i><br />
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</u></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i>More than 300 publications. <a href="http://okor.tti.btk.pte.hu/index.php?p=contents&cid=91">(full list here)</a></i></div><div style="text-align: justify;"></div><ol><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWp1chONMP_e-tuloYOiFW3nhHN_VOeXYlWsPkjldt0jN1Tkvznr2Txa4qQogp0SkfZfEUmkoUnYJvyrrIEnakQA2KRdGfcrHXL-oK9EWh4dkdaCYTgT-sxC6mmogbIj490OfL2Z39/s1600/Apr14_02.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWp1chONMP_e-tuloYOiFW3nhHN_VOeXYlWsPkjldt0jN1Tkvznr2Txa4qQogp0SkfZfEUmkoUnYJvyrrIEnakQA2KRdGfcrHXL-oK9EWh4dkdaCYTgT-sxC6mmogbIj490OfL2Z39/s320/Apr14_02.JPG" width="160" /></a>
<li><em style="background-color: white; color: #444444; line-height: 16px; text-align: -webkit-auto;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><em>Mithram esse coronam suam</em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"> . (</span><em>Bemerkungen über den dogmatischen Hintergrund der Initiationsriten der Mithramysterien</em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"> .) Acta Classica Univ. Sc. Debrecen. 2, 1996, 73-79.</span></span></em></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><em style="background-color: white; color: #444444; line-height: 16px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">The Cult of Juppiter Sol invictus deus genitor in Dacia</em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #444444; line-height: 16px;"> .</span><em style="background-color: white; color: #444444; line-height: 16px; text-align: -webkit-auto;"> </em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #444444; line-height: 16px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">Acta Classica Univ. Sc. Debrecen. 6, 1970, 71-74.</span></span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><em style="background-color: white; color: #444444; line-height: 16px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">Destruction of the sanctuaries of Iuppiter Dolichenus at the Rhine and in the Danube Region (235-238)</em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #444444; line-height: 16px;"> . Acta Archaeologica Hung. 25, 1973, 109-116.</span></span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #444444; line-height: 16px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><em style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">Iuppiter Dolichenus-tanulmányok</em> . /Iuppiter Dolichenus-Studien./ Az ELTE Ókori Történeti Tanszékeinek Kiadv. 15. Budapest, ELTE Házi soksz., 1976. 172 p.</span></span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #444444; line-height: 16px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><em style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">Das lokale System der Mithraischen Personifikationen im Gebiet von Poetovio</em> . Archeološki <i>Vestnik 28, 1977, 385-392.</i></span></span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #444444; line-height: 16px;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">A rómaiak Magyarországon. 2. kiadás. 1979</span></i></span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #444444; line-height: 16px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><em style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">Das groβe Kultbild des Mithräums und die Probleme des Mithras-Kultes in Intercisa</em> . Specimina Nova 1985, 37-56. [mit Zsolt Visy]</span></span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #444444; line-height: 16px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><em style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">Magna Mater és Attis kultuszának emlékei Pannoniában</em> -<em style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"> Katalógus</em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"> . - </span><em style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">Die Denkmäler des Kultes von Magna Mater und Attis in Pannonien </em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">-</span><em style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"> Katalog</em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"> . A Janus Pannonius Múzeum Évkönyve 29, 1984 (1985), 127-161.</span></span></span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #444444; line-height: 16px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><em>Der Kult der kleinasiatischen Götter in Pannonien</em> . Specimina Nova 1987, 107-130.</span></span></span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #444444; line-height: 16px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><em>Addenda Pannonica Mithriaca</em> .<em> (Additios to the Work of M. J. Vermaseren. Corpus Inscriptionum et Monumentorum Religionis Mithriacae)</em> . Specimina Nova 1988, 17-73.</span></span></span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #444444; line-height: 16px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><em>The Cult of Cybele and Attis in Pannonia</em> . Specimina Nova 6, 1990 (1991), 119-158.</span></span></span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #444444; line-height: 16px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><em>A Dacian „Apostle" of the cult of Mithras?</em> Specimina Nova 8, 1992, 153-160.</span></span></span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #444444; line-height: 16px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><em>A római kori keleti vallások pannoniai történetének kérdései</em> .<em> </em><em>(I</em> .<em> A kisázsiai és iráni eredetű <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">kultuszok</span></em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"> .<em>)</em> /Fragen der Geschichte römerzeitlichen orientalischen Kulte in Pannonien. (I. Kleinasiatische und persische Kulte.)/ Kandidátusi értekezés. Pécs 1993. 263 p. (manuscript)</span></span></span></span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #444444; line-height: 16px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><em>Zsidó hitközösségek a római Pannoniában</em> . /Jüdische Gemeinden im römischen Pannonien./ Múlt és Jövő 1995/4, 105-109.</span></span></span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #444444; line-height: 16px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><em>Bevezetés a római feliratok világába</em> . /Einführung in die Welt der römischen Inschriften/ Pécs, University Press Pécs, 1999. 219 p. [mit Ádám Szabó]</span></span></span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #444444; line-height: 16px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><em>Mithras Pannonicus</em> . <em>Esszék - Essays</em> . Specimina Nova 17, 2003. 146 p.</span></span></span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #444444; line-height: 16px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><em>Das Fest Pannoniens: III Idus Iunias</em> . In: Bölcske. Römische Inschriften und Funde. In Memorian Sándor Soproni. (Hrsg.: Á. Szabó - E. Tóth) Libelli Archaeologici No. II. Bp. 2003. Budapest, 2003, 377-384.</span></span></span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #444444; line-height: 16px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><em>Pannoniai vallástörténet</em> . /Pannonische Religionsgeschichte./ Akadémiai doktori értekezés. Pécs 2004. 208 p. (Kézirat)</span></span></span></li>
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<b>I. Changes in Religious Life: Roman and Civic Cults</b><br />
1: Jörg Rüpke: Roman Religion and the Religion of Empire: Some Reflections on Method<br />
2: Richard Gordon: The Roman Imperial Cult and the Question of Power<br />
3: J. B. Rives: Magic in Roman Law: The Reconstruction of a Crime<br />
4: William Van Andringa: New Combinations and New Statuses: The Indigenous Gods in the Pantheons of the Cities of Roman Gaul<br />
5: Nicole Belayche: Hypsistos: A Way of Exalting the Gods in Graeco-Roman Polytheism<br />
6: Andreas Bendlin: On the Uses and Disadvantages of Divination: Oracles and their Literary Representations in the Time of the Second Sophistic<br />
<b>II. Elective Cults</b><br />
7: Simon Price: Homogeneity and Diversity in the Religions of Rome<br />
8: Giulia Sfameni Gasparro: Oriental Mysteries and Cults: A Problem in the History of Religions<br />
9: Richard Gordon: Ritual and Hierarchy in the Mysteries of Mithras<br />
10: John Scheid: Community and Community: Reflections on Some Ambiguities Based on the Thiasoi of Roman Egypt<br />
<b>III. Coexistence of Religions, Old and New</b><br />
11: Philip Harland: Acculturation and Identity in the Diaspora: A Jewish Family and 'Pagan' Guilds at Hierapolis<br />
12: Martin Goodman: Josephus and Variety in First-Century Judaism<br />
13: Judith Lieu: The Forging of Christian Identity and the Letter To Diognetus<br />
14: Guy G. Stroumsa: Purification and its Discontents: Mani's Rejection of Baptism<br />
15: J. A. North: Pagans, Polytheists and the Pendulum<br />
<b>IV. Late Antiquity</b><br />
16: Averil Cameron: Early Christianity and the Discourse of Female Desire<br />
17: Peter Brown: Enjoying the Saints in Late Antiquity</span><br />
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</tbody></table>T. Szabó Csabahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10096362600217235630noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6790243095324856401.post-27350749668529952312011-10-30T08:27:00.000-07:002011-11-01T17:07:08.669-07:00Actualities: A new book about the images of the Gods<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.brill.nl/files/brill.nl/imagecache/product_full-195x275px/covers/images/products/295x295/30087.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://www.brill.nl/files/brill.nl/imagecache/product_full-195x275px/covers/images/products/295x295/30087.jpg" width="260" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><i>Divine Images and Human Imaginations in Ancient Greece and Rome</i></b> 2010, 456.pp. (edited by <a href="http://www.columbia.edu/cu/arthistory/faculty/Mylonopoulos.html"><b>Joannis Mylonopoulos</b></a> ) is the 170.th volum of the famous Brill Editure in the series of RGRW (continuation of EPRO).</div><div style="text-align: justify;">The topic of the images of Gods is a problematic discussion especially in the focus of the art historians and historians of religion (see the debate in the article of Richard Gordon, <i><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">Image and Value in the Graeco-Roman World, Studies in Mithraism and Religious Art,</span></i><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"> Variorum, Aldershot, 1996).</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Short presentation of the book on the page of Brill:</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">"</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: GentiumPlusRegular, Gentium, Georgia, Tahoma, 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px;"><i>The polytheistic religious systems of ancient Greece and Rome reveal an imaginative attitude towards the construction of the divine. One of the most important instruments in this process was certainly the visualisation. Images of the gods transformed the divine world into a visually experienceable entity, comprehensible even without a theoretical or theological superstructure. For the illiterates, images were together with oral traditions and rituals the only possibility to approach the idea of the divine; for the intellectuals, images of the gods could be allegorically transcended <span class="details" style="display: inline;">symbols to reflect upon. Based on the art historical and textual evidence, this volume offers a fresh view on the historical, literary, and artistic significance of divine images as powerful visual media of religious and intellectual communication" <a href="http://www.brill.nl/divine-images-and-human-imaginations-ancient-greece-and-rome">(loc.cit.)</a></span></i></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: GentiumPlusRegular, Gentium, Georgia, Tahoma, 'Times New Roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;">The book's review in Bryn Mawr Classical Review: <b><a href="http://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2010/2010-08-71.html">here</a></b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: GentiumPlusRegular, Gentium, Georgia, Tahoma, 'Times New Roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;"><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Georg Wissowa</td></tr>
</tbody></table><div style="text-align: justify;">The scientific study of Roman Religion is strict related to the history of religious studies itself <i>(Religionswissenschaft). </i>Studying "religion" was always a delicate topic, and nowadays there are a library full bibliography about it, using the same methods (historical, phenomenological, psichological, sociological, philosophical approach of the topic) as in the general study of religions (<i><b>Pettazonni, Eliade, Bianchi, Hinnells</b></i>) sometimes with interesting exceptions (<i><b>Charachidze</b>'s contrastualism). </i></div><div style="text-align: justify;">This phenomenon begins in the ancient times: Greek, Etruscan and Roman auctors examined Roman religion as a socio- cultural or theological phenomenon (<i><b>Varro, Hecataeus, Herodotos, Cicero</b></i>, the mythographs etc.).</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Franz Altheim</td></tr>
</tbody></table>The scientific research begins in the XVIII. century with German theologists, such <i><b>Johann Adam Hartung</b> </i>or<i> <b>Friedrich Scheiermacher</b></i>. In the XIX. century the study of Religion - especially after the evolution of archaeology as science and the huge influence of Freud, Darwin and the translation of ancient Oriental literature - European conception about religion changed radically (<i><b>Frazer, Taylor</b></i>). In this period was written the basic work of <i><b>Georg Wissowa</b></i> about Roman religion (<i>Religion und Kultus der Römer</i>) which is even today highly circulated and became a modell for other major works such as of <i><b>Kurt Latte</b></i> or <b style="font-style: italic;">Franz Altheim. </b>A great step in the history of religious studies was the activity of the patriarch of the Oriental Studies, <i><b>Franz Cumont</b></i>. <b style="font-style: italic;"> </b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">John Scheid</td></tr>
</tbody></table>Nowadays the research of Roman Religion became so sophisticated and highly elaborated, that it could be a separate science in the field of classical studies. His affiliation is also difficult: the methodological approach of a religious phenomena or object are in dispute of cognitive archaeology, historian of religions, art historians and classicists also. </div><div style="text-align: justify;">In the latest monograph about Roman Religion (<i><b>Jörk Rüpke, A Companion to the Roman Religion, Blackwell 2007</b></i>) we can see the main areas and chief personalities of research.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Marteen Vermaseren, Robert Turcan, Ramsey McMullen, Roger Beck, Richard Gordon, Manfred Clauss, Giulia Gasparro, John Sheid, John North, Jörg Rüpke, Mary Beard, Ando Clifford, Andreas Bendlin are just few of the most citated scholars of the field. </div><div style="text-align: justify;">As Robert Phillips III. (who is the chief researcher in the historiography of Roman Religion after H.J. Rose and R. Schilling) argued in his articles, there is still no unanimously accepted method in the study of Roman Religion, because of it's doubtful place between archaeology, history of religion and anthropology. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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