Roman Religion and the Cult of Diana at Aricia - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Roman Religion and the Cult of Diana at Aricia write by C. M. C. Green. This book was released on 2007. Roman Religion and the Cult of Diana at Aricia available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The sanctuary dedicated to Diana at Aricia flourished from the Bronze age to the second century CE. From its archaic beginnings in the wooded crater beside the lake known as the 'mirror of Dianea' it grew into a grand Hellenistic-style complex that attracted crowds of pilgrims and the sick. Diana was also believed to confer power on leaders. This book examines the history of Diana's cult and healing sanctuary, which remained a significant and wealthy religious center for more than a thousand years. It sheds new light on Diana herself, on the use of rational as well as ritual healing in the sanctuary, on the subtle distinctions between Latin religious sensibility and the more austere Roman practice, and on the interpenetration of cult and politics in Latin and Roman history.
From Artemis to Diana
From Artemis to Diana - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook From Artemis to Diana write by Tobias Fischer-Hansen. This book was released on 2009. From Artemis to Diana available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This text is presented in English and German. This book contains 19 articles dealing with various aspects of the Greek goddess Artemis and the Roman goddess Diana. The themes presented in the volume deal with the Near Eastern equivalents of Artemis, the Bronze Age Linear B testimonies, and Artemis in Homer and in the Greek tragedies. Sanctuaries and cult, and regional aspects are also dealt with - encompassing Cyprus, the Black Sea region, Greece and Italy. Pedimental sculpture, mosaics and sculpture form the basis of investigations of the iconography of the Roman Diana; the role of the cult of Diana in a dynastic setting is also examined. There is a single section that deals with the reception of the iconography of the Ephesian Artemis during the Renaissance and later periods.
Greek Religion and Cults in the Black Sea Region
Greek Religion and Cults in the Black Sea Region - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Greek Religion and Cults in the Black Sea Region write by David Braund. This book was released on 2018-05-31. Greek Religion and Cults in the Black Sea Region available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This is the first integrated study of Greek religion and cults of the Black Sea region, centred upon the Bosporan Kingdom of its northern shores, but with connections and consequences for Greece and much of the Mediterranean world. David Braund explains the cohesive function of key goddesses (Aphrodite Ourania, Artemis Ephesia, Taurian Parthenos, Isis) as it develops from archaic colonization through Athenian imperialism, the Hellenistic world and the Roman Empire in the East down to the Byzantine era. There is a wealth of new and unfamiliar data on all these deities, with multiple consequences for other areas and cults, such as Diana at Aricia, Orthia in Sparta, Argos' irrigation from Egypt, Athens' Aphrodite Ourania and Artemis Tauropolos and more. Greek religion is shown as key to the internal workings of the Bosporan Kingdom, its sense of its landscape and origins and its shifting relationships with the rest of its world.
Elementary Principles of the Roman Private Law
Elementary Principles of the Roman Private Law - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Elementary Principles of the Roman Private Law write by William Warwick Buckland. This book was released on 1912. Elementary Principles of the Roman Private Law available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
She-Wolf
She-Wolf - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook She-Wolf write by Cristina Mazzoni. This book was released on 2010-03-29. She-Wolf available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Since antiquity, the she-wolf has served as the potent symbol of Rome. For more than two thousand years, the legendary animal that rescued Romulus and Remus has been the subject of historical and political accounts, literary treatments in poetry and prose, and visual representations in every medium. In She-Wolf: The Story of a Roman Icon, Cristina Mazzoni examines the evolution of the she-wolf as a symbol in western history, art, and literature, from antiquity to contemporary times. Used, for example, as an icon of Roman imperial power, papal authority, and the distance between the present and the past, the she-wolf has also served as an allegory for greed, good politics, excessive female sexuality, and, most recently, modern, multi-cultural Rome. Mazzoni engagingly analyzes the various role guises of the she-wolf over time in the first comprehensive study in any language on this subject.
