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Some remarks about the religious life of Hatra
No full textKaizer Ted. Some remarks about the religious life of Hatra. In: Topoi, volume 10/1, 2000. pp. 229-252
Grégory Bongard-Levine, Corinne Bonnet, Yuri Litvinenko et Arnaldo Marcone, Mongolus Syrio salutem optimam dat. La correspondance entre Mikhaïl Rostovtzeff et Franz Cumont. Paris, De Boccard, 2007
No full textKaizer Ted. Grégory Bongard-Levine, Corinne Bonnet, Yuri Litvinenko et Arnaldo Marcone, Mongolus Syrio salutem optimam dat. La correspondance entre Mikhaïl Rostovtzeff et Franz Cumont. Paris, De Boccard, 2007. In: L'antiquité classique, Tome 79, 2010. pp. 813-816
The impact of women’s travels on military imagery in the Julio-Claudian period
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Arx aeternae dominationis: emperor worship rituals In the construction of a Roman religious frontier
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Get PDFhis paper focusses on two lines in what counts as our best available literary source for the study of religious life in the Roman Near East. In paragraph 5 of Περὶ τῆς Συρίης Θεοῦ (On the Syrian Goddess), a treatise professing to describe the temple and cult at Hierapolis, a place in northern Syria also known by its indigenous names of Manbog or Bambyce, the author writes: ἔχουσι δὲ καὶ ἄλλο Φοίνικες ἱρόν, οὐκ Ἀσσύριον ἀλλ’ Αἰγύπτιον, τὸ ἐξ Ἡλίου πόλιος ἐς τὴν Φοινίκην ἀπίκετο. ἐγὼ μέν μιν οὐκ ὄπωπα, μέγα δὲ καὶ τόδε καὶ ἀρχαῖόν ἐστιν. The Phoenicians have another temple, not Assyrian, but Egyptian, which came to Phoenicia from Heliopolis. I have not seen it, but it too is large and ancient
The Variety of Local Religious Life in the Near East in the Hellenistic and Roman Periods.
No full textA ‘Near Eastern religion’, along the lines of ‘Greek religion’ or ‘Roman religion’, is hard to distinguish for the Classical period, since the religious cultures of the many cities, villages and regions that constituted the Near East in the Hellenistic and Roman periods were, despite some obvious similarities, above all very different from each other. This collection of articles by scholars from different disciplines (Ancient History, Archaeology, Art-History, Epigraphy, Numismatics, Oriental Studies, Theology) contributes to our quest for understanding the polytheistic cults of the Near East as a whole by bringing out the variety between the different local and regional forms of worship in this part of the world
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