Religious Convergence in the Ancient Mediterranean
Published on 15. December 2019
600 pages
978-1-948488-17-4 (ISBN)
Description
This volume brings together scholars in religion, archaeology, philology, and history to explore case studies and theoretical models of converging religions. The twenty-four essays offered in this volume, which derive from Hittite, Cilician, Lydian, Phoenician, Greek, and Roman cultural settings, focus on encounters at the boundaries of cultures, landscapes, chronologies, social class and status, the imaginary, and the materially operative. Broad patterns ultimately emerge that reach across these boundaries, and suggest the state of the question on the study of convergence, and the potential fruitfulness for comparative and interdisciplinary studies as models continue to evolve.
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Sandra Blakely | Billie Jean Collins
Religious Convergence in the Ancient Mediterranean
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Content
- Cover
- Series page
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Abbreviations
- Contributors
- Introduction / Sandra Blakely
- Ch. 1: Guardian Goddess of the Surf-Beaten Shore / Amelia R. Brown and Rebecca Smith
- Ch. 2: Lilibeo e i suoi culti / Rossella Giglio
- Ch. 3: Large Temples as Cultural Bannersin Western Sicily / Margaret M. Miles
- Ch. 4: Close Encounters on Sicily / Sarah Morris
- Ch. 5: The Temple of Astarte "Aglaia" at Motya / Lorenzo Nigro
- Ch. 6: Venere del Mare: Testimonianze delculto nel trapanese Francesca Oliveri
- Ch. 7: Hittite Prayers and Their Mesopotamian Models / Elisabeth Rieken
- Ch. 8: Mythological Passages in Hittite Rituals / Görke
- Ch. 9: Religious Convergence in Hittite Anatolia / Amir Gilan
- Ch. 10: The Arzawa Rituals and Religious Production in Hattusa / Billie Jean Collins
- Ch. 11: Survival of "Popular" Mythology / Mary R. Bachvarova
- Ch. 12: Native Religious Traditions from a Lydian Perspective / Annick Payne
- Ch. 13: Funerary Practices and Rituals on Sicily / Sebastiano Tusa
- Ch. 14: The Convergence of Guardian Statues in the Ancient World / Christopher Athanasous Faraone
- Ch. 15: Across Traditions and beyondBoundaries: The Masks of Carthage / Adriano Orsingher
- Ch. 16: Greek Coins, Punic People / José Miguel Puebla Morón
- Ch. 17: Ritual Practices, Food Offerings, and Animal Sacrifices / Federica Spagnoli
- Ch. 18: Romantic Receptions, or, The Aeginetan Sculptures' Long March to Munich / Louis A. Ruprecht Jr.
- Ch. 19: From Zalpuwa to Brauron / Ian Rutherford
- Ch. 20: The Politics of Ritual Performance at Assyrian-Period Sam'al / Virginia R. Herrmann
- Ch. 21: The Tonaia and Samian Identity / Aaron Beck-Schachter
- Ch. 22: Sparta and Persia: Rituals for Invading the Land of the Gods of Others / Irene Polinskaya
- Ch. 23: Using Your Head: Reading a "Local Style" Adapted for Foreign Ritual / Kevin Dicus
- Ch. 24: Roman Empire and Roman Emperor: Animal Sacrifice as an Instrument of Religious Convergence / J. B. Rives
- Subject Index
- Ancient Sources Index
