Empire and Religion

Religious Change in Greek Cities under Roman Rule

Elena Muñiz Grijalvo, Juan Manuel Cortés Copete, Fernando Lozano Gomez (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

222 Seiten

2017
Brill (Verlag)
978-90-04-34710-6 (ISBN)

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Empire and religion reflects on the nature of religious change in the Greek cities under Roman rule. The fascinating and fluid process of religious transformation is interpreted in this book in line with the logics of empire.

This volume explores the nature of religious change in the Greek-speaking cities of the Roman Empire. Emphasis is put on those developments that apparently were not the direct result of Roman actions: the intensification of idiosyncratically Greek features in the religious life of the cities (Heller, Muñiz, Camia); the active role of a new kind of Hellenism in the design of imperial religious policies (Gordillo, Galimberti, Rosillo-López); or the locally different responses to central religious initiatives, and the influence of those local responses in other imperial contexts (Cortés, Melfi, Lozano, Rizakis). All the chapters try to suggest that religion in the Greek cities of the empire was both conservative and innovative, and that the ‘Roman factor’ helps to explain this apparent paradox.

Elena Muñiz Grijalvo, Ph.D. (2001), is Professor of Ancient History at the University Pablo de Olavide, Seville. She has published on religions in the Roman Empire, with an emphasis on changes in Greek religion and on Isiac cults. Juan Manuel Cortés Copete, Ph.D. (1994), is Professor of Ancient History at the University Pablo de Olavide. He is the author of articles and books on Aelius Aristides. He works on Hadrian and the cultural diversity of the Empire. Fernando Lozano, Ph.D. (2004), is Professor of Ancient History at the Universidad de Sevilla. He has published monographs and articles on emperor worship and the religious transformations that took place during the Roman Empire, especially on Athens and Greece. Contributors are: Francesco Camia, Juan Manuel Cortés Copete, Alessandro Galimberti, Rocío Gordillo Hervás, Anne Heller, Fernando Lozano Gómez, Milena Melfi, Elena Muñiz Grijalvo, Athanasios Rizakis, Cristina Rosillo-López.

Erscheinungsdatum	24.07.2017
Reihe/Serie	Impact of Empire ; 25
Verlagsort	Leiden
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Gewicht	517 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Archäologie
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Vor- und Frühgeschichte
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Altertum / Antike
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie Altertum / Antike
ISBN-10	90-04-34710-0 / 9004347100
ISBN-13	978-90-04-34710-6 / 9789004347106
Zustand	Neuware