The God Aion in a Mosaic from Nea Paphos (Cyprus) and Graeco-Phoenician Cosmogonies in the Roman East

This essay offers a new interpretive angle on a fourth-century CE mosaic from Nea Paphos in Cyprus, in which the central panel depicts the god Aion presiding over the contest between Kassiopeia and the Nereids. The mosaic, which has other mythological scenes, two of them focused on Dionysos, has bee...

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Main Author: López-Ruiz, Carolina (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: De Gruyter [2020]
In: Archiv für Religionsgeschichte
Year: 2020, Volume: 21/22, Issue: 1, Pages: 423-447
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Roman Empire / Religion / Paphos / Eon, God / Greece (Antiquity) / Phoenicia / Cosmogony
RelBib Classification:AG Religious life; material religion
BE Greco-Roman religions
Further subjects:B Religionswissenschaften
B Theologie und Religion
B Altertumswissenschaften
B Antike Religionsgeschichte
B Klassische Altertumswissenschaften
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