Empire and religion: religious change in Greek cities under Roman rule

"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 (...

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Published in:Impact of Empire
Contributors: Muñiz Grijalvo, Elena (Editor) ; Cortés Copete, Juan Manuel 1966- (Editor) ; Lozano Gómez, Fernando (Editor)
Format: Electronic Book
Language:English
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Published: Leiden Boston Brill 2017
In: Impact of Empire (25)
Series/Journal:Impact of Empire 25
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Greece (Antiquity) / City / Religion / Change / Roman time
Further subjects:B Greeks (Rome) Religion History
B Religion And Politics (Rome) History
B Rome Religious life and customs
B Ritual (Rome) History
B Conference program 2014 (Sevilla)
B Imperialism (Rome) Religious aspects History
B City and town life (Rome) History
B Social Change (Rome) History
B Rome Civilization Greek influences
B Rome Politics and government
B Rome Religion
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Summary:"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. 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"--Provided by publisher
Priesthoods and civic ideology : honorific titles for Hiereis and Archiereis in Roman Asia Minor / Anna Heller -- Public sacrifice in Roman Athens / Elena Muñiz Grijalvo -- Cultic and social dynamics in the Eleusinian sanctuary under the empire / Francesco Camia -- Communication between sanctuaries and rulers : an analysis of religious resistance to Roman abuses in the Greek East during the Roman Republic / Cristina Rosillo-López -- Trajan and Hadrian's reorganization of the Agonistic associations in Rome / Rocío Gordillo Hervás -- P.Oxy. 471 : Hadrian, Alexandria, and the Antinous cult / Alessandro Galimberti -- Hadrian among the gods / Juan Manuel Cortés Copete -- Some thoughts on the cult of the Pantheon ("All the Gods"?) in the cities and sanctuaries of Roman Greece / Milena Melfi -- Emperor worship and Greek leagues : the organization of supra-civic imperial cult in the Roman East / Fernando Lozano -- Le paysage culturel de la colonie romaine de Philippes en Macédoine : cosmopolitisme religieux et différentiation sociale / Athanasios D. Rizakis -- Index geographicus -- Index nominum -- Index rerum sacrorum -- Index rerum
ISBN:9004347119
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Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1163/9789004347113