Ancient Civilizations the Illustrated Guide to Belief Mythology and Art Greg Woolf

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Religion in the Roman Empire , 2021

Religion in the Roman Empire The Roman Empire was habitation to a fascinating variety of dissimilar cult... more Religion in the Roman Empire The Roman Empire was dwelling to a fascinating diverseness of different cults and religions. Its enormous extent, the absence of a precisely definable country organized religion and constant exchanges with the religions and cults of conquered peoples and of neighbouring cultures resulted in a multifaceted diversity of religious convictions and practices. This volume provides a compelling view of central aspects of cult and religion in the Roman Empire, among them the distinction between public and private cult, the complex interrelations between different religious traditions, their mutually entangled developments and expansions, and the diversity of regional differences, rituals, religious texts and artefacts.

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Oxford University Press, Oxford and New York, 2020

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Italian translation by Alessio de Sienna of 'Rome. An Emperor'due south Story'

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... features a comprehensive reference section that provides a brief chronology, a glossary of te... more ... features a comprehensive reference section that provides a cursory chronology, a glossary of technical terms, biographies of central Roman figures and a list of significant archaeological sites and collections. Page 5. Page 6. Page 7. CAMBRIDGE ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF THE ...

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São Paulo: Ática , Jan 1, 1998

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... Folio 17. Abbreviations 15 ILTG Inscriptions Latines des Trois Gaules JRA Journal of RomanArch... more than ... Page 17. Abbreviations xv ILTG Inscriptions Latines des Trois Gaules JRA Journal of RomanArchaeology JRS Journal of Roman Studies MAAR Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome MEFRA Melanges de I&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;#x27;ecole francaise de Rome, antiquite MHA ...

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Religion in the Roman Empire , 2021

Faith in the Roman Empire The Roman Empire was dwelling to a fascinating variety of different cult... more Religion in the Roman Empire The Roman Empire was home to a fascinating diversity of different cults and religions. Its enormous extent, the absenteeism of a precisely definable state religion and constant exchanges with the religions and cults of conquered peoples and of neighbouring cultures resulted in a multifaceted diversity of religious convictions and practices. This volume provides a compelling view of central aspects of cult and religion in the Roman Empire, among them the stardom between public and individual cult, the complex interrelations between different religious traditions, their mutually entangled developments and expansions, and the diversity of regional differences, rituals, religious texts and artefacts.

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Oxford University Press, Oxford and New York, 2020

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Italian translation by Alessio de Sienna of 'Rome. An Emperor'southward Story'

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... features a comprehensive reference department that provides a cursory chronology, a glossary of te... more ... features a comprehensive reference section that provides a brief chronology, a glossary of technical terms, biographies of cardinal Roman figures and a list of significant archaeological sites and collections. Page five. Page six. Page vii. CAMBRIDGE ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF THE ...

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São Paulo: Ática , January one, 1998

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... Folio 17. Abbreviations xv ILTG Inscriptions Latines des Trois Gaules JRA Journal of RomanArch... more ... Folio 17. Abbreviations xv ILTG Inscriptions Latines des Trois Gaules JRA Periodical of RomanArchaeology JRS Journal of Roman Studies MAAR Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome MEFRA Melanges de I&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;#x27;ecole francaise de Rome, antiquite MHA ...

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Greece and Rome 69.1 pp.120-134 , 2022

This article sets out to reconsider the history of curse tablets in the ancient Mediterranean wor... more This article sets out to reconsider the history of curse tablets in the aboriginal Mediterranean world as the history of a technology, one marked by episodes of innovation and appropriation. Attempts to write a history in terms of diffusion or of the spread of classical ideas or of magic accept failed to convince, and most recent studies focus on the particularities of specific tablets or groups of tablets. This article argues that, if human and object bureau are taken into account, it is possible to explain both the discontinuities in the history of curse tablets and besides the shape of their grand-yr history. Curse tablets emerge as a applied science the affordances of which allowed it to exist put to many uses in many dissimilar social locations formed by the complex and shifting cultural contours of artifact.

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Imperium Romanum: Romanization betwixt Colonization and Globalization , 2021

This paper offers a disquisitional reflection on the use of Romanization and Globalization over the las... more This paper offers a disquisitional reflection on the employ of Romanization and Globalization over the last three decades. It so suggests that many phenomena they treat wait rather different when viewed in the long term. From the perspective of deep history Roman conquest appears as
ane episode in a much longer sequence in which successive short-lived moments of stylistic convergence briefly interrupt a pattern in which local priorities play a determining role in shaping cultural forms.

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BERTHELOT, Katell (dir.). Reconsidering Roman power : Roman, Greek, Jewish and Christian perceptions and reactions. Nouvelle édition [en ligne]. Roma : Publications de l'École française de Rome, 2020 (généré le 06 mai 2020). Disponible sur Internet : <http://books.openedition.org/efr/4602>. , 2020

This paper considers a series of problems that emerge from conventional uses of the term 'power' ... more This newspaper considers a series of problems that emerge from conventional uses of the term 'ability' in discussing the Roman world. Cartoon on critiques and reformulations of the concept by social theorists it explores the operation of power in ii spheres, showtime at the centre of the empire where emperors, aristocrats and other courtiers competed for influence, and second in the provinces where identity politics and economical interests intersected in dissimilar means. It argues for conceptualizing

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The Roman menstruation witnessed massive changes in the human-material surroundings, from monumentalised... more The Roman period witnessed massive changes in the man-material environment, from monumentalised cityscapes to standardised low-value artefacts similar pottery. This book explores new perspectives to sympathise this Roman 'object nail' and its impact on Roman history. In detail, the book's international contributors question the traditional authority of 'representation' in Roman archaeology, whereby objects accept come to stand for social phenomena such as status, facets of group identity, or notions like Romanisation and economic growth. Drawing upon the recent material turn in anthropology and related disciplines, the essays in this book examine what it ways to materialise Roman history, focusing on the question of what objects do in history, rather than what they represent. In challenging the dominance of representation, and exploring themes such as the impact of standardisation and the role of material agency, Materialising Roman History is essential reading for anyone studying cloth civilization from the Roman earth (and beyond).

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ARYS , 2019

Neither the concept of "imperial policy" nor of "religion" are easily practical to antiquity. Nevertheless t... more Neither the concept of "imperial policy" nor of "faith" are easily applied to antiquity.
Nevertheless the activities of Roman emperors often did accept consequences for religious
activity, and their behaviour was non necessarily chaotic or random. Hadrian provides a adept case for examining how religious activity was incorporated into ancient biography
and historical writing, and how it was related to other fields of imperial conduct. A expert deal is recorded about Hadrian's conduct of religious offices, his building projects and his engagement with older tradition, Roman and foreign. The dossier of testimonia does reveal some consistencies in his behaviour only these seem to derive less from policy than from habits of idea and action. Many of his actions can be interpreted as conventional, even if sometimes performed on an unconventional scale. Hadrian certainly exercised agency, and he had detail dispositions as a ruler. Simply religious policy seems an anachronistic term to apply to his carry.

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The Bear on of Mobility and Migration in the Early Roman Empire edited by Elio Lo Cascio and Rens Tacomaby , 2017

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Julius Caesar's Battle for Gaul. New Archaeological Perspectives, edited past Andrew J. Fitzpatrick and Colin Haselgrove , 2019

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Bandue , 2018

Neither the spread of religions nor religious mobility offers an adequate framework to sympathise... more Neither the spread of religions nor religious mobility offers an adequate
framework to sympathize how and why a few gods became widely worshipped in the ancient Mediterranean world far from their places of origin. Exam of the cases of Isis, IOM Dolichenus, Mithras and Jupiter suggests the importance of episodes of hybridization in the cultural biography of «global deities». Diasporas of diverse kinds and empire building provided contexts within which such religious entrepreneurships could succeed.

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Instrumenta 64 Xenofobia y Racismo en el mundo antiguo , 2018

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Woolf, G. (2017) Archaeological Narratives of the Collapse of Complex Societies, In Takaski Minam... more Woolf, Grand. (2017) Archaeological Narratives of the Collapse of Complex Societies, In Takaski Minamikawa (Ed.) Decline and Pass up-Narratives in the Greek and Roman World, Proceedings of a Briefing held in Oxford in March 2017 Kyoto Academy: Kyoto, 113-122

published October 2017

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from James Carleton Paget and Judith Lieu (eds) Christianity in the Second Century. Themes and De... more than from James Carleton Paget and Judith Lieu (eds) Christianity in the 2nd Century. Themes and Developments (Cambridge University Press) 2017

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The emergence during the Roman Empire of new religious forms and groups aslope the collec ve c... more The emergence during the Roman Empire of new religious forms and groups alongside the collec ve cults of the city and ruler worship invites analysis in terms of various kinds of network theory. Some of the main version of network theory currently in employ are examined, and their applicability to ancient material is discussed and assessed. Network thinking turns out to exist very useful, but the problems in conduc ng a more formal network analysis are formidable. Network theory does allow u.s. to approach religious change from new direc ons and two models of alter in current use – conversion equally contagion, and religious change as the spread of thought – are examined. Thinking almost religious change in these terms forces historians to formulate more precise descrip ons of change as a process that involves socializa on and the rou niza on of new habits and rituals, likewise as a process of learning a new manner of imagining and describing the creation.

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History of European Ideas , 1991

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Archiv für Religionsgeschichte , 2007

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Migration and Mobility in the Early Roman Empire , Apr 2016

A Mobile World? The importance of mobility in early societies now no longer needs demonstration. ... more A Mobile World? The importance of mobility in early on societies now no longer needs demonstration. Recent work over the last decades has rendered obsolete the paradigm of populations that are for the most office immobile that demogra-phers have sought to purvey. Within the Mediterranean area, throughout a very long period lasting from Antiquity downward to mod times, the circulation of human beings constitutes a fact that is both structural and structuring, an element of continuity that forms the very basis of the Mediterranean network.1 Claudia Moatti, whose inquiry has done so much to illuminate human mobility across Mediterraneans ancient and early mod,ii succinctly sums up the current consensus.3 As historians and archaeologists of the classical world we now repeatedly emphasise movement and communication, mobility and con-nectivity, hybridity and cosmopolitanism. Our fascination with movement and exchange is axiomatic in revisionist accounts of the Roman economy, in studies of the ancient novel between e and west, in projects that track diasporas through haplotype distribution and stable isotope analysis, and in multiple appropriations of post-colonial criticism and globalisation theory. A niggling of this is merely the latest circular in a familiar old game of asserting the modernity of the ancients, but the evidence for movement is undeniable. The issue now is to assess the scale, nature and significance of all this, and to avoid an exaggerated reaction that underplays the equally undeniable differences between glo-balised modernity and the ancient earth.

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Ruling the Greek World. Approaches to the Roman Empire in the E, edited by Juan Manuel Cortés Copete, Elena Muñiz Grijalvo and Fernando Lozano Gómez , 2015

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Ancient writing is conventionally approached every bit a counterpart of speech, as in the dyad orality/l... more Ancient writing is conventionally approached equally a analogue of speech, as in the dyad orality/literacy. Alphabetical writing systems are often regarded as superior precisely because they are better able to record spoken language. This newspaper takes inspiration from the work on ancient Nearly Eastern writing systems and considers ancient literacy as a general competence in treatment sign systems that are frequently every bit much about numbers and quantities as about phonetic transcription. Ways of recording proper names presume a special importance in transactions between strangers, and in documents that circulate without much context. Only judged in terms of a capacity to handle numbers, signs, diagrams, and other symbols the fence over ancient literacy, and illiteracy, looks rather different. The paper argues that relative to their need to handle sign systems of this kind, very few members of the aboriginal world tin be considered equally functionally illiterate. Moving away from orality/literacy also raises questions about the widespread (just incomplete) spread of alphabets and abjads in the last and first millennia.

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Archaeological Dialogues

This paper sets out to examine bug of continuity and change in the social hierarchies of the p... more than This paper sets out to examine bug of continuity and change in the social hierarchies of the peoples of the Gallic interior, betwixt the late Iron Age and the early Roman period. This part of the empire is one in which we might reasonably expect to notice substantial continuity of social structure. Many scholars have argued that this is indeed the example, notwithstanding the evident changes in cloth culture. This newspaper argues that the opposite was true. Apparent similarities, I propose, reinforced past the ways we accept studied provincial cultures, accept masked dramatic changes in the basis of social power. That conclusion has implications for other provincial societies, and for Roman imperialism in full general.

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Revue archéologique de Picardie , 1993

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1 of a series of responses to a positition paper by Miguel-John Versluys (all included here)

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