Tradition : transmission of culture in the ancient world /
This lavishly illustrated book takes readers from prehistoric Santorini to Late Antique Rome to analyze the role of tradition in the transmission of culture and the creation, maintenance and negotiation of identity in the ancient world. Covering a wide array of subjects, including cultic rituals and...
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| Language: | English |
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Copenhagen :
Museum Tusculanum,
2015.
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| Series: | Acta Hyperborea ;
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Table of Contents:
- Newly Invented Tradition: The Individual and the Community at the Northern Frontier of the Roman Empire / Niels Bargfeldt
- Textiles and Temple Inventories: Detecting an Invisible Votive Tradition in Greek Santuaries in the Second Half of the First Millennium BC / Cecilie Brons
- Statues of Roman Women and Cultural Transmission: Understanding the So-called Ceres Statue as a Roman Portrait Carrier / Jane Fejfer
- Using Textiles to Propose a New Identity for the So-called Goddess of Xeste 3 / Solvejg Hansen
- On a List of Priests: From the Son of Poseidon to Members of the Elite in Late Hellenistic Halikarnassos / Signe Isager
- Maripara and L'Imperatore: The Life and Afterlife of two Roman Statues / Ifke Van Kampen
- Tradition and Renewal: The Archaeology of Magic and Theurgy in Athens and Rome in Late Antiquity / Arja Karivieri
- Tradition and Innovation in Classical Athens: The Case of the Athenian Acropolis as Place and History / Jens Krasilnikoff
- Ktistes: Mythical Founder Hero and Honorary Title for New Heroes / Eva Mortensen
- Expanding the Circle of Trust: Tradition and Change in Iron Age Communities in Western Sicily / Christian Mühlenbock
- New Times, Old Customs: Tradition and Renewal of Etruscan Funerary Culture from the Late Republic to the Early Empire / Marjatta Nielsen
- The Fan, a Central Italian Elite Utensil / Nora Petersen
- Palmyrene Funerary Portraits in Context: Portrait Habit between Local Traditions and Imperial Trends / Rubina Raja
- The Trozzella In. 3417 in the Collection of Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek: An Ethnic Marker or a Sign of Cultural Transmission? / Sine Grove Saxkjær and Jane Kindberg Jacobsen
- The Nestorides: Innovation and Ambivalence in the Early South Italian Red-Figure Production / Stine Schierup
- Here There be Monsters: Hybrids Painting on Cypriot Iron Age Pottery / Lone Wriedt Sorensen
- Private Collections of Sculpture in Late Antiquity: An Overview of the Form, Function, and Tradition / Christina Videbech
- Ceramics in Funerary Traditions in Hellenistic Cyprus: The Custom of Duplication?