Religious convergence in the ancient Mediterranean /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Blakely, Sandra, 1959- (Editor), Collins, Billie Jean (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Italian
Language Notes:Twenty-two essays in English and two in Italian; abstracts in English.
Published: Atlanta, GA : Lockwood Press, 2019.
Series:Studies in ancient Mediterranean religions ; no. 2.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Guardian goddess of the surf-beaten shore : the influence of mariners on sanctuaries of Aphrodite in Magna Graecia / Amelia R. Brown, Rebecca Smith
  • Lilibeo e i suoi culti : nuovi esempi dalla ricerca archeologica / Rossella Giglio
  • Large temples as cultural banners in western Sicily / Margaret M. Miles
  • Close encounters on Sicily : Molech, Meilichios, and religious convergence at Selinus / Sarah Morris
  • The temple of Astarte "Aglaia" at Motya and its cultural significance in the Mediterranean realm / Lorenzo Nigro
  • Venere del Mare : testimonianze del culto nel trapanese / Francesca Oliveri
  • Hittite prayers and their Mesopotamian models / Elisabeth Rieken
  • Mythological passages in Hittite rituals / Susanne Görke
  • Religious convergence in Hittite Anatolia : the case of Kizzuwatna / Amir Gilan
  • The Arzawa rituals and religious production in Hattusa / Billie Jean Collins
  • Survival of "popular" mythology : from Hittite mountain man to Phrygian mountain mother / Mary R. Bachvarova
  • Native religious traditions from a Lydian perspective / Annick Payne
  • Funerary practices and rituals on Sicily from the Neolithic to the Bronze age (sixth through second millennia BCE) / Sebastiano Tusa
  • The convergence of guardian statues in the ancient world : top-down or bottom-up? / Christopher Athanasious Faraone
  • Across traditions and beyond boundaries : the masks of Carthage / Adriano Orsingher
  • Greek coins, Punic people : an iconographie analysis of the Punic coinage of Sicily / José Miguel Puebla Morón
  • Ritual practices, food offerings, and animal sacrifices : votive deposits in the Temple of the Kothon (Motya) / Federica Spagnoli
  • Romantic receptions, or, the Aeginetan sculptures' long march to Munich / Louis A. Ruprecht Jr.
  • From Zalpuwa to Brauron : Hittite-Greek religious convergence on the Black Sea / Ian Rutherford
  • The politics of ritual performance at Assyrian-period Sam'al : local and imperial identity in the Katumuwa Mortuary Stele from Zincirli / Virginia R. Herrmann
  • The Tonaia and Samian identity / Aaron Beck-Schachter
  • Sparta and Persia : rituals for invading the land of the gods of others / Irene Polinskaya
  • Using your head : reading a "local style" adapted for foreign ritual / Kevin Dicus
  • Roman Empire and Roman Emperor : animal sacrifice as an instrument of religious convergence / J.B. Rives.
  • Section 1. Site
  • Section 2. Text
  • Section 3. Object
  • Section 4. Action.