The economy of Roman religion /
"This interdisciplinary edited volume presents twelve papers by Roman historians and archaeologists, discussing the interconnected relationship between religion and the Roman economy over the period c. 500 bc to ad 350. The connection between Roman religion and the economy has largely been igno...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford ; New York, NY :
Oxford University Press,
[2023]
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| Series: | Oxford studies on the Roman economy.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction. Religion and the Roman economy / Andrew Wilson
- What did religion cost in Ancient Rome? / Jörg Rüpke
- Investing in religion : religion and the economy in pre-Roman Central Italy / Charlotte Potts
- Cost differences in temple building between Rome and the provinces / Javier Domingo
- Moneychangers in the temple? : coins and religion in the Roman world / David Wigg-Wolf
- Cult economy in the Eastern Provinces of the Roman Empire / Marietta Horster
- Impact of the Roman conquest on temple economies in Egypt : a case study of the Temple of Soknopaios in Dime / Marie-Pierre Chaufray
- Animals in Roman religion : the economics behind the rituals / Michael MacKinnon
- Sacred flocks and herds? : the implications of animal sacrifice atrRural and suburban Romano-Celtic shrines / Tony King
- Sacred gifts, profane uses? : transfers and the Roman religious sphere / Marta García Morcillo
- Guilds and gods : religious profiles of occupational collegia and the problem of the dendrophori / Koen Verboven
- Current and future directions of the study of Roman religion and economy / Greg Woolf.