Cult Places and Cult Personnel in the Roman Empire (Variorum Collected Studies) [1 ed.] 9781000946956, 9781472414731, 147241473X

Chronicles, Consuls, and Coins: Historiography and History in the Later Roman Empire (Variorum Collected Studies) [1 ed.] 9781409428206, 1409428206

The papers collected in this volume focus on the sources for reconstructing the history of the third to fifth centuries

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The Roman Cult of Salus 9780860545965, 9781407347516

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The Roman Mithras Cult 9781472567413, 9781474205658, 9781472567383

This book is the first full cognitive history of an ancient religious practice. In this ground-breaking study on one of

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Christian Russia in the Making (Variorum Collected Studies) 9780754659112, 0754659119

The present collection of studies by Andrzej Poppe in many ways represents a continuation of the research brought togeth

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Civic Priests: Cult Personnel in Athens from the Hellenistic Period to Late Antiquity 3110258072, 9783110258073

Images and inscriptions on monuments can show us how priests and cult personnel saw themselves and were viewed by others

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The Cult of Desire

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Belief and Cult: Rethinking Roman Religion 9780691233147, 9780691165080, 0691233144

A groundbreaking reinterpretation that draws on cognitive theory to show that belief wasn’t absent from—but rather was a

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Studies on the Mongol Empire and Early Muslim India (Variorum Collected Studies) [1 ed.] 9780754659884, 0754659887

The first section of this volume brings together five studies on the Mongol empire. The accent is on the ideology behind

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The religion of the Mithras cult in the Roman Empire mysteries of the unconquered sun 0198140894, 9780191712128, 0191712124

Robert Beck describes Mithraism from the point of view of the initiate, engaging with the religion and its rich symbolic

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Religious Dynamics in Hispania: Cult Places, Identities, and Cultural Change in a Microcontinent 9782503595450, 2503595456

The Roman conquest of the Iberian peninsula, a land already inhabited by peoples who were characterized by cultural, eth

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