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Cult Places and Cult Personnel in the Roman Empire (Paperback)
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Cult Places and Cult Personnel in the Roman Empire (Paperback)
Series: Variorum Collected Studies
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The twenty-one studies assembled in this volume focus on the
apparatus and practitioners of religions in the western Roman
empire, the enclaves, temples, altars and monuments that served the
cults of a wide range of divinities through the medium of priests
and worshippers. Discussion focuses on the analysis or
reconstruction of the centres at which devotees gathered and draws
on the full range of available evidence. While literary authorities
remain of primary concern, these are for the most part overshadowed
by other categories of evidence, in particular archaeology,
epigraphy, numismatics and iconography, sources in some cases
confirmed by the latest geophysical techniques - electrical
resistivity tomography or ground-probing radar. The material is
conveniently presented by geographical area, using modern rather
than Latin terminology: Rome, Italy, Britain, Gaul, Spain, Hungary,
along with a broader section that covers the empire in general. The
titles of the various articles speak for themselves but readers may
find the preface of interest in so far as it sets out my ideas on
the use of ancient evidence and the pitfalls of some of the
approaches favoured by modern scholars. Together with the wide
range of individual papers the preface makes the book of interest
to all students of the Roman empire as well as those specifically
concerned with the history of religions.
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