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23990 results in Ancient history

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Old Saint Peter's, Rome
  • Edited by Rosamond McKitterick, John Osborne, Carol M. Richardson, Joanna Story
  • Published online:
    18 December 2013
    Print publication:
    07 November 2013
  • St Peter's Basilica in Rome is arguably the most important church in Western Christendom, and is among the most significant buildings anywhere in the world. However, the church that is visible today is a youthful upstart, only four hundred years old compared to the twelve-hundred-year-old church whose site it occupies. A very small proportion of the original is now extant, entirely covered over by the new basilica, but enough survives to make reconstruction of the first St Peter's possible and much new evidence has been uncovered in the past thirty years. This is the first full study of the older church, from its late antique construction to Renaissance destruction, in its historical context. An international team of historians, art historians, archaeologists and liturgists explores aspects of the basilica's history, from its physical fabric to the activities that took place within its walls and its relationship with the city of Rome.

State Pilgrims and Sacred Observers in Ancient Greece
  • A Study of Theōriā and Theōroi
  • Ian Rutherford
  • Published online:
    18 December 2013
    Print publication:
    19 December 2013
  • For at least a thousand years Greek cities took part in religious activities outside their territory by sending sacred delegates to represent them. The delegates are usually called theōroi, literally 'observers', and a delegation made up of theōroi, or the action of taking part in one, is called theōriā. This is the first comprehensive study of theōroi and theōriā. It examines a number of key functions of theōroi and explains who served in this role and what their activities are likely to have been, both on the journey and at the sanctuary. Other chapters discuss the diplomatic functions of theōroi, and what their activities tell us about the origins of the notion of Greek identity and about religious networks. Chapters are also devoted to the reception of the notion of theōriā in Greek philosophy and literature. The book will be essential for all scholars and advanced students of ancient religion.

Religious Networks in the Roman Empire
  • The Spread of New Ideas
  • Anna Collar
  • Published online:
    18 December 2013
    Print publication:
    12 December 2013
  • The first three centuries AD saw the spread of new religious ideas through the Roman Empire, crossing a vast and diverse geographical, social and cultural space. In this innovative study, Anna Collar explores both how this happened and why. Drawing on research in the sociology and anthropology of religion, physics and computer science, Collar explores the relationship between social networks and religious transmission to explore why some religious movements succeed, while others, seemingly equally successful at a certain time, ultimately fail. Using extensive epigraphic data, Collar provides new interpretations of the diffusion of ideas across the social networks of the Jewish Diaspora and the cults of Jupiter Dolichenus and Theos Hypsistos, and in turn offers important reappraisals of the spread of religious innovations in the Roman Empire. This study will be a valuable resource for students and scholars of ancient history, archaeology, ancient religion and network theory.

  • Commentary

  • Herodotus
  • Edited by Simon Hornblower, All Souls College, Oxford
  • Book:
    Herodotus: Histories Book V
    Published online:
    16 October 2018
    Print publication:
    12 December 2013, pp 93-311

  • Summary

    Thrace and the Paionians

    At first sight, the opening chs. of bk. 5 ‘belong’ more with bk. 4 than with the Ionian revolt narrative which follows: cf. Hdt. 4.80.2 (confrontation between Sitalkes, son of the Thracian king Teres, and Oktamasades, brother of Skyles of Skythia and son of Teres’ daughter). This part of the world was topical at the beginning of the Peloponnesian War (431–29 bc), when Hdt. was still active: Th. 2.29, 95–7, 4.105.1 and 7.29.4. In addition to Th., another possible literary intertext is the undatable Pindar Paian 2, for the Abderites; this exploited the verbal similarity ‘paian’ /‘Paionians’ in a way comparable to Hdt., see below. (Radt 1958: 60, cf. 14f.; Rutherford 2001: 43f., 116, 270f.; Archibald 1998: 86 n. 36).

    But there are also important pointers forward to the Ionian revolt narrative proper (which begins only at 28.1): earlier relations between Dareios and Histiaios (11.1), and the first suggestion that the conflict is a freedom fight (2.1). Immerwahr 1966: 110–11 sees the whole section 4.143–4 and 5.1–27 as a link between the Skythian campaign and the Ionian revolt.

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