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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      05 November 2015
      05 November 2015
      ISBN:
      9781316135778
      9781107092112
      9781107465053
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781316135778
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.75kg, 380 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (229 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.551kg, 380 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Ancient History, Classical Studies, Classical Studies (General), Religion, Church History
      Series:
      Greek Culture in the Roman World
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    Subjects:
    Ancient History, Classical Studies, Classical Studies (General), Religion, Church History
    Series:
    Greek Culture in the Roman World
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    This study explores the development of ancient festival culture in the Greek East of the Roman Empire, paying particular attention to the fundamental religious changes that occurred. After analysing how Greek city festivals developed in the first two Imperial centuries, it concentrates on the major Roman festivals that were adopted in the Eastern cities and traces their history up to the time of Justinian and beyond. It addresses several key questions for the religious history of later antiquity: who were the actors behind these adoptions? How did the closed religious communities, Jews and pre-Constantinian Christians, articulate their resistance? How did these festivals change when the empire converted to Christianity? Why did emperors not yield to the long-standing pressure of the Church to abolish them? And finally, how did these very popular festivals - despite their pagan tradition - influence the form of the newly developed Christian liturgy?

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    '… this engaging book serves a wide range of historical interests. Graf has produced a detailed and heavily researched guidebook that breaks new ground on Roman festivals and their practice in the eastern empire during the Christian and pre-Christian eras, raising and answering important questions about the miscibility of Christian and pagan practices during this period.'

    W. Andrew Smith Source: Bryn Mawr Classical Review

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