Ancient History from the Monuments

Ancient History from the Monuments PDF

Author: William Sandys Wright Vaux

Publisher: Palala Press

Published: 2016-04-27

Total Pages: 200

ISBN-13: 9781354863879

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Cities and Priests

Cities and Priests PDF

Author: Marietta Horster

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter

Published: 2013-10-29

Total Pages: 380

ISBN-13: 3110318482

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Cultural records such as dedications, honorific statues and decrees are keys to understanding the manifold and diverse social roles and religious functions of priesthoods in the cities of Asia Minor and the Aegean islands from the classical period to late antiquity. These texts and images indicate how the priests and priestesses saw themselves and were viewed by others. The approaches in this volume are historical, religious, and archaeological, and they elucidate the religious functions that the cult personnel fulfilled for the city, and the perception of priests and priestesses as citizens of the polis. The volume focuses on developments from the Hellenistic period into Imperial times. Subjects include: gendered priesthoods and family traditions, the topography of honorary statues and the presentation of funerary monuments, federal and civic priesthoods as well as priests of private cult-foundations, benefactions and social pressure, and the religious, social and political functions of priests and priestesses within cities.

Ancient Turkey

Ancient Turkey PDF

Author: Seton Lloyd

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 252

ISBN-13: 9780520220423

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An archaeologist who has spent much of his life in the Near East attempts to share his profound interest in an antique land, its inhabitants, and the surviving monuments that link the present to the past. Illustrations.

Cities of God

Cities of God PDF

Author: David Gange

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2013-10-17

Total Pages: 377

ISBN-13: 1107511917

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The history of archaeology is generally told as the making of a secular discipline. In nineteenth-century Britain, however, archaeology was enmeshed with questions of biblical authority and so with religious as well as narrowly scholarly concerns. In unearthing the cities of the Eastern Mediterranean, travellers, archaeologists and their popularisers transformed thinking on the truth of Christianity and its place in modern cities. This happened at a time when anxieties over the unprecedented rate of urbanisation in Britain coincided with critical challenges to biblical truth. In this context, cities from Jerusalem to Rome became contested models for the adaptation of Christianity to modern urban life. Using sites from across the biblical world, this book evokes the appeal of the ancient city to diverse groups of British Protestants in their arguments with one another and with their secular and Catholic rivals about the vitality of their faith in urban Britain.

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