Jessica Hughes

Votive Body Parts in Greek and Roman Religion (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book examines a type of object that was widespread and very popular in classical antiquity - votive offerings in the shape of parts of the human body. It collects examples from four principal areas and time periods: Classical Greece, pre-Roman Italy, Roman Gaul and Roman Asia Minor. It uses a compare-and-contrast methodology to highlight differences between these sets of votives, exploring the implications for our understandings of how beliefs about the body changed across classical antiquity. The book also looks at how far these ancient beliefs overlap with, or differ from, modern ideas about the body and its physical and conceptual boundaries. Central themes of the book include illness and healing, bodily fragmentation, human-animal hybridity, transmission and reception of traditions, and the mechanics of personal transformation in religious rituals.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. April 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781108145800
• Artikelnr.: 49046676

Autorenporträt

Jessica Hughes Rikke Skov Hundal Alisha Whaley Anja Ekstrøm Evelyne Brink Heather Russo Jessica Perle Mia Belle Trisna Mia Doerschner Miella Ravenscroft Neeta Hanzra Rachel Feldman Sabrina Cochran Shan Simpson Sonia Ovenden Stephanie Bourbon Szoey Freya Sølvelind Vaida Cesnulyte

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: fragments of history; 2. Fragmentation as metaphor:
anatomical votives in Classical Greece, fifth-fourth centuries BC; 3. Under
the skin: anatomical votives in Republican Italy, fourth-first centuries
BC; 4. The anxiety of influence: anatomical votives in Roman Gaul, first
century BC-first century AD; 5. Punishing bodies: the Lydian and Phrygian
'propitiatory' stelai, second-third centuries AD; Afterword: revisiting
fragmentation.