C. M. C. Green

Roman Religion Cult Diana at Aricia

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book examines the history of Diana's cult and healing sanctuary.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 386
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Februar 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 778g
• ISBN-13: 9780521851589
• ISBN-10: 0521851580
• Artikelnr.: 22735454

Autorenporträt

Carin Green is Associate Professor of Classics at the University of Iowa. A scholar of Roman religion, she has contributed to the American Journal of Philology, Arion, Classical Antiquity, Classical Philology, Latomus, and Phoenix.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I: 1. The sanctuary of Diana to the end of the republic
2. The sanctuary in the Augustan age
3. The sanctuary in the empire
4. Diana: her name and appearance
5. The grove, the goddess, and the history of early Latium
6. The many faces of Diana
Part II. Fugitives and Slaves, Kings and Greeks: 7. The necessary murderer
8. 'We are fugitives'
9. Virbius, Hippolytus and Egeria
Part III. Healing and Ritual: 10. Diana the healer
11. Ritual healing and the Maniae
12. Conclusion: Diana and her worshippers.