Jessica Hughes (Milton Keynes The Open University)

Votive Body Parts in Greek and Roman Religion

• Broschiertes Buch

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, using them to explore how beliefs about the body changed throughout the period. Of interest to scholars and students of classics as well as religious studies.

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Produktdetails

• Cambridge Classical Studies
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 234
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. August 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 170mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 414g
• ISBN-13: 9781316610428
• ISBN-10: 131661042X
• Artikelnr.: 62111964

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.