Contributions

  • Bibliothèque royale de Belgique - Contributor

Publication

2014 - Éditions Latomus, Bruxelles, Belgium

Language

English

Word Count

76,750 words, Guess

Page Count

307 pages

Identifiers

  • ISBN-102870312903
  • ISBN-139782870312902
  • Library of Congress Control Number2014479211
  • ISBN-139782870312903
  • OCLC Control Number870962423
and 2 more
  • Better World Books9782870312902
  • Open LibraryOL28392519M

Classifications

  • DDC200.9
  • LCCBL96 .R425 2014
  • LCCBL96.R425 2014
and 1 more
  • LCCBL96 .R455 2014

Description

"The notion of competition has become crucial to our understanding of Greek and Roman religion and is often invoked to explain religous changes and to describe the relationship between various cults. This volume seeks to raise our awareness of what the notion implies and to test its use for the analysis of ancient religions. The papers range from Classical Greece, Hellenistic Babylon, Rome and the Etruscans, to Late Antiquity and the rise of Islam. They seek to determine how much can be gained in each individual case by understanding religious interaction in terms of rivalry and competition. In doing so, the volume hopes to open a more explicit debate on the analytical tools with which ancient religion is currently being studied."--

Subjects

Series Statement

  • Collection Latomus -- volume 343
  • Collection Latomus -- v. 343.

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