Votive body parts in Greek and Roman religion

التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
العنوان: Votive body parts in Greek and Roman religion
المؤلفون: Hughes, Jessica, author.
سنة النشر: 2017
وصف مادي: xiv, 219 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
سلاسل: Cambridge classical studies
Cambridge classical studies.
مصطلحات موضوعية: Votive offerings -- Greece., Votive offerings -- Rome., Human body -- Social aspects., Human body -- Symbolic aspects., HISTORY -- Ancient -- General., Religion., Votive offerings.
جغرافية الموضوع: Greece -- Religion., Rome -- Religion., Greece., Rome (Empire)
الوصف: "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"--
ملاحظة حول المحتويات: Machine generated contents note: 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.
Original Identifier: ocn959593392
(YBPMetadataService)60002175753
نوع الوثيقة: Book
اللغة: English
ردمك: 978-1-107-15783-5
1-107-15783-8
حقوق: This record is part of the Harvard Library Bibliographic Dataset, which is provided by the Harvard Library under its Bibliographic Dataset Use Terms and includes data made available by, among others, OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc. and the Library of Congress.
ملاحظات: Includes bibliographical references (pages 192-217) and index.
رقم الأكسشن: edshlc.015009570.8
قاعدة البيانات: Harvard Library Bibliographic Dataset
الوصف
ردمك:9781107157835
1107157838