Divine Cohabitations in Sanctuaries of the Graeco-Roman World
Pañeda Murcia, Beatriz LU
(2021)
- Abstract
- This study sets out to gain a better understanding of the workings of ancient polytheism by exploring one of its fundamental modus operandi: the cohabitation of gods in sanctuaries. Cohabitation is broadly understood as the permanent or temporary sharing of sacred precincts, cultic buildings, and sacrificial structures by two or more deities, rendered present through their effigies, or merely presentified on the altar at the moment of sacrifice, or in the cult place for the time of a dedication. This phenomenon is tackled from the angle of its linguistic expression through the analysis of the specific Greek lexicon used in Antiquity to qualify a god or a group of gods as the co-inhabitant(s) of another or others. The study of this... (More)
- This study sets out to gain a better understanding of the workings of ancient polytheism by exploring one of its fundamental modus operandi: the cohabitation of gods in sanctuaries. Cohabitation is broadly understood as the permanent or temporary sharing of sacred precincts, cultic buildings, and sacrificial structures by two or more deities, rendered present through their effigies, or merely presentified on the altar at the moment of sacrifice, or in the cult place for the time of a dedication. This phenomenon is tackled from the angle of its linguistic expression through the analysis of the specific Greek lexicon used in Antiquity to qualify a god or a group of gods as the co-inhabitant(s) of another or others. The study of this terminology, attested by literary, epigraphic and papyrological sources from Classical times to Late Antiquity, imposes a large chronological and geographical framework that allows us to gain a wide vision of the problem across the Late Classical, Hellenistic and Roman Mediterranean. (Less)
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- author
- Pañeda Murcia, Beatriz
LU
- supervisor
- publishing date
- 2021
- type
- Thesis
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- Divine networks, Divine cohabitations, Greco-Roman polytheism, Ancient religion, Sanctuaries, Mediterranean archaeology, Epigraphy, Synnaoi Theoi, Isiac cults, Isis, Serapis, Delos, Greek religion, Hellenistic period, Roman period
- pages
- 742 pages
- publisher
- Carlos III University of Madrid
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- no
- additional info
- Details about defence. Thesis directors: Jaime Alvar (dir. tes.) Reading: At Universidad Carlos III de Madrid ( Spain ) in 2021 Language: Spanish Dissertation committee: Corinne Bonnet (presid.), Juan Manuel Cortés Copete (secret.), Françoise Van Haeperen (voc.)
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- f0d4ab54-e36c-47a7-8b1e-4f92cd28c63c
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- http://hdl.handle.net/10016/33110
- date added to LUP
- 2023-01-31 14:11:23
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- 2023-02-27 14:21:26
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author = {{Pañeda Murcia, Beatriz}},
keywords = {{Divine networks; Divine cohabitations; Greco-Roman polytheism; Ancient religion; Sanctuaries; Mediterranean archaeology; Epigraphy; Synnaoi Theoi; Isiac cults; Isis; Serapis; Delos; Greek religion; Hellenistic period; Roman period}},
language = {{eng}},
publisher = {{Carlos III University of Madrid}},
title = {{Divine Cohabitations in Sanctuaries of the Graeco-Roman World}},
url = {{http://hdl.handle.net/10016/33110}},
year = {{2021}},
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