Research Catalog

Title

Gods and goddesses in ancient Italy / edited by Edward Bispham and Daniele Miano.

Publication

• Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2020.
• ©2020

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Details

Additional Authors

• Bispham, Edward
• Miano, Daniele

Description

xiv, 163 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm

Summary

"This collection explores the multifaceted nature of the gods and goddesses worshipped in ancient Italy. It examines Italic, Etruscan and Latin deities in context and in the material remains, and also in the Greco-Roman written record and later scholarship which drew on these texts. Many deities were worshipped in ancient Italy by different individuals and communities, using different languages, at different sanctuaries, and for very different reasons. This multiplicity creates challenges for modern historians of antiquity at different levels. How do we cope with it? Can we reduce it to the conceptual unity necessary to provide a meaningful historical interpretation? To what extent can deities named in different languages be considered the equivalent of one another (e.g. Artemis and Diana)? How can we interpret the visual representations of deities that are not accompanied by written text? Can we reconstruct what these deities meant to their local worshippers although the overwhelming majority of our sources were written by Romans and Greeks? The contributors of this book, a group of ten scholars from the UK, Italy, France, and Poland, offer different perspectives on these problems, each concentrating on a particular god or goddess. Gods and Goddesses in Ancient Italy offers an invaluable resource for anyone working on ancient Roman and Italian religion"--

Subject

• Gods, Roman > Congresses
• Goddesses, Roman > Congresses
• Mythology, Roman > Congresses
• Goddesses, Roman
• Gods, Roman
• Mythology, Roman
• Religion
• Rome > Religion > Congresses
• Rome (Empire)

Genre/Form

Conference papers and proceedings.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Italic Ceres? / Federico Santangelo -- In the name of Diana Feronia and other Italic goddesses in their sacred landscape / Massimiliano Di Fazio -- Getting to know Diana / Fay Glinister -- Beyond Rome : the cult of Vesta in Latium / Elisabeth Bucket -- The god Castor at Rome : form, function, and cult / Claudia Santi -- Loufir/Liber at the crossroads of religious cultures in Pompeii (third-second centuries BC) / Stéphanie Wyler -- Śuri et al. : a 'chthonic' Etruscan face of Apollon? / Karolina Sekita -- Honouring honos / Anna J. Clark -- From saviours to salvation : Salus in Republican Italy / Daniele Miano.

Call Number

JFE 20-3704

ISBN

• 9781138697553
• 1138697559
• 9781315521374 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

• 2019043743
• 40029734248

OCLC

1126385414

Title

Gods and goddesses in ancient Italy / edited by Edward Bispham and Daniele Miano.

Publisher

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2020.

Copyright Date

©2020

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Bispham, Edward, editor.

Miano, Daniele, editor.

Other Form:

Online version: Gods and goddesses in ancient Italy Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2020. 9781315521374 (DLC) 2019043744

Other Standard Identifier

40029734248

Research Call Number

JFE 20-3704