Roman religion and mythology

Rufinus' vivid account of the battle between the Eastern Emperor Theodosius and the Western usurper Eugenius by the River Frigidus in 394 represents it as the final confrontation between paganism and Christianity.

The legends of early Rome are among the most memorable of any in the world.

The Epic Distilled is a rich exploration of Virgil's use of sources in the Aeneid, considering elements of history, geography, mythology, and ethnography.

The Inuit are a familiar part of Canadian identity but also exotic residing in the remote Arctic.

Der Minotaurus – halb Mensch, halb Stier – ist eine der faszinierendsten Gestalten der antiken Mythologie.

The relationship of the rabbis of Late Antique Palestine to their non-Jewish neighbors, rulers, and interlocutors was complex and often fraught.

A Handbook to the Reception of Classical Mythology presents a collection of essays that explore a wide variety of aspects of Greek and Roman myths and their critical reception from antiquity to the present day.

This book offers a new, theoretically informed framework for the interpretation of ancient visual culture.

This book offers a new, theoretically informed framework for the interpretation of ancient visual culture.

She chose love.

Rund um die Erde und heute noch in vielen spanischen und südfranzösischen Ortschaften wurde bzw.

God, Space, and City in the Roman Imagination is a unique exploration of the relationship between the ancient Romans' visual and literary cultures and their imagination.

The Epic Distilled is a rich exploration of Virgil's use of sources in the Aeneid, considering elements of history, geography, mythology, and ethnography.

Der Adler – majestätisch, kraftvoll und geheimnisvoll – hat seit jeher die menschliche Fantasie beflügelt.

The resonant ruins of Pompeii are perhaps the most direct route back to the living, breathing world of the ancient Romans.

Rome's Capitoline Hill was the smallest of the Seven Hills of Rome.

This book analyses hundreds of votive body parts to examine how ideas about the human body changed throughout classical antiquity.

Rome's Capitoline Hill was the smallest of the Seven Hills of Rome.

Explore the world's great myths and legends, brought to life in this enthralling retelling of age-old stories passed down from generation to generationFrom the heroes of Ancient Greece to The Dreaming of Australian aborigines, here are the myths that, thousands of years after they were first told, are still relevant today.

Throughout his narrative of Julio-Claudian Rome in the Annals, Tacitus includes numerous references to the gods, fate, fortune, astrology, omens, temples, priests, the emperor cult, and other religious material.

Historians often regard the police as a modern development, and indeed, many pre-modern societies had no such institution.

Ever since the rise of science and the scientific method in the seventeenth century, we have rejected mythology as the product of superstitious and primitive minds.

What and how do people remember?

Throughout his narrative of Julio-Claudian Rome in the Annals, Tacitus includes numerous references to the gods, fate, fortune, astrology, omens, temples, priests, the emperor cult, and other religious material.

A recurring and significant theme in ancient Greek literature is that of returns and returning, chiefly - but by no means only - of mythical Greek heroes from Troy.

Roman Republican Augury: Freedom and Control proposes a new way of understanding augury, a form of Roman state divination designed to consult the god Jupiter.

The Inuit are a familiar part of Canadian identity but also exotic residing in the remote Arctic.

Seit Jahrtausenden fasziniert der Phoenix Menschen auf der ganzen Welt.

Contact and interaction between Greek and Egyptian culture can be traced in different forms over more than a millennium: from the sixth century BC, when Greeks visited Egypt for the sake of tourism or trade, through to the Hellenistic period, when Egypt was ruled by the Macedonian-Greek Ptolemaic dynasty who encouraged a mixed Greek and Egyptian culture, and even more intensely in the Roman Empire, when Egypt came to be increasingly seen as a place of wonder and a source of magic and mystery.

Canidia is one of the most well-attested witches in Latin literature.

Rufinus' vivid account of the battle between the Eastern Emperor Theodosius and the Western usurper Eugenius by the River Frigidus in 394 represents it as the final confrontation between paganism and Christianity.

Of all the divinities of classical antiquity, the Greek Hermes (Mercury in his Roman alter ego) is the most versatile, enigmatic, complex, and ambiguous.

The legends of early Rome are among the most memorable of any in the world.

The Roman cult of Mithras was the most widely-dispersed and densely-distributed cult throughout the expanse of the Roman Empire from the end of the first until the fourth century AD, rivaling the early growth and development of Christianity during the same period.

Perhaps the single most revolutionary aspect of the Renaissance was the re-emergence of the gods and goddesses of antiquity.

Historians often regard the police as a modern development, and indeed, many pre-modern societies had no such institution.

The figures and events of classical myths underpin our culture and the constellations named after them fill the night sky.

Canidia is one of the most well-attested witches in Latin literature.

Of all the divinities of classical antiquity, the Greek Hermes (Mercury in his Roman alter ego) is the most versatile, enigmatic, complex, and ambiguous.

The Roman cult of Mithras was the most widely-dispersed and densely-distributed cult throughout the expanse of the Roman Empire from the end of the first until the fourth century AD, rivaling the early growth and development of Christianity during the same period.

This book analyses hundreds of votive body parts to examine how ideas about the human body changed throughout classical antiquity.

Sicily and the strategies of empire in the poetic imagination of classical and medieval EuropeIn the first century BC, Cicero praised Sicily as Rome's first overseas province and confirmed it as the mythic location for the abduction of Proserpina, known to the Greeks as Persephone, by the god of the underworld.

A Handbook to the Reception of Classical Mythology presents a collection of essays that explore a wide variety of aspects of Greek and Roman myths and their critical reception from antiquity to the present day.

*#1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER*'Sizzling romantic tension, intricate world-building, and an irresistible mystery at its core .

The Mythology of Venus is a collection of essays that summarizes the archaeoastronomy, calendar associations, religious and cultural icons, and myths identified with the planet Venus.

A recurring and significant theme in ancient Greek literature is that of returns and returning, chiefly - but by no means only - of mythical Greek heroes from Troy.

Roman Republican Augury: Freedom and Control proposes a new way of understanding augury, a form of Roman state divination designed to consult the god Jupiter.

Explore the intriguing realm of European creation myths and delve deeper into the diverse traditions that explain the beginnings of our planet and humans.