Ancient Religions Books

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1. Early Christian Dress: Gender, Virtue, and Authority

   By Kristi Upson-Saia

   This study is the first full-length monograph on the subject of dress in early Christianity. It pays attention to the ways in which dress expressed and formed Christian identity, the role dress played in Christians’ rivalries with pagan neighbors, and especially to the ways in which notions of...

   May 2011 | 978-0-415-89001-4 | Hardback (Routledge)
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   Aphrodite

   By Monica S. Cyrino

   Aphrodite explores the many myths and meanings of the Greek goddess of love, sex and beauty. One of the most widely worshipped and popular deities in Greek antiquity, Aphrodite emerges from the imaginations of the ancient Greek writers and artists as a multifaceted, powerful and charismatic figure....

   March 2010 | 978-0-415-77523-6 | Paperback (Routledge)

3. King Arthur in Antiquity

   By Graham Anderson

   This original and compelling study argues against the traditional identification of Arthur as a king in Celtic Britain. Instead, Graham Anderson explores the evidence for two much older figures, known to classical writers as kings of Arcadia and Lydia, over a millenium before. He shows how these...

   May 2009 | 978-0-415-55500-5 | Paperback (Routledge)
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   Apollo

   By Fritz Graf

   Fritz Graf here presents a survey of a god once thought of as the most powerful of gods, and capable of great wrath should he be crossed: Apollo the sun god. From his first attestations in Homer, through the complex question of pre-Homeric Apollo, to the opposition between Apollo and Dionysos in...

   2008 | 978-0-415-31711-5 | Paperback (Routledge)
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   Ancient Greek Cults: A Guide

   By Jennifer Larson

   Using archaeological, epigraphic, and literary sources; and incorporating current scholarly theories, this volume will serve as an excellent companion to any introduction to Greek mythology, showing a side of the Greek gods to which most students are rarely exposed. Detailed enough to be used as a...

   2008 | 978-0-415-49102-0 | Paperback (Routledge)
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   Theodore of Mopsuestia

   By Frederick McLeod

   Theodore, bishop of Mopsuestia, (c.350-428) stands out as the pre-eminent exponent of the School of Antioch’s literal, historical and rational emphases in exegesis and of its staunch defence of Christ’s humanity. At his death, he was hailed as one of the outstanding, prolific biblical theologians...

   2008 | 978-0-415-43408-9 | Paperback (Routledge)
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   Ritual Texts for the Afterlife: Orpheus and the Bacchic Gold Tablets

   By Fritz Graf, Sarah Iles Johnston

   Fascinating texts written on small gold tablets that were deposited in graves provide a unique source of information about what some Greeks and Romans believed regarding the fate that awaited them after death, and how they could influence it. These texts, dating from the late fifth century...

   2007 | 978-0-415-41551-4 | Paperback (Routledge)

8. Nefer: The Aesthetic Ideal in Classical Egypt

   By Willie Cannon-Brown

   This book provides an original treatment of the concept of good and beauty in ancient Egypt. It seeks to examine the dimensions of nefer, the term used to describe the good and the beautiful, within the context of ordinary life. Because the book is based upon original research on ancient Egypt...

   2006 | 978-0-415-97994-8 | Hardback (Routledge)
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   Magic and the Supernatural in Fourth Century Syria

   By Silke Trzcionka

   Magic and the Supernatural in Fourth Century Syria presents an in-depth investigation of a variety of ‘magical’ practices with a focused study in the late antique Syria and Palestine. Offering new research using both archaeological and literary sources, and blending Classical, Jewish, and...

   2006 | 978-0-415-39242-6 | Paperback (Routledge)
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    Evagrius Ponticus

    By Augustine Casiday

    Presenting many texts available for the very first time, this new volume in the successful Early Church Fathers series showcases full translations of Evagrius' letters, notes on various books of the bible, his treatises and his 'chapters'. Augustine Casiday's material is both accurate and...

    2006 | 978-0-415-32447-2 | Paperback (Routledge)