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1st Edition

Gods and Goddesses in Ancient Italy

Edited By Edward Bispham, Daniele Miano Copyright 2020
180 Pages 14 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

178 Pages 14 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

178 Pages 14 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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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,... Read more

    1. Preface

    Edward H. Bispham, Daniele Miano

    2. Introduction

    John North

    3. Italic Ceres?

    Federico Santangelo

    4. In the name of Diana. Feronia and other Italic Goddesses in their Sacred Landscape

    Massimiliano Di Fazio

    5. Getting to Know Diana

    Fay Glinister

    6. Beyond Rome: the Cult of Vesta in Latium

    Elisabeth Buchet

    7. The God Castor at Rome: Form, Function and Cult

    Claudia Santi

    8. Loufir / Liber at the Crossroads of Religious Cultures in Pompeii (third-second centuries BCE)

    Stéphanie Wyler

    9. Suri et al: A "Chthonic" Etruscan face of Apollon?

    Karolina Sekita

    10. Honouring Honos

    Anna J. Clark

    11. From Saviours to Salvation: Salus in Republican Italy

    Daniele Miano

    Biography

    Edward Bispham teaches Ancient History at Brasenose and St Anne’s Colleges, and is a lecturer in the Faculty of Classics of the University of Oxford, UK. He has worked and published extensively on the history of Pre-Roman and Roman Italy. He edited (with Christopher Smith) Religion in Archaic and Republican Rome and Italy: Evidence and Experience (2000).

    Daniele Miano is Lecturer in Ancient History at the University of Sheffield, UK, and Junior Research Fellow at the Max Weber Centre for Social and Cultural Study of the University of Erfurt, Germany. He published a number of works on polytheism in ancient Italy, including Fortuna: Deity and Concept in Archaic and Republican Italy (2018).

    "As a whole, the collection of essays in Gods and Goddesses in Ancient Italy does much to advance the scope and quality of our knowledge of the deities of the Italic world."

    - Claudia Moser, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA, Bryn Mawr Classical Review

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