1st Edition
The Sacred Identity of Ephesos (Routledge Revivals) Foundation Myths of a Roman City
By Guy Maclean Rogers
Copyright 1991
230 Pages
by
Routledge
230 Pages
by
Routledge
230 Pages
by
Routledge
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The Sacred Identity of Ephesos offers a full-length interpretation of one of the largest known bequests in the Classical world, made to the city of Ephesos in AD 104 by a wealthy Roman equestrian, and challenges some of the basic assumptions made about the significance of the Greek cultural renaissance known as the ‘Second Sophistic’.
Professor Rogers shows how the civic rituals created by the... Read more
List of figures; Preface; Abbreviations of frequently cited articles and books; 1. The Display of Writing 2. The Lotteries and Distirbutions 3. The Procession of Statues 4. The City Plan of Ephesos 5. The Sacred Identity of Ephesos; Appendix I: The Greek text and the English translation; Appendix II: Analogous Foundations; Appendix III: The Foundation of Demosthenes of Oinoanda; Select modern bibliography; Index
Biography
Guy Maclean Rogers,
