Global ETD Search
Search theses and dissertations gathered from participating repositories worldwide. Every result links back to the library that holds it. No account is needed.
Results
Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"Roman religion"”.
-
Perceptions of divinity : the changing characters of Roman Venus.
… she was assigned, were significant for the Romans’ engagement with the goddess during the Republic and early Empire. A discussion of some theories of Roman religion since the nineteenth century shows how these views and their subsequent re-evaluation have influenced understandings of Venus. …
-
"Ps.-Seneca ""de Spe"" (Anth. Lat. 415 Riese): Prolegomena, Text, Translation, Commentary"
… to the present. Attitudes toward Hope in Roman religion and popular belief are discussed, and De Spe's literary genre (the locus de Fortuna) and models are examined. The Commentary elucidates textual, grammatical, hermeneutic, and metrical problems, and Realien are investigated. In the …
-
ΤΟ ΝΕΡΟ ΚΑΙ ΤΟ ΑΙΜΑ ΣΤΙΣ ΜΥΣΤΗΡΙΑΚΕΣ ΛΑΤΡΕΙΕΣ ΤΗΣ ΕΛΛΗΝΟΡΩΜΑΙΚΗΣ ΕΠΟΧΗΣ
… FOR THE RITES OF THE MYSTERY CULTS OF THE GRAECO-ROMAN WORLD. THEIR IMPORTANCE IS EVIDENT NOT ONLY IN THE MYSTERY CULTS BUT ALSO IN THE RITES OF THE FORMAL GRAECO-ROMAN RELIGION. THEIR PARTICULAR IMPORTANCE CAN BE UNDERSTOOD IF WE TAKE INTO CONSIDERATION HOW IMPORTANT IT WAS ON THE PART OF THE …
-
Dea Roma and the Roman virtues : a comparative study in the policy and practice of Deified abstractions
… across the eastern and western halves of the Roman Empire from the second century BC to the reign of Augustus. In the east the institution of her cult was the result of expanding Roman influence in the region, and served as a means for people to conceptualise the presence of Roman power. In …
-
The Persian Persecution: Martyrdom, Politics, and Religious Identity in Late Ancient Syriac Christianity
… of Constantine's support for Christianity in the Roman Empire. Religious allegiances are said to have been further amplified during the Roman-Persian war over Rome's Mesopotamian provinces that followed Constantine's death. According to most interpretations, by the mid-fourth century …
-
Holiness and humanism: a comparative-religions commentary on book 2 of Cicero’s laws, with special reference to Confucianism and Chinese thought
… judgment on human laws (5-6), tension between Roman religion and Greek philosophy (7), and the setting forth of Cicero's code of religious law (8), the code covers whom to worship (9), the power of Cicero's own priesthood (10), religion and political unity (11), social justice and religious …
-
Amiano Marcelino požiūrio į krikščionybę ambivalentiškumas /
Ammianus Marcellinus was a fourth-century Roman historian, best known for his work "Res Gestae" (The Deeds), which covers the history of the Roman Empire from 96 to 378 AD. Born around 330 AD in Antioch (modern-day Turkey), Ammianus was a Greek-speaking Roman of noble birth who served as a soldier …
-
The Night Witch: The Demonic and the Roman Witch
… as magical ingredients for her practice. Within Roman literature, the concept of the Night Witch rears its head and examples of these figures can be found in both prose and verse literature. It is my contention that the concept comes to influence and becomes embedded in Roman literature’s …
-
The Night Witch: The Demonic and the Roman Witch
… as magical ingredients for her practice. Within Roman literature, the concept of the Night Witch rears its head and examples of these figures can be found in both prose and verse literature. It is my contention that the concept comes to influence and becomes embedded in Roman literature’s …