Religion in Roman Phrygia: From Polytheism to Christianity 9780520395480, 9780520395497, 2022059277, 2022059278
Phrygia in the second and third centuries CE offers more vivid evidence for what has been termed “lived ancient religion
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English Pages ix; 254 Year 2023
Table of contents :
Contents
List of Illustrations
Preface
Introduction
1. Contexts of religious life
2. Priesthoods, finance, authority
3. Phrygian polytheism I: The gods
4. Phrygian polytheism II: Differentiated powers?
5. Heavenly and imperial gods
6. Consecrations and confessions at the sanctuary of Apollo Lairbenos
7. Phrygian gods and death
8. Christianity and paganism in Phrygia
9. Retrospect
10. The masked ball: Interpretatio and its effects
11. Envoi
Appendix A. Myths and traditions of city origins
Appendix B. ‘Honoured by/consecrated to Hekate’ and related texts
Appendix C. τὸν θεόν σοι, μὴ ἀδικήσῃς
Appendix D. Paganism and Montanism
Appendix E. The prose inscription for Epitynchanos and family
Appendix F. Iconography and ‘recovering the indigenous’
Bibliography
Index
Contents
List of Illustrations
Preface
Introduction
1. Contexts of religious life
2. Priesthoods, finance, authority
3. Phrygian polytheism I: The gods
4. Phrygian polytheism II: Differentiated powers?
5. Heavenly and imperial gods
6. Consecrations and confessions at the sanctuary of Apollo Lairbenos
7. Phrygian gods and death
8. Christianity and paganism in Phrygia
9. Retrospect
10. The masked ball: Interpretatio and its effects
11. Envoi
Appendix A. Myths and traditions of city origins
Appendix B. ‘Honoured by/consecrated to Hekate’ and related texts
Appendix C. τὸν θεόν σοι, μὴ ἀδικήσῃς
Appendix D. Paganism and Montanism
Appendix E. The prose inscription for Epitynchanos and family
Appendix F. Iconography and ‘recovering the indigenous’
Bibliography
Index
