Ritual dynamics and religious change in the Roman Empire : proceedings of the eighth Workshop of the International Network Impact of Empire (Heidelberg, July 5-7, 2007) / / edited by Olivier Hekster, Sebastian Schmidt-Hofner, Christian Witschel.

• Superior document: Impact of empire, v. 9
• Author: Impact of Empire (Organization). Workshop
• TeilnehmendeR: Hekster, Olivier.; Schmidt-Hofner, Sebastian.; Witschel, Christian, 1966-
• Year of Publication: 2009
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Impact of Empire (Roman Empire, c. 200 B.C.-A.D. 476) (Series) ; 9.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (392 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

This volume presents the proceedings of the eighth workshop of the international network 'Impact of Empire', which concentrates on the history of the Roman Empire and brings together ancient historians, archaeologists, classicists and specialists in Roman law from some thirty European and North American universities. The eighth volume focuses on the impact of the Roman Empire on religious behaviour, with a special focus on the dynamics of ritual. The volume is divided into three sections: ritualising the empire, performing civic community in the empire and performing religion in the empire.

Table of Contents

Introduction. The dynamics of rituals in the Roman Empire / Angelos Chaniotis -- Ritualising the empire. Du pontifex maximus à l'élu de Dieu : l'Empereur et les sacra (Ier s. av. n. e.-Ve s. de n. e.) / Stéphane Benoist -- From conquest to pax Romana : the signa recepta and the end of the Triumphal Fasti in 19 BC / Ida Östenberg -- The pompa circensis and the domus Augusta (1st-2nd c. A.D.) / Patrizia Arena -- Honouring ancestors : the dynamic of deification / Olivier Hekster -- Empire of the sun? Civic responses to the rise and fall of Sol Elagabal in the Roman Empire / Martijn Icks -- Performing civic community in the empire. Civic rituals in imperial ostia / Christer Bruun -- Das reich tanzt-- : dance in the Roman Empire and its discontents / Frits G. Naerebout -- Die Bewirtung des Volkes : Öffentliche Speisungen in der Römischen Kaiserzeit / Eftychia Stavrianopoulou -- Rituels civiques (apantèsis et acclamations) et gouverneurs en Asie Mineure à l'époque romaine / Anne-Valérie Pont -- Kommunikation durch Herrschaftszeichen : Römisches Militär und römische Amtsträger in den Provinzen / Werner Eck -- Performing religion in the empire. Found in translation : the religion of the Roman diaspora / Greg Woolf -- Women and sacrifice in the Roman Empire / Emily A. Hemelrijk -- Les repas funéraires : un témoignage d'une dynamique socio-culturelle en Afrique romaine / Arbia Hilali -- Neue Bilder für alte Rituale : die Saturn-Stelen als Kultmedien im römischen Nordafrika / Günther Schörner -- Götterbilder im römischen Griechenland : vom Tempel zum Museum? / Christoph Auffarth -- Luna/MHN ASKAĒNOS : un dieu romain à Antioche (Pisidie) / Nicole Belayche -- Miniaturisierung als Schlüssel zum Verständnis römerzeitlicher ägyptischer Rituale? / Joachim Friedrich Quack.