Appropriation and Religion in the Greek and Roman Worlds

Bendlin, Andreas (EDT)/ Dijkstra, Jitse H. F. (EDT)

Cambridge University Press（2026/06発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 392 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781009761666

Full Description

Appropriation, 'making something one's own', is a modern way of thinking about social practices. This volume highlights the potential of this critical concept for the investigation of everyday religious practice - and more generally, everyday social practice - in Antiquity. Appropriation foregrounds the agency of the social actors against the strictures imposed by the dominant culture's social order, whose ideas and practices they make their own, altering them in multiple, often subtle ways. How does appropriation transform pre-existing, traditional practices? What are the dominant structures against which the actors operate? Which tactics do they use? These are only some of the questions this volume seeks to address. The critical term 'appropriation' has yet to be fully discovered by classicists; the case studies in this volume, ranging from classical Greece to Late Antique Egypt, endeavour to demonstrate its pertinence to the study of religion in Antiquity.

Contents

1. General introduction Andreas Bendlin and Jitse H.F. Dijkstra; 2. Appropriation revisited: the potentials and challenges of a critical concept of historical research Marian Füssel; 3. Appropriating Orphism in fifth-century Athens Jan N. Bremmer; 4. Greek Rome's Homer: Ancient sacrifice in Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Roman Antiquities 7.70-72 Renaud Gagné; 5. Gods of the household and the practice of everyday life in Ancient Rome John Bodel; 6. Clodius, a god alive: the Bona Dea scandal reconsidered Maik Patzelt; 7. The appropriation of Roman culture by the rabbis: some case studies Katell Berthelot; 8. Paideia as appropriation: eading, interpretation and canonisation in imperial Greece and early Christianity Kenneth W. Yu; 9. Speaking from ruins: theology in the first six centuries CE Peter van Nuffelen; 10. Hermes in Gaul: the appropriation of local culture Elizabeth DePalma Digeser; 11. Epistolary tactics of appropriation in Julian's 'New Paganism' Bronwen Neil; 12. Masculinity and the discursive appropriation of warfare, athletics, slavery and medicine in Theodoret's Historia Religiosa Chris L. de Wet; 13. Christian martyrs in a Christian empire: Chalcedon and the politics of appropriation Christine Shepardson; 14. Appropriating the Gods: magic in the changing contexts of Late Antique Egypt Roxanne Bélanger Sarrazin; 15. Living in a city of the dead: the monastic appropriation of the sacred landscape of Abydos in Late Antiquity Jitse H. F. Dijkstra.