Thesaurus Cultus et Rituum Antiquorum Volume VIII: Private Space and Public Space - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 160606102X ISBN 13: 9781606061022

Publisher: J. Paul Getty Museum, 2012

Synopsis

ThesCRA is a major multivolume reference work on all known aspects of Greek, Etruscan, and Roman cults and rituals. Providing both a sweeping overview and an in-depth investigation, ThesCRA covers the period from Homeric times (1000 B.C.) to late Roman times (A.D. 400).

The first five volumes appeared between 2004 and 2006 and covered the dynamic elements and activities of ancient cults and rituals. Illustrated scholarly articles in English, French, Italian, and German treat such topics as processions, sacrifices, libations, dedications, purification, initiation, divination, prayer, asylum, oaths, maledictions, banquets, music, dance, cult places, cult statues, and cult implements. The latter three volumes address the occasions and circumstances of ritual. The forty-one authors of Volume VIII write about public and private life, guilds, priesthoods, priestly colleges, and other institutions, law, diplomacy, war, festivals of various kinds, and religious links to neighboring societies. In addition, the book includes an addendum to Volume VI on death and burial in the Greek world, and a supplement on animals and plants. Volume VIII brings to completion this unique research tool. 

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About the Author

Antoine Hermary is secretary general of the Foundation for the Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae(LIMC) and professor of archaeology and Greek civilization at the Université de Provence, France. Bertrand Jaeger is secretary of the Editorial Committee of the Foundation for the LIMC.

Review

“This publication is a truly magnificent undertaking that will be a major reference work for decades to come.”—Minerva

“ThesCRA, thanks to its scale, its intelligent selections, and its bibliographies, opens a new era for anyone concerned with the Realien of ancient cult.”—Greece and Rome

“The Thesaurus continues the good work of the Lexicon (LIMC) in making it impossible for archaeologists and art historians to neglect the ancient written sources, or for epigraphers and literary specialists to underrate the material record. Best of all, when we have the full set of dynamic and static elements, we shall all be able to reflect on the inward and spiritual meaning of all this hard evidence with far more information at our fingertips than we have had before.”—Times Higher Education Supplement

“Bigger than anything previously attempted in this most challenging sector of classical studies.”—Times Higher Education Supplement

About this edition

• Publisher: J. Paul Getty Museum
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 160606102X
• ISBN 13: 9781606061022
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 564
• Editor: Hermary Antoine, Jaeger Bertrand