Demeter, Isis, Vesta, and Cybele: Studies in Greek and Roman Religion in Honour of Giulia Sfameni Gasparro (Potsdamer Altertumswissenschaftliche Beitrage (Pawb)) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 351510075X ISBN 13: 9783515100755

Publisher: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2012

Synopsis

Foreign cults of female divinities were often accepted among different cultures and female cults were often reshaped after new models. The transcultural nature of many goddesses and the related problems are at the core of this book, which is dedicated to a prominent scholar in this field, G. Sfameni Gasparro. Social, political and cultural factors are especially taken into account in order to explain different iconographies, names, and kinds of worship which were adopted for goddesses in different areas and times. The multifaceted nature of many female cults is focussed thanks to different methodologies, according to the topics which are investigated.

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Review:

"These studies edited by Attilio Mastrocinque and Concetta Giuffré Scibona present a high level of scholarship. The publication has a good selection of illustrations, and the volume provides scholars with new and original assumptions....[...]As always in the case of Franz Steiner Verlag, the book is a quality publication..." (Andrzej Gillmeister, University of Zielona Góra Bryn Mawr Classical Review)

About this edition

• Publisher: Franz Steiner Verlag
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 351510075X
• ISBN 13: 9783515100755
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 248
• Editor: Mastrocinque Attilio, Giuffre Scibona Concetta