Thesaurus Cultus Et Rituum Antiquorum

Thesaurus Cultus et Rituum Antiquorum (ThesCRA) is a major multivolume reference work on all known aspects of Greek, Etruscan, and Roman cults and rituals. Providing both sweeping overview and in-depth investigation, ThesCRA covers the period from Homeric times (1000 B.C.) to late Roman times (A.D. 400).
The first three volumes, published in 2005, deal with dynamic elements of cult: divination; prayer, gestures, and acts of prayer; gestures and acts of veneration; oaths; maledictions; profanation; magic; and consecration and foundation rites. The last two volumes in the set, published earlier this year, move on to static elements of cult--cult places and their depictions in antiquity in Volume IV, and the personnel of cults in volume V.

ThesCRA was developed by the eminent group of scholars who published the eight double-volumes of LIMC (Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae). The ThesCRA editorial board includes Jean Ch. Balty, Sir John Boardman, Philippe Bruneau, Richard G.A. Buxton, Giovannangelo Camporeale, Fulvio Canciani, Fritz Graf, Tonio Hölscher, Vassilis Lambrinoudakis, and Erika Simon.