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Isis Pelagia: Images, Names and Cults of a Goddess of the Seas
Language: en
Pages: 402
Authors: Laurent Bricault
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-11-11 - Publisher: BRILL

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In Isis Pelagia, Laurent Bricault offers a new interpretation of many of the various sources on Isis as a goddess of the seas in the Graeco-Roman world.
The Names of the Gods in Ancient Mediterranean Religions
Language: en
Pages: 307
Authors: Corinne Bonnet
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2024-03-31 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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Studying the names of twelve Mediterranean gods reveals the changing aspects of the divine in antiquity.
Iconotropy and Cult Images from the Ancient to Modern World
Language: en
Pages: 213
Authors: Jorge Tomás García
Categories: Art
Type: BOOK - Published: 2022-04-06 - Publisher: Taylor & Francis

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The book examines the process of symbolic and material alteration of religious images in antiquity, the middle ages and the modern period. The process by which
Notions of Time in Deuterocanonical and Cognate Literature
Language: en
Pages: 706
Authors: Stefan Beyerle
Categories: Religion
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-12-20 - Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

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A comprehensive investigation of notions of "time" in deuterocanonical and cognate literature, from the ancient Jewish up to the early Christian eras, requires
The Smells and Senses of Antiquity in the Modern Imagination
Language: en
Pages: 295
Authors: Adeline Grand-Clément
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-12-16 - Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

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This volume tackles the role of smell, under-explored in relation to the other senses, in the modern rejection, reappraisal and idealisation of antiquity. Among