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The Sacred Identity of Ephesos: Foundation Myths of a Roman City (Routledge Revivals) - Hardcover

Rogers, Guy Maclean

 
9780415740241: The Sacred Identity of Ephesos: Foundation Myths of a Roman City (Routledge Revivals)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 041574024X ISBN 13: 9780415740241
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2014

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The Sacred Identity of Ephesos offers a full-length interpretation of one of the largest known bequests in the Classical world, made to the city of Ephesos in AD 104 by a wealthy Roman equestrian, and challenges some of the basic assumptions made about the significance of the Greek cultural renaissance known as the ‘Second Sophistic’.

Professor Rogers shows how the civic rituals created by the foundation symbolised a contemporary social hierarchy, and how the ruling class used foundation myths - the birth of the goddess Artemis in a grove above the city – as a tangible source of power, to be wielded over new citizens and new gods. Utilising an innovative methodology for analysing large inscriptions, Professor Rogers argues that the Ephesians used their past to define their present during the Roman Empire, shedding new light on how second-century Greeks maintained their identities in relation to Romans, Christians, and Jews.

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Verlag
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Erscheinungsdatum
2014
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
041574024X
ISBN 13 
9780415740241
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
210
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