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The Scent of Ancient Magic

By Britta K. Ager
Subjects: Classical Studies, Religion

Examines the complex association of the sense of smell and the supernatural in classical antiquity

Ritual Matters

Material Remains and Ancient Religion

By Jennifer Knust & Claudia Moser
Subjects: Classical Studies, Religion, Archaeology
Series: Supplements to the Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome

An international, cross-disciplinary investigation of ancient religious practices and their material remains yields fresh insights and poses new questions

Epiphanius of Cyprus

Imagining an Orthodox World

By Young Richard Kim
Subjects: Classical Studies, Greek, Religion, History, Medieval and Early Modern History

Brings a balanced perspective to a controversial scholar of heresies

A Commentary on Cicero, De Divinatione I

By Celia Schultz
Subjects: Classical Studies, Roman, Religion
Series: Michigan Classical Commentaries

A welcome investigation into Cicero’s unusual work on ancient Roman religion

The Narcissus and the Pomegranate

An Archaeology of the Homeric Hymn to Demeter

By Ann Suter
Subjects: Classical Studies, Greek, Literary Studies, European Literature, Religion

Examines in detail the two myths in the Homeric Hymn to Demeter and the relation of the hymn to historic cult activities at Eleusis

The Sanctuary of Santa Venera at Paestum II

The Votive Terracottas

By Rebecca Ammerman
Subjects: Archaeology, Classical Studies, Religion

Examines almost three thousand terracottas found in archaeological excavations at the sanctuary of Santa Venera at Paestum

Theodoret of Cyrrhus

The Bishop and the Holy Man

By Theresa Evelynne Urbainczyk
Subjects: Classical Studies, History, Political Science, Religion

Authoritatively places the fifth-century bishop Theodoret and his work in the proper historical and literary context

The Limits of Ancient Christianity

Essays on Late Antique Thought and Culture in Honor of R. A. Markus

Edited by William E. Klingshirn & Mark Vessey
Subjects: Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Religion, Classical Studies

Sixteen essays explore the end of ancient Christianity

Poetry and the Cult of the Martyrs

The Liber Peristephanon of Prudentius

By Michael Roberts
Subjects: Classical Studies, Roman, Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Religion

A beautifully detailed literary study of Prudentius's eulogies of the Christian martyrs

A Papyrus Codex of the Shepherd of Hermas

(Similitudes 2-9) With a Fragment of the Mandates

Edited by Campbell Bonner
Subjects: Religion, Classical Studies

The Praise of Folly

By Desiderius Erasmus
Subjects: Religion, History, Classical Studies
Series: Ann Arbor Paperbacks

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