Pagan Gods and Shrines of the Roman Empire

Pagan Gods and Shrines of the Roman Empire......Page 2
Contents......Page 4
Introduction......Page 6
Contributors......Page 7
The Sanctuary of Sulis Minerva at Bath: a brief review (Barry Cunliffe)......Page 8
'La Grange-des-Dimes', Avenches: a Roman or Celtic temple?......Page 22
Classicized Romano-Celtic Temples......Page 26
Discussion......Page 27
Cult and Ritual Practices at Argentomagus, Indre, France (Isabelle Fauduet)......Page 32
The Shrine of Abandinus......Page 36
Piper's Lane Shrine......Page 41
Burial Customs; Cult Objects......Page 43
The Sky Gods......Page 46
What the Britons required from the gods as seen through the pairing of Roman and Celtic deities and the character of votive offerings (Graham Webster)......Page 49
The Romano-Celtic Thunderer......Page 57
The Equestrian God of the Columns......Page 59
The Celtic Solar Cult and the Roman Jupiter......Page 60
Conclusion......Page 66
The Goddess Epona: concepts of sovereignty in a changing landscape (Laura S. Oaks)......Page 68
The London Hunter-God (Ralph Merrifield)......Page 75
Faunus at Thetford: an early Latian deity in Late Roman Britain (Catherine Johns)......Page 83
Words and Meanings: ACCIPE ET VTERE FELIX (Eve Harris)......Page 94
Introduction......Page 101
The concept of the Lares in classical religion......Page 103
The Genius in Roman Britain......Page 104
The Junones......Page 117
Juno and Junones in Britain......Page 118
The Cult of Bacchus in Roman Britain (Valerie J. Hutchinson)......Page 122
Christian Mosaics in Roman Britain......Page 133
Pagan Mosaics......Page 136
Ambivalent Mosaics......Page 138
Conclusion......Page 143
New gods in the Roman Empire......Page 145
New images of the divine in Roman Britain......Page 146
Mosaics and mysteries in Roman Britain......Page 148
Iconography and Context: ab oriente ad occidentem (J. R. Harris)......Page 156
Roman Venus: public worship and private rites (G. Lloyd-Morgan)......Page 163
Nero-Helios (Oleg Neverov)......Page 173
I......Page 179
II......Page 182
III; IV......Page 184
Interpretatio Romana: the Semitic populations of Syria and Mesopotamia (Malcolm A. R. Colledge)......Page 188
The Procession-House of the Great Hermaion at Hermopolis Magna (D. M. Bailey)......Page 198
Christians, Jews and Pagans in the Acts of the Apostles (Grahame Soffe)......Page 205
Authorship, date and text......Page 206
'To the Jew first and also to the Greek (Rom 1,16)......Page 207
Synagogues and the birth of Christianity......Page 208
Judaism and Earliest Christianity: the Ceremonial Form......Page 210
Paganism and Earliest Christianity: the Ceremonial Form......Page 212
Parallels or Antitheses?......Page 214
Zeus and Hermes at Lystra (14,1-18)......Page 215
Unknown gods at Athens (17,17-34......Page 216
Great is Artemis Ephesia (19)......Page 217
Conclusion......Page 219
Pagan Priesthoods in the Later Empire (Alan Wardman)......Page 223
Index......Page 229