Religious Life in Late Classical and Hellenistic Rhodes

Zachhuber focuses on the evidence from one particular part of the ancient world, the island of Rhodes (primarily consisting of texts inscribed on stone), in order to see what we can tease from its diverse voices and narratives, telling the stories of gods, rituals, customs, and people, and to cast a light on how religion shaped this state.

List of contents

• 1: Introduction: Tracing Religious Narratives


• 2: Rhodes the Island, Rhodes the Polis: Religious Community and Synoecism


• 3: Rhodian Epigraphic Culture and Society


• 4: Gods of the Rhodian State: Helios and Athena


• 5: Local Pantheons after the Synoecism: The Cults of Ialysos, Cameiros, and Lindos


• 6: Cults of Rhodes-town; Cults of the Polis: A Religious History of Hellenistic Rhodes


• 7: Religious Personnel


• 8: Rhodian Associations and Religious Experience


• 9: Concluding Remarks: Themes in Rhodian Religion

About the author

Juliane Zachhuber completed her BA in Classics, MPhil in Greek and Roman History, and DPhil in Ancient History at the University of Oxford. She held lectureships at the University of Reading, and Oriel and Jesus College, Oxford, where her teaching focused on religious history, gender history, and epigraphy. Her work has been published in the journal Kernos, and by Cambridge University Press and Archaeopress. During a Fellowship by Special Election in Ancient History at Wadham College, she completed her monograph on Rhodian religion.

Summary

Zachhuber focuses on the evidence from one particular part of the ancient world, the island of Rhodes (primarily consisting of texts inscribed on stone), in order to see what we can tease from its diverse voices and narratives, telling the stories of gods, rituals, customs, and people, and to cast a light on how religion shaped this state.

Product details

• Authors: Juliane Zachhuber, Juliane (Fellow By Special Election in Zachhuber
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 06.08.2024
• EAN: 9780198897422
• ISBN: 978-0-19-889742-2
• No. of pages: 448
• Series: Oxford Classical Monographs
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries; Ancient Greece, HISTORY / Ancient / Greece, RELIGION / Ancient, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Ancient Greek religion & mythology, Material Culture, Ancient History, Ancient history: to c 500 CE, Ancient Greek religion and mythology