Rethinking the Concept of 'Healing Settlements' : Water, Cults, Constructions and Contexts in the Ancient World.
Bassani, Maddalena.
Rethinking the Concept of 'Healing Settlements' : Water, Cults, Constructions and Contexts in the Ancient World. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (185 pages) - Archaeopress Roman Archaeology Series ; v.52 . - Archaeopress Roman Archaeology Series .
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents Page -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- Christopher Smith -- Part I Thermo-Mineral Waters: From Italy to the Roman Provinces -- Methodological Aspects -- Maddalena Bassani and Ugo Fusco -- Shrines and Healing Waters in Ancient Italy. Buildings, Cults, Deities -- Maddalena Bassani -- The Thermo-Mineral Springs at Veii (RM) and its Territory: New Discoveries and Old Excavations -- Ugo Fusco -- Cult and Healing Water in Roman Gaul -- Matteo Marcato -- Places of Worship and Healing Water in Roman Germaniae and Raetia -- Cecilia Zanetti -- Healing by Water: Therapy and Religion in the Roman Spas of the Iberian Peninsula -- Sérgio Carneiro and Silvia González Soutelo -- Preliminary Considerations on Thermal Spas in the Eastern Roman Provinces: The Case of Asia Minor -- Emanuela Borgia -- Roman Healing Settlements in Bulgaria: Past Scholarship and Future Perspectives -- Mariya Avramova -- Before the Hammam: The Ancient Spas of Roman North Africa -- Jens Koehler -- Part II Cult Places and Healing -- Cult Places and Healing: Some Preliminary Remarks -- Marion Bolder-Boos and Annalisa Calapà -- Sacred Caves and 'Fertility Cults'. Some Considerations about Cave Sanctuaries in Etruria -- Annalisa Calapà -- Hercules and Healing -- Marion Bolder-Boos -- Lacus and Lucus: Lakes and Groves as Markers of Healing Cults in Central Italy -- Ingrid Edlund-Berry and Jean M. Turfa -- Nomina Nuda Tenemus? The Epigraphical Records of Dedications in Two Healing Sanctuaries in Athens and in Oropos -- Maria Elena Gorrini -- Results and Future Prospects -- Francesca Ghedini and Paola Zanovello -- List of Contributors.
This volume brings together papers dealing with therapeutic aspects connected to thermo-mineral sites both in Italy and in the Roman Provinces, as well as cultic issues surrounding health and healing.
9781789690385
Medicine, Greek and Roman.
Mineral wates-Therapeutic use.
Sacred space-Rome.
Healing-Rome.
Electronic books.
RM813 .R66 2016
Rethinking the Concept of 'Healing Settlements' : Water, Cults, Constructions and Contexts in the Ancient World. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (185 pages) - Archaeopress Roman Archaeology Series ; v.52 . - Archaeopress Roman Archaeology Series .
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents Page -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- Christopher Smith -- Part I Thermo-Mineral Waters: From Italy to the Roman Provinces -- Methodological Aspects -- Maddalena Bassani and Ugo Fusco -- Shrines and Healing Waters in Ancient Italy. Buildings, Cults, Deities -- Maddalena Bassani -- The Thermo-Mineral Springs at Veii (RM) and its Territory: New Discoveries and Old Excavations -- Ugo Fusco -- Cult and Healing Water in Roman Gaul -- Matteo Marcato -- Places of Worship and Healing Water in Roman Germaniae and Raetia -- Cecilia Zanetti -- Healing by Water: Therapy and Religion in the Roman Spas of the Iberian Peninsula -- Sérgio Carneiro and Silvia González Soutelo -- Preliminary Considerations on Thermal Spas in the Eastern Roman Provinces: The Case of Asia Minor -- Emanuela Borgia -- Roman Healing Settlements in Bulgaria: Past Scholarship and Future Perspectives -- Mariya Avramova -- Before the Hammam: The Ancient Spas of Roman North Africa -- Jens Koehler -- Part II Cult Places and Healing -- Cult Places and Healing: Some Preliminary Remarks -- Marion Bolder-Boos and Annalisa Calapà -- Sacred Caves and 'Fertility Cults'. Some Considerations about Cave Sanctuaries in Etruria -- Annalisa Calapà -- Hercules and Healing -- Marion Bolder-Boos -- Lacus and Lucus: Lakes and Groves as Markers of Healing Cults in Central Italy -- Ingrid Edlund-Berry and Jean M. Turfa -- Nomina Nuda Tenemus? The Epigraphical Records of Dedications in Two Healing Sanctuaries in Athens and in Oropos -- Maria Elena Gorrini -- Results and Future Prospects -- Francesca Ghedini and Paola Zanovello -- List of Contributors.
This volume brings together papers dealing with therapeutic aspects connected to thermo-mineral sites both in Italy and in the Roman Provinces, as well as cultic issues surrounding health and healing.
9781789690385
Medicine, Greek and Roman.
Mineral wates-Therapeutic use.
Sacred space-Rome.
Healing-Rome.
Electronic books.
RM813 .R66 2016