Empire and Religion : Religious Change in Greek Cities under Roman Rule.

Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 Priesthoods and Civic Ideology: Honorific Titles for Hiereis and Archiereis in Roman Asia Minor -- Chapter 2 Public Sacrifice in Roman Athens -- Chapter 3 Cultic and Social Dynamics in the Eleusinian Sanctuary Under the Empire -- Chapter 4 Communication Between Sanctuaries and Rulers: An Analysis of Religious Resistance to Roman Abuses in the Greek East During the Roman Republic -- Chapter 5 Trajan and Hadrian's Reorganization of the Agonistic Associations in Rome -- Chapter 6 P.Oxy. 471: Hadrian, Alexandria, and the Antinous Cult -- Chapter 7 Hadrian Among the Gods -- Chapter 8 Some Thoughts on the Cult of the Pantheon ('All the Gods'?) in the Cities and Sanctuaries of Roman Greece -- Chapter 9 Emperor Worship and Greek Leagues: The Organization of Supra-Civic Imperial Cult in the Roman East -- Chapter 10 Le paysage culturel de la colonie romaine de Philippes en Macédoine : cosmopolitisme religieux et différentiation sociale -- Index Geographicus -- Index Nominum -- Index Rerum Sacrorum -- Index Rerum Memorabilium.

Empire and religion reflects on the nature of religious change in the Greek cities under Roman rule. The fascinating and fluid process of religious transformation is interpreted in this book in line with the logics of empire.

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