TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bassani,Maddalena
AU  - Bolder-Boos,Marion
AU  - Fusco,Ugo
TI  - Rethinking the Concept of 'Healing Settlements': Water, Cults, Constructions and Contexts in the Ancient World
T2  - Archaeopress Roman Archaeology Series
SN  - 9781789690385
AV  - RM813 .R66 2016 
PY  - 2019///
CY  - Oxford
PB  - Archaeopress
KW  - Medicine, Greek and Roman
KW  - Mineral wates-Therapeutic use
KW  - Sacred space-Rome
KW  - Healing-Rome
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - 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
N2  - 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
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