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Rethinking the Concept of 'Healing Settlements' : Water, Cults, Constructions and Contexts in the Ancient World.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Archaeopress Roman Archaeology SeriesPublisher: Oxford : Archaeopress, 2019Copyright date: ©2019Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (185 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781789690385
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Rethinking the Concept of 'Healing Settlements': Water, Cults, Constructions and Contexts in the Ancient WorldLOC classification:
  • RM813 .R66 2016
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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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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.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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