RT Book
T1 Roman festivals in the Greek East: from the early empire to the Middle Byzantine Era
T2 Greek culture in the Roman world
A1 Graf, Fritz
LA English
PP Cambridge
PB Cambridge University Press
YR 2015
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/883311119
AB This study explores the development of ancient festival culture in the Greek East of the Roman Empire, paying particular attention to the fundamental religious changes that occurred. After analysing how Greek city festivals developed in the first two Imperial centuries, it concentrates on the major Roman festivals that were adopted in the Eastern cities and traces their history up to the time of Justinian and beyond. It addresses several key questions for the religious history of later antiquity: who were the actors behind these adoptions? How did the closed religious communities, Jews and pre-Constantinian Christians, articulate their resistance? How did these festivals change when the empire converted to Christianity? Why did emperors not yield to the long-standing pressure of the Church to abolish them? And finally, how did these very popular festivals - despite their pagan tradition - influence the form of the newly developed Christian liturgy?
NO Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 11 Nov 2015)
CN DG125
SN 9781316135778
K1 Festivals : Rome.
K1 Festivals : Greece.
K1 Rites and ceremonies : Rome.
K1 Rites and ceremonies : Greece.
K1 Rites and ceremonies : Rome
K1 Rites and ceremonies : Greece
K1 Festivals : Greece
K1 Festivals : Rome
K1 Festivals ; Rome
K1 Festivals ; Greece
K1 Rites and ceremonies ; Rome
K1 Rites and ceremonies ; Greece
K1 Rome ; Social life and customs
K1 Rome ; History ; Empire, 30 B.C.-476 A.D
K1 Greece ; History ; 146 B.C.-323 A.D
K1 Rome : Social life and customs.
K1 Rome : History, Empire, 30 B.C.-476 A.D.
K1 Greece : History, 146 B.C.-323 A.D.
K1 Rome : Social life and customs
K1 Rome : History : Empire, 30 B.C.-476 A.D
K1 Greece : History : 146 B.C.-323 A.D
DO 10.1017/CBO9781316135778