Votive Body Parts in Greek and Roman Religion

• Author(s): Jessica Hughes,
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Pages: 219
• ISBN_10: 1107157838
  ISBN_13: 9781107157835
  
• Language: en
• Categories: History / Ancient / General , History / Ancient / Rome , History / Social History , Religion / General , Religion / History , Religion / Reference , Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural & Social ,

Description:... Cover -- Half-title -- Series information -- Title page -- Copyright information -- Table of contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Introduction: Fragments of History -- Scholarship on Votive Offerings -- New Approaches: (1) Fragmentation and (2) Continuity vs Change in the Anatomical Votive Tradition -- 2 Fragmentation as Metaphor: Anatomical Votives in Classical Greece, Fifth-Fourth Centuries BC -- Gifts to the Greek Gods -- Changing Beliefs about the Human Body -- Fragmentation as Metaphor -- Healing as Reintegration -- Conclusion -- 3 Under the Skin: Anatomical Votives in Republican Italy, Fourth-First Centuries bc -- Introducing the Votive Evidence -- The Origins of the Anatomical Votives in Italy -- Making and Viewing Viscera -- Two Different Views of the Body: Comparing Greece and Italy -- Permeable Boundaries -- Conclusion -- 4 The Anxiety of Influence: Anatomical Votives in Roman Gaul, First Century bc-First Century ad -- The Sanctuary of Dea Sequana at the Source of the Seine -- Chamalières -- From Pre-Roman to Roman Gaul: Changing Approaches to the Fragmented Body -- From Italy to Gaul: Colonising the Body? -- From Italy to Gaul: Reception and Transformation -- Conclusion -- 5 Punishing Bodies: The Lydian and Phrygian 'Propitiatory' Stelai, Second-Third Centuries AD -- Introducing the Propitiatory Stelai -- Viewing the Images -- Permeable Boundaries and Imagined Communities -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Abbreviations -- Index