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Robert Turcan - The Cults of the Roman Empire - 9780631200468 - V9780631200468
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The Cults of the Roman Empire

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Description for The Cults of the Roman Empire Hardback. This book is about the multiplicity of gods and religions that characterized the Roman world before Constantine. It was not the noble gods such as Jove, Apollo and Diana, who were crucial to the lives of the common people in the empire, bur gods of an altogether more earthly, earth level, whose rituals and observances may now seem bizarre. Series: Ancient World S. Num Pages: 416 pages, 0. BIC Classification: 1QDAR; HRKP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 237 x 164 x 32. Weight in Grams: 766.
This book is about the multiplicity of gods and religions that characterized the Roman world before Constantine. It was not the noble gods such as Jove, Apollo and Diana, who were crucial to the lives of the common people in the empire, bur gods of an altogether more earthly, earth level, whose rituals and observances may now seem bizarre. As well as being of wide general interest, this book will appeal to students of the Roman Empire and of the history of religion.

Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
416
Condition
New
Series
Ancient World S.
Number of Pages
416
Place of Publication
Hoboken, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780631200468
SKU
V9780631200468
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About Robert Turcan
Robert Turcan is Professor of Roman History at the Sorbonne. He is a former student of the Ecole Normale Superieure, and a member of both the École Française in Rome and the Institut Francais. He has published widely on Roman antiquity both in France and elsewhere. Antonia Nevill is a committed European and lifelong Francophile. She spent over thirty ... Read more

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"... a treasure trove of information on the nature and diversity of mystery cults." Westminster Theological Journal

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