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SpaceTime of the Imperial, 2016

Frauenwelten in der Antike, 2006

SpaceTime of the Imperial, 2016

Electronic editions of ancient texts—both recent and past scholarly publications—are a rapidly gr... more Electronic editions of ancient texts—both recent and past scholarly publications—are a rapidly growing body of online literature. In this Select Bibliography, we present the complete list of online, open-access scholarly works that are linked in the Coming Back to Life essays. In providing this bibliography we hope to facilitate better, easier access to the growing body of digital scholarly resources available online. Bibliography: Tappenden, Frederick S., and Bradley N. Rice. 2017. “Select Bibliography of Embedded Online Works.” Pages 459–473 in Coming Back to Life: The Permeability of Past and Present, Mortality and Immortality, Death and Life in the Ancient Mediterranean. Edited by Frederick S. Tappenden and Carly DanielHughes, with the assistance of Bradley N. Rice. Montreal, QC: McGill University Library. Online: http://comingbacktolife.mcgill.ca. Copyright: © Frederick S. Tappenden and Bradley N. Rice, 2017. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommerc...

Läugnet das Sinnliche oder läugnet das Übersinnliche, wenn Ihr könnt, wenn Ihr aber nicht könnt, ... more Läugnet das Sinnliche oder läugnet das Übersinnliche, wenn Ihr könnt, wenn Ihr aber nicht könnt, wenn das eine so handgreiflich ist wie das andere, […] so zeigt mir eine Brücke, die vom Sinnlichen zum Übersinnlichen führt."

ARYS. Antigüedad: Religiones y Sociedades, 2020

Ritualisation is the most prominent form of religious action in Mediterranean antiquity and beyon... more Ritualisation is the most prominent form of religious action in Mediterranean antiquity and beyond. in order to communicate with the divine (and thus constituting its reality and shape) certain gestures, sequences of actions and words are differentiated from ordinary, pragmatic action, ritualised and even "sacralised"-by individuals as well as smaller or larger groups. Such patterns of action are repeated or taken as a blueprint for modification and innovation. They are the field for the establishment or questioning of religious authority, they are the means to temporarily or permanently mark out spaces as special. They sacralise not only spaces, but also times and natural or artificial material things, animals and people-and are drawing on such sacralised elements to determine, and elaborate on, the status of an action. Research on ancient rituals has taken many different directions. They have been seen as the continuation of pre-human patterns of action or inventions of cunning religious specialists. Fruitful analyses have inquired about the "meaning" of such rituals as described by and ascribed to different groups of participants or individual observers. others have stressed the aesthetics and patterns and the non-verbal logic of such actions. They have been seen as the dramatisation of traditional narratives or prescribed norms, shared values and conceptions of time of place. Plausibly, they could be analysed as incorporating and affirming social hierarchies or as the results of the individual framing of situations. This issue of Arys will follow a very different path, combining questions of individual performance and cultural pattern, social and material constellations. taking the instigation of recent theorising on ancient religion as "lived religion" 1 on the

Frauenwelten in der Antike, 2000

Als im Februar des Jahres 411 v. Chr. Aristophanes’ Komodie Lysistrate an den Lenaen in Athen auf... more Als im Februar des Jahres 411 v. Chr. Aristophanes’ Komodie Lysistrate an den Lenaen in Athen aufgefuhrt wurde, befand sich die Stadt bereits seit 20 Jahren im sogenannten Peloponnesischen Krieg mit Sparta.1 In dieser Situation wartete der Dichter mit einer utopischen Idee auf: Die Frauen der verfeindeten Stadte Sparta und Athen tun sich zusammen und beschliesen unter der Anleitung der klugen und mutigen Athenerin Lysistrate, die Manner auf beiden Seiten durch einen Sexstreik zum Friedensschluss zu zwingen. Dieser Strang der Komodienhandlung, der v. a. Anlass gibt zu den fur das Genre der Alten Komodie typischen obszonen Scherzen, und gleichzeitig zumindest auf den ersten Blick wie eine antike Vorwegnahme moderner pazifistischer »Frauen-Power« wirkt, spielte in der neuzeitlichen Rezeption des Stuckes die zentrale Rolle.2

SpaceTime of the Imperial, 2016

Publikationsansicht. 6499945. Geburt und Hochzeit des Kriegers :--Geschlechterdifferenz und Initi... more Publikationsansicht. 6499945. Geburt und Hochzeit des Kriegers :--Geschlechterdifferenz und Initiation in Mythos und Ritual der griechischen Polis /--Katharina Waldner. (2000). Waldner,Katharina. Abstract. Thesis (doctoral) - Universität, Zürich, 1997.. ...

Over the last thirty years, a sensory turn is observed that has affected Classics and its cognate... more Over the last thirty years, a sensory turn is observed that has affected Classics and its cognate disciplines. This online conference, hosted by the University of Erfurt, will provide an intellectual platform for a new in-depth approach on the application of the sensory methodology into the emotional experiences of the mystery cults. While mystery cults have been studied by diverse methodological frameworks, there has not been a dedicated conference, workshop, or volume on the application of sensory studies into the effect of the sensory experience of initiatory rituals (e.g., procession, singing of hymns, ecstatic dances, water-cleansing, sacrificial rituals) in eliciting various emotions in the ancient worshippers who participated in specific mystery cults. The term “Multi-Sensory Experience” serves as a guiding principle and thread that invites the modern researcher to consider and reflect on the multiple senses through which the ancient worshipper could experience a mystery cult. For the ancient Greek and Roman worshippers, just as it is for us, religion was a multi-sensory experience. This conference, therefore, aims to delve into certain aspects of the ancient mystery cults and investigate the emotional impact of these rituals through the new sensory methodology: how the basic somatic senses (e.g., sight, hearing, smell, taste and touch) of the ancient people affected their emotions as a result of their participation in the ancient mysteries? To receive the link to participate, please register by email at aikaterini-iliana.rassia@uni-erfurt.de.

This paper concentrates on the plethora of stories about Hippolytus’s gruesome end and his coming... more This paper concentrates on the plethora of stories about Hippolytus’s gruesome end and his coming back to life. I trace these stories through their many iterations from classical through Roman times, beginning with Euripides and moving on to the versions told by Pausanias, Virgil, and Ovid. Each telling of these tales provides a different way to think about the borders between life and death, as well as between gods, heroes, and mortals—and about politics, religion, and poetry. In relation to all these topics, the story about Hippolytus’s coming back to life was good to think with. For Euripides, Hippolytus provides an example of polis-related discourse in late fifth-century BCE Athens. In Hellenistic times, Hippolytus became attached to Italian mythology, probably already by Callimachus. Finally, the versions told by Virgil ( Aeneid ) and Ovid ( Fasti and Metamorphoses ) demonstrate sophisticated ways of dealing with the new phenomenon of apotheosis in Roman religion and its meanin...

Im Mittelpunkt des Bandes steht ein Text von Veit Rosenberger (1963–2016), der hier posthum erstm... more Im Mittelpunkt des Bandes steht ein Text von Veit Rosenberger (1963–2016), der hier posthum erstmals in deutscher Sprache veroffentlicht wird. Rosenberger untersucht darin die Polysemie der Nahrungsmittel in den vielfaltigen asketischen Praktiken spatantiker Monche und Einsiedler. Am Beispiel der eigenartigen Verknupfung von Wettkampf und Askese lotet Rosenberger die Handlungsspielraume und das Potential zu individueller, religioser agency aus. Die Autorinnen und Autoren greifen diesen Text in ihren Beitragen auf und unterziehen ihn einer Prufung aus verschiedenen Perspektiven. Roberto Alciati thematisiert die Eigenheiten des „asketischen Agons" im Spannungsfeld zwischen narzisstischem Perfektionismus und Streben nach religioser Selbstvollendung; Esther Eidinow fragt nach dem paradoxen Status weiblicher Askese; Jan N. Bremmer geht der Bedeutung des Weins in fruhen Praktiken der Eucharistie nach und Gregor Weber behandelt die Ambiguitat von Traumen und Visionen im spatantiken Mo...

Death and the individual are part of a still new and promising field of research in the ancient w... more Death and the individual are part of a still new and promising field of research in the ancient world. 11 international scholars in the fields of Ancient History, Archaeology, Egyptology, Patristics and History of Religions here explore some of the issues that have now come to the fore. The common concern is the interaction between discourses and practices relating to death, dying, the dead and their post-mortem existence, in the diverse and heterogeneous cultures of the ancient Mediterranean from Hellenistic to Roman Times. The volume is divided into three parts: "From Homer to Lucian – Poetics of the Afterlife", "Individual Elaborations in the Roman Empire" and "Making a Difference: Groups and their Claims". Der Tod und das Individuum sind ein immer noch neues und vielversprechendes Forschungsfeld in der Antike. Elf internationale Forscherinnen und Forscher aus den Bereichen der Agyptologie, Alten Geschichte, Archaologie, Kirchengeschichte und Religio...

Ancient mystery cults are viewed as a relatively uniform phenomenon not only by modern critics, b... more Ancient mystery cults are viewed as a relatively uniform phenomenon not only by modern critics, but by the ancients also. In antiquity, different terms have been used to describe these cults: mystēria, derived from the Attic festival of the Mysteria in Eleusis, attested since the 7 century BCE; but also teletaí (sg. teletē) and órgia, both of which had a much broader definition to begin with, which it is possible to render as mere ‘ritual’ or feast. Since both terms

Coming Back to Life: The Permeability of Past and Present, Mortality and Immortality, Death and Life in the Ancient Mediterranean. Edited by Frederick S. Tappenden and Carly Daniel-Hughes, with the assistance of Bradley N. Rice. Montreal, QC: McGill University Library, 2017.

The lines between death and life were neither fixed nor finite to the peoples of the ancient Medi... more The lines between death and life were neither fixed nor finite to the peoples of the ancient Mediterranean. For most, death was a passageway into a new and uncertain existence. The dead were not so much extinguished as understood to be elsewhere, and many perceived the deceased to continue to exercise agency among the living. Even for those more skeptical of an afterlife, notions of coming back to life provided frameworks in which to conceptualize the on-going social, political, and cultural influence of the past. This collection of essays examines how notions of coming back to life shape practices and ideals throughout the ancient Mediterranean. All contributors focus on the common theme of coming back to life as a discursive and descriptive space in which antique peoples construct, maintain, and negotiate the porous boundaries between past and present, mortality and immortality, death and life.

SpaceTime of the Imperial, 2016

Frauenwelten in der Antike, 2006

SpaceTime of the Imperial, 2016

ARYS. Antigüedad: Religiones y Sociedades, 2020

Frauenwelten in der Antike, 2000

SpaceTime of the Imperial, 2016

Desiring Martyrs Locating Martyrs in Space and Time, Introduction, 2021

Die Reihe "SpatioTemporality" zielt auf einen interdisziplinären Austausch über Praktiken und Kon... more Die Reihe "SpatioTemporality" zielt auf einen interdisziplinären Austausch über Praktiken und Konzepte aus der Doppelperspektive von Raum und Zeit. Dabei werden die Konstrukte Räumlichkeit und Zeitlichkeit und ihre unaufl ösliche Korrelation in historischen sowie aktuellen Zusammenhängen und hinsichtlich einschlägiger Theorien untersucht. Im Mittelpunkt steht die Bedeutung von RaumZeit im soziokulturell-lebensweltlichen Selbstverständnis der Menschen und in medialen Repräsentationen. U4 Text. El int magniet et quis estem. Et ullaces sintus. Fuga. Ipsam litam int ullestiati dolut rem enimodit ut etusci is susam iundicipitio con rae peroreprae nonsecte latem. To inihil modiatiis ut moles aboreperis dio iduci berum et ut mi, sumquia tescim landipsam il iusdae vitat.

Book, 2020

Community and individual experiences in the fields of art and religion are often experienced and ... more Community and individual experiences in the fields of art and religion are often experienced and described as "unspeakable", as immediate and simultaneous, as fluctuating and fleeting. They transcend the order of space and time - and yet are conditioned by the concrete ritual dimensions of the performances and performances and the sensual (aesthetic) experience. The interdisciplinary contributions in this volume are devoted to these experiences and their representations in various media such as dance, music and film, and ask in particular about transcultural dimensions. A central example is the interface between Germany and South Asia.

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The Christian faith traces its origins in an act of extreme violence. In the aftermath of the Jes... more The Christian faith traces its origins in an act of extreme violence. In the aftermath of the Jesus' execution, his followers were left to grapple with the implications of both the fact and the violent manner of his death. For some Christians, identification with the crucified Jesus meant a willingness to suffer violence, and even the active pursuit of death. Other Christians debated whether membership in the ekklesia prohibited them from fulfilling the grisly duties required of their occupations. While Christians in the first three centuries were more likely to find themselves on the receiving end of state-sanctioned violence, by the end of the fourth century, elite Christians were confronted by the dilemma of determining the conditions under which it might be legitimate to use state violence for their own ends. This research conference aims to examine how early Christian experiences as victims and perpetrators of violence contributed to the construction of Christian identity(ies) in the first four centuries of the Christian era, through the reign of Theodosius. We are especially interested in exploring the relationship between Christian discourses on violence and three particular facets of early Christian identity: a) conceptions of the self as an ethical agent; b) strategies for coping with the experience of traumatic violence, both individual and corporate; and c) strategies for legitimizing the perpetration of violent acts. Contributors will investigate the realities and imaginations of violence among early Christians, as well as their Pagan and Jewish contemporaries in the Greco-Roman world. Lectures will explore themes including martyrdom, persecution, and capital punishment, as well as those that extend the question to topics such as the extirpation of the passions, violence and war, trauma, and sacrifice.