use of these myths in the context of death.  The group of Roman sarcophagi depicting the triumphal return of Dionysos from India is particularly useful for this purpose, because the Roman version of the [...] triumphal arches do serve as a type of public memorial to individual emperors, the triumphal imagery returns to an explicitly funerary use on the sarcophagi. The earliest from the surviving group of sarcophagi [...] changes affected the postmortem attribution of triumphal characteristics for ordinary mortals, we turn to the case of Drusus. Although as Augustus’ stepson, Drusus was a potential successor to Augustus

way by those whom they have been taken from» [6] . The expression peregrina sacra (in its turn a subgroup of the sacra publica ) applies then to a precise category of foreign gods, which Festus [...] considered a sacrilege to take prisoner the gods. In order to avoid suffering the same sort in their turn, the Romans kept scrupulously secret the name of their city’s tutelary deity [21] , such as [...] quoting the two formulas and adducing Sammonicus Serenus as his source, who would have got in his turn his information from a certain Furius [22] . The deity, si deus si dea , under whose protection

Philae demonstrate the contemporary presence there of people coming from Neapolis and Minturnae . This seems to suggest the presence of similar Egyptian sanctuaries even in their homeland. In [...] by another, although later, epigraphic source (a dedication to Isis dated to A.D. 15-30); in Minturnae by the presence of the ancient Italic temple of Marica, which was probably transformed in the [...] also Serapis, Harpocrate and Anubis) was constructed in the same years that saw, in the Capital, the return of the large masses of Italic negotiatores present in Delos, destroyed in 88 B.C. Even more

blutiger Tieropfer-Zeremonien. Bilder aus der Antike belegen Opferhandlungen mit derart schlichten und naturnah belassenen Altären insbesondere in Mysterienkulten ländlicher Heiligtümer. Möglicherweise wurde

Denkmalfachbehörde oberste Priorität zu. Hilfe für ein gefährdetes Denkmal Im Rahmen des turnusmäßigen gemeinsamen Monitorings der Kulturstiftung Sachsen-Anhalt und des Landesamts für Denkmalpflege

Attika. The first Thracians attested in Athens are the mercenaries accompanying Peisistratos on his return from Thrace to Athens in the 560s (Hdt I.64; Aristl. Ath. Pol. 15.2). From the 560s onwards Thracians [...] Dionysia and the Olympia surpass this number. The Bendideia and a fragmentary decree But let us return to the early organization of the Bendideia. We have a very fragmentary but also very informative [...] Bendideia stressed the unity of the polis community of which the Thracians had now become members. In turn, the separate Thracian contingent in the procession and the Thracian torch-race articulated them as

(that is the image of Theseus lifting up the stone and taking sword and sandals) as a very important turning point in the story. Moreover, as you can see in your handout, they use very similar expressions in [...] the whole polyvalence of the stone. Which then is the sense of this digression? Our attention is turned in fact only to a specific aspect of the lithobolia , in order to tackle a little question of [...] ( es ten teleten ), read them in the hearing of the initiated ( es epekoon ton myston ), and return them on the same night. Most Pheneatians, too, I know, take an oath by the Petroma in the most

Mittelalter hatte sich Franken mit seiner dichten Adelsgesellschaft zu einem Kerngebiet der Turniergesellschaften entwickelt. Der kurze Aufsatz von Barbara Schick führt mit der Vorstellung der Wandmalereien

control of a number of cults, two of which, as we will see, were directly related to Salamis. Turning to the cults themselves, it seems that the sixth century Salaminioi formed a genos with the specific [...] Salamis. Plutarch relates that Eurysakes and his brother Philaios gave Salamis to the Athenians. In return for the favor bestowed by the two brothers, the Athenians allowed them to settle in Attica. The account [...] attentive to, here, within the particular environment of this year’s Spring School. When Camillus returned to Rome, he brought with him the Veian cult-statue of Hera, which was given a new home in a newly

Burgen boten alles andere als Platz für ausschweifende Feste mit Hunderten von Gästen oder gar für Turniere, wie wir sie aus den Heldenepen kennen. Das Leben auf einer Ritterburg war beengt und eintönig, im