ARYS. Antigüedad: Religiones y Sociedades
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description: ARYS. Antiquity: Religions and Societies is a journal co-edited by the "Julio Caro Baroja" Institute of Historiography at the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid and the ARYS Association. It is dedicated to the study of the complex interactions between religious phenomena and the social structures and dynamics of the ancient world. Its approach is situated at the interdisciplinary crossroads of the history of religions, cultural anthropology, historical sociology, archaeology, and classical studies. The journal pays special attention to how religious practices, beliefs, and representations shape—and are shaped by—the social, political, and economic frameworks of ancient societies. The journal's primary aim is to analyse religion not as an isolated system but as a fundamental component of both public and private life. ARYS promotes research that sheds light on the relational, performative, and material dimensions of religion in ancient contexts of the circum-Mediterranean and Near Eastern worlds, as well as in regions historically connected to these, from the Bronze Age (ca. 3500 BCE) to the formation of Islam. The journal offers a rigorous and open space for exploring the multiple ways in which ancient religions were experienced, represented, and transformed in constant dialogue with the societies that practiced them. Each volume includes a monographic section with its own scholarly editor, a miscellaneous section, and a book review section. The journal ARYS. Antiquity: Religions and Societies is indexed in several prestigious repositories and included in recognised editorial evaluation systems, reflecting its established academic quality and international reach: Repositories in which it is indexed: ATLA RDB; CAPES (Brazil, ranked A3 in the field of History); Diamond Discovery Hub (DDH); DICE; DOAJ; Dulcinea; EBSCO Discovery Service; ERIH Plus; ESCI (Clarivate); Humanities Source Ultimate; Interclassica; L’Année Philologique; Latindex 2.0; MIAR; MLA; OpenAlex; REBIUN; …
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issn: 1575-166X
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items: Revisores nº 22 (2024)
items: New perspectives on Mediterranean religions in the first millennium BC
items: Obituario Henk S. Versnel
items: Cult Spaces. Preliminary Thoughts on the Temple of Artemis at Amarynthos (Euboea, 8th-6th Centuries BCE)
items: Qui Caput Supponere Fontibus Clusinis Audent. Rereading the Inscribed Bronze Votive Heads from Bagno Grande at San Casciano dei Bagni
items: The κωμασία in Graeco-Roman Egypt
items: https://e-revistas.uc3m.es/index.php/ARYS/en/article/view/9271
items: Ford, James C. (2024). Atheism at the Agora. A History of Unbelief in Ancient Greek Polytheism. London & New York: Routledge
items: Introduction
items: Celtic cleruchs in Greece
items: Religious Mobility, Connection, and Transformation of Sacred Spaces in Late Antiquity
items: Caracalla and the Immortal Gods
items: New Archaeological and Bio-Archaeological Research in the Sanctuary of Tanit and Ba‘al Hammon in Carthage
items: From Slave to Free. Apeleutheroi in the Sanctuary of Heracles at the Kynosarges in Athens
items: A Prosopographical Research of Itinerant Religious People in the Late Antique Mediterranean
items: Religious Mobility and the Visualization of Myth
items: The Journeys of the Theîos Anér, Apollonius of Tyana
items: Ferrer Albelda, Eduardo, Guija Rodríguez, Andrés Pablo & Sánchez Domínguez, Víctor (eds.) (2024). Apoteosis. De lo humano a lo divino. La figura del héroe. Sevilla: Editorial Universidad de Sevilla
items: Vinzent, Markus (2024). Christ’s Torah. The Making of the New Testament in the Second Century. New York: Routledge
items: Kuin, Inger N.I. (2023). Lucian’s Laughing Gods. Religion, Philosophy, and Popular Culture in the Roman East. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press
items: The bearers of the emperor. Movement and Sacrality in Imperial Processions
items: Girard, Thibault (2023). Les representations de Mars Ultor sur les pierres gravées. Archaeopress Roman Archaeology 99. Oxford: Archaeopress
items: Fredriksen, Paula (2024). Ancient Christianities. The First Five Hundred Years. Princeton: Princeton University Press
items: Mariotti, Giulio (2024). L’elezione, il dualismo, il tempo. Leggere 2 Tessalonicesi nel guidaismo del Secondo Tempio. Alessandria: Edizioni dell’Orso
items: https://e-revistas.uc3m.es/index.php/ARYS/en/article/view/9269
items: Martín Hernández, Raquel (ed.) (2022). The Iconography of Magic. Images of Power and the Power of Images in Ancient and Late Antique Magic. Lovaina: Peeters
items: The Pantheon Across Generations Between Tradition and Religious Mobility
items: Leach, Nathan, Smith, Daniel Charles, Keddie, Teddy (eds.) (2023). Revelation and Material Religion in the Roman East. Essays in Honor of Steven J. Friesen. Abingdon & New York: Routledge
items: Urciuoli, Emiliano R. (2024). Citifying Jesus. The Making of an Urban Religion in the Roman Empire. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck
items: Shevchenko, Tetiana (2023). Greek Religion in Tauric Chersonesos. Oxford: Archaeopress

Revisores nº 22 (2024)
type: item
description: Lista de revisores del número 22 (2024)
subject: Reviewers
  topic: section
creator: Arysadmin
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Arysadmin https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
date: 2026-01-30
publication date: 2026-01-30
doi: 10.20318/arys.2025.10175

New perspectives on Mediterranean religions in the first millennium BC
type: item
description: Introduction to the dossier
subject: Dialogues on Archaeology and the History of Religions
  topic: section
creator: Bruno D'Andrea
creator: Antonio Alvar Ezquerra
creator: Sara Giardino
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Bruno D'Andrea, Antonio Alvar Ezquerra, Sara Giardino https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
date: 2025-12-19
publication date: 2025-12-19
starting page: 371
ending page: 375
doi: 10.20318/arys.2025.9653

Obituario Henk S. Versnel
type: item
subject: Postumus
  topic: section
creator: Jaime Alvar Ezquerra
creator: Elena Muñiz Grijalvo
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Jaime Alvar Ezquerra, Elena Muñiz Grijalvo https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
date: 2025-12-19
publication date: 2025-12-19
starting page: 13
ending page: 18
doi: 10.20318/arys.2025.9654

Cult Spaces. Preliminary Thoughts on the Temple of Artemis at Amarynthos (Euboea, 8th-6th Centuries BCE)
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description: The Sanctuary of Artemis Amarysia at Amarynthos was the most prominent extra-urban sanctuary of the ancient city of Eretria, on the island of Euboea. The precise location of the site has only recently been identified, and it has since been the focus of extensive excavations, with particular attention given in recent years to the temple area. A series of edifices were constructed there atop one another over a long period spanning from the end of the Bronze Age to the end of the Archaic period. What appears to be the first temple was erected at the end of the 8th century BCE and remained in use for about two centuries. This monumental building was divided into three rooms, each housing one or more fireplaces/altars. The article offers some preliminary thoughts on these specific architectural layout and associated facilities, which offer insights into the activities that took place inside the temple. While substantial evidence for animal sacrifice has been uncovered, it is not yet clear whether the fireplaces/altars were used for successive stages of the same sacrifice, or for distinct rituals performed on separate occasions. Furthermore, the question of the function of the rear room – possibly an adyton – is also discussed. The 8th-century temple at Amarynthos provides a valuable case study for understanding the organisation of sacred space and ritual practices at a time when religious architecture was developing in Greece.
subject: Dialogues on Archaeology and the History of Religions
  topic: section
subject: Archaic Greece
  topic: keywords
subject: Euboea
  topic: keywords
subject: Amarynthos
  topic: keywords
subject: Temple
  topic: keywords
subject: Cultic Space
  topic: keywords
subject: Ritual Practices
  topic: keywords
subject: Sacrifices
  topic: keywords
subject: Altar
  topic: keywords
subject: Adyton
  topic: keywords
creator: Samuel Verdan
creator: Tamara Saggini
creator: Jérôme André
creator: Olga Kyriazi
creator: Thierry Theurillat
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Samuel Verdan, Tamara v, Jérôme André https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
date: 2025-12-19
publication date: 2025-12-19
starting page: 377
ending page: 416
doi: 10.20318/arys.2025.9250

Qui Caput Supponere Fontibus Clusinis Audent. Rereading the Inscribed Bronze Votive Heads from Bagno Grande at San Casciano dei Bagni
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description: This short paper focuses on the dedication of bronze votive heads inside the sacred deposit discovered at Bagno Grande in San Casciano dei Bagni (Tuscani, Italy), in the ancient territory of the city-state of Cleusi/Clusium. Despite the fact that offering ex votos in the form of heads was extremely common in ancient Italy (especially between the 4th and the 1st centuries BCE), the stratified bronze heads inside the sacred thermo-mineral pool of Bagno Grande cannot be merely considered anatomical votives. Exceptional inscriptions on the neck of three heads, in Etruscan and in Latin, all referred to the Hot Spring. It is certainly not by chance that the heads were deposited, at the end of their cultural biography, inside the hot spring of Bagno Grande. The ritual of depositing bronze heads under the hot water of the Spring, in the form of dedications, indirectly echoed common medical and religious practices, thus confirming the importance of analysing the votive archaeological contexts among thermo-mineral springs.
subject: Dialogues on Archaeology and the History of Religions
  topic: section
subject: San Casciano dei Bagni
  topic: keywords
subject: Bagno Grande
  topic: keywords
subject: Thermo-Mineral Waters
  topic: keywords
subject: Bronze Ex-votos
  topic: keywords
subject: Bronze Votive Heads
  topic: keywords
subject: Etruscans and Romans
  topic: keywords
creator: Jacopo Tabolli
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Jacopo Tabolli https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
date: 2025-12-19
publication date: 2025-12-19
starting page: 471
ending page: 484
doi: 10.20318/arys.2025.9246

The κωμασία in Graeco-Roman Egypt
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description: Kωμασία (“procession”) and its derivatives (such as κωμαστής, “one who carries images”) are words that appear in an entirely new way in Graeco-Roman Egypt. However, even if the κωμασία is related to processions, many other Greek words referring to the processional rite are also attested in Egypt, such as πομπή, πομπαγωγία ο ἐξοδεία, which is why there is still a debate about the specific meaning of κωμασία. Some authors claim that it was a ceremony held on the adventus or arrival of an important individual, whereas others believe that it was a procession where images of the gods were carried. Finally, other scholars emphasize its oracular aspect. From all of these definitions, I will focus on the κωμασία as a procession where the images of the gods were carried. The mobility of the statues of the gods in Egypt, around which some of its most important religious festivals were articulated (such as the Opet Festival, the Beautiful Feast of the Valley, among others), make us ponder about the originality of the term κωμασία and its derivatives. To try to clarify its meaning, in this paper I will analyze several aspects of the κωμασία and its derivatives: their etymology, their contextualization within the general context of processions in Egypt, the debate on its meaning as well as their diachronic evolution, where both Egyptian tradition and the progressive adoption of Graeco-Roman traits related to the cult of the gods and the rulers may have intervened.
subject: Monographic
  topic: section
subject: komasía
  topic: keywords
subject: komastes
  topic: keywords
subject: procession
  topic: keywords
subject: Graeco-Roman Egypt
  topic: keywords
subject: imperial cult
  topic: keywords
creator: Esperanza Macarena Ródenas Perea
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Esperanza Macarena Ródenas Perea https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
date: 2025-12-19
publication date: 2025-12-19
starting page: 101
ending page: 132
doi: 10.20318/arys.2025.8857

https://e-revistas.uc3m.es/index.php/ARYS/en/article/view/9271
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title: Lieber, Laura S. (2023). Staging the Sacred. Theatricality and Performance in Late Ancient Liturgical Poetry. Oxford: Oxford University Press / Friesen, Courtney (2024). Acting Gods, Playing Heroes, and the Interaction between Judaism, Christianity, and Greek Drama in the Early Common Era. London & New York: Routledge.
subject: Reviews
  topic: section
creator: Donatella Tronca
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Donatella Tronca https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
date: 2025-12-19
publication date: 2025-12-19
starting page: 578
ending page: 587
doi: 10.20318/arys.2025.9271

Ford, James C. (2024). Atheism at the Agora. A History of Unbelief in Ancient Greek Polytheism. London & New York: Routledge
type: item
subject: Reviews
  topic: section
creator: Ramón Soneira-Martínez
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Ramón Soneira-Martínez https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
date: 2025-12-19
publication date: 2025-12-19
starting page: 525
ending page: 536
doi: 10.20318/arys.2025.9270

Introduction
type: item
description: Monographic introduction
subject: Monographic
  topic: section
creator: Antón Alvar Nuño
creator: Pedro Giménez de Aragón Sierra
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Antón Alvar Nuño, Pedro Giménez de Aragón Sierra https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
date: 2025-12-19
publication date: 2025-12-19
starting page: 21
ending page: 30
doi: 10.20318/arys.2025.9652

Celtic cleruchs in Greece
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description: The contacts between the Celts and the Greek world during the Hellenistic were multifaceted: beyond sporadic invasions and raids, these populations more often traded and collaborated peacefully with the Greek-Macedonian states, sometimes even managing to integrate into their society. For instance, many Gallic mercenaries obtained grants of land to settle on at the end of their careers. While there is evidence of these military colonists in the territories of the Eastern Hellenistic kingdoms, the same cannot be said for Antigonid Macedonia, where evidence is scarce. This study aims to outline three possible cases in which Gallic mercenaries may have been settled as cleruchs by Macedonian rulers in Greek territory.
subject: Monographic
  topic: section
subject: Celts
  topic: keywords
subject: Mercenaries
  topic: keywords
subject: Cohabitation
  topic: keywords
subject: Antigonids
  topic: keywords
subject: Hellenistic Religion
  topic: keywords
creator: Alessio Ciarini
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Alessio Ciarini https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
date: 2025-12-19
publication date: 2025-12-19
starting page: 157
ending page: 192
doi: 10.20318/arys.2025.8846

Religious Mobility, Connection, and Transformation of Sacred Spaces in Late Antiquity
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description: This work is based on research conducted through the RHITA project, led by the DINORAMA group at the University of Malaga. In this project, various analyses of literary, archaeological, and epigraphic sources regarding rural worship spaces in Hispania from the 3rd to the 8th centuries were carried out. The quantitative and qualitative analysis determined the evolution of numerous sanctuaries and their adaptation to social and environmental needs. To illustrate these findings, two examples from Late Antique Gallaecia will be examined: Igrexa Vella de Santa Comba de Louro and Adro Vello. The aim of this analysis is to study the interrelationship of these sacred spaces with surrounding habitational or religious areas, population density, transformation and reuse of ancient structures into worship centers, as well as the foundational character and the role played by various social actors in these places. Despite the inherent difficulty of this type of analysis, due to the scarcity of data and the network theory approach, this research seeks to fill historical-archaeological gaps and determine the aspects in these two worship spaces.
subject: Monographic
  topic: section
subject: Connection and Networks
  topic: keywords
subject: Gallaecia
  topic: keywords
subject: Late Antiquity
  topic: keywords
subject: Places of Worship
  topic: keywords
subject: Private and Ecclesiastical Foundation
  topic: keywords
subject: Rural Hispania
  topic: keywords
creator: Daniel Pérez de la Vega
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Daniel Pérez de la Vega https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
date: 2025-12-19
publication date: 2025-12-19
starting page: 335
ending page: 367
doi: 10.20318/arys.2025.8755

Caracalla and the Immortal Gods
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description: The Constitutio Antoniniana, the Temple to the Severans at Lepcis Magna, the cult of the god Luno at Carrhae and the Temple of Faustina on the slopes of Taurus are four significant moments of Caracalla’s religious policy and highlight the interreligious character of his choices.
subject: Monographic
  topic: section
subject: Caracalla
  topic: keywords
subject: Carrhae
  topic: keywords
subject: Constitutio Antoniana
  topic: keywords
subject: Lepcis Magna
  topic: keywords
subject: Religious Policy
  topic: keywords
subject: Taurus
  topic: keywords
creator: Alessandro Galimberti
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Alessandro Galimberti https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
date: 2025-12-19
publication date: 2025-12-19
starting page: 193
ending page: 204
doi: 10.20318/arys.2025.9212

New Archaeological and Bio-Archaeological Research in the Sanctuary of Tanit and Ba‘al Hammon in Carthage
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description: New excavations conducted at the Tophet of Carthage in 2017 and 2018, and again in 2023, led to the discovery of several hundred urns. The precision of the stratigraphic observations, along with the relatively limited extent of later disturbances, allows for accurate dating. The recorded observations concern not only the relative positioning of the urns but also their arrangement within the pits and the surface conditions from which they were excavated. These circumstances provided an exceptional opportunity to study a significant corpus using the most current methods of archaeothanatology, applied to secondary cremation deposits, particularly concerning young children. This article presents a first assessment of two years of prior research work and six additional campaigns, which took the form of intensive training sessions. Innovative information has been obtained regarding the presence of remains from multiple individuals within the same urn, the cremation rituals, the partial direct clearing of funeral pyre residues, and the methods of depositing burned bones, both human and animal, into the urns.
subject: Dialogues on Archaeology and the History of Religions
  topic: section
subject: Sanctuary
  topic: keywords
subject: Tanit
  topic: keywords
subject: Ba'l Hammon
  topic: keywords
subject: Carthage
  topic: keywords
subject: Tophet
  topic: keywords
subject: Archaeothanatology
  topic: keywords
subject: Cremation of young children
  topic: keywords
creator: Henri Duday
creator: Imed Ben Jerbania
creator: Victoria Peña
creator: Emilie Portat
creator: Tarek Oueslati
creator: Sandra Dal Col
creator: Anaïs Du Fayet de la Tour
creator: Kaouther Jendoubi
creator: Nesrine Maddahi
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Henri Duday https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
date: 2025-12-19
publication date: 2025-12-19
starting page: 417
ending page: 469
doi: 10.20318/arys.2025.9211

From Slave to Free. Apeleutheroi in the Sanctuary of Heracles at the Kynosarges in Athens
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description: In these pages we explore the role of freedmen and bastards in the sanctuary of Heracles, nothos par excellence, but also characterised as doulos, in the Kynosarges of Athens. We are exploring the possibility that this sanctuary was a place of manumission, and specifically, of the passage to the "complete liberation" of the apeleutheroi (thus becoming exeleutheroi) through private trials (dikai apostasiou), presided over by the polemarch. These processes would be particularly relevant in the context of the Peloponnesian War, a time of need for military troops, which would be reflected in Aristophanes' comedy of the Frogs. In it, Dionysus disguised as Herakles descends to Hades after consulting the hero in his sanctuary at Kynosarges, in a play that recalls the liberation of slaves in the Arginusas, and where changes of identity take place between Herakles and Dionysus and the slave and the master.
subject: Monographic
  topic: section
subject: Manumission
  topic: keywords
subject: Herakles
  topic: keywords
subject: Peloponnesian War
  topic: keywords
subject: Exeleutheroi
  topic: keywords
subject: Dike apostasiou
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creator: Miriam Valdés Guía
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Miriam Valdés Guía https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
date: 2025-12-19
publication date: 2025-12-19
starting page: 231
ending page: 256
doi: 10.20318/arys.2025.8189

A Prosopographical Research of Itinerant Religious People in the Late Antique Mediterranean
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description: Already in Antiquity, but even more so in Late Antiquity, there was an intense phase of mobility and transformation of societies; by focusing on a good number of prosopographical data, it is possible to illustrate, at least partially, the historical evolutionary process of the Mediterranean area itself in its religious context. Between the 4th and 6th centuries CE, the ecclesiastical component (pilgrimages and itinerant sanctity) predominates in the Mediterranean. In most cases, religious people travelled because they were involved in embassies, which involved long and arduous journeys between the most important political and religious power places in the empire (in primis sedes regiae). Some of them aspired to advance their careers, others only wanted to reach loca sancta out of devotion and to meet prominent personalities of the Mediterranean religious scene (think of the attraction of personalities such as Bishop Basil in Caesarea Cappadocia or Jerome in Bethlehem). The movements are also fuelled by the circulation of relics, which received a particular impetus from the second half of the 4th century onwards, and if not pilgrimages, the migrations of saints and saintly figures are quite frequent; hagiographies often include narratives of sporadic journeys by sea and land. My paper will focus on a few representative cases of a larger prosopographical study that has not yet been published, to investigate above all the purposes of religious mobility, the categories of individuals most involved (considering also the female component), the means used for the journeys, the most travelled itineraries and thus the calendar and organisation established for undertaking journeys, missions or the like. Some case studies are presented below: Germanus presbyter; Abraham abbas; Iulia Eustochio y Rusticiana; Iovinianus monachus; Iohannes defensor; Bassus presbyter.
subject: Monographic
  topic: section
subject: Religious Mobility
  topic: keywords
subject: Diplomacy
  topic: keywords
subject: Letters
  topic: keywords
subject: Evergetism
  topic: keywords
creator: Elena Gritti
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Elena Gritti https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
date: 2025-12-19
publication date: 2025-12-19
starting page: 79
ending page: 100
doi: 10.20318/arys.2025.9222

Religious Mobility and the Visualization of Myth
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description: Religious mobility in the ancient world was a multifaceted and complex phenomenon. It involved the physical movement of people to religious regions for the purpose of sacrifice, initiation, or participation in rituals to venerate the deity being worshipped, as well as the transfer of a shared religious experience from one cult to another. This study aims to provide another perspective on the topic. Festivals and rituals were common in various cults of the ancient Greek world, providing a means to share ideas and religious experiences. The visualization of myths, through various symbols, sacrificial objects, and drómena, intensified the religious experience. The impact of symbols on sensation and how objects conveyed messages were important considerations. This article raises significant questions about whether religious mobility is substantial or symbolic. It explores the impact of space and symbols on sensation and the use of objects as a means of conveying messages.
subject: Monographic
  topic: section
subject: Religious mobility
  topic: keywords
subject: Myth
  topic: keywords
subject: Symbols
  topic: keywords
subject: Cult space
  topic: keywords
subject: Kabeirian Mysteria
  topic: keywords
subject: Lykosoura
  topic: keywords
subject: Mount Lykaion
  topic: keywords
creator: Sotiria Dimopoulou
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Sotiria Dimopoulou https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
date: 2025-12-19
publication date: 2025-12-19
starting page: 283
ending page: 317
doi: 10.20318/arys.2025.9209

The Journeys of the Theîos Anér, Apollonius of Tyana
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description: This paper focuses on the analysis of the travels to exotic regions made byApollonius of Tyana and narrated in the fictionalized biography of this character, written by Philostratus of Lemnos between 217 and 220 AD. In this research, we are notso much interested in empirically documenting the veracity of such journeys as in theirexpression and meaning in the symbolic-religious universe of the Roman Empire.
subject: Monographic
  topic: section
subject: Filostratus of Lemnos
  topic: keywords
subject: Apollonius of Tyana
  topic: keywords
subject: Travels
  topic: keywords
subject: Religious and Cultural Contacts
  topic: keywords
creator: María José Hidalgo de la Vega
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 María José Hidalgo de la Vega https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
date: 2025-12-19
publication date: 2025-12-19
starting page: 47
ending page: 77
doi: 10.20318/arys.2025.9224

Ferrer Albelda, Eduardo, Guija Rodríguez, Andrés Pablo & Sánchez Domínguez, Víctor (eds.) (2024). Apoteosis. De lo humano a lo divino. La figura del héroe. Sevilla: Editorial Universidad de Sevilla
type: item
subject: Reviews
  topic: section
creator: Noelia Cases Mora
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Noelia Cases Mora https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
date: 2025-12-19
publication date: 2025-12-19
starting page: 521
ending page: 524
doi: 10.20318/arys.2025.9251

Vinzent, Markus (2024). Christ’s Torah. The Making of the New Testament in the Second Century. New York: Routledge
type: item
subject: Reviews
  topic: section
creator: Christopher Zoccali
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Christopher Zoccali https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
date: 2025-12-19
publication date: 2025-12-19
starting page: 684
ending page: 690
doi: 10.20318/arys.2025.9252

Kuin, Inger N.I. (2023). Lucian’s Laughing Gods. Religion, Philosophy, and Popular Culture in the Roman East. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press
type: item
subject: Reviews
  topic: section
creator: Elena Chepel
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Elena Chepel https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
date: 2025-12-19
publication date: 2025-12-19
starting page: 569
ending page: 572
doi: 10.20318/arys.2025.9253

The bearers of the emperor. Movement and Sacrality in Imperial Processions
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description: The object of analysis in this work are the "imperial processions," that is, the ritual parades in which, among other things, images of the reigning emperor and other members of the imperial household, both living and deceased, were displayed. Our purpose is to contribute to clarifying what the procession, and more specifically the movement of the statues of the emperors, contributed to the ideological construction of the ruler's power. This article will particularly analyze the role of the "emperor’s bearers" (sebastophoroi), a new position identified in some cities of the Empire, in shaping the perception of imperial power. The movement of the statues or portraits of the emperors helped to cement the sacredness of the ruler but also, at the same time, reinforced the closeness and active intervention of the emperor in the governance of the cities of the empire. In our opinion, the figure of the sebastophoros was decisive within this process.
subject: Monographic
  topic: section
subject: Images of the Emperors
  topic: keywords
subject: Imperial Cult
  topic: keywords
subject: Movement
  topic: keywords
subject: Processions
  topic: keywords
subject: Roman Empire
  topic: keywords
subject: Sebastophoroi
  topic: keywords
creator: Elena Muñiz Grijalvo
creator: Fernando Lozano Gómez
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Fernando Lozano Gómez, Elena Muñiz Grijalvo https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
date: 2025-12-19
publication date: 2025-12-19
starting page: 133
ending page: 155
doi: 10.20318/arys.2025.9242

Girard, Thibault (2023). Les representations de Mars Ultor sur les pierres gravées. Archaeopress Roman Archaeology 99. Oxford: Archaeopress
type: item
subject: Reviews
  topic: section
creator: Hannah Cornwell
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Hannah Cornwell https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
date: 2025-12-19
publication date: 2025-12-19
starting page: 548
ending page: 552
doi: 10.20318/arys.2025.9256

Fredriksen, Paula (2024). Ancient Christianities. The First Five Hundred Years. Princeton: Princeton University Press
type: item
subject: Reviews
  topic: section
creator: Rebecca I. Denova
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Rebecca I. Denova https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
date: 2025-12-19
publication date: 2025-12-19
starting page: 537
ending page: 547
doi: 10.20318/arys.2025.9255

Mariotti, Giulio (2024). L’elezione, il dualismo, il tempo. Leggere 2 Tessalonicesi nel guidaismo del Secondo Tempio. Alessandria: Edizioni dell’Orso
type: item
subject: Reviews
  topic: section
creator: Antonio Piñero
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Antonio Piñero https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
date: 2025-12-19
publication date: 2025-12-19
starting page: 592
ending page: 603
doi: 10.20318/arys.2025.9257

https://e-revistas.uc3m.es/index.php/ARYS/en/article/view/9269
type: item
title: Haeussler, Ralph, King, Anthony, Marco Simón, Francisco & Schörner, Günther (eds.) (2023). Religious Individualisation. Archaeological, Iconographic and Epigraphic Case Studies from the Roman World. Oxford: Oxbow Books
subject: Reviews
  topic: section
creator: Wolfgang Spickermann
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Wolfgang Spickermann https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
date: 2025-12-19
publication date: 2025-12-19
starting page: 553
ending page: 562
doi: 10.20318/arys.2025.9269

Martín Hernández, Raquel (ed.) (2022). The Iconography of Magic. Images of Power and the Power of Images in Ancient and Late Antique Magic. Lovaina: Peeters
type: item
subject: Reviews
  topic: section
creator: Antón Alvar Nuño
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Antón Alvar Nuño https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
date: 2025-12-19
publication date: 2025-12-19
starting page: 604
ending page: 609
doi: 10.20318/arys.2025.9279

The Pantheon Across Generations Between Tradition and Religious Mobility
type: item
description: The aim of this paper is to analyse the religious pantheon of a family in the province of Dacia. In the villa rustica at Ciumăfaia, the owner - Aelius Iulius, veteranus ex centurione - erected six votive altars dedicated exclusively to Greco-Roman deities. Another altar in the same place was dedicated by Publius Aelius Maximus, son of the veteran Aelius Iulius, to a Germanic deity worshipped by the soldiers of the troops stationed in Germania Inferior or recruited in the area. This is a family with different religious preferences. While the father preferred the classical pantheon, the son's votive offerings differed from the family tradition, leading to the assumption that the familiarisation with the Germanic deities took place while he was performing militia equestris somewhere on the Rhine. The diversity of the family's religious pantheon opens up a discussion on the individual destiny of the dedicators in relation to the gods worshipped, more specifically the "inherited" and "borrowed" gods, in an attempt to define, from the particular to the general, some specific aspects of provincial religion.
subject: Monographic
  topic: section
subject: Ciumăfaia
  topic: keywords
subject: Roman Dacia
  topic: keywords
subject: Roman Religion
  topic: keywords
subject: Villa
  topic: keywords
creator: Irina Nemeti
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Irina Nemeti https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
date: 2025-12-19
publication date: 2025-12-19
starting page: 205
ending page: 229
doi: 10.20318/arys.2025.9243

Leach, Nathan, Smith, Daniel Charles, Keddie, Teddy (eds.) (2023). Revelation and Material Religion in the Roman East. Essays in Honor of Steven J. Friesen. Abingdon & New York: Routledge
type: item
subject: Reviews
  topic: section
creator: Aleksandra Kubiak-Schneider
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Aleksandra Kubiak-Schneider https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
date: 2025-12-19
publication date: 2025-12-19
starting page: 573
ending page: 577
doi: 10.20318/arys.2025.9263

Urciuoli, Emiliano R. (2024). Citifying Jesus. The Making of an Urban Religion in the Roman Empire. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck
type: item
subject: Reviews
  topic: section
creator: Nicola Denzey Lewis
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Nicola Denzey Lewis https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
date: 2025-12-19
publication date: 2025-12-19
starting page: 677
ending page: 683
doi: 10.20318/arys.2025.9300

Shevchenko, Tetiana (2023). Greek Religion in Tauric Chersonesos. Oxford: Archaeopress
type: item
subject: Reviews
  topic: section
creator: Vassilis Tsiolis
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Vassilis Tsiolis https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
date: 2025-12-19
publication date: 2025-12-19
starting page: 635
ending page: 645
doi: 10.20318/arys.2025.9262