No. 23 (2025)

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Religious Mobility in the Ancient World

John North (1938-2025) & Henk S. Versnel (1936-2025). In memoriam

Published: 2025-12-19

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Postumus

Obituario Henk S. Versnel

Jaime Alvar Ezquerra, Elena Muñiz Grijalvo

13-18
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Monographic

Introduction

Antón Alvar Nuño, Pedro Giménez de Aragón Sierra

21-30
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With the Gods on His Back. Elagabalus and the Relocation of Effigies (S.H.A., Heliogab. 3-7)

Jaime Alvar Ezquerra

31-46
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The Journeys of the Theîos Anér, Apollonius of Tyana Religious, Cultural, and Identity Contacts

María José Hidalgo de la Vega

47-77
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A Prosopographical Research of Itinerant Religious People in the Late Antique Mediterranean Preliminary Results

Elena Gritti

79-100
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The κωμασία in Graeco-Roman Egypt A Religious, Historiographical and Semantical Analysis

Esperanza Macarena Ródenas Perea

101-132
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The bearers of the emperor. Movement and Sacrality in Imperial Processions

Elena Muñiz Grijalvo, Fernando Lozano Gómez

133-155
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Celtic cleruchs in Greece Some Case Studies

Alessio Ciarini

157-192
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Caracalla and the Immortal Gods

Alessandro Galimberti

193-204
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The Pantheon Across Generations Between Tradition and Religious Mobility A Case Study from Dacia Porolissensis

Irina Nemeti

205-229
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From Slave to Free. Apeleutheroi in the Sanctuary of Heracles at the Kynosarges in Athens

Miriam Valdés Guía

231-256
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Religious Mobility in the Cults of Southwestern Arkadia. Mount Lycaeum and Megalopolis

Vassilis Tsiolis

257-281
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Religious Mobility and the Visualization of Myth Mystery Cults, Festivals and Drómena as a Means of Religious Dissemination

Sotiria Dimopoulou

283-317
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On North African Cults in Roman Dacia

Sorin Nemeti

319-334
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Religious Mobility, Connection, and Transformation of Sacred Spaces in Late Antiquity The Case of Two Rural Sanctuaries in Gallaecia

Daniel Pérez de la Vega

335-367
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Dialogues on Archaeology and the History of Religions

New perspectives on Mediterranean religions in the first millennium BC

Bruno D'Andrea, Antonio Alvar Ezquerra, Sara Giardino

371-375
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Cult Spaces. Preliminary Thoughts on the Temple of Artemis at Amarynthos (Euboea, 8th-6th Centuries BCE)

Samuel Verdan, Tamara Saggini, Jérôme André, Olga Kyriazi, Thierry Theurillat

377-416
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New Archaeological and Bio-Archaeological Research in the Sanctuary of Tanit and Ba‘al Hammon in Carthage Preliminary Results of the Excavation and Analysis of the Contents of Urns Containing the Burned Remains of Infants

Henri Duday, Imed Ben Jerbania, Victoria Peña, Emilie Portat, Tarek Oueslati, Sandra Dal Col, Anaïs Du Fayet de la Tour, Kaouther Jendoubi, Nesrine Maddahi

417-469
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Qui Caput Supponere Fontibus Clusinis Audent. Rereading the Inscribed Bronze Votive Heads from Bagno Grande at San Casciano dei Bagni

Jacopo Tabolli

471-484
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Reviews

Blakely, Sandra & Daniels, Megan (eds.) (2023). Data Science, Human Science, and Ancient Gods. Conversations in Theory and Method. Columbus: Lockwood Press

Francesca Mazzilli

487-497
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Bonanno, Daniela (2023). Nemesis. Rappresentazioni e pratiche cultuali nella Grecia antica. Potsdamer Altertumswissenschaftliche Beiträge 85. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner

Gian Franco Chiai

498-503
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Buszard, Bradley (2023). Greek Translations of Roman Gods. Berlin & Boston: De Gruyter

Giorgos Mitropoulos

504-508
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Cerutti, Maria Vittoria (2023). Allo specchio dell’altro. Strategie di resilienza di “pagani” e gnostici tra II e IV secolo d.C. Roma: Cantagalli

Elena Sol Jiménez

509-513
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Edmonds, Radcliffe G., López-Ruiz, Carolina & Torallas Tovar, Sofía (eds.) (2024). Magic and Religion in the Ancient Mediterranean World. Studies in Honour of Christopher A. Faraone. New York: Routledge

Miriam Blanco Cesteros

514-520
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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

Noelia Cases Mora

521-524
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Ford, James C. (2024). Atheism at the Agora. A History of Unbelief in Ancient Greek Polytheism. London & New York: Routledge

Ramón Soneira-Martínez

525-536
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Fredriksen, Paula (2024). Ancient Christianities. The First Five Hundred Years. Princeton: Princeton University Press

Rebecca I. Denova

537-547
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Girard, Thibault (2023). Les representations de Mars Ultor sur les pierres gravées. Archaeopress Roman Archaeology 99. Oxford: Archaeopress

Hannah Cornwell

548-552
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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

Wolfgang Spickermann

553-562
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Johnston, Sarah Iles (2023). Gods and Mortals. Ancient Greek Myths for Modern Readers. Princeton: Princeton University Press

Carlos Sánchez Pérez

563-565
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Kubica, Olga (2023). Greco-Buddhist Relations in the Hellenistic Far East. Sources and Contexts. Abingdon & New York: Routledge

Omar Coloru

566-568
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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

Elena Chepel

569-572
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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

Aleksandra Kubiak-Schneider

573-577
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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.

Donatella Tronca

578-587
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Luther, Susanne, Hartog, Pieter B. & Wilde, Clare E. (eds.) (2023). Jewish, Christian and Muslim Travel Experiences. 3rd Century BCE – 8th Century CE. Berlin: De Gruyter

Elisa Uusimäki

588-591
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Mariotti, Giulio (2024). L’elezione, il dualismo, il tempo. Leggere 2 Tessalonicesi nel guidaismo del Secondo Tempio. Alessandria: Edizioni dell’Orso

Antonio Piñero

592-603
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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

Antón Alvar Nuño

604-609
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Mossa, Andrea & Urciuoli, Emiliano R. (2024). Gli esercizi di Paolo di Tarso. Istruzioni per farla finita col mondo. Pisa: Edizioni ETS

Giulio Mariotti

610-615
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North, John A. (ed.) (2023). The Religious History of the Roman Empire. The Republican Centuries. Oxford: Oxford University Press

Daniele Miano

616-619
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Parker, Robert (2023). Religion in Roman Phrygia. From Polytheism to Christianity. Oakland: University of California Press

Héctor Arroyo-Quirce

620-625
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Rask, Katie A. (2023). Personal Experience and Materiality in Ancient Greek Religion. Abingdon & New York: Routledge

Lidia González Estrada

626-634
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Shevchenko, Tetiana (2023). Greek Religion in Tauric Chersonesos. Oxford: Archaeopress

Vassilis Tsiolis

635-645
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Sitz, Anna M. (2023). Pagan Inscriptions, Christian Viewers. The Afterlives of Temples and Their Texts in the Late Antique Eastern Mediterranean. Cultures of Reading in the Ancient Mediterranean. Oxford & New York: Oxford University Press

Jitse H.F. Dijkstra

646-650
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Stefanakis, Manolis I., Mavroudis, Georgios, Seroglou, Fani K. & Achiola, Maria (eds.) (2023). Religion and Cult in the Dodecanese during the First Millennium BC. Proceedings of the International Archaeological Conference. Oxford: Archaeopress

Theodoros Mavrogiannis

651-676
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Urciuoli, Emiliano R. (2024). Citifying Jesus. The Making of an Urban Religion in the Roman Empire. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck

Nicola Denzey Lewis

677-683
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Vinzent, Markus (2024). Christ’s Torah. The Making of the New Testament in the Second Century. New York: Routledge

Christopher Zoccali

684-690
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Wilson, Andrew, Ray, Nick & Trentacoste, Angela (eds.) (2023). The Economy of Roman Religion. Oxford Studies on the Roman Economy. Oxford: Oxford University Press

Eric Orlin

691-695
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Woolf Greg, Bultrighini, Ilaria & Norman, Camilla (eds.) (2024). Sanctuaries and Experience. Knowledge, Practice and Space in the Ancient World. Potsdamer Altertumswissenschaftliche Beiträge, 83. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner

Ralph Haeussler

696-701
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