John Scheid

Tron på en styrande, övergripande, himmelsk princip har följt människan genom historien. Mer än 80 procent av världens befolkning har idag en religiös tillhörighet och även i sekulära stater fortsätter religionen att spela en viktig roll. Det går inte att förstå politik och internationella relationer idag utan att inkludera religionen som en aspekt av det kulturella sammanhanget. Essäerna i denna antologi, som härrör från Engelsbergsseminariet 2014, spänner över en mångfald ämnen i dagens såväl som gårdagens samhällen. De utforskar religionen i relation till människans villkor och skildrar hur den manifesterar sig i individens egna upplevelser. För att förstå oss själva behöver vi också förstå religionen.

Dans ce trait , Plutarque examine, travers des perspectives anthropologiques et culturelles, des aspects fascinants de la vie et des institutions de la Rome antique. Le texte grec, tabli partir de tous les manuscrits conserv s, s'accompagne d'un appareil critique qui corrige de nombreuses erreurs des ditions ant rieures, ainsi que d'un autre apparat, tr s utile et complet, de loci paralleli. En outre, le caract re nigmatique de ces 113 questions sans contexte est expliqu comme repr sentant une promenade travers le centre de Rome, pendant laquelle les monuments rencontr s d clenchent des questions. In this treatise, Plutarch examines fascinating aspects of the life and institutions of ancient Rome through anthropological and cultural perspectives. The Greek text, established on the basis of all the surviving manuscripts, is accompanied by a critical apparatus that corrects numerous errors from earlier editions, as well as by a very useful and comprehensive apparatus of loci paralleli. Furthermore, the enigmatic nature of these 113 questions without context is explained as representing a walk through the center of Rome, during which the monuments encountered give rise to questions.

A unique re-interpretation of the city of ancient Rome and its empire, using the tools offered by the latest information technology and graphic design. Packed with cleverly designed graphics, charts and diagrams, Ancient Rome: Infographics uses data visualization to tell the epic tale of the city of Rome and its empire. Every aspect of the Roman world is explored, from the birth of the Republic to the imperial dynasties, from the political and legal system to Rome’s military might. Drawing on international sources, this complex history is made clear and comprehensible to modern readers, while offering the insights and rigour that historians demand. Original, accessible and fascinating, Ancient Rome: Infographics will delight history buffs, graphic design aficionados, and everyone seeking an overview of a civilization that shaped the world.

Packed with cleverly designed graphics, charts and diagrams, Ancient Rome: Infographics uses data visualization to tell the epic tale of the city of Rome and its empire. Every aspect of the Roman world is explored, from the birth of the Republic to the imperial dynasties, from the political and legal system to Rome’s military might. Drawing on international sources, this complex history is made clear and comprehensible to modern readers, while offering the insights and rigour that historians demand. Original, accessible and fascinating, Ancient Rome: Infographics will delight history buffs, graphic design aficionados, and everyone seeking an overview of a civilization that shaped the world.

Desde hace algunas d cadas, los historiadores de la creencia han insistido en que el concepto moderno de religi n es de factura relativamente reciente (siglo XVIII). De all , la necesidad de considerar la creencia como noci n clave para entender los modos de la espiritualidad premoderna. Se trata de una conceptualizaci n que enfatiza las distancias de naturaleza entre el concepto moderno de religi n (entendido como adhesi n individual a un conjunto de enunciados doctrinarios) y la creencia (concebida como un conjunto concreto de reglas pr cticas ligadas a procesos espec ficos de poder y conocimiento). Pensar la creencia como un creer, es decir, como una acci n, una praxis, ha permitido un abordaje m s apropiado para comprender los comportamientos p blicos y las modalidades rituales de los sujetos premodernos, que pueden ir m s all del plano que hoy llamamos religioso. Anclado en esta l nea interpretativa, el prop sito de este libro es el an lisis de las modalidades, las t cnicas y los dispositivos de la creencia desde la Antig edad romana a la primera Modernidad. La perspectiva de abordaje te rico hace que este libro se haya pensado en funci n de un lector multiforme: adem s de atender a historiadores del mundo premoderno, convoca tambi n a profesionales de otras disciplinas como la antropolog a, la sociolog a, el psicoan lisis o la epistemolog a, interpelados en su contemporaneidad por las cuestiones relativas a la creencia, sus modos de operaci n, sus marcos de producci n y su papel performativo en la generaci n de hechos sociales.

Roman religion has long presented a number of challenges to historians approaching the subject from a perspective framed by the three Abrahamic religions. The Romans had no sacred text that espoused its creed or offered a portrait of its foundational myth. They described relations with the divine using technical terms widely employed to describe relations with other humans. Indeed, there was not even a word in classical Latin that corresponds to the English word religion. In The Gods, the State, and the Individual, John Scheid confronts these and other challenges directly. If Roman religious practice has long been dismissed as a cynical or naïve system of borrowed structures unmarked by any true piety, Scheid contends that this is the result of a misplaced expectation that the basis of religion lies in an individual's personal and revelatory relationship with his or her god. He argues that when viewed in the light of secular history as opposed to Christian theology, Roman religion emerges as a legitimate phenomenon in which rituals, both public and private, enforced a sense of communal, civic, and state identity. Since the 1970s, Scheid has been one of the most influential figures reshaping scholarly understanding of ancient Roman religion. The Gods, the State, and the Individual presents a translation of Scheid's work that chronicles the development of his field-changing scholarship.

The fundamental gesture of weaving in The Craft of Zeus is the interlacing of warp and woof described by Plato in The Statesman—an interweaving signifying the union of opposites. From rituals symbolizing—even fabricating—the cohesion of society to those proposed by oracles as a means of propitiating fortune; from the erotic and marital significance of weaving and the woven robe to the use of weaving as a figure for language and the fabric of the text, this lively and lucid book defines the logic of one of the central concepts in Greek and Roman thought—a concept that has persisted, woof and warp crossing again and again, as the fabric of human history has unfolded.

Some time between 180 and 192 a column was erected in celebration of Marcus Aurelius' victories over the Marcomanni and the Sarmatians. These 15 essays focus on various aspects of the column, its construction, military, religious and ritual aspects, innovative elements, symbolism and deciphering the various gestures shown. Papers in French, English and German.