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Around 360 BC a certain Pasiteles was prosecuted for stealing sacred wax from the sanctuary of Epidauros. This curious episode raises many questions. What made the wax sacred? Was it an inherent quality? Or a label attached to the material because it was used in a sacred setting? This book investigates these and other questions, emphasizing the polyvalency of the Sacred in the world of ancient Greco-Roman religions. Contributions explore the concepts and vocabulary of the Sacred; its textual environments; its practitioners and sacred places and spaces. The enquiry ranges from the Greek archaic period to the Roman Empire, and includes analysis of literary, epigraphical and material sources.
Price: $160.00
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Series: Mnemosyne, Supplements
Publication Date:
07 January 2027
ISBN: 9789004778801
Format: Hardcover
Kim Beerden is a University Lecturer in the Department of Ancient History at Leiden University. She is working on the history of ancient mentalities, with a particular interest in Greco-Roman divinatory practices.
Jeremy McInerney teaches at the University of Pennsylvania. He has published on state formation in Archaic Greece, the role of cattle-breeding in Greek culture and the significance of hybrids and hybridity for the Greeks.
Irene Polinskaya is Professor of Ancient Greek History and Culture at King’s College London. Her research interests lie in Greek epigraphy, social and cultural history of Greece, local religious systems and religious vocabulary, and more recently, in human-environment interaction on the dry and thirsty islands of the Aegean sea.
Contributors are: Kim Beerden, Jeremy McInerney, Irene Polinskaya, Saskia Peels-Matthey, Andrej Petrovic, Ivana Petrovic, Eric M. Orlin Thibaud Lanfranchi, Manuel de Souza, Richard P. Martin, Grace M. Ledbetter, Radcliffe G. Edmonds, Françoise Van Haeperen, Catherine M. Keesling, Efstathia Dionysopoulou, Alex A. Antoniou, Celia E. Schultz, Kyle W. Mahoney, Beatriz Pañeda Murcia, Ineke Sluiter, Miguel John Versluys, Greta Hawes, Inger N.I. Kuin.
Jeremy McInerney teaches at the University of Pennsylvania. He has published on state formation in Archaic Greece, the role of cattle-breeding in Greek culture and the significance of hybrids and hybridity for the Greeks.
Irene Polinskaya is Professor of Ancient Greek History and Culture at King’s College London. Her research interests lie in Greek epigraphy, social and cultural history of Greece, local religious systems and religious vocabulary, and more recently, in human-environment interaction on the dry and thirsty islands of the Aegean sea.
Contributors are: Kim Beerden, Jeremy McInerney, Irene Polinskaya, Saskia Peels-Matthey, Andrej Petrovic, Ivana Petrovic, Eric M. Orlin Thibaud Lanfranchi, Manuel de Souza, Richard P. Martin, Grace M. Ledbetter, Radcliffe G. Edmonds, Françoise Van Haeperen, Catherine M. Keesling, Efstathia Dionysopoulou, Alex A. Antoniou, Celia E. Schultz, Kyle W. Mahoney, Beatriz Pañeda Murcia, Ineke Sluiter, Miguel John Versluys, Greta Hawes, Inger N.I. Kuin.