THE DIVINITIES OF THE WORLD OF THE AMPHITHEATER IN THE BALKAN-DANUBIAN PROVINCES: ARCHAEOLOGICAL, EPIGRAPHIC AND ICONOGRAPHIC EVIDENCES OF THE CULT OF NEMESIS
THE DIVINITIES OF THE WORLD OF THE AMPHITHEATER IN THE BALKAN-DANUBIAN PROVINCES: ARCHAEOLOGICAL, EPIGRAPHIC AND ICONOGRAPHIC EVIDENCES OF THE CULT OF NEMESIS
Author(s): Simone PastorSubject(s): Theatre, Dance, Performing Arts, Archaeology, Cultural history, Customs / Folklore, Ancient World, Cultural Anthropology / Ethnology, History of Religion
Published by: Akadémiai Kiadó
Keywords: Amphitheaters; gladiators; Nemesis; propaganda; Romanisation;
Summary/Abstract: The attestations of the cult of the Goddess Nemesis in the Balkan-Danubian provincies from the beginning of the 2nd century AD do not seem to respond to a cultural, private and spontaneous, need of the local population. These evidences presumably appear on one hand as the consequence of a political and ideological project based on the achievement and on legitimation of Trajan’s imperium in these social contexts, and on the other hand as a response, an “Akzeptanz”, an acceptance on behalf of the Balkan-Danubian elites of Trajan’s propaganda.
Journal: Acta Archaeologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae
- Issue Year: 62/2011
- Issue No: 1
- Page Range: 75-89
- Page Count: 15
- Language: English
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