Search for dissertations about: "Archaic religion"

Found 3 swedish dissertations containing the words Archaic religion.

  2. 1. In search of Dionysos. Reassessing a Dionysian context in early Rome

    Author : Carina Håkansson; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Dionysos; Dionysus; Roman religion; Archaic religion; paradigm shift; satyrs; liminality; iconography; ritual; cult; performance; Fufluns; Liber; Bacchus; oral tradition; antefix; small finds; intercontextual;

    Abstract : In the present study the possibility of an early appearance of the god Dionysos and his sphere in archaic Rome, in the decades around 500 BC, will be examined. In early scholarship, rooted in the 19th century, the phenomenon of Dionysian ecstatic rites, cults, and satyr-plays in Roman society was denied. READ MORE

  4. 2. Soul and Self in Vedic India

    Author : Per-Johan Norelius; Nils Billing; Jens Wilhelm Borgland; Joel Brereton; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Vedic religion; Brāhmaṇas; Upaniṣads; ritual interiorization; soul; personhood; Religionshistoria; History of Religions;

    Abstract : The study employs the analytical concept of “soul” as an umbrella term under which, it is argued, a variety of conceptions pertaining to life, personality, consciousness, and afterlife may be usefully grouped to-gether and analyzed. A survey is conducted of the various Vedic con-cepts which fall within this category, their development being traced from the earliest times to the close of the Vedic era. READ MORE

  5. 3. The sacrificial rituals of Greek hero-cults in the Archaic to the early Hellenistic periods

    Author : Gunnel Ekroth; Robert Parker; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Greek religion; hero-cults; Archiac; Classical; animal sacrifice; libation; theoxenia; blood; holocaust; altar; cult of the dead; cult of the gods; ritual dining; antikens kultur och samhällsliv; Classical Archaeology and Ancient History;

    Abstract : This study questions the traditional view of sacrifices in hero-cults during the Archaic to the early Hellenistic periods (c. 700-300 BC) as consisting mainly in holocausts, rituals focusing on the blood of the animal victim and the presentation of meals, and rarely in thysia sacrifices followed by collective dining. READ MORE