Mythos est une revue internationale, destinée aux étudiants et aux chercheurs, portant sur l’histoire des religions de la Méditerranée antique. La revue est un espace transdisciplinaire et comparatiste où se croisent les approches historiques, philologiques, archéologiques, anthropologiques ou sociologiques des religions anciennes, y compris dans leurs prolongements modernes et dans leur dimension historiographique et épistémologique. Ouverte à toutes les approches, elle promeut une étude historique et non confessionnelle des religions et publie des travaux originaux.
Inserito nella nuova collana fondata e diretta da Marina Congiu, Calogero Micciché e Simona Modeo e pubblicata dalle Edizioni Lussografica di Caltanissetta, esce il primo volume che contiene gli Atti del XIII Convegno di studi organizzato dalla sede locale di SiciliAntica e dedicato alla figura miti...
Ritual movement, i.e. the movement of individuals or groups on a more or less fixed route for religious reasons or purposes (e.g. processions), always played a major role in Roman religious life. Such kind of rituals could have a place-making function: through their continued and repeated performanc...
This paper starts with a preliminary reflection on the broader field of “mystery cults”, which are characterized by a ban on divulgation and the incommunicability of experience. The “mysteries” of Mithras present a further difficulty: their images, built within Roman contexts, lack the visual marker...
This paper aims to examine the dialogue between Juno and Jupiter in Aen. 12.791-842 in terms of a rite of evocatio. The reconciliation of Juno with her husband has been analyzed by D. Feeney in his classic 1984 article, in which it is argued that in this passage Virgil follows the Ennian tradition,...
Qual è il ruolo delle immagini nelle dinamiche religiose, e come occorre valutarne l’importanza? Creare l’immagine di una divinità o renderla visibile ha un impatto sulla prassi, sulla devozione religiosa e sulla più vasta riflessione che le accompagna e le sostiene; conferisce inoltre all’essere di...
Vergil’s Aeneid, written in the Augustan period, when Rome appeared at the height of its urban development and was widely regarded as the city par excellence, powerfully addresses the changes that the space of the city of Rome experienced over time. In the poem, different sites of the city appear mo...
Il progetto di raccogliere in un unico volume le religioni e i culti presenti a Roma nasce dall’affermazione di Elio Aristide, Orazioni, XIV, 200, che dichiara: «l’Vrbs sembra il laboratorio comune (κοινὸν ἐργαστήριον) della terra». L’oratore descrive Roma come il centro economico, politico e cultur...
Prodotto del programma di ricerca dal titolo Practicalities of Hellenistic Rulers Cult (PHRC) (Università di Padova – Université de Liège, 2015-2020), il volume curato da Stefano G. Caneva, con la collaborazione di Luca Lorenzon, raccoglie gli atti delle giornate di studio tenute presso l’Università...
Il titolo della monografia di M. Dell’Isola, L’ultima profezia. La crisi montanista nel cristianesimo antico, situa il contributo, come la studiosa stessa riconosce, “sulla scia di tutti i lavori che lo hanno preceduto” (p. 7), proponendo un’analisi del fenomeno montanista in prospettiva storica, le...
The history of ancient Rome has been a set topic in Brazilian high schools since the nineteenth century, with a strong emphasis on two related themes: the Roman Empire and the rise of Christianity. This paper discusses how the schoolbooks currently in use in Brazil put forward a cohesive narrative i...
Il volume raccoglie i contributi di una ricerca seminariale condotta da specialisti di filosofia antica, filologi e storici della religione, attorno al tema della definizione del ‘divino’ nei primi pensatori e della relazione che intercorre con la religione tradizionale. I contributi affrontano la r...
Drawing on a letter from Late Antiquity explaining the difficulties experienced by a performer who recently converted to Christianity, the article explores the religious, juridical, and literary perspectives required to read this kind of source. By analysing the Christian polemic against theatrical...
In the Roman Empire, Antioch, the metropolis of Syria Coele, stood out as a vibrant cultural centre and stage of many artistic, sports and religious events, including its own Olympic Games. The Kalends of January, the Calliopea and the Maiuma were special highlights, not to mention the Christian and...
This contribution starts with the description put forward in Moralee (2018) of the Capitoline temple as a sacred space. Basing its reading of the space on Cancik (1986), Edwards (1996) and Fitzgerald-Spentzou (2018), and their arguments about the importance of formation of these spaces from mythical...
In this article, I will examine the myth of the origin of rice (dhānyer janma) in the texts attributed to Rāmāi Paṇḍit, the first priest of the Bengali god Dharmarāj. The myth, which features a form of Śiva as a ploughing god (kr̥ṣak debatā), has long been considered a late interpolation following t...
This article analyses the ways in which portraits were associated with religious and sacred ideas and concepts in late antique Rome. Rather than straightforward, the identification of a visual representation of an individual as sacred was subject to discussion and controversy, as the definition of t...
La più recente monografia di Rosalind Thomas continua una linea di ricerca a cui la studiosa oxoniense aveva già dedicato due contributi pubblicati nel 2014 (‘Local history, Polis history and the politics of place’ in Parmeggiani (ed.), Between Thucydides and Polybius. The Golden Age of Greek Histor...
L’evocazione di spazi lontani abitati da popolazioni leggendarie è un motivo ricorrente nell’immaginario dei Greci antichi sin da Omero. Si tratta di popoli che a volte hanno avuto una reale presenza storica ma che, al di là di questo, hanno più spesso affascinato gli antichi per il loro valore para...
In Cicero’s work three interpretive modes concerning divine figures or different approaches to anthropomorphic statues may be identified. The first one views the statue as the objectification of the deity. The second one envisages a blending of the statue and the deity into an animated being. The th...
The paper presents the first part of a wider study on Herakles’ religious relevance both mythical traditions and documentary evidence concerning Greek cities of Magna Graecia. In this part some myths and material evidences will be investigated which show how in Magna Graecia, between the late 6th an...
From a longue durée perspective, the term yoga has been scholarly understood as a philosophical system or a religious phenomenon. Such an approach, however, does not take into account the uses of the word yóga in the early Vedic texts, mainly the R̥gveda, where this term is linked with the art of wa...
Il libro di Carmine Pisano si inserisce in una tradizione di studi sul mondo classico che si può ricondurre, in Italia, all’operato scientifico del Centro di Antropologia del Mondo Antico (AMA) dell’Università di Siena, fondato da Maurizio Bettini, della cui collana editoriale il volume di Pisano fa...
En Grèce ancienne ont pris place, dès l’époque géométrique et tout au long de l’Antiquité, parallèlement aux rituels en l’honneur des dieux, des cultes religieux voués à des humains. Ces cultes leur étaient adressés après leur mort, mais aussi, au moins à partir de la fin de l’époque classique, de l...
Starting from a passage by Ammianus Marcellinus (XIV 11,25), which reveals an overlapping between Adrasteia and Nemesis, the contribution aims at examining the reasons that led the two goddess to be indicated one as the heteronym of the other. Taking into considerations the sources from fifth-centur...