Appropriation and Religion in the Greek and Roman Worlds

Andreas Bendlin is Associate Professor of Classics at the University of Toronto. One research focus is religion in the Roman Mediterranean, from the city of Rome and Italy to the imperial Greek East, and to its Nachleben in the modern world. His publications include a new translation with introduction and notes of Cicero's On Laws (2025). Jitse H. F. Dijkstra is Professor of Classics at the University of Ottawa. His research centres on the process of religious transformation in Late Antiquity, in particular in its Egyptian context. He is the author/editor of numerous studies on the topic, including the volume Religious Violence in Antiquity: From Classical Athens to Late Antiquity (2020)

• 1. General introduction Andreas Bendlin and Jitse H.F. Dijkstra; 2. Appropriation revisited: the potentials and challenges of a critical concept of historical research Marian Füssel; 3. Appropriating Orphism in fifth-century Athens Jan N. Bremmer; 4. Greek Rome's Homer: Ancient sacrifice in Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Roman Antiquities 7.70–72 Renaud Gagné; 5. Gods of the household and the practice of everyday life in Ancient Rome John Bodel; 6. Clodius, a god alive: the Bona Dea scandal reconsidered Maik Patzelt; 7. The appropriation of Roman culture by the rabbis: some case studies Katell Berthelot; 8. Paideia as appropriation: eading, interpretation and canonisation in imperial Greece and early Christianity Kenneth W. Yu; 9. Speaking from ruins: theology in the first six centuries CE Peter van Nuffelen; 10. Hermes in Gaul: the appropriation of local culture Elizabeth DePalma Digeser; 11. Epistolary tactics of appropriation in Julian's 'New Paganism' Bronwen Neil; 12. Masculinity and the discursive appropriation of warfare, athletics, slavery and medicine in Theodoret's Historia Religiosa Chris L. de Wet; 13. Christian martyrs in a Christian empire: Chalcedon and the politics of appropriation Christine Shepardson; 14. Appropriating the Gods: magic in the changing contexts of Late Antique Egypt Roxanne Bélanger Sarrazin; 15. Living in a city of the dead: the monastic appropriation of the sacred landscape of Abydos in Late Antiquity Jitse H. F. Dijkstra.

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