Antón Alvar Nuño
Biographic Data
| ID | 1491846 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Antón Alvar Nuño |
| GIVEN NAMES | Antón Alvar |
| FAMILY NAME | Nuño |
| SIGNATURE | NUÑO A A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universidad de Málaga |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0938-308X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 12 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Introducción
Monographic introduction
Embodied Theories of Knowledge and the Evil Eye in the Roman World
This article aims at enriching current interpretations of the Evil Eye in the Roman world by applying embodied theories of knowledge to the social environments that triggered this belief. In general terms, religious belief is grounded on representational processes of the body and of its surrounding environment; these, together, organize specific mental reference-systems. In other words, actual experience is encoded in a mental frame that may late…
Religiones rurales durante la Antigüedad Tardía
El estudio de la religiosidad rural en el occidente tardoantiguo ha sido hasta ahora un tema de investigación secundario centrado bien en destacar la existencia de pervivencias paganas en ámbito rural, bien en la propagación del cristianismo desde las estructuras de poder. La intención de este artículo es abrir nuevas perspectivas de análisis que tengan en cuenta la propia idiosincrasia del mundo rural, teniendo en cuenta el espacio y la diversid…
From Stories to Artefacts
This paper analyses the meta-historical value of the martyrs’ biographies and their cult in Hispania from the 4th century to the Visigothic period. Instead of carrying on with the intense debate on the historical authenticity of the martyrs’ lives or their political instrumentalisation, my aim here is threefold. First, I describe martyrs’ relics not only as artefacts valued because of the biography of associated martyr, but also for their inheren…
Sensorivm
SENSORIVM: The Senses in Roman Polytheism explores how a range of cults and rituals were perceived and experienced by participants through one or more senses. The present collection brings together papers from an international group of researchers all inspired by ‘the sensory turn’. Focusing on a wide range of ritual traditions from around the ancient Roman world, they explore the many ways in which smell and taste, sight and sound, separately an…
The Use of Curse Tablets among Slaves in Rome and its Western Provinces
During the 1960s, in the hey-day of slave-studies, it was generally considered that in Roman antiquity slaves resorted to malign magic to curse their masters, using techniques learned from wandering astrologers who visited the household. This notion drew indirectly upon the Marxist discourse of class-struggle and also took for granted that there was a specific 'religion of slaves’ that was significantly different from what was taken to be 'Roman …
Introduccion
Los estudios sobre magia en Hispania romana desde el cambio de era (2000-2016)
Se revisan en este artículo las tendencias interpretativas que ha habido en los estudios sobre magia en la Península Ibérica en las últimas décadas. Si bien hubo un interés germinal en estas cuestiones durante los años 60, la atención hacia las cuestiones relacionadas con la magia en Hispania eclosionó en los años 80. Aún hay cierta tendencia a plantear la magia como una forma de religiosidad popular o como una forma de enfrentamiento al orden es…
Cadanas invisibles. Los usos de la magia entre los esclavos en el Imperio romano
Alvar Nuño Antón. Cadanas invisibles. Los usos de la magia entre los esclavos en el Imperio romano. Besançon : Institut des Sciences et Techniques de l'Antiquité, 2017. 0 p. (Collection « ISTA », 1389)
Morality, Emotions and Reason
Academic interest in magic has grown considerably during the last twenty years. Leaving aside the old stereotyped dichotomy between magic and religion, I consider magic a pragmatic subsystem of religion whose function is to alleviate or deal with daily life's misfortunes. I suggest in this paper some possible approaches that might be interesting to deepen in the social study of Roman magic. This paper is divided in three sections. The first one d…
Magia simpática y mentalidad mágico-religiosa entre Antigüedad y mundo moderno. ¿Una estructura mental de muy larga duración
L'un des concepts les plus habituels en sciences des religions est celui de magie "sympathique" que J. G. Frazer a défini. Bien que les thèses de l'anthropologue britannique qui considère la magie comme "fausse science" sont dépassées, son concept de "magie sympathique" comme stratégie cognitive d'association d'idées demeure. Cet article pose le problème de savoir jusqu'à quel point la catégorie de magie "sympathique" peut être considérée comme u…
Ocular Pathologies and the Evil Eye in the Early Roman Principate
Ocular pathologies are a natural phenomenon that can be detected empirically. All over the world, such phenomena are often interpreted as an index of inherent personal capacity for causing harm. The Graeco-Roman world was no exception. During the early Roman Principate, the literary representation of such malformations was clearly influenced by two genres that had been developed in the Greek world during the Hellenistic period. The first was the …
Ocular Pathologies and the Evil Eye in the Early Roman Principate
Ocular pathologies are a natural phenomenon that can be detected empirically. All over the world, such phenomena are often interpreted as an index of inherent personal capacity for causing harm. The Graeco-Roman world was no exception. During the early Roman Principate, the literary representation of such malformations was clearly influenced by two genres that had been developed in the Greek world during the Hellenistic period. The first was the …
Sensorivm
SENSORIVM: The Senses in Roman Polytheism explores how a range of cults and rituals were perceived and experienced by participants through one or more senses. The present collection brings together papers from an international group of researchers all inspired by ‘the sensory turn’. Focusing on a wide range of ritual traditions from around the ancient Roman world, they explore the many ways in which smell and taste, sight and sound, separately an…
From Stories to Artefacts
This paper analyses the meta-historical value of the martyrs’ biographies and their cult in Hispania from the 4th century to the Visigothic period. Instead of carrying on with the intense debate on the historical authenticity of the martyrs’ lives or their political instrumentalisation, my aim here is threefold. First, I describe martyrs’ relics not only as artefacts valued because of the biography of associated martyr, but also for their inheren…
Ocular Pathologies and the Evil Eye in the Early Roman Principate
Ocular pathologies are a natural phenomenon that can be detected empirically. All over the world, such phenomena are often interpreted as an index of inherent personal capacity for causing harm. The Graeco-Roman world was no exception. During the early Roman Principate, the literary representation of such malformations was clearly influenced by two genres that had been developed in the Greek world during the Hellenistic period. The first was the …
Magia simpática y mentalidad mágico-religiosa entre Antigüedad y mundo moderno. ¿Una estructura mental de muy larga duración
L'un des concepts les plus habituels en sciences des religions est celui de magie "sympathique" que J. G. Frazer a défini. Bien que les thèses de l'anthropologue britannique qui considère la magie comme "fausse science" sont dépassées, son concept de "magie sympathique" comme stratégie cognitive d'association d'idées demeure. Cet article pose le problème de savoir jusqu'à quel point la catégorie de magie "sympathique" peut être considérée comme u…
Cadanas invisibles. Los usos de la magia entre los esclavos en el Imperio romano
Alvar Nuño Antón. Cadanas invisibles. Los usos de la magia entre los esclavos en el Imperio romano. Besançon : Institut des Sciences et Techniques de l'Antiquité, 2017. 0 p. (Collection « ISTA », 1389)
Morality, Emotions and Reason
Academic interest in magic has grown considerably during the last twenty years. Leaving aside the old stereotyped dichotomy between magic and religion, I consider magic a pragmatic subsystem of religion whose function is to alleviate or deal with daily life's misfortunes. I suggest in this paper some possible approaches that might be interesting to deepen in the social study of Roman magic. This paper is divided in three sections. The first one d…
Introduccion
Los estudios sobre magia en Hispania romana desde el cambio de era (2000-2016)
Se revisan en este artículo las tendencias interpretativas que ha habido en los estudios sobre magia en la Península Ibérica en las últimas décadas. Si bien hubo un interés germinal en estas cuestiones durante los años 60, la atención hacia las cuestiones relacionadas con la magia en Hispania eclosionó en los años 80. Aún hay cierta tendencia a plantear la magia como una forma de religiosidad popular o como una forma de enfrentamiento al orden es…
The Use of Curse Tablets among Slaves in Rome and its Western Provinces
During the 1960s, in the hey-day of slave-studies, it was generally considered that in Roman antiquity slaves resorted to malign magic to curse their masters, using techniques learned from wandering astrologers who visited the household. This notion drew indirectly upon the Marxist discourse of class-struggle and also took for granted that there was a specific 'religion of slaves’ that was significantly different from what was taken to be 'Roman …
Sensorivm
SENSORIVM: The Senses in Roman Polytheism explores how a range of cults and rituals were perceived and experienced by participants through one or more senses. The present collection brings together papers from an international group of researchers all inspired by ‘the sensory turn’. Focusing on a wide range of ritual traditions from around the ancient Roman world, they explore the many ways in which smell and taste, sight and sound, separately an…
Religiones rurales durante la Antigüedad Tardía
El estudio de la religiosidad rural en el occidente tardoantiguo ha sido hasta ahora un tema de investigación secundario centrado bien en destacar la existencia de pervivencias paganas en ámbito rural, bien en la propagación del cristianismo desde las estructuras de poder. La intención de este artículo es abrir nuevas perspectivas de análisis que tengan en cuenta la propia idiosincrasia del mundo rural, teniendo en cuenta el espacio y la diversid…
From Stories to Artefacts
This paper analyses the meta-historical value of the martyrs’ biographies and their cult in Hispania from the 4th century to the Visigothic period. Instead of carrying on with the intense debate on the historical authenticity of the martyrs’ lives or their political instrumentalisation, my aim here is threefold. First, I describe martyrs’ relics not only as artefacts valued because of the biography of associated martyr, but also for their inheren…
Embodied Theories of Knowledge and the Evil Eye in the Roman World
This article aims at enriching current interpretations of the Evil Eye in the Roman world by applying embodied theories of knowledge to the social environments that triggered this belief. In general terms, religious belief is grounded on representational processes of the body and of its surrounding environment; these, together, organize specific mental reference-systems. In other words, actual experience is encoded in a mental frame that may late…
Introducción
Monographic introduction
Art (6 works) · Classical Antiquity Studies (6 works) · Historical, Religious, and Philosophical Studies (5 works) · Humanities (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Archaeological and Historical Studies (3 works) · Cultural and Mythological Studies (3 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Geography (3 works) · History (3 works)