James Rives
Biographic Data
| ID | 3636090 |
|---|---|
| NAME | James Rives |
| GIVEN NAMES | James |
| FAMILY NAME | Rives |
| SIGNATURE | RIVES J |
| AFFILIATIONS | École pratique des hautes études – Section des sciences religieuses Université de Caroline du Nord à Chapel Hill |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Sacrifice and 'Religion
In this paper I present a model for describing the change in religion that took place during the Roman imperial period, a model that is built around a contrast between orthopraxy and orthodoxy. I begin with a brief survey of the most important earlier models of religious change in the Roman empire, followed by an initial sketch of my own proposed model. In the third and fourth sections I elaborate on this model in more detail by developing it thr…
Société et identité dans l'Empire romain
Dans ces conférences, j'ai étudié la pratique du sacrifice animal dans le cadre de la transformation de la religion dans le monde gréco-romain durant la période impériale. Les deux premières conférences se sont intéressées aux fonctions sociales et culturelles de cette pratique. La troisième conférence a esquissé le développement d'une théorie du rituel du sacrifice, et, dans la dernière, j'ai soutenu que la transformation du rôle social et cultu…
Women and Animal Sacrifice in Public Life
In evaluating the scarcity of evidence for the participation of women in animal sacrifice, we need to take into account our more general lack of information about the details of sacrificial practice in the western Roman empire. This chapter first reviews the evidence for three categories of people who are likely to have presided over animal sacrifices: magistrates, priests, and benefactors. It then discusses the likelihood of women serving in the…
Flavius Josephus and Flavian Rome
Rebellion and Reconstruction
Venus Genetrix outside Rome
W HEN CAESAR ESTABLISHED in Rome a cult in honor of Venus Genetrix, he added a new dimension to Roman public religion. New cults had often been established in the past, but none had the personal associations that this one did. Although the epithet Genetrix had been used of Venus in poetry for over a century, it was as an ancestral goddess of the Roman people in general. Caesar's family, the Iulii, however, claimed direct descent from Venus throug…
Venus Genetrix outside Rome
W HEN CAESAR ESTABLISHED in Rome a cult in honor of Venus Genetrix, he added a new dimension to Roman public religion. New cults had often been established in the past, but none had the personal associations that this one did. Although the epithet Genetrix had been used of Venus in poetry for over a century, it was as an ancestral goddess of the Roman people in general. Caesar's family, the Iulii, however, claimed direct descent from Venus throug…
Venus Genetrix outside Rome
W HEN CAESAR ESTABLISHED in Rome a cult in honor of Venus Genetrix, he added a new dimension to Roman public religion. New cults had often been established in the past, but none had the personal associations that this one did. Although the epithet Genetrix had been used of Venus in poetry for over a century, it was as an ancestral goddess of the Roman people in general. Caesar's family, the Iulii, however, claimed direct descent from Venus throug…
Rebellion and Reconstruction
Flavius Josephus and Flavian Rome
Women and Animal Sacrifice in Public Life
In evaluating the scarcity of evidence for the participation of women in animal sacrifice, we need to take into account our more general lack of information about the details of sacrificial practice in the western Roman empire. This chapter first reviews the evidence for three categories of people who are likely to have presided over animal sacrifices: magistrates, priests, and benefactors. It then discusses the likelihood of women serving in the…
Société et identité dans l'Empire romain
Dans ces conférences, j'ai étudié la pratique du sacrifice animal dans le cadre de la transformation de la religion dans le monde gréco-romain durant la période impériale. Les deux premières conférences se sont intéressées aux fonctions sociales et culturelles de cette pratique. La troisième conférence a esquissé le développement d'une théorie du rituel du sacrifice, et, dans la dernière, j'ai soutenu que la transformation du rôle social et cultu…
Sacrifice and 'Religion
In this paper I present a model for describing the change in religion that took place during the Roman imperial period, a model that is built around a contrast between orthopraxy and orthodoxy. I begin with a brief survey of the most important earlier models of religious change in the Roman empire, followed by an initial sketch of my own proposed model. In the third and fourth sections I elaborate on this model in more detail by developing it thr…
Classical Antiquity Studies (6 works) · Art (4 works) · History (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Biblical Studies and Interpretation (3 works) · Sacrifice (3 works) · Ancient history (2 works) · Archaeology (2 works)