Guy Maclean Rogers
Biographic Data
| ID | 3875252 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Guy Maclean Rogers |
| GIVEN NAMES | Guy Maclean |
| FAMILY NAME | Rogers |
| SIGNATURE | ROGERS G M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Wellesley College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 68 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 20 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1988 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Martin Hallmannsecker
For the Freedom of Zion
For the Freedom of Zion
An Ephesian Tale
The Mysteries of Artemis of Ephesos
Artemis of Ephesos was one of the most widely worshiped deities of the Graeco-Roman World. Her temple, the Artemision, was one of the seven wonders of the ancient world, and for more than half a millennium people flocked to Ephesos to learn the great secret of the mysteries and sacrifices that were celebrated every year on her birthday. In this work Guy MacLean Rogers sets out the evidence for the celebration of Artemis's mysteries against the ba…
Michael Scott. Delphi
Delphi was one of the most famous sites of the Greco-Roman world. From at least the late eighth century b.c.e., countless Hellenes and non-Hellenes alike visited Delphi to consult the oracle of Apollo and to see the omphalos. The omphalos was a cone-shaped stone that marked Delphi as the center of the world (or was the rock that Rhea tricked Cronus into swallowing rather than the infant Zeus). The oracle was a priestess known as the Pythia, who v…
Funeral Games
This chapter examines the military, political, and rhetorical struggles among powerful Macedonian kings and their allies within Ephesos during the early years of the Macedonian Centuries. No archaeological, literary, or epigraphical evidence discovered thus far proves that the mysteries of Artemis were celebrated in the city before the fourth century bc at the earliest. In the decree for Apollonides, the demos of the Ephesians probably flattered …
Kouretes eusebeis kai philosebastoi
This chapter explains how the expanded lists of cult attendants signify a reorganization of the celebration of the mysteries of Artemis by the polis, which reorganized the celebration as one facet of the overall restructuring of the administration of the cults of the prytaneion. The hierarchization and oligarchization of Ephesian society, of which the Roman era Kouretes became the living embodiment, was projected theologically into the celebratio…
Kouretes eusebeis
This chapter outlines the impact of the creation of the second Roman monarchy upon the greatest city in Asia. The earliest list of Kouretes from the prytaneion is dated to the prytany of the peregrine Nikomachos Theudas. Nikomachos's prytany probably took place during the reign of Tiberius. The appearance of the office of the sacred herald in the early lists of Kouretes suggests that initiation rituals took place at the celebrations of the myster…
Continuity in Change
This chapter explains the mysteries of Artemis, whicxh include the formal, logical relationship between ancient votive religion and mystery cults, as well as some of the less widely appreciated implications of the so-called votive formula. The relationship between the fields of reference narrated and the celebrations of Artemis's mysteries within the city in turn is relevant to many questions and controversies, not only about Graeco-Roman religio…
Mysteries and Sacrifices
This chapter focuses on the foundation of the new polis of Arsinoeia, southwest of the Artemision. Kouretes also played a significant role in the administration of the Artemision, its buildings, and the economy of sacrifice centered at the sanctuary during the third century bc. Building a defensive wall for the new polis may have been Lysimachos's first priority; a recent survey of the historical development of the Greek polis has concluded that …
“The Nurse of Its Own Ephesian God”
This chapter explains that after a comparatively rich supply of evidence for the celebration of the mysteries of Artemis between ad 98 and 162, the vein of Kouretes's lists unfortunately runs dry very quickly after the reign of Antoninus Pius. The fragmentary lists of Kouretes which perhaps can be dated to the late second century reveal only that the name of the association of the cult attendants remained hierourgoi, and that there was a diviner …
Cult, Polis, and Change in the Graeco-Roman World
“Our Common Salvation”
This chapter focuses on how the Ephesians again had trouble subsidizing the traditional sacrifices of the year, including the ones that took place on Artemis's birthday, and how wide variations in the number of yearly Kouretes suggest changes or instability within the association. Although it is known that the mysteries of Artemis continued to be celebrated after the consolidation of the cult attendants, the prytaneis certainly represented the ce…
The Mysteries of Artemis of Ephesos
"The Mysteries of Artemis of Ephesos" published on by Yale University Press
Rome, the Greek World, and the East
This volume completes the author's three-volume collection of essays, which, together with his books, transformed the study of the Roman Empire by shifting the focus of inquiry onto the broader Mediterranean world and beyond. The eighteen essays presented here include his classic contributions to our understanding of the impact of Rome on the peoples, cultures, and religions of the eastern Mediterranean, and the extent to which Graeco-Roman cultu…
Rome, the Greek World, and the East
Not Out of Africa
Introduction * Myths of African Origins * Ancient Myths of Cultural Dependency * The Myth of the Egyptian Mystery System * The Myth of the Stolen Legacy * Conclusion * Epilogue
Religion and Authority in Roman Carthage from Augustus to Constantine
This book examines the organization of religion in the Roman empire from Augustus to Constantine. Although there have been illuminating particular studies of the relationship between religious activity and socio-political authority in the empire, there has been no large-scale attempt to assess it as a whole. Taking as his focus the situation in Carthage, the greatest city of the western provinces, J.B. Rives argues that the traditional religion, …
The Sacred Identity of Ephesos
This is an interpretation of one of the largest and most important bequests from the classical world: that made to the town council and assembly of Ephesos in 104 AD by a wealthy Roman equestrian, Vibius Salutaris. Set against the background of the city life of Ephesos and the Roman province of Asia, this interpretation shows how the Roman civic rituals created and symbolized a contemporary social hierarchy, grounded in the stories of the Ionian …
The Crisis of the Third Century A.D
Late in A.D. 155 the Greek orator Publius Aelius Aristides from Hadrianoi in Northern Mysia praised Roman rule in the presence of the imperial court at Rome. Indeed, the poets say that before the rule of Zeus everything was filled with faction, uproar, and disorder, but that when Zeus came to rule, everything was put in order and the Titans were banished to the deepest corners of the earth, driven there by him and the gods who aided him
Religion and Authority in Roman Carthage from Augustus to Constantine
This book examines the organization of religion in the Roman empire from Augustus to Constantine. Although there have been illuminating particular studies of the relationship between religious activity and socio-political authority in the empire, there has been no large-scale attempt to assess it as a whole. Taking as his focus the situation in Carthage, the greatest city of the western provinces, J.B. Rives argues that the traditional religion, …
Rome, the Greek World, and the East
This volume completes the author's three-volume collection of essays, which, together with his books, transformed the study of the Roman Empire by shifting the focus of inquiry onto the broader Mediterranean world and beyond. The eighteen essays presented here include his classic contributions to our understanding of the impact of Rome on the peoples, cultures, and religions of the eastern Mediterranean, and the extent to which Graeco-Roman cultu…
The Crisis of the Third Century A.D
Late in A.D. 155 the Greek orator Publius Aelius Aristides from Hadrianoi in Northern Mysia praised Roman rule in the presence of the imperial court at Rome. Indeed, the poets say that before the rule of Zeus everything was filled with faction, uproar, and disorder, but that when Zeus came to rule, everything was put in order and the Titans were banished to the deepest corners of the earth, driven there by him and the gods who aided him
The Sacred Identity of Ephesos
This is an interpretation of one of the largest and most important bequests from the classical world: that made to the town council and assembly of Ephesos in 104 AD by a wealthy Roman equestrian, Vibius Salutaris. Set against the background of the city life of Ephesos and the Roman province of Asia, this interpretation shows how the Roman civic rituals created and symbolized a contemporary social hierarchy, grounded in the stories of the Ionian …
Not Out of Africa
Introduction * Myths of African Origins * Ancient Myths of Cultural Dependency * The Myth of the Egyptian Mystery System * The Myth of the Stolen Legacy * Conclusion * Epilogue
Religion and Authority in Roman Carthage from Augustus to Constantine
This book examines the organization of religion in the Roman empire from Augustus to Constantine. Although there have been illuminating particular studies of the relationship between religious activity and socio-political authority in the empire, there has been no large-scale attempt to assess it as a whole. Taking as his focus the situation in Carthage, the greatest city of the western provinces, J.B. Rives argues that the traditional religion, …
Rome, the Greek World, and the East
Rome, the Greek World, and the East
This volume completes the author's three-volume collection of essays, which, together with his books, transformed the study of the Roman Empire by shifting the focus of inquiry onto the broader Mediterranean world and beyond. The eighteen essays presented here include his classic contributions to our understanding of the impact of Rome on the peoples, cultures, and religions of the eastern Mediterranean, and the extent to which Graeco-Roman cultu…
Funeral Games
This chapter examines the military, political, and rhetorical struggles among powerful Macedonian kings and their allies within Ephesos during the early years of the Macedonian Centuries. No archaeological, literary, or epigraphical evidence discovered thus far proves that the mysteries of Artemis were celebrated in the city before the fourth century bc at the earliest. In the decree for Apollonides, the demos of the Ephesians probably flattered …
Kouretes eusebeis kai philosebastoi
This chapter explains how the expanded lists of cult attendants signify a reorganization of the celebration of the mysteries of Artemis by the polis, which reorganized the celebration as one facet of the overall restructuring of the administration of the cults of the prytaneion. The hierarchization and oligarchization of Ephesian society, of which the Roman era Kouretes became the living embodiment, was projected theologically into the celebratio…
Kouretes eusebeis
This chapter outlines the impact of the creation of the second Roman monarchy upon the greatest city in Asia. The earliest list of Kouretes from the prytaneion is dated to the prytany of the peregrine Nikomachos Theudas. Nikomachos's prytany probably took place during the reign of Tiberius. The appearance of the office of the sacred herald in the early lists of Kouretes suggests that initiation rituals took place at the celebrations of the myster…
Continuity in Change
This chapter explains the mysteries of Artemis, whicxh include the formal, logical relationship between ancient votive religion and mystery cults, as well as some of the less widely appreciated implications of the so-called votive formula. The relationship between the fields of reference narrated and the celebrations of Artemis's mysteries within the city in turn is relevant to many questions and controversies, not only about Graeco-Roman religio…
Mysteries and Sacrifices
This chapter focuses on the foundation of the new polis of Arsinoeia, southwest of the Artemision. Kouretes also played a significant role in the administration of the Artemision, its buildings, and the economy of sacrifice centered at the sanctuary during the third century bc. Building a defensive wall for the new polis may have been Lysimachos's first priority; a recent survey of the historical development of the Greek polis has concluded that …
“The Nurse of Its Own Ephesian God”
This chapter explains that after a comparatively rich supply of evidence for the celebration of the mysteries of Artemis between ad 98 and 162, the vein of Kouretes's lists unfortunately runs dry very quickly after the reign of Antoninus Pius. The fragmentary lists of Kouretes which perhaps can be dated to the late second century reveal only that the name of the association of the cult attendants remained hierourgoi, and that there was a diviner …
Cult, Polis, and Change in the Graeco-Roman World
“Our Common Salvation”
This chapter focuses on how the Ephesians again had trouble subsidizing the traditional sacrifices of the year, including the ones that took place on Artemis's birthday, and how wide variations in the number of yearly Kouretes suggest changes or instability within the association. Although it is known that the mysteries of Artemis continued to be celebrated after the consolidation of the cult attendants, the prytaneis certainly represented the ce…
The Mysteries of Artemis of Ephesos
"The Mysteries of Artemis of Ephesos" published on by Yale University Press
Michael Scott. Delphi
Delphi was one of the most famous sites of the Greco-Roman world. From at least the late eighth century b.c.e., countless Hellenes and non-Hellenes alike visited Delphi to consult the oracle of Apollo and to see the omphalos. The omphalos was a cone-shaped stone that marked Delphi as the center of the world (or was the rock that Rhea tricked Cronus into swallowing rather than the infant Zeus). The oracle was a priestess known as the Pythia, who v…
The Mysteries of Artemis of Ephesos
Artemis of Ephesos was one of the most widely worshiped deities of the Graeco-Roman World. Her temple, the Artemision, was one of the seven wonders of the ancient world, and for more than half a millennium people flocked to Ephesos to learn the great secret of the mysteries and sacrifices that were celebrated every year on her birthday. In this work Guy MacLean Rogers sets out the evidence for the celebration of Artemis's mysteries against the ba…
An Ephesian Tale
For the Freedom of Zion
For the Freedom of Zion
Martin Hallmannsecker
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