Beate Dignas
Biographic Data
| ID | 5626282 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Beate Dignas |
| GIVEN NAMES | Beate |
| FAMILY NAME | Dignas |
| SIGNATURE | DIGNAS B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Somerville College – Oxford |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 95 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
A Cultural History of Memory in Antiquity
The ancient world is a paradigm for the memory scholar. Without an awareness that collective memories are not only different from individual memories (or even the sum thereof) but also highly constructed, ancient research will be fundamentally flawed. Many networks of memories are beautifully represented in the written and material remains of antiquity, and it is precisely the ways in which they are fashioned, distorted, preserved or erased throu…
Wandering Myths: Transcultural Uses of Myth in the Ancient World
Rome and Persia in Late Antiquity: Neighbours and Rivals
Rituals and the Construction of Identity in Attalid Pergamon
The creation of a mythical past and its transformation into a religious and political present by the Attalid dynasty have been a main focus of recent scholarly work. It is, however, inappropriate to imagine an entirely artificial religious identity that is void of genuine historical and religious memory. Individual Pergamene rituals and the concert of religious activities in the royal city do not reflect logical creation but rather illustrate con…
Historical and Religious Memory in the Ancient World
PREFACE LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS 1. Introduction PART I: RELIGIOUS PASTS AND RELIGIOUS PRESENT 2. Memory and Ancient Greece 3. Sappho in the Underground 4. Memory and its uses in Judaism and Christianity in the early Roman empire: the portrayal of Abraham 5. Statues in the temples of Pompeii: Combinations of gods, local definition of cults, and the Memory of the City PART II: DEFINING RELIGIOUS IDENTITY 6. Rituals and the constr…
Porter la couronne d’un dieu: Titre civique, charge religieuse, pouvoir ou fardeau
L’article étudie les implications de l’éponymie dans les domaines religieux et politique en examinant l’identité et le contexte des officiels éponymes. Le point central est le titre de stéphanéphore, qui n’est pas seulement l’un des quarante titres éponymes connus, mais qui mérite une attention particulière dans le cadre de l’éponymie. On remarque que, dans bon nombre de cités, cette charge imposait ses caractéristiques à ceux qui l’assumaient qu…
Economy of the Sacred in Hellenistic and Roman Asia Minor
Benefitting Benefactors: Greek Priests and Euergetism
Beate Dignas, Benefitting Benefactors : Greek Priests and Euergetism. It is commonly accepted that Greek priesthoods were costly for their holders and that Greek priests were required to act as 'benefactors'. In consequence, only the civic elite competed for office, and its members used it as a stage for their generous activities. However, the fact that our sources frequently emphasize the financial burden of priesthood may result precisely from …
Patterns in the Economy of Roman Asia Minor
Rhodian Priests after the Synoecism
Sanctuaries in Asia Minor between Continuity and Change
Many examples exist that reveal structures common to all sanctuaries in Hellenistic and Roman Asia Minor and illustrate that a religious sphere can be distinguished within any context of life in ancient Anatolia. This chapter examines how unusual cults, for example the so-called temple-states in central Anatolia, fit into the patterns observed; whether the economy of cults were of the same quality; how processes of Hellenisation and urbanisation …
Assessing Sacred Wealth: Finances, Land, Administration
Two dimensions of the cults are crucial for an assessment of temple finances in Hellenistic and Roman Asia Minor in a wider sense: sacred finances and sacred land. This chapter examines the role of sacred revenues and land within and outside the polis or city. If one looks at the physical context of Greek sanctuaries, the impact of religion on economic activity is immediately visible: the construction of buildings used for religious purposes cons…
The Cults under Hellenistic Rule
This chapter examines the Hellenistic rulers’ attitudes towards religious matters in Asia Minor, with the goal of clarifying common values and underlying religious concepts such as patterns of religious propaganda and activities, common situations (for example kings as the addressees of appeals when sacred matters were at stake), and a consensus about religious administration in general. There is no doubt that the number of royal benefactions aff…
Sanctuaries and Cities
This book presents stories of cities and sanctuaries, of their priests and the citizens worshipping their deities. One particular place and its story worth mentioning during the Hellenistic and Roman periods is a sanctuary in southwestern Asia Minor, Labraunda. Labraunda was a small Carian village on a mountain about 12 kilometers to the north of the city of Mylasa. This book shows that the rulers addressed and dealt with the sanctuaries as separ…
The Cults under Roman Rule
In 133 BC the Attalid kingdom passed into the hands of Rome because Attalus III had made his will accordingly. In 129 BC the Roman province of Asia was created and the first Roman consul arrived in Asia. What one might call Roman rule was certainly not established by either of these events but they marked milestones within an ongoing process starting with first Roman contacts in Anatolia at the beginning of the second century and continuing into …
Economy of the Sacred in Hellenistic and Roman Asia Minor
Introduction: Sanctuaries and Cities 1. Assessing Sacred Wealth: Finances, Land, Administration 2. The Cults under Hellenistic Rule 3. The Cults under Roman Rule 4. Sanctuaries in Asia Minor between Continuity and Change
Economy of the Sacred in Hellenistic and Roman Asia Minor
Introduction: Sanctuaries and Cities 1. Assessing Sacred Wealth: Finances, Land, Administration 2. The Cults under Hellenistic Rule 3. The Cults under Roman Rule 4. Sanctuaries in Asia Minor between Continuity and Change
Historical and Religious Memory in the Ancient World
PREFACE LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS 1. Introduction PART I: RELIGIOUS PASTS AND RELIGIOUS PRESENT 2. Memory and Ancient Greece 3. Sappho in the Underground 4. Memory and its uses in Judaism and Christianity in the early Roman empire: the portrayal of Abraham 5. Statues in the temples of Pompeii: Combinations of gods, local definition of cults, and the Memory of the City PART II: DEFINING RELIGIOUS IDENTITY 6. Rituals and the constr…
Benefitting Benefactors: Greek Priests and Euergetism
Beate Dignas, Benefitting Benefactors : Greek Priests and Euergetism. It is commonly accepted that Greek priesthoods were costly for their holders and that Greek priests were required to act as 'benefactors'. In consequence, only the civic elite competed for office, and its members used it as a stage for their generous activities. However, the fact that our sources frequently emphasize the financial burden of priesthood may result precisely from …
Porter la couronne d’un dieu: Titre civique, charge religieuse, pouvoir ou fardeau
L’article étudie les implications de l’éponymie dans les domaines religieux et politique en examinant l’identité et le contexte des officiels éponymes. Le point central est le titre de stéphanéphore, qui n’est pas seulement l’un des quarante titres éponymes connus, mais qui mérite une attention particulière dans le cadre de l’éponymie. On remarque que, dans bon nombre de cités, cette charge imposait ses caractéristiques à ceux qui l’assumaient qu…
Sanctuaries in Asia Minor between Continuity and Change
Many examples exist that reveal structures common to all sanctuaries in Hellenistic and Roman Asia Minor and illustrate that a religious sphere can be distinguished within any context of life in ancient Anatolia. This chapter examines how unusual cults, for example the so-called temple-states in central Anatolia, fit into the patterns observed; whether the economy of cults were of the same quality; how processes of Hellenisation and urbanisation …
Assessing Sacred Wealth: Finances, Land, Administration
Two dimensions of the cults are crucial for an assessment of temple finances in Hellenistic and Roman Asia Minor in a wider sense: sacred finances and sacred land. This chapter examines the role of sacred revenues and land within and outside the polis or city. If one looks at the physical context of Greek sanctuaries, the impact of religion on economic activity is immediately visible: the construction of buildings used for religious purposes cons…
The Cults under Hellenistic Rule
This chapter examines the Hellenistic rulers’ attitudes towards religious matters in Asia Minor, with the goal of clarifying common values and underlying religious concepts such as patterns of religious propaganda and activities, common situations (for example kings as the addressees of appeals when sacred matters were at stake), and a consensus about religious administration in general. There is no doubt that the number of royal benefactions aff…
Sanctuaries and Cities
This book presents stories of cities and sanctuaries, of their priests and the citizens worshipping their deities. One particular place and its story worth mentioning during the Hellenistic and Roman periods is a sanctuary in southwestern Asia Minor, Labraunda. Labraunda was a small Carian village on a mountain about 12 kilometers to the north of the city of Mylasa. This book shows that the rulers addressed and dealt with the sanctuaries as separ…
The Cults under Roman Rule
In 133 BC the Attalid kingdom passed into the hands of Rome because Attalus III had made his will accordingly. In 129 BC the Roman province of Asia was created and the first Roman consul arrived in Asia. What one might call Roman rule was certainly not established by either of these events but they marked milestones within an ongoing process starting with first Roman contacts in Anatolia at the beginning of the second century and continuing into …
Economy of the Sacred in Hellenistic and Roman Asia Minor
Introduction: Sanctuaries and Cities 1. Assessing Sacred Wealth: Finances, Land, Administration 2. The Cults under Hellenistic Rule 3. The Cults under Roman Rule 4. Sanctuaries in Asia Minor between Continuity and Change
Rhodian Priests after the Synoecism
Patterns in the Economy of Roman Asia Minor
Economy of the Sacred in Hellenistic and Roman Asia Minor
Benefitting Benefactors: Greek Priests and Euergetism
Beate Dignas, Benefitting Benefactors : Greek Priests and Euergetism. It is commonly accepted that Greek priesthoods were costly for their holders and that Greek priests were required to act as 'benefactors'. In consequence, only the civic elite competed for office, and its members used it as a stage for their generous activities. However, the fact that our sources frequently emphasize the financial burden of priesthood may result precisely from …
Porter la couronne d’un dieu: Titre civique, charge religieuse, pouvoir ou fardeau
L’article étudie les implications de l’éponymie dans les domaines religieux et politique en examinant l’identité et le contexte des officiels éponymes. Le point central est le titre de stéphanéphore, qui n’est pas seulement l’un des quarante titres éponymes connus, mais qui mérite une attention particulière dans le cadre de l’éponymie. On remarque que, dans bon nombre de cités, cette charge imposait ses caractéristiques à ceux qui l’assumaient qu…
Rome and Persia in Late Antiquity: Neighbours and Rivals
Rituals and the Construction of Identity in Attalid Pergamon
The creation of a mythical past and its transformation into a religious and political present by the Attalid dynasty have been a main focus of recent scholarly work. It is, however, inappropriate to imagine an entirely artificial religious identity that is void of genuine historical and religious memory. Individual Pergamene rituals and the concert of religious activities in the royal city do not reflect logical creation but rather illustrate con…
Historical and Religious Memory in the Ancient World
PREFACE LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS 1. Introduction PART I: RELIGIOUS PASTS AND RELIGIOUS PRESENT 2. Memory and Ancient Greece 3. Sappho in the Underground 4. Memory and its uses in Judaism and Christianity in the early Roman empire: the portrayal of Abraham 5. Statues in the temples of Pompeii: Combinations of gods, local definition of cults, and the Memory of the City PART II: DEFINING RELIGIOUS IDENTITY 6. Rituals and the constr…
Wandering Myths: Transcultural Uses of Myth in the Ancient World
A Cultural History of Memory in Antiquity
The ancient world is a paradigm for the memory scholar. Without an awareness that collective memories are not only different from individual memories (or even the sum thereof) but also highly constructed, ancient research will be fundamentally flawed. Many networks of memories are beautifully represented in the written and material remains of antiquity, and it is precisely the ways in which they are fashioned, distorted, preserved or erased throu…
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