Piccole ‘curiosità’ delle religioni antiche. Un approccio antropologico
Atti delle giornate di studio - Siena, 4 e 5 aprile 2024
- Edited by:
- Ginevra Benedetti,
- Francesca Prescendi,
Studying ancient religions often means facing objects, gestures, and ritual formulas that appear “curious” or even “strange”. It is precisely these “strangenesses” that give anthropological inquiry its strength: they reveal cultural distance and invite us to understand them within their historical and social context. This volume reflects on such “curiosities”: Roman legal norms allowing gods to inherit, objects safeguarding Rome’s stability, relics of foundational moments, “sweeper” deities, the agency of fabrics, a Phoenician god with a feminine name, Jewish dietary prohibitions, and small Mexican gods made of amaranth. How were these perceived? What was their meaning? To grasp them, we must try to see with the eyes of the cultures that produced them.
- Keywords:
- Curiosity,
- Anthropology of the Ancient World,
- Emic,
- Etic,
- Comparativism,
- Religion,
- DOI: 10.36253/979-12-215-0767-6
- Series: Studi di Antichistica
- Scientific Board
- Language: Italian
- Subjects: History of Religions
University of Siena, Italy - ORCID: 0000-0002-3682-7427
Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, France - ORCID: 0000-0002-1766-0545
Francesca Prescendi is Directrice d’études of the chair Religions of Rome and the Roman world at the École Pratique des Hautes Études in Paris. She has taught at various Swiss universities. She specializes in the Roman polytheistic system, its myths and rites – particularly sacrifice, which she also studies from gender and historiographical perspectives.
Ginevra Benedetti, Francesca Prescendi
Religioni antiche, domande nuove. Il valore euristico della ‘curiosità’- CC BY 4.0 |
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pp.7-9
Ginevra Benedetti, Francesca Prescendi
Res est romana. Oggetti di ‘potere’ e ‘reliquie’ di memoria a Roma- CC BY 4.0 |
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pp.15-28
Mario Lentano
Gli dèi spazzini. Deverra, Averrunco e il mistero dell’everriator- CC BY 4.0 |
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pp.29-42
Silvia Romani
Tes(su)ti pesanti. Qualche considerazione sull’agency dei tessuti da Omero, Iliade VI, alla commedia nuova- CC BY 4.0 |
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pp.43-60
Anna Angelini
Riti strani tra avversione e fascino. I divieti alimentari ebraici agli occhi dei Greci e dei Romani- CC BY 4.0 |
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pp.61-79
Corinne Bonnet
«Eshmun è (mia) madre». Osservazioni su una curiosa parentela- CC BY 4.0 |
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pp.81-97
pp.99-119
- Publication Year: 2025
- Pages: 124
- ISBN: 979-12-215-0766-9
- Content License: CC BY-SA 4.0
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Book Title
Piccole ‘curiosità’ delle religioni antiche. Un approccio antropologico
Book Subtitle
Atti delle giornate di studio - Siena, 4 e 5 aprile 2024
Editors
Ginevra Benedetti, Francesca Prescendi
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Number of Pages
124
Publication Year
2025
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© 2025 Author(s)
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Firenze University Press, USiena Press
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10.36253/979-12-215-0767-6
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Studi di Antichistica
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