Admission requirements
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Description
In Asia Minor we encounter an extremely variegated religious landscape: if anywhere it is here that we can see the extremely localized character of ancient religion(s). It is often supposed that this is caused by indigenous cults underlying the Greek superstructures. This may be true in many cases, but such an evolutionary perspective does not do justice to the actual situation on the ground. Believers will have seen their local religious tradition as a unified whole – and as Greek. The large amount of inscriptional evidence for local cults in Asia Minor puts us in a remarkably good position to study several examples of ancient religion as ‘living /lived religion’. If we want, we can extend our review into early Christian days, Christianity gaining a serious foothold in Asia Minor from very early in the imperial period.
Course objectives
Besides the general objectives of any Research Seminar, this course aims at making the participants think about religious plurality versus unity, and continuity versus change, and at providing experience in the use of epigraphic evidence, especially inscriptions put into series.
Timetable
See here.
Mode of instruction
Research Seminar
Assessment method
Every student will be expected to give several short presentations for which some reading and research have to be carried out (20%) and write a final paper (80%).
Blackboard
Website at www.ancient-history-online.info / www.oudegeschiedenis.info
Reading list
To be announced
Registration
via uSis.
Contact information
E-mail: Dr. F.G. Naerebout
Remarks
If only native speakers of Dutch participate, the course can be taught in Dutch