Preliminary material -- SVPPLEMENTVM -- BIBLIOGRAPHY, STATISTICS, TECHNOLOGICAL PROBLEMS -- ICONOGRAPHICAL AND IDEOLOGICAL ANALYSIS -- ELEMENTS OF THE SKY AND OF NATURE -- Interpretation of the Mystic Symbols -- RITES AND MYSTERIES OF THE DANUBIAN RIDER RELIGION -- CONCLUSIONS -- TOPOGRAPHICAL INDEX -- MUSEUM INDEX -- EPIGRAPHICAL INDEX -- INDEX OF COMPOSITIONAL ELEMENTS, ETC. -- GENERAL INDEX VOL. II -- PLATES.

This volume focusses on the life and academic heritage of András Bodor (1915-1999), a classicist from Transylvania. Based on a large number of unpublished documents and the major works of Bodor, the book reconstructs the life of a classicist from the periphery of Europe, a region that changed many times during the 20th century.

The last decade has seen a surge of scholarly interest in these religious professionals and a good number of high quality publications. Our volume, however, with its unique intercultural character and its explicit focus on appropriation and contestation of religious expertise in the Imperial Era is substantially different. Unlike the rather narrow focus of earlier studies of civic priests, the papers presented here examine a wider range of religious professionals, their dynamic interaction with established religious authorities and institutions, and their contributions to religious innovation in the ancient Mediterranean world, from the late Hellenistic period through to Late Antiquity, from the City of Rome to mainland Greece, Asia Minor, Syria and Egypt, from Greek civic practice to ancient Judaism. A further advantage of our volume is the wide range of media of transmission taken into account. Our contributors look at both old and new materials, which derive not only from literary sources but also from papyri, inscriptions, and material culture. Above all, this volume assesses critically convenient terminological usage and offers a unique insight into a rich gamut of ancient Mediterranean religious specialists.

Preliminary material -- EXACT PLACE WHERE THE FINDS WERE MADE KNOWN -- ASIA MINOR -- GRAECIA -- ITALIA -- AFRICA -- HISPANIA -- GALLIA -- GERMANIA -- MACEDONIA -- ILLYRICUM -- PANNONIA -- DACIA -- MOESIA -- CHERSONESUS TAURICA -- EXACT PLACE WHERE THE FINDS WERE MADE NOT KNOWN -- GENERAL INDEX -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS OF THE PLATES -- PLATE -- ÉTUDES PRÉLIMINAIRES AUX RELIGIONS ORIENTALES DANS L'EMPIRE ROMAIN.

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