Festivals, Fairs and Foreigners: Towards an Economics of Religion in the Mediterranean Longue Durée

Kowalzig, Barbara

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“…There is however some discussion, on the basis of Thucydides 3.104, about whether the festival was moved permanently to Ephesos already in the fifth century (Hornblower 1982b). I follow Stylianou 1983;Schipporeit 1998: 231;Mac Sweeney 2013: 176-177, in believing that the festival did not move permanently away from Prienean territory in the early Hellenistic period (although this idea is still supported by some, see for instance Kowalzig 2007). Celebrations could surely have been held at the Hellenistic Panionion near Priene (see n.30 above).…”

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Sacred Circles

Williamson

2023

The Material Dynamics of Festivals in the Graeco-Roman East

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In the Hellenistic period, cities increasingly organized major festivals in honour of their principal gods, often as an ‘echo’ of the great Panhellenic games, sending out invitations to cities and kings for support and participation. Cities thus opened up their prime sanctuaries to the Greek world through their festivals. At the same time, there was a growing tendency to enclose these sacred spaces within peristyle architecture. As the political borders of cities were temporarily suspended, so the edges of their great civic shrines were hardened, creating a paradox of simultaneous inclusion and exclusion. This chapter examines this phenomenon through the lens of the ‘sacred circle’, a special ritualized place cut out of the urban fabric of time and space that in this case also fostered connectivity across the Greek world. Three case studies from Asia Minor serve to highlight local strategies in effectuating festival connectivity through sacred space: Magnesia on the Maeander and the sanctuary of Artemis Leukophryene, Stratonikeia and the sanctuary of Hekate at Lagina, and Pisidian Antioch and the sanctuary of Men Askaenos.

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2023

The Economy of Roman Religion

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The Introduction sets out the case for seeing Roman religion as an important factor in shaping economic mentalities and actions, but one that scholarship has largely ignored until now. It traces the reasons for this apparent neglect (in contrast to scholarship on the ancient Greek economy, or on the Christian world late antiquity), and points out studies that have begun to explore individual facets of the relationship between religion and the economic sphere. It then sketches a series of themes that it is important to explore: how was religion funded? Where did temple revenues come from and how were they spent? What functions did they serve as economic actors (landowners, banks, civic benefactors)? How did the economics of priesthoods work—were they financially profitable for their holders, or a drain on their resources? To what extent did religion serve to guarantee transactions, promoting trust and lowering transaction costs? A summary of the chapters in the book serves to tie these questions to particular chapters, before setting out some further questions as a possible research agenda for the future.

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Festivals, Fairs and Foreigners: Towards an Economics of Religion in the Mediterranean Longue Durée

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