Overview

A collection of papers with new insights on ancient religion, read at a colloquium in honour of Professor H.S. Versnel (""Inconsistencies in Greek and Roman Religion""). The contributions cover many areas of the religious experience of the Greeks and Romans: myth and ritual (W. Burkert); the gods (F. Zeitlin); cult; festivals; and sacrifice. Several papers consider methodological problems and the progress of scholarship; they highlight the contribution of H.S. Versnel to the field. The papers are based on a wide range of sources: Pagan and Christian, literary and epigraphical and iconographical.

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Reviews

' interessan volume. ' Vinciane Pirenne-Delforge, l Antiquite Classique , 2005.

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H.F.J. Horstmanshoff, H.W. Singor, F. van Straten and J.H.M. Strubbe are all Senior Lecturers at the University of Leiden in the Departments of Ancient History and Classical Archaeology. They worked closely together with Professor H.S. Versnel before his retirement from the chair of Ancient History. F. van Straten for a time was co-editor with H.S. Versnel of the series Studies in Greek and Roman Religion.

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