Format:
Video disc
Title:
The Pagan world : Ancient religions before Christianity
Other title(s):
Ancient religions before Christianity
ISBN:
9781629978567
Publication:
Chantilly, Va. : Teaching Co., [2020]
Physical Description:
4 videodiscs (approximately 720 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (iv, 247 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm)
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General Note:
The accompanying course guidebook includes bibliographical references.
ID2852A-01.
24 lectures (30 min. each) on 4 videodiscs.
Contents:
disc 1. Early Pagan religion in Mesopotamia -- The Rigveda and the Gods of Ancient India -- State religion in Ancient Egypt -- From myth to religion: The Olympian deities -- Household and local gods in Ancient Greece -- Feeding the gods: sacrificial religion -- disc 2. Prayers, vows, divination and omens -- Delphi and other Greek sanctuaries -- Cults and mystery religions -- Philosophical critiques of Paganism -- Greek funerary practices and the Afterlife -- Egyptian influences on Ancient religion -- disc 3. Ancient Roman ancestor worship -- Gods of the Roman household -- Gods of the Roman state -- Priests and ceremonies in the Roman Republic -- Religion, politics and war in Rome -- Rome's reactions to foreign religions -- disc 4. The Roman calendar and sacred days -- Julius Caesar: a turning point in Roman religion -- Emperor worship in Rome -- Zoroastrians, Jews, and Christians -- Justinian and the demise of paganism.
Summary:
Take a close behind-the-scenes look at religion and life in the ancient Mediterranean to see how early pagan religions helped shape the world as we know it.
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