Paganism Archive
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“An Iron Age Temple Dedicated to Lug?: The henge at Lismullin, County Meath”
Posted on April 19, 2013 | No CommentsThis paper suggests that this Iron Age enclosure may have been connected to worship of the Celtic God Lug. -
From periphery to centre: pagan continuity and revival in Britain and Rome during the late fourth century AD
Posted on February 4, 2013 | No CommentsThe term 'cult acts' has also been posited as a mare apt description of Roman religious practice, and this certainly does account for the panoply of practices of a religious nature that existed in the Roman world; differences in culture, class, geography and ancestry led individuals to seek religious affiliatians unique to themselves -
Power and status. Administration, appointment policies, and social hierarchies in the Roman Empire (193-284 AD)
Posted on January 27, 2013 | No CommentsIn this study, I explore administration, appointment policies and social hierarchies in the period between AD 193 to 284, in order to define changing status and power relations between the highest ranking representatives of imperial power at the central level. -
The Monstrous and the Bestial: Animals in Greek Myths
Posted on December 29, 2012 | No CommentsIn the myths, the ancient GreeJcs were at times rather positive toward animals. The Olympian gods were often represented as wild animals, usually symbolizing some divine attribute. -
Did the Romans Invent Christmas?
Posted on December 17, 2012 | No CommentsSaturnalia originated as a farmer -
Got Druids? Ghastly reads on Halloween and the Ancients!
Posted on October 29, 2012 | No CommentsGot Druids? Ghastly reads on Halloween and the Ancients! -
Francis Bacon’s use of ancient myths in Novum Organum
Posted on September 8, 2012 | No CommentsIn this paper, I will show how the ancient myths of Pan, Perseus, Dionysius, and Prometheus have an impact on Book I of Francis Bacon's Novum Organum. -
Hellenism and the Shaping of the Byzantine Empire
Posted on August 27, 2012 | No CommentsWhile the role of Byzantine Hellenism on the art, literature, and society of the Empire has been the subject of tremendous study, the question of its origins has, nonetheless, rarely been raised, and the strongly Hellenic Byzantine identity seems, to a large extent, to have been taken for granted historiographically. -
The Coins and the Cult
Posted on August 5, 2012 | No CommentsThe interpretation of coins uncovered in excavation includes several numismatic and archaeological problems. -
Livy and the Bacchanalia
Posted on August 5, 2012 | No CommentsLivy begins his account by claiming that the Bacchanalia had come to Rome from Etruria and Campania.9 Classical Bacchic cult was a ritual enactment of the maenads
