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Connecting the Isiac Cults : Formal Modeling in the Hellenistic Mediterranean

GLOMB, Tomáš

Základní údaje

Originální název

Connecting the Isiac Cults : Formal Modeling in the Hellenistic Mediterranean

Autoři

GLOMB, Tomáš (203 Česká republika, garant, domácí)

Vydání

London, 192 s. Scientific Studies of Religion: Inquiry and Explanation, 2022

Nakladatel

Bloomsbury Academic

Další údaje

Jazyk

angličtina

Typ výsledku

Odborná kniha

Obor

60304 Religious studies

Stát vydavatele

Velká Británie a Severní Irsko

Utajení

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

Forma vydání

tištěná verze "print"

Odkazy

Kód RIV

RIV/00216224:14210/22:00127608

Organizační jednotka

Filozofická fakulta

ISBN

978-1-350-21069-1

Klíčová slova anglicky

Isiac culs; Ptolemies; formal modeling; Hellenistic Aegean; GIS

Štítky

Příznaky

Mezinárodní význam, Recenzováno
Změněno: 5. 2. 2023 11:49, Mgr. Ivona Vrzalová

Anotace

V originále

Why did Egyptian cults, especially those dedicated to the goddess Isis and god Sarapis, spread so successfully across the ancient Mediterranean after the death of Alexander the Great? How are we limited by the established methodological apparatus of historiography and which innovative methods from other disciplines can overcome these limits? In this book, Tomáš Glomb shows that while the interplay of different factors such as the economy, climate, and politics created favorable conditions for the early spread of the Isiac cults, the use of innovative quantitative methods can shed new light and help disentangle the complex interplay of individual factors. Using a combination of geospatial modeling, mathematical modeling, and network analysis, Glomb determines that, at least in the regions of the Hellenistic Aegean and western Asia Minor, the political channels created by the Ptolemaic dynasty were a dominant force in the local spread of the Isiac cults. An important contribution to the historiography of the ancient Mediterranean, this book answers the specific question of “how it happened” as well as, “how can we answer it beyond the limits of the established methodological apparatus in historiography.”