Worshipping Silvanus at Work : Approaching Roman Professional
Ecologies as Sacred Landscapes Quantitatively

k 2024

Worshipping Silvanus at Work : Approaching Roman Professional Ecologies as Sacred Landscapes Quantitatively

GLOMB, Tomáš

Základní údaje

Originální název

Worshipping Silvanus at Work : Approaching Roman Professional Ecologies as Sacred Landscapes Quantitatively

Autoři

GLOMB, Tomáš

Vydání

EAA Annual Meeting, Rome, Italy, 28-31 August 2024, 2024

Další údaje

Jazyk

angličtina

Typ výsledku

Prezentace na konferencích

Obor

60300 6.3 Philosophy, Ethics and Religion

Stát vydavatele

Itálie

Utajení

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

Odkazy

URL

Označené pro přenos do RIV

Ano

Kód RIV

RIV/00216224:14210/24:00138166

Organizační jednotka

Filozofická fakulta

Klíčová slova anglicky

Roman religion; Roman professions; modeling; Professional resilience; Environment; Silvanus

Štítky

rivok

Příznaky

Mezinárodní význam, Recenzováno

Změněno: 3. 3. 2025 14:33, Mgr. Pavla Martinková

Anotace

V originále

This paper proposes a hypothesis that the worship of specific deities played a significant role in mitigating uncertainties and reducing risks associated with working environments in the Roman Empire. For example, hunters were tied to animal habitats, miners to mineral deposits, and soldiers to tensions at political borders, and any abrupt change or disbalance in those environments constituted an enormous threat to the livelihood of those professionals. Through appropriate worship, people of profession had the means of transforming their working environment into a balanced sacred landscape protected by a deity. This paper tests these assumptions through a case study focusing on exploring quantitatively the relationships between working environments and the worship of Silvanus, the Roman god of woods, uncultivated lands, fields, and estates. Methodologically, the paper presents formal analyses of geocoded Latin epigraphic evidence as a proxy for both professional activities and situated worship of Silvanus in the Roman Empire. By using spatial proximity analysis and machine-learning predictive models, the paper explores whether it is possible to retrospectively predict a portion of the known places of worship of Silvanus by geocoded locations of professional ecologies dependent on forest conditions. As a result, the paper opens the broader question of to what extent people of profession contributed to the known spatiotemporal distribution of cults in the Roman Empire by transforming their places of work into sacred landscapes.

Návaznosti

CZ.02.01.01/00/22_008/0004595, interní kód MU

Název: Za hranice bezpečnosti: role konfliktu v posilování odolnosti

Investor: Ministerstvo školství, mládeže a tělovýchovy ČR, Za hranice bezpečnosti: role konfliktu v posilování odolnosti, Priorita 1 - Výzkum a vývoj

EH22_008/0004595, projekt VaV

Název: Za hranice bezpečnosti: role konfliktu v posilování odolnosti

Citovat

GLOMB, Tomáš. Worshipping Silvanus at Work : Approaching Roman Professional Ecologies as Sacred Landscapes Quantitatively. In EAA Annual Meeting, Rome, Italy, 28-31 August 2024. 2024.

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   booktitle = {EAA Annual Meeting, Rome, Italy, 28-31 August 2024},
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   language = {eng},
   title = {Worshipping Silvanus at Work : Approaching Roman Professional Ecologies as Sacred Landscapes Quantitatively},
   url = {https://www.e-a-a.org/EAA2024},
   year = {2024}
}

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GLOMB, Tomáš. Worshipping Silvanus at Work : Approaching Roman Professional Ecologies as Sacred Landscapes Quantitatively. In \textit{EAA Annual Meeting, Rome, Italy, 28-31 August 2024}. 2024.

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