دانلود کتاب Victorious Gods, Defeated Demons, Superstars and Archaeologists

Readers can meet ghosts, spirits of the dead, undiscovered mysterious religious ceremonies of victorious gods like Sol Invictus Mithras (who became defeated demons during the era of Christian emperors), martyrs as superstars of the late antique period, early Christian finds from hidden magazines being published by archaeologists, and last but not least the pagan and Christian human fates and the multicultural diversity of various identities on these pages. The antique Greek-Roman religions, evolved over centuries, were oft en referred to as pagan by ancient Christians. The archaic and classical Greek traditions of mythology were well known narratives depected on wall paintings, mosaics, reliefs, sarcophagi, small artefacts in both Hellenistic and Roman periods up to late antiquity.

The chapters of this book were originally published between 2012 and 2018. There is a paper in addition, Chapter 3, published only in this volume. All these writings were originally written and published in connection with the scholarly workshop of the University of Pécs. The volume of the book is closed by a large bibliography that allows the volume to be used as a kind of a seminar manual.