Open Access Journal: Mythos: Rivista di Storia della Religioni

[First posted in AWOL 26 September2019, updated 18 Februaary 2026]

Mythos: Rivista di Storia della Religioni 

ISSN: 1972-2516 

ISSN électronique: 2037-7746

Créée en 2006 et éditée par Salvatore Sciascia Editore, Mythos est une revue transdisciplinaire et comparatiste où se croisent les approches historiques, philologiques, archéologiques, anthropologiques ou sociologiques des religions anciennes. Revue annuelle et ouverte à toutes les approches, elle promeut une étude historique et non confessionnelle des religions

Latest issue

19 | 2025

• Dossier : L’Histoire des religions à Genève, 150 ans… et maintenant ?

  Sous la direction de Anne-Angèle Fuchs
  • Anne-Angèle Fuchs
    Regards sur 150 ans d’Histoire des religions à l’Université de Genève [Texte intégral]
  • Sarah Scholl
    L’histoire des religions, une discipline au cœur des guerres culturelles protestantes [Texte intégral]
    History of religions at the heart of the Protestant culture wars
  • Pierre Ellinger
    Penser les dieux grecs entre Genève et Paris [Texte intégral]
    Thinking Greek Gods Between Geneva and Paris
  • Odile Journet-Diallo
    La violence heuristique qui surgit de l’incomparable [Texte intégral]
    The heuristic violence arising from the incomparable
  • Francesco Massa
    Genève, Paris et l’histoire des religions au temps de la décolonisation des études classiques [Texte intégral]
    Geneva, Paris, and the History of Religions in the Time of Decolonizing the Classics
  • Philippe Borgeaud
    Une histoire genevoise. Quête de savoir et aventure collective [Texte intégral]
    A Genevan story. Collective quest for knowledge
  • Dominique Jaillard
    Faire travailler les écarts, redessiner les cartes conceptuelles [Texte intégral]
    Discrepancies at work: Redrawing conceptual maps

• Dossier: Cultic Honours and Divinisation in the Hellenistic Eastern Mediterranean, New Voices for Interdisciplinary Collaboration

  Sous la direction de Stefano G. Caneva et Giuseppina Lenzo
  • Stefano G. Caneva et Giuseppina Lenzo
    _{Devenir dieu dans l’Égypte ptolémaïque : une analyse conjointe du vocabulaire grec et égyptien dans les titres des souverains lagides} [Texte intégral]
    Becoming God in Ptolemaic Egypt: A Joint Analysis of Greek and Egyptian Vocabulary through Lagid Royal Titles
  • René Preys
    La décoration des temples comme idéologie royale : de Ptolémée III Évergète à Ptolémée XII Néos Dionysos [Texte intégral]
    Temple decoration as royal ideology: The case of Ptolemy XII Neos Dionysos.
  • Mounir Habachy
    « Philométor » et l’évolution de l’idéologie royale… le cycle de vie d’une épithète  [Texte intégral]
    “Philometor” and the Evolution of Royal Ideology... The Life Cycle of an Epithet
  • Hervé Gonzalez
    Le roi, la déesse et la reine défunte en Phénicie [Texte intégral]
    L’inscription grecque de la grotte de Wasta dans son contexte politico-religieux (IIIe s. a.è.c.)
    The King, the Goddess, and the Deceased Queen in Phoenicia. The Greek Inscription in the Wasta Cave in Its Religious and Political Context (3^rd Century BCE)
  • Lorenzo Paoletti
    Heroisation or divinisation of men? Some remarks on the Greek interpretation of the ancient Iranian cults of the frauuaši [Texte intégral]
    Diventare eroi o dèi? Alcune considerazioni sull'interpretazione greca degli antichi culti iranici per le frauuaši
  • Luca Lorenzon
    Désigner une pratique rituelle : ἰσόθεοι τιμαί et l’efficacité des emprunts poétiques [Texte intégral]
    Designating a ritual practice: ἰσόθεοι τιμαί and the efficiency of poetic borrowings
  • Dechevez Julien
    Comment choisir son prêtre ? Modalités d’attribution et conditions d’exercice des prêtrises royales à l’époque hellénistique [Texte intégral]
    How to Choose Your Priest? Modalities of Appointment and Conditions of Tenure of Royal Priesthoods in the Hellenistic Period

• Varia

  • Flore Kimmel-Clauzet
    Theios Homèros (2) : de l’argument d’autorité au statut religieux [Texte intégral]
    Theios Homeros (2) : from argument of authority to religious status
  • Federica Zigarelli
    La trama normativa del sacrificio a Pilo: themis, hora e moira in Hom. Od. III 31 ss. [Texte intégral]
    The Normative Framework of the Sacrifice at Pylos: themis, hora and moira in Hom. Od. III 31 ff.
  • Giulia Re
    “Anche se sono qui, la mia mente è altrove”. Paesaggi drammatici nello Ione di Euripide [Texte intégral]
    “Though I am here, my mind is elsewhere”. Dramatic landscapes in Euripide’s Ion.
  • Giulia Frigerio
    Dionysus’ Women and Intermediaries: Chaos or Catalyst for a New Order? [Texte intégral]
    Donne di Dioniso e sue intermediarie: disordine o principio di un nuovo ordine?
  • Gaetano Spampinato
    Heresiology and the History of Religions. The Case of the Panarion of Epiphanius of Salamis [Texte intégral]
    Eresiologia e storia delle religioni. Il caso del Panarion di Epifanio di Salamina
  • Federica Montevecchi
    Epifanie dell’assenza: macchina mitologica e mondo come espressione. Alcune note su Furio Jesi e Giorgio Colli [Texte intégral]
    Epiphanies of absence: mythological machine and world as expression. A few notes on Furio Jesi and Giorgio Colli

• Recensioni e schede di lettura

  • Stefano G. Caneva
    Annelies Cazemier & Stella Skaltsa (eds), Associations and Religion in Context: The Hellenistic and Roman Eastern Mediterranean [Texte intégral]
  • Giole Zisa
    Marinella Ceravolo, L’historiola nella Mesopotamia antica. Mito, rito e performatività [Texte intégral]
  • Stefano G. Caneva
    Giorgio Camassa, Statuto del corpo e annuncio di salvezza. I. Dalla Grecia di età classica alla Palestina nel momento di Gesù [Texte intégral]
  • Paolo Daniele Scirpo
    Ελένη Φάσσα, Η γένεση μιάς λατρείας: Ο Σάραπις και οι Πτολεμαίοι στην Αλεξάνδρεια του 3^ου αιώνα π.Χ. [Ιστορία και Πολιτική] [Texte intégral]

18 | 2024
Varia

• Dossier: Réflexions méthodologiques autour des dieux des Romains: agentivité, réseaux, contexte

  Edited by Francesca Prescendi and Françoise Van Haeperen
  • Francesca Prescendi and Françoise Van Haeperen
    Pour des approches renouvelées des dieux romains [Full text]
  • Thomas Combaz
    Mars, Mars Vltor, et le Prince : la construction d’un dieu majeur du Panthéon Augustéen [Full text]
    Mars, Mars Vltor and the Prince: Shaping a Major God of the Augustan Pantheon
  • Ginevra Benedetti
    Dii deaeque omnes. Il potere della “totalità” nelle fonti latine [Full text]
    Dii deaeque omnes. The power of “totality” in Latin Sources
  • Émilie Borron
    Bouc et mystères : Pan, télétarque dionysiaque [Full text]
    God Pan and Mysteries : the Goat-God as a Dionysian Teletarchos
  • Aude Durand
    Les dieux et la fabrique de la ville : les pratiques religieuses dans la constitution du lien social d’un quartier pompéien [Full text]
    Gods in Fashioning the City : Religious Practices in Forging Social Ties in a Pompeian District
  • Beatrice Lietz
    Procurer des prodiges dans les provinces : les décemvirs en Sicile en 133 av. J.-C. [Full text]
    Procurating Prodigies in the Provinces: the Decemvirs in Sicily in 133 BC
  • Tiffany Bellon
    Les divinités honorées par les Thraces en Occident (I^er – III^e s.) : entre intégration locale et globale [Full text]
    The Deities Worshipped by the Thracians In The West (1st – 3rd Century): Between Local and Global Integration
  • John Scheid
    Comment on devient historien de la religion romaine. Hasards et perplexités [Full text]

• Dossier: Oracoli delfici tra narrazione e storia. Casi di studio

  Edited by Maurizio Giangiulio

  La pubblicazione si è giovata di un contributo attinto ai fondi del Progetto PRIN 2017 "Divination and Greek History (Archaic to Classical): Reassessing Greek Oracular Responses".

  • Maurizio Giangiulio
    Premessa [Full text]
  • Maurizio Giangiulio
    Appunti di storiografia oracolare. Rileggendo L’Oracle de Delphes di Marie Delcourt [Full text]
    Notes in oracular historiography: Revisiting Marie Delcourt’s L’oracle de Delphes
  • Sara Adamo
    Oracoli su Pausania [Full text]
    Osservazioni su P.-W. 114
    Oracles on Pausanias. Remarks on P.-W. 114
  • Diego Bordoni
    Mettere alla prova il dio: profezia e inganno tra l’Inno omerico a Hermes e il racconto oracolare di Creso (Hdt. I 46-48) [Full text]
    Challenging the God: Prophecy and Deception between the Homeric Hymn to Hermes and the Oracular Story of Croesus (Hdt. I 46-48)
  • Francesco Camia and Lavinio Del Monaco
    L’oracolo delfico dei Praxiergidai e il suo contesto epigrafico (IG I³ 7)* [Full text]
  • Giovanni Ingarao
    Echi epici e questioni identitarie: il responso sulla sepoltura di Oreste (PW 33) [Full text]
    Epic Echoes and Identity Issues: The Response on the Grave of Orestes (PW 33)
  • Massimo Nafissi
    Taranto e l’enigma del tragos (PW 46 = Fo Q34). Oracoli, narrazioni locali, letteratura [Full text]
    Tarentum and the Riddle of tragos (PW 46 = Fo Q34). Oracles, Local Narratives, Literature
  • Chiara Pesaresi
    Batto e i suoi discendenti regneranno sulla Libia (Diod. Sic. VIII fr. 40, 3-13 Cohen-Skalli – PW 71; Fo. Q47). Una rilettura [Full text]
    Battus and His Descendants Will Rule Over Libya (Diod. Sic. VIII fr. 40, 3-13 Cohen-Skalli – PW 71; Fo. Q47). A New Reading
  • Giorgia Proietti
    Solone e la guerra contro Megara: l'oracolo e i sacrifici agli eroi di Salamina (PW 326; Fo. Q69 - Plu. Sol. 9, 1) [Full text]
    Solone and the War Against Megara. The Oracle and the Sacrifices to the Salaminian Heroes (PW 326; Fo. Q69 - Plu. Sol. 9, 1)
  • Emilio Rosamilia
    Quanti oracoli per i fondatori di Gela? (P-W 3 e 410) [Full text]
    How Many Oracles for the Founders of Gela? (P-W 3 and 410)
  • Salvatore Tufano
    Temistocle e il gran rifiuto della Pizia (or. PW 106; Q 158 in Paus. X 14,5-6) [Full text]
    Themistokles and the Pythia’s Great Refusal (PW 106 = Paus. X 14,5-6)
  • Pietro Vannicelli
    Morte e trasfigurazione di Leonida [Full text]
    (a proposito dell’oracolo delfico nr. 100 Parke - Wormell = Q 152 Fontenrose)
    Death and Transfiguration of Leonidas (about the Delphic oracle no. 100 Parke - Wormell = Q 152 Fontenrose)

• Varia

  • Rubina Raja and Jörg Rüpke
    Urban Religion through the Lens of Urban Archaeology [Full text]
    La religion urbaine sous l’angle de l'archéologie urbaine
  • Alessio Ciarini
    Da Europa ad Ercina: Interscambi religiosi nella Beozia di età ellenistica [Full text]
    From Europa to Hercyna: Religious Interchanges in Hellenistic Boeotia

• Recensioni e schede di lettura

  • Francesco Massa
    Gianluca De Sanctis, Frontiera [Full text]
    «Le parole degli antichi 6», Roma, Inschibboleth, 2024, pp. 286, ISBN: 9788855292801, € 20
  • Dario Cellamare
    Lea Niccolai, Christianity, Philosophy, and Roman Power. Constantine, Julian, and the Bishops on Exegesis and Empire [Full text]
    «Greek Culture in the Roman World», Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2023, pp. 359, ISBN: 978-1-00-929929-9, £ 100

 

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Creditor defuncti: Zur Forderungsdurchsetzung nach dem Tod des Schuldners im klassischen römischen Recht

Creditor defuncti: Zur Forderungsdurchsetzung nach dem Tod des Schuldners im klassischen römischen Recht 

Elena Koch 

Forschungen zum Römischen Recht  - Band 067

Der Tod eines Schuldners stellt den Gläubiger vor eine Herausforderung: Er verliert die Person, an die er sich zur Durchsetzung seiner Forderung halten kann. Das römische Recht bot dem Gläubiger eine Lösung, indem es die Erben grundsätzlich durch Universalsukzession in die Verbindlichkeiten des Erblassers eintreten ließ. Doch es gab zahlreiche Fälle, in denen das Konzept der Erbenhaftung allein nicht ausreichte, um die Gläubigerinteressen hinreichend zu schützen – etwa wenn die Erbfolge aufgrund einer bedingten Erbeinsetzung über längere Zeit unklar blieb. Während die bisherige Forschung den Erbfall meist aus der Perspektive der Erben betrachtet hat, richtet diese Studie den Blick auf die Gläubiger. Sie zeigt, dass das römische Recht die Interessen der Gläubiger keineswegs vernachlässigte, und führt auf dieser Grundlage zu neuen Interpretationen altbekannter Texte.

Sprache: Deutsch

290 Seiten, Onlinequelle (E-Library)

ISBN: 978-3-412-53354-0

Böhlau Verlag Köln, 1. Auflage, 2025

 

 

 

 

Africam defendere: Byzantinische Fortifikationen in der nordafrikanischen Region Thugga im 6. und 7. Jahrhundert

Africam defendere: Byzantinische Fortifikationen in der nordafrikanischen Region Thugga im 6. und 7. Jahrhundert 

Philipp Margreiter 

Byzanz und die euromediterranen Kriegskulturen  - Band 007

Im 6. und 7. Jahrhundert entstand in der nordafrikanischen Region Thugga (heutiges Tunesien) durch den Bau von Festungen, Fortifikationen, Stadtmauern und Wachtürmen eine befestigte Landschaft. Der urbane Ballungsraum des Untersuchungsgebiets gehörte zu den reichsten Regionen des römischen Nordafrikas. Philipp Margreiter zeigt auf, welche Rollen und Nutzungsmöglichkeiten die verschiedenen Fortifikationen in der Transformation des spätantiken Siedlungswesens spielten und welche Anpassungsstrategien daraus folgten. Daneben untersucht er bei den einzelnen Festungen Bauprozesse und Materialressourcen anhand von Spolien, um Auswahl- und Entscheidungsprozesse während der Errichtung nachvollziehen zu können. Damit zeigt dieser Band erstmals die Einbettung byzantinischer Fortifikationen einer nordafrikanischen Region in eine landschaftsarchäologische Untersuchung. Diese Herangehensweise ist dabei auch auf andere Regionen des byzantinischen Nordafrikas anwendbar und kann für zukünftige archäologische Forschungsvorhaben im heutigen Maghreb eine Orientierung sein.

This book examines the development of a fortified landscape in the North African region of Thugga (present-day Tunisia) through the construction of forts, fortifications, city walls and watchtowers in the 6th and 7th centuries. The urban agglomeration of the study area included numerous towns, village settlements and agricultural homesteads as well as imperial estates and was one of the richest regions of Roman North Africa. The book shows the role and possible uses of the various fortifications in the transformation of the Late Antique settlement system and the resulting adaptation strategies. It also examines the construction processes and material resources of the individual fortifications on the basis of spolia in order to understand the selection and decision-making processes during their construction. This is the first book to show how Byzantine fortifications in a North African region were embedded in a landscape archaeological study. This approach can be applied to other regions of Byzantine North Africa and should serve as a model for future archaeological research projects in the contemporary Maghreb.

Sprache: Deutsch

618 Seiten, mit 520 Abbildungen, Onlinequelle (E-Library)

ISBN: 978-3-7370-1905-7

V&R unipress, Mainz University Press, 1. Auflage 202

 

Open Access Journal: Aquileia Nostra

 [First posted in AWOL 6 November 2023, updated 18 February 2026]

 

Aquileia Nostra

Associazione Nazionale per Aquileia

Aquileia Nostra 93 (2022)

Permanent URI

https://www.openstarts.units.it/handle/10077/36493

Indice

Matteo Cadario
Editoriale «Aquileia Nostra» 2022

Articoli

Alfredo Buonopane
Un eques, historiarum scriptor, in un’iscrizione dal territorio di Aquileia

Antonio Dell’Acqua
Un capitello con Schildbüsten da Aquileia: ricerche d’archivio e contesto architettonico

Lorena Zanin
Some considerations on the cult of Hercules between the Adriatic and Noricum

Michele Asolati
Il primo medaglione della zecca di Aquileia

Ludovico Rebaudo, Alessandra Didonè
I primi scavi ad Aquileia sotto il controllo statale austriaco (1815-1831). 2. Le campagne a sud e a nord-ovest della Basilica, a sud-ovest del foro e presso la chiesa dei Santi Felice e Fortunato

Valeria Boi, Massimo Braini, Ada Gabucci
Un nuovo strumento per la conoscenza e la tutela del territorio: il GNA e la carta archeologica di Trieste

Aquileia Nostra 1930-2020

Fulvia Ciliberto
La scultura attraverso «Aquileia Nostra» (1930-2020)

Paola Maggi, Flaviana Oriolo
‘Fuori’ Aquileia. Ricerche e studi per la conoscenza del territorio del Friuli Venezia Giulia in età romana

Norme redazionali

 

 

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Chroma: Ancient Sculpture in Color

Chroma: Ancient Sculpture in Color

 

Ancient Greek and Roman sculpture was once colorful, vibrantly painted and richly adorned with detailed ornamentation. Chroma: Ancient Sculpture in Color reveals the colorful backstory of polychromy—meaning “many colors,” in Greek—and presents new discoveries of surviving ancient color on artworks in The Met’s world-class collection. Exploring the practices and materials used in ancient polychromy, the exhibition highlights cutting-edge scientific methods used to identify ancient color and examines how color helped convey meaning in antiquity, and how ancient polychromy has been viewed and understood in later periods.

The exhibition features a series of reconstructions of ancient sculptures in color by Prof. Dr. V. Brinkmann, Head of the Department of Antiquity at the Liebieghaus Skulpturensammlung, and Dr. U. Koch-Brinkmann, and introduces a new reconstruction of The Met’s Archaic-period Sphinx finial, completed by The Liebieghaus team in collaboration with The Met.Presented alongside original Greek and Roman works representing similar subjects, the reconstructions are the result of a wide array of analytical techniques, including 3D imaging and rigorous art historical research. Polychromy is a significant area of study for The Met, and the Museum has a long history of investigating, preserving, and presenting manifestations of original color on ancient statuary.

The exhibition is made possible by the Aretê Foundation/Betsy and Ed Cohen.

Additional support is provided by Mary Jaharis and Cathrin M. Stickney and Mark P. Gorenberg.

This exhibition is organized by The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, in collaboration with the Liebieghaus Sculpture Collection, Frankfurt am Main.

 

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Greek WordNet

 Greek WordNet

 

The Ancient Greek WordNet is an on-going collaboration between the Center for Hellenic Studies, the University of Exeter, and the University of Pavia, under the joint direction of William Michael Short, Alexander Forte, James Tauber, and Silvia Luraghi to create a comprehensive lexico-semantic database of the Greek language. It is intended to model Greek's semantic system as fully and accurately as possible, in a form that is machine-interpretable and machine-actionable, and thus suitable to NLP applications of different kinds, especially in the area of natural language understanding.

Adopting methodology from cognitive linguistics, this project also seeks to provide the lexicographical basis for the wider study of metaphor and metonymy across languages. The diachronic orientation of the database begins with the language of Mycenaean and of the Homeric epics, with planned chronological extension into the Classical, Hellenistic, and Roman periods.

This project builds on, and extends, original work carried out by Federico Boschetti, Riccardo Del Gratta and others at the Institute for Computational Linguistics “A. Zampolli”, CNR of Pisa, Italy, as well as by Harry Diakoff, under the auspices of the Alpheios Project, with Chiara Zanchi serving as technical coordinator.

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Almanach archéologique (Donetsk)

Almanach archéologique (Donetsk)

Publié le 17 février 2026 par Th. Castelli

Cette publication ukrainienne du Musée régional d’histoire locale de Donetsk Археологический альманах / Arkheologicheskij al’manakh née en 1993 a cessé de paraître après 2015 et l’intensification du conflit dans la région. Elle publie à la fois des recueils d’articles sur un thème et des monographies en lien avec la Crimée et la région du Donbass.

La revue en ligne : https://nasplib.isofts.kiev.ua/communities/419e9d68-293f-42b8-a8e1-88e371d81dc8/subcoms-cols