Richard L. Gordon (editor) - Beyond Priesthood: Religious Entrepreneurs and Innovators in the Roman Empire

Beyond Priesthood

Religionsgeschichtliche Versuche und Vorarbeiten

Herausgegeben von

Jrg Rpke und Christoph Uehlinger

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Almost all the chapters included in this volume were delivered in one form or other at an international conference entitled Beyond Duty: Interacting with religious professionals and appropriating tradition in the Imperial Era held in Erfurt at the Augustinerkloster, 1416 January, 2015. The conference was organised as part of the research project Lived Ancient Religion: Questioning cults and polis religion , directed by Jrg Rpke and Rubina Raja at the Max Weber Center for Advanced Cultural and Social Studies (University of Erfurt), and has been generously funded by the European Research Council (Seventh Framework programme [FP7/2013], grant agreement no. 295555).

We would like to express our warm thanks to the support staff of the Max Weber Center (Max-Weber-Kolleg), in particular Ursula Birtel-Koltes and Doreen Hochberg, whose assistance in the organisation of the event was invaluable. We are also grateful to five of the original participants, Francesco Camia, Franoise Van Haeperen, Paraskevi Martzavou, Ivana and Andrej Petrovic, for their oral contributions, although their papers are not included here.

The editorial board of Religionsgeschichtliche Versuche und Vorarbeiten has kindly agreed to include this volume in the series, while the de Gruyter editorial team has, as always, been extremely supportive during the production of the volume. Finally, we would like to thank Nannette Wrbach for her assistance with the formatting of this volume.

Richard L. Gordon

Georgia Petridou

Jrg Rpke

Abbreviations of Greek and Latin authors, literary texts and collections (Christian inclusive, where applicable) follow those of Simon Hornblower, Anthony Spawforth, and Esther Eidinow, eds., The Oxford Classical Dictionary , Oxford 20124, or sometimes, failing that, Liddell-Scott-Jones-McKenzie, A Greek-English Lexicon , Oxford 19409, with Supplement (1996) and G.W.H. Lampe, A Patristic Greek Lexicon , Oxford 1961, but may be expanded, if it seemed advisable, for the sake of clarity. The reader is assumed to have access to these works. Abbreviations of main epigraphic corpora follow Franois Brard et al., eds., Guide de l pigraphiste: Bibliographie choisie des pigraphies antiques et mdivales , Paris 2010, 1920; those of papyrological corpora are taken from Checklist of Editions of Greek, Latin, Demotic, and Coptic Papyri, Ostraca and Tablets , web edition (Duke University Libraries).

Other abbreviations used in the volume are:

In general, we have allowed contributors to choose their own preferred forms of transliteration from Greek: some provide no indication of vowel-length, some have marked the long vowels (in different ways), others are concerned to indicate the accents. We have also not interfered with authors habits regarding the transcription of ancient names. In view of the different disciplinary backgrounds of the contributors, we have thought it best to spell out the names of scholarly journals for ease of reference.