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Located in the small kingdom of Commagene at the upper Euphrates, the late Hellenistic monument of Nemrud Dağ (c.50 BC) has been undeservedly neglected by scholars. Qualified as a Greco-Persian hybrid instigated by a lunatic king, this fascinating project of bricolage has been written out of history. This volume redresses that imbalance, interpreting Nemrud Dağ as an attempt at canon building by Antiochos I in order to construct a dynastic ideology and social order, and proving the monument's importance for our understanding of a crucial transitional phase from Hellenistic to Roman. Hellenistic Commagene therefore holds a profound significance for a number of discussions, such as the functioning of the Hellenistic koine and the genesis of Roman 'art', Hellenism and Persianism in antiquity, dynastic propaganda and the power of images, Romanisation in the East, the contextualising of the Augustan cultural revolution, and the role of Greek culture in the Roman world.

Antiquities. --- Hellenism. --- Hellénisme --- Antiochus --- Middle East --- Turkey --- Nemrut Dagi Mound (Turkey) --- Commagene --- Nemrut Dagi (Turquie) --- Commagène --- Antiquités --- Excavations (Archaeology) --- Tomb. --- Nemrut Dağı Mound (Turkey). --- Hellénisme --- Nemrut Dağı Mound (Turkey) --- Nemrut Daği (Turquie) --- Commagène --- Antiquités --- Mounds --- Tumulus --- Nemrut Dağı (Turquie) --- Religion --- Sepulchral monuments --- Funeral monuments --- Funerary monuments --- Graves --- Gravestones --- Memorial tablets --- Tablets, Memorial --- Tombstones --- Monuments --- Kommagene --- Comagene --- Komagen --- Nemroudh Dagh Mound (Turkey) --- Nemrud Dağ Mound (Turkey) --- Nemrut Dağı Site (Turkey) --- Antiquities

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How does a culture become Christian, especially one that is heir to such ancient traditions and spectacular monuments as Egypt? This book offers a new model for envisioning the process of Christianization by looking at the construction of Christianity in the various social and creative worlds active in Egyptian culture during late antiquity.As David Frankfurter shows, members of these different social and creative worlds came to create different forms of Christianity according to their specific interests, their traditional idioms, and their sense of what the religion could offer. Reintroducing the term "syncretism" for the inevitable and continuous process by which a religion is acculturated, the book addresses the various formations of Egyptian Christianity that developed in the domestic sphere, the worlds of holy men and saints' shrines, the work of craftsmen and artisans, the culture of monastic scribes, and the reimagination of the landscape itself, through processions, architecture, and the potent remains of the past.Drawing on sermons and magical texts, saints' lives and figurines, letters and amulets, and comparisons with Christianization elsewhere in the Roman empire and beyond, Christianizing Egypt reconceives religious change-from the "conversion" of hearts and minds to the selective incorporation and application of strategies for protection, authority, and efficacy, and for imagining the environment.

Syncretism (Religion) --- Christianity and other religions --- Egyptian. --- Egypt --- Religion --- Acolyte. --- Amulet. --- Ancient Egypt. --- Ancient Egyptian deities. --- Apocalypse of Elijah. --- Apotropaic magic. --- Archaeology. --- Basilica. --- Burial. --- Caesarius of Arles. --- Cemetery. --- Ceremony. --- Christian art. --- Christian demonology. --- Christian media. --- Christian monasticism. --- Christian theology. --- Christian tradition. --- Christianity. --- Christianization. --- Clergy. --- Deity. --- Demonization. --- Demonology. --- Divination. --- Epigraphy. --- Exorcism. --- Figurine. --- God. --- Hagiography. --- Harpocrates. --- Heathenry (new religious movement). --- Homily. --- Household. --- Iconography. --- Ideology. --- Image of God. --- Incense. --- Jews. --- John Chrysostom. --- Laity. --- Late Antiquity. --- Literature. --- Liturgy. --- Lord's Prayer. --- Magical texts. --- Mamre. --- Martin Classical Lectures. --- Martyr. --- Menouthis. --- Michael (archangel). --- Modernity. --- Monastery. --- Monasticism. --- Mummy. --- Mural. --- Names of God in Judaism. --- Narrative. --- New Christian. --- Nomina sacra. --- Oberlin College. --- Orthodoxy. --- Oxyrhynchus. --- Paganism. --- Piety. --- Pottery. --- Prayer. --- Procession. --- Prophets of Christianity. --- Relic. --- Religion. --- Religious conversion. --- Religious identity. --- Religious order. --- Religious orientation. --- Religious text. --- Reuse. --- Rite. --- Roman Empire. --- Routledge. --- Saint. --- Sermon. --- Shai. --- Shenoute. --- Shrine. --- Stele. --- Syncretism. --- Terracotta. --- The Monastery. --- The Various. --- Theocracy. --- Tomb. --- Tradition. --- Upper Egypt. --- V. --- Veneration. --- Votive offering. --- Worship. --- Wreath. --- Writing.