دانلود کتاب The Page World: Ancient Religions before Christianity (course guidebook)

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Introduction
Professor Biography
Table of Contents
Course Scope
Lecture Guides
Lecture 1—Early Pagan Religion in Mesopotamia 
Ancient Mesopotamian Civilizations
The Mesopotamian Creation Epic
The Myth in Context
Lecture 2—The Rigveda and the Gods of Ancient India
Vedic Religion
Ancient Indian Gods
The Creation of the Universe
The Origin of Sacrifice
Lecture 3—State Religion in Ancient Egypt  
Ancient Egyptian Religion and History
Egyptian Divinities
Sites of Creation
Lecture 4—From Myth to Religion: The Olympian Deities  
Zeus: Angry Father and Strongman
Worship of Zeus on Earth
Temples of Zeus
Connections to Myth and Literature
Lecture 5—Household and Local Gods in Ancient Greece  
Gods of the House
Serving the Gods of the House
Religious Responsibilities of Family Members
Lecture 6—Feeding the Gods: Sacrificial Religion  
Elements of Sacrifice
Sacrifice in the Rigveda
Human Sacrifice
Lecture 7—Prayers, Vows, Divination, and Omens  
Prayers and Vows
Divination and Omens
Lecture 8—Delphi and Other Greek Sanctuaries  
Delphi: Site of the Famous Oracle of Apollo
Other Major Sanctuaries
Lecture 9—Cults and Mystery Religions  
Athena, Goddess of the City of Athens
Demeter, Goddess of Grain
Dionysus, God of Intoxication
Lecture 10—Philosophical Critiques of Paganism  
Plato’s Critiques
Earlier Philosophical Critiques
Other Philosophical Schools of Thought
Ancient Skepticism and Atheism
Lecture 11—Greek Funerary Practices and the Afterlife  
Graves of the Mycenaean Bronze Age
How the Bereaved Dealt with the Dead
Worship of Ancestral Spirits
Lecture 12—Egyptian Influences on Ancient Religion  
Egyptian Texts of the Afterlife
The Democratization of Death
Spells for the Egyptian Afterlife
Lecture 13—Ancient Roman Ancestor Worship  
Death in the Rigveda
Roman Conceptions of the Fate of the Dead
Lecture 14—Gods of the Roman Household  
Household Deities
Men’s Role in Household Worship
Women and Domestic Ceremonies
Lecture 15—Gods of the Roman State  
The Pantheon of the Roman City-State
Jupiter and the Founding of Rome
Juno, a Goddess of Women
Lecture 16—Priests and Ceremonies in the Roman Republic  
The College of Pontiffs
Vestal Priestesses
Roman Priesthoods
Lecture 17—Religion, Politics, and War in Rome  
Auspices and Augury
The Sibylline Oracles
Lecture 18—Rome’s Reactions to Foreign Religions  
The Interpretation of Portents and Signs
The Cult of Bacchus
Celtic versus German Religion
Lecture 19—The Roman Calendar and Sacred Days  
Roman Influences on Our Calendar
Religious Influences
Lecture 20—Julius Caesar: A Turning Point in Roman Religion  
Caesar’s Political World
Caesar’s Life during Civil War
Caesar’s Political Career
Lecture 21—Emperor Worship in Rome  
The Deification of Julius Caesar
Gaius Octavius’s Rise to Power
Worship of the Living Ruler
Lecture 22—Zoroastrians, Jews, and Christians  
Ancient Iranian Religion
Roman Judaea
The Rise of Christianity from within Judaism
Lecture 23—Popular Religions of Late Antiquity  
The Persecution of Christians
The Worship of Isis
Mithraism and Manichaeism
Lecture 24—The End of Paganism in the Roman Empire  
The Triumph of Christianity
Constantine as the Turning Point
Christianity as the Official State Religion
Supplementary Materials
Bibliography
Image Credits