Urban Religion in Roman Corinth
Daniel N. Schowalter and Steven J. Friesen
Number of quotes: 8
Book ID: 283 Page: 27
Section: 5D
Footnote Greece was not converted into a province until 46 B.C.E. under Julius Caesar, and then again in 27 B.C.E. under Augustus.
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Book ID: 283 Page: 111
Section: 2E3
That freshwater springs were considered sacred in the Greco-Roman world...
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Book ID: 283 Page: 112
Section: 2E3
...yet for the Roman period, neither archaeology nor history provides evidence that springs were a focus of organized religious activity.
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Book ID: 283 Page: 112
Section: 5D
The fountains of Peirene and Glauke provide fascinating case studies in the monumental history of Corinth in the early Roman period (figs. 4.1 and 4.2, pp. 114-15). The two structures were “survivors” from pre-Roman Corinth, resuscitated soon after the refoundation of the city as a Roman colony. Both were high-capacity fountains that must have served as primary watering points in Roman Corinth, a city that would be noted for being “well watered,” as it had been since the Archaic period.
Quote ID: 7183
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Book ID: 283 Page: 118
Section: 5D
Indeed, Euripides must have been imagining the situation of his times when, in the Medea, he depicted “sacred” or “hallowed” Peirene as a busy city fountain, where old men sat playing games, talking and watching the traffic of water-bearers.
Quote ID: 7185
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Book ID: 283 Page: 205
Section: 5D
Corinth is called “wealthy” because of its commerce, since it is situated on the Isthmus and is master of two harbours. . . . The temple of Aphrodite was so rich that it owned more than a thousand temple-slaves (ιεροδούλος), courtesans (έταίρας), whom both men and women had dedicated to the goddess. And therefore it was also on account of these women that the city was crowded with people and grew rich; for instance, the ship-captains freely squandered their money, and hence the proverb, “Not for every man is the voyage to Corinth.” Strabo, Geography 8.6.20
Quote ID: 7187
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Book ID: 283 Page: 213
Section: 5D
Every woman who lives in that country must once in her lifetime go to the temple of Aphrodite and sit there and be lain by a strange man. . . . When once a woman has taken her seat there, she may not go home again until one of the strangers throws a piece of silver into her lap and lies with her, outside of the temple. . . . Once she has lain with him, she has fulfilled her obligation to the goddess and gets gone to her home. in Corinth
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Book ID: 283 Page: 288
Section: 2A3
Roman death cult gives the best examples of the tomb as permanent dwelling place, with its annual banquets at the tombs of the dead on their birthdays (dies natalis); at the Rosalia in May, which was not specifically a festival of the dead; and at the Parentalia in February, which was.
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