Series | Antiquity Studies
Edited book | Languages, Objects, and the Transmission of Rituals
Chapter | Heterogeneity and Rituals

Heterogeneity and Rituals

The Means of Transmission of Knowledge and Contacts between Cultures

The international project Multima. Languages, objects, and the transmission of the rituals. An interdisciplinary analysis of some unresearched ritual practices in the Greco-Egyptian papyri (PGM) aims at exploring contacts between cultures, languages and rituals in Antiquity, starting from

a composite material whose heterogeneity is analysed as a basic element and a bearer of meaning. The study of manuals of ritual practices, summae and encyclopaedias ante litteram of knowledge and skills allows to develop new and interdisciplinary suggestions for the history of ideas and the beginnings of scientific thought.



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Submitted: Nov. 8, 2016 | Accepted: Dec. 8, 2016 | Published: July 12, 2017 | Language: en

Keywords PGM Antiquity Rituals History of religions Greece and Egypt Transmission of knowledge


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