Book Launch: "Der Neue Pauly Supplemente Volume 15: Antike Religion im Kontext/Ancient Religion in Context."

This Pauly Supplement volume explores religious practices of the Greco-Roman world in 86 articles in English and German, covering topics ranging from ancestors and asceticism to weaving and widows. The articles focus on religious acts or their meanings for ancient actors in a variety of areas and situations of social interaction. Combining encyclopedic information and essayistic overviews, they describe how people in the ancient Mediterranean world used religion routinely, unconsciously or consciously, exceptionally or strategically. Ancient religion is presented in this volume as “lived religion,” as “ancient religion in context.”

Jan N. Bremmer, Georgia Petridou, Jörg Rüpke
Antike Religion im Kontext / Ancient Religion in Context

J.B. Metzler Verlag
Publication: May 2026
ISBN: 978-3-662-73231-1