Religious texts of Antiquity: Classical World and Ancient Near East
Scientic Supervisor / Contact Person
Name and Surname
Juan Antonio Álvarez-Pedrosa
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Localization & Research Area
Faculty / Institute
Faculty of Language Studies
Department
Classics
Research Area
Social Sciences and Humanities (SOC)
MSCA & ERC experience
Research group / research team hosted any MSCA fellow?
No
Research group / research team have any ERC beneficiaries?
No
Research Team & Research Topic
Research Team / Research Group Name (if any)
Religious texts of Antiquity: Classical World and Ancient Near East
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Brief description of the Research Team / Research Group / Department
The team of the Research Group Religious Texts of Antiquity: Classical World and Near East is made up of a group of researchers, all of them belonging to the Department of Classical Philology of the UCM, who work on religious texts of the Classical World and of ancient Indo-European religions, in particular religions of the Indian, Iranian and Slavic sphere.
Research lines / projects proposed
Religious texts of Antiquity
Cosmogonies of Classical Antiquity and the Near and Indo-European East
Eschatologies of Classical Antiquity and the Near and Indo-European East
Christianisation processes in Ancient and Medieval Europe
Linguistic, cultural and religious relations between Iran and the Classical World during the periods of the Achaemenid Empire and the Parthian Empire.
Orphism, Dionysianism and the birth of salvation religions in Classical Greece.
Epigraphy and religions of the Iberian Peninsula before Romanisation.
Magic in Greco-Roman Egypt.
Orality and writing in ancient texts.
Cosmogonies of Classical Antiquity and the Near and Indo-European East
Eschatologies of Classical Antiquity and the Near and Indo-European East
Christianisation processes in Ancient and Medieval Europe
Linguistic, cultural and religious relations between Iran and the Classical World during the periods of the Achaemenid Empire and the Parthian Empire.
Orphism, Dionysianism and the birth of salvation religions in Classical Greece.
Epigraphy and religions of the Iberian Peninsula before Romanisation.
Magic in Greco-Roman Egypt.
Orality and writing in ancient texts.
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