Abstract Aelian offers a curious example of how comedy was tied to religion during the Second Sophistic. He describes votive relief dedicated by Old Comic poet Theopompus Asclepius, which he interprets as symbol genre (Theopomp. Com. test. 2 PCG = Ael. fr. 102 Domingo-Forasté). My article situates this passage within style and purpose Aelian’s miscellanies, in order explore transforms it into l...

The social sciences have long recognized a relationship between religion and ecology. Upon closer inspection, religious systems not only correspond to important features of society’s ecology, but also appear directly address these features. In this article, we examine the prospect that salient may be framed as game theoretical dilemmas argue contemporary approaches emphasize cognition and/or le...

There is belief in South Indian villages that epidemics are due to evil spirits surrounding the villages. The propitiating of Gods and Goddesses to get rid of diseases in these villages are discussed. The Christian and Muslin traditions to cure the diseases by practising religion are also discussed.

If the ancients’ identification of Nergal with the planet Mars has a rational basis, it will provide us with an invaluable foundation upon which to launch a comparative analysis of ancient mythology. Nearly every ancient culture of which we have sufficient record has preserved traditions of a great war-god whose primary functions included leading the battle-charge and defending the kingdom agai...

darius offered the political order of “king of kings” to solve the political crisis of his era. he legitimized it based on an order of gods. in his belief, the nature of politics was based on a dualistic religious worldview that is the fight between true divinity and false divinity’s will and performance in the world. in addition, the chief true divinity’s law was introduced as the principle or...