Processions and the Construction of Communities in Antiquity

Elena Muñiz-Grijalvo is a Professor of Ancient History, at the Universidad Pablo de Olavide (Seville). She works on different aspects of ancient Mediterranean religions. Her publications include Himnos a Isis (Trotta 2006), Ruling the Greek World (Franz Steiner 2015), Empire and Religion: Religious Change in Greek Cities under Roman Rule (Brill 2017), and Understanding Integration in the Roman World (Brill 2023). Alberto del Campo Tejedor is Professor of Social Anthropology at the Universidad Pablo de Olavide (Seville) and author of 22 books and more than a hundred papers focused on religion, ritual, sports, symbolism, humour, and oral literature.

1. Introduction, Elena Muñiz-Grijalvo and Alberto del Campo Tejedor; 2. Peisistratus’ Processional Performance: Between Ritual, Symbolic Action, and Strategy, Georgia Petridou; 3. Processing women and maidens in Greece: appearances and appartenances, Annalisa Lo Monaco; 4. The women of the domus Augusta in processions and ceremonies (1st-3rd century CE), Patrizia Arena; 5. Pompa funebris: Collective experience and political power in the shadow of death, Soi Agelidis; 6. Long and winding roads. Imperial funeral processions to the city of Rome under Augustus and Tiberius, Ida Östenberg; 7. Toward the imperial cult: the hellenistic processions as forerunners?, Elena Calandra; 8. Processions and the construction of Roman imperial power, Elena Muñiz-Grijalvo; 9. Rituals and processions in the empress Irene’s justification of power (780-802), Héctor González Palacios; 10. The processions in honour of the Mater Magna and the construction of Roman identity (3rd BCE - 4th century CE), Sylvia Estienne; 11. Ritual-feast Mockery and Humiliation during Roman Triumphs. Functions and Meanings of ioci militares from a Cultural-Historical Perspective, Alberto del Campo Tejedor; 12. The first Christian processions in Milan, Pedro Giménez de Aragón Sierra; 13. Holy Week in Huelva: an urban ritual drama, José Carlos Mancha Castro; 14. A comparative study of processions: the Baroque feast of Corpus Christi, Islamic Morocco and historicist Rome, José Antonio González Alcantud; 15. Ancient and Modern Processions at the Limits of Isaac Casaubon’s Patience, Juan Ramón Ballesteros Sánchez.