Das Mittelmeer als handelnde Person der Geschichte: Wie die klima­tisch-geographische Lebenswelt Menschen und Religionen prägt

How Do We Explain the Quiet Demise of Graeco-Roman Religion? An Essay

“…Whereas Rüpke has mostly worked on Rome and Roman religion, Rives has concentrated more on the Greek part of the Roman Empire. In this respect, the two studies complement one another well and enable us to have a more balanced view of an area that, to be sure, was connected by the Mediterranean (Woolf 2003;Auffarth 2016;Leppin 2017b), but that nevertheless remained dominated in the West by its Roman background and in the East by Greek culture. We must remain conscious of the important cultural and religious differences in the Empire, as these would last into and perhaps become even more pronounced in Late Antiquity.…”