Processions and the Construction of Communities in Antiquity

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.