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https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/45918| Title: | The cult of Hercules in Roman Malta : a discussion of the evidence |
| Authors: | Bonanno, Anthony |
| Keywords: | Heracles (Greek mythological character) -- Cult -- Malta -- History Juno (Roman deity) Hera (Greek deity) Romans -- Malta Temple of Proserpina (Mtarfa, Malta) Inscriptions -- Malta Cippi of Melqart (Malta) Architecture, Punic -- Malta -- Zurrieq Ras ir-Raheb (Rabat, Malta) Excavations (Archaeology) -- Malta -- Rabat Zammit, Themistocles, 1864-1935 |
| Issue Date: | 2016 |
| Publisher: | Malta Classics Association |
| Citation: | Bonanno, A. (2016). The cult of Hercules in Roman Malta: a discussion of the evidence. Melita Classica, 3, 243-263. |
| Abstract: | It appears that the veneration of the divinity known in the Greco-Roman world as Heracles/Hercules precedes the absorption of the Maltese islands into the Roman commonwealth in 218 B.C. Admittedly, all our evidence belongs chronologically to after that fateful event, but its nature suggests that the divinity with attributes similar to those of the Greco-Roman divinity, namely Melqart (his Punic equivalent) was already incorporated in the religious belief system of the Maltese inhabitants, making it easier for them to absorb the new god with the old one. |
| URI: | https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/45918 |
| ISBN: | 9789995784744 |
| Appears in Collections: | Scholarly Works - FacArtCA |
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