Steinhauer, Julietta; (2024) Religion in Context: Graeco-Roman Religious Practises in their Socio-Cultural Milieu (Der Neue Pauly Supplements), Lemma 'Family, continuation' (4000 words entry). In: Brill's New Pauly - Supplements. Brill: Leiden, Netherlands. (In press).

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This article focuses on the extended family of real and imagined kinship represented for example by the institutions of the genos/gene in Athens and the gens in Rome. It focuses on the immediate importance of the membership in such a kinship group for families and its religious implications in communities. Section II, (1) summarises what we know about these kinship groups and briefly sketches out the current scholarly debate, (2) analyses the religious benefits that were attached to the membership in a kinship group or achieved by claimed family lineage going back to divine ancestors, and discusses the trend to align oneself with local mythology,. Section (3) looks at the making of meaning that went hand in hand with the claim to divine origins, especially after the Classical period. It looks at cases in which an appropriated or invented family relation provided the claimant with legitimation of rule and authority within a city and beyond, as for example the Attalids in Pergamum and the Iulii in Rome.

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