Divine Epiphany In Greek Literature And Culture

Author : Georgia Petridou
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0191035858
Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Divine Epiphany in Greek Literature and Culture written by Georgia Petridou and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016-01-28 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In ancient Greece, epiphanies were embedded in cultural production, and employed by the socio-political elite in both perpetuating pre-existing power-structures and constructing new ones. This volume is the first comprehensive survey of the history of divine epiphany as presented in the literary and epigraphic narratives of the Greek-speaking world. It demonstrates that divine epiphanies not only reveal what the Greeks thought about their gods; they tell us just as much about the preoccupations, the preconceptions, and the assumptions of ancient Greek religion and culture. In doing so, it explores the deities who were prone to epiphany and the contexts in which they manifested themselves, as well as the functions (narratives and situational) they served, addressing the cultural specificity of divine morphology and mortal-immortal interaction. Divine Epiphany in Greek Literature and Culture re-establishes epiphany as a crucial mode in Greek religious thought and practice, underlines its centrality in Greek cultural production, and foregrounds its impact on both the political and the societal organization of the ancient Greeks.

Author : Jan Bremmer
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9047432711
Total Pages : 444 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Greek Religion and Culture, the Bible and the Ancient Near East written by Jan Bremmer and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2008-04-30 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book greatly enhances our knowledge of the interrelationship of Greek religion & culture and the Ancient Near East by offering important analyses of Greek myths, divinities and terms like ‘magic’ and 'paradise', but also of the Greek contribution to the Christian notion of atonement.

Author : Verity Jane Platt
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521861713
Total Pages : 501 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Facing the Gods written by Verity Jane Platt and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-07-28 with total page 501 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores divine manifestations and their representations not only in art, but also in literature, histories and inscriptions. The cultural analysis of epiphany is set within a historical framework that examines its development from the archaic period through the Hellenistic world and into the Roman Empire.

Author : Georgia Petridou
Publisher :
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Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book On Divine Epiphanies written by Georgia Petridou and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Esther Eidinow
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191058076
Total Pages : 736 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion written by Esther Eidinow and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2015-10-01 with total page 736 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This handbook offers both students and teachers of ancient Greek religion a comprehensive overview of the current state of scholarship in the subject, from the Archaic to the Hellenistic periods. It not only presents key information, but also explores the ways in which such information is gathered and the different approaches that have shaped the area. In doing so, the volume provides a crucial research and orientation tool for students of the ancient world, and also makes a vital contribution to the key debates surrounding the conceptualization of ancient Greek religion. The handbook's initial chapters lay out the key dimensions of ancient Greek religion, approaches to evidence, and the representations of myths. The following chapters discuss the continuities and differences between religious practices in different cultures, including Egypt, the Near East, the Black Sea, and Bactria and India. The range of contributions emphasizes the diversity of relationships between mortals and the supernatural - in all their manifestations, across, between, and beyond ancient Greek cultures - and draws attention to religious activities as dynamic, highlighting how they changed over time, place, and context.

Author : Michael Lipka
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110638851
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Epiphanies and Dreams in Greek Polytheism written by Michael Lipka and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2021-12-06 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While modern students of Greek religion are alert to the occasion-boundedness of epiphanies and divinatory dreams in Greek polytheism, they are curiously indifferent to the generic parameters of the relevant textual representations on which they build their argument. Instead, generic questions are normally left to the literary critic, who in turn is less interested in religion. To evaluate the relation of epiphanies and divinatory dreams to Greek polytheism, the book investigates relevant representations through all major textual genres in pagan antiquity. The evidence of the investigated genres suggests that the ‘epiphany-mindedness’ of the Greeks, postulated by most modern critics, is largely an academic chimaera, a late-comer of Christianizing 19th-century-scholarship. It is primarily founded on a misinterpretation of Homer’s notorious anthropomorphism (in the Iliad and Odyssey but also in the Homeric Hymns). This anthropomorphism, which is keenly absorbed by Greek drama and figural art, has very little to do with the religious lifeworld experience of the ancient Greeks, as it appears in other genres. By contrast, throughout all textual genres investigated here, divinatory dreams are represented as an ordinary and real part of the ancient Greeks' lifeworld experience.

Author : Michael Squire
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317515382
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sight and the Ancient Senses written by Michael Squire and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-12-22 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is to Greek critical thinking about seeing that we owe our conceptual framework for theorizing the senses, and it is also to such thinking that we owe the lasting legacy of Greco-Roman imagery. Sight and the Ancient Senses is the first thorough introduction to the conceptualization of sight in the history, visual culture, literature and philosophy of classical antiquity. Examining how the Greeks and Romans interpreted what they saw, the collection also considers sight in relation to the other senses. This volume brings together a number of interdisciplinary perspectives to deliver a broad and balanced coverage of this subject. Contributors explore the cultural, social and intellectual backdrops that gave rise to ancient theories of seeing, from Archaic Greece through to the advent of Christianity in late antiquity. This series of specially commissioned thematic chapters demonstrate how theories about sight informed Graeco-Roman philosophy, science, poetry rhetoric and art. The collection also reaches beyond its Graeco-Roman visual framework, showcasing how ancient ideas have influenced the longue durée of western sensory thinking. Richly illustrated throughout, including a section of color plates, Sight and the Ancient Senses is a wide-ranging introduction to ancient theories of seeing which will be an invaluable resource for students and scholars of classical antiquity.

Author : Anders Klostergaard Petersen
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004323139
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Religio-Philosophical Discourses in the Mediterranean World written by Anders Klostergaard Petersen and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2017-03-13 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This first volume of the new Brill series “Ancient Philosophy & Religion” offers analyses of Platonic philosophy and piety, the emergence of a common religio-philosophical discourse in Antiquity, the place of Jesus among ancient philosophers, and responses of pagan philosophers to Christianity from the second century to Late Antiquity.

Author : Esther Eidinow
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316515338
Total Pages : 315 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cognitive Approaches to Ancient Religious Experience written by Esther Eidinow and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-08-11 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the religious rituals and beliefs of ancient Greece and Rome, using modern research into human cognition to better understand the experiences of men and women. Integrates literary, epigraphic, visual and archaeological evidence. Accessible to those without prior knowledge either of cognitive theory or of the ancient world.

Author : Michael Champion
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 135180331X
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cultural Perceptions of Violence in the Hellenistic World written by Michael Champion and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-04-21 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Violence had long been central to the experience of Hellenistic Greek cities and to their civic discourses. This volume asks how these discourses were shaped and how they functioned within the particular cultural constructs of the Hellenistic world. It was a period in which warfare became more professionalised, and wars increasingly ubiquitous. The period also saw major changes in political structures that led to political and cultural experimentation and transformation in which the political and cultural heritage of the classical city-state encountered the new political principles and cosmopolitan cultures of Hellenism. Finally, and in a similar way, it saw expanded opportunities for cultural transfer in cities through (re)constructions of urban space. Violence thus entered the city through external military and political shocks, as well as within emerging social hierarchies and civic institutions. Such factors also inflected economic activity, religious practices and rituals, and the artistic, literary and philosophical life of the polis.