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Author : Vinciane Pirenne-Delforge
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 482 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Héros et héroïnes dans les mythes et les cultes grecs written by Vinciane Pirenne-Delforge and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Kerasia Stratiki
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 828 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (493 download)
Download or read book Le culte des héroïnes et des héros grecs à travers la Périégèse de Pausanias written by Kerasia Stratiki and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 828 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: En tant que figures intermédiaires entre le divin et l’humain, et entre la politique et la religion, les héroïnes et les héros grecs sont des divinités très complexes. Même si le terme « religion » est absent du vocabulaire grec ancien, les croyances et les pratiques cultuelles en usage ne sauraient être désignées autrement par le vocabulaire moderne. Nous appelons politiques, les héros qui jouent un rôle central dans la structure de l’histoire (et du mythe, encore que les Grecs anciens ne séparent pas ces deux notions) des cités grecques. Et religieux, ceux dont le mythe et le culte sont étroitement liés aux besoins des citoyens grecs et aux moments cruciaux de leur vie humaine, palliant la faiblesse qui caractérise la nature mortelle, ou encore à l’organisation d’un culte particulier. En tenant compte de la pluralité culturelle du culte héroïque grec et des valeurs ethnographiques et descriptives de l’œuvre de Pausanias, nous avons choisi la Périégèse comme fil conducteur de notre recherche sur le culte des héroïnes et des héros grecs, en tant que phénomène politico-religieux tel qu’il se présente à travers ses dix livres, tout en prenant en considération le caractère tardif de son œuvre et la polysémie des termes cultuels en question.
Author : Esther Eidinow
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191058076
Total Pages : 737 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (91 download)
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 737 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 : Gocha R. Tsetskhladze
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004141766
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (41 download)
Download or read book Ancient West & East written by Gocha R. Tsetskhladze and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2005-06 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published as Volume 4 (2005) of Brill's journal "Ancient West & East,"
Author : Suzanne Lye
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0197690203
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (976 download)
Download or read book Life / Afterlife written by Suzanne Lye and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2024 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Life / Afterlife: Revolution and Reflection in the Ancient Greek Underworld from Homer to Lucian explores the mechanics, function, and impact of ancient Greek Underworld scenes, a unique and ancient form of embedded storytelling appearing across time and genres. This book approaches Underworld scenes as a special register of language that acts as a narrative space outside of chronological time to reflect on important themes and issues in a frame narrative. This book argues that Underworld scenes use hypertextual poetics to embed authorial commentary by creating networks of texts that act as para-narratives, which provide additional information to engage audiences in the interpretative process of a given work. Life / Afterlife traces the development, evolution, and application of Underworld scenes through the works of such authors as Homer, Hesiod, Pindar, Aeschylus, Aristophanes, Plato, Vergil, and Lucian to show how each used afterlife depictions featuring mythic and historical figures as commentaries to communicate a call to action for their audiences in response to cultural, religious, and political changes in their worlds. Using the network of Underworld scenes, authors could reinforce and challenge traditional religious and cultural beliefs and practices by presenting the long-term, cosmic effect of actions in life on an individual's post-death experience. From ancient to modern times, Underworld scenes have helped authors and audiences define the essential qualities of a "good life" for different social, political, and religious groups and their societies"--
Author : Chris Seglenieks
Publisher : Mohr Siebeck
ISBN 13 : 3161597583
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (615 download)
Download or read book Johannine Belief and Graeco-Roman Devotion written by Chris Seglenieks and published by Mohr Siebeck. This book was released on 2020-09-29 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In this volume, Christopher Seglenieks offers a study of the complex meaning in John's Gospel of genuine belief, arguing it includes cognitive, relational, ethical, ongoing, and public aspects. He compares it with Graeco-Roman religious practices and highlights the distinctiveness of Johannine belief whose features are motivated by John's picture of Jesus." --
Author : Gina Salapata
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 047202986X
Total Pages : 433 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (72 download)
Download or read book Heroic Offerings written by Gina Salapata and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2015-02-12 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Heroic Offerings sheds light on the study of religion in Sparta, one of Greece’s most powerful city-states and the long-term rival of Athens. Sparta’s history is well known, but its archaeology has been much less satisfactorily explored. Through the comprehensive study of a distinctive class of terracotta votive offerings from a specific sanctuary, Gina Salapata explores both coroplastic art and regional religion. By integrating archaeological, historical, literary, and epigraphic sources, she provides important insights into the heroic cults of Lakonia and contributes to an understanding of the political and social functions of local ritual practice. This volume focuses on a large group of decorated terracotta plaques, from the sixth to fourth centuries BCE. These molded plaques were discovered with other offerings in a sanctuary deposit excavated near Sparta more than fifty years ago, but they have remained unpublished until now. They number over 1,500 complete and fragmentary pieces. In technique, style, and iconography they form a homogeneous group unlike any other from mainland Greece. The large number of plaques and variety of types reveal a stable and vigorous coroplastic tradition in Lakonia during the late Archaic and Classical period. Heroic Offerings will be of interest to students and scholars of Greek history, art, and archaeology, to those interested in ancient religious practice in the Mediterranean, and to all inspired by Athens’ chief political rival, Sparta. This volume received financial support from the Archaeological Institute of America.
Author : Marie-Claire Beaulieu
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812247655
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)
Download or read book The Sea in the Greek Imagination written by Marie-Claire Beaulieu and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Sea in the Greek Imagination, Marie-Claire Beaulieu unifies the multifarious representations of the sea and sea-crossing in Greek myth and imagery by positing the sea as a cosmological boundary between the worlds of the living, the dead, and the gods, or between reality and imagination.
Author : Alaya Palamidis, Corinne Bonnet, Julie Bernini, Enrique Nieto Izquierdo, Lorena Pérez Yarza
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3111327566
Total Pages : 1167 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (113 download)
Download or read book What’s in a Divine Name? written by Alaya Palamidis, Corinne Bonnet, Julie Bernini, Enrique Nieto Izquierdo, Lorena Pérez Yarza and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2024-08-01 with total page 1167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004375961
Total Pages : 415 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)
Download or read book Round Trip to Hades in the Eastern Mediterranean Tradition written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-08-13 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Round Trip to Hades in the Eastern Mediterranean Tradition explores the theme of visits to the underworld in the ancient Greek and Byzantine traditions from a broad perspective including written sources, iconography and archaeology.
Author : Andreas Markantonatos
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110920484
Total Pages : 373 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (19 download)
Download or read book Oedipus at Colonus written by Andreas Markantonatos and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2012-02-14 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book aims to offer a contemporary literary interpretation of the play, including a readable discussion of its underlying historical, religious, moral, social, and mythical issues. Also, it discusses the most recent interpretative scholarship on the play, the main intertextual affiliations with earlier Thebes-related tragedies, especially focusing on Sophocles’ Antigone and Oedipus Tyrannus, and the literature and performance reception of the play; it contains an up-to-date bibliography and detailed indices. The book won the Academy of Athens Great Award for the Best Monograph in Classical Philology for 2008.
Author : Robert Parker
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0199274835
Total Pages : 577 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (992 download)
Download or read book Polytheism and Society at Athens written by Robert Parker and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2005-11-24 with total page 577 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first attempt that has ever been made to give a comprehensive account of the religious life of ancient Athens.
Author : Azzan Yadin-Israel
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226833453
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (268 download)
Download or read book Temptation Transformed written by Azzan Yadin-Israel and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2024-03-08 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A "brisk and entertaining" (Wall Street Journal) journey into the mystery behind why the forbidden fruit became an apple, upending an explanation that stood for centuries. How did the apple, unmentioned by the Bible, become the dominant symbol of temptation, sin, and the Fall? Temptation Transformed pursues this mystery across art and religious history, uncovering where, when, and why the forbidden fruit became an apple. Azzan Yadin-Israel reveals that Eden’s fruit, once thought to be a fig or a grape, first appears as an apple in twelfth-century French art. He then traces this image back to its source in medieval storytelling. Though scholars often blame theologians for the apple, accounts of the Fall written in commonly spoken languages—French, German, and English—influenced a broader audience than cloistered Latin commentators. Azzan Yadin-Israel shows that, over time, the words for “fruit” in these languages narrowed until an apple in the Garden became self-evident. A wide-ranging study of early Christian thought, Renaissance art, and medieval languages, Temptation Transformed offers an eye-opening revisionist history of a central religious icon.
Author : John H. Oakley
Publisher : Oxbow Books
ISBN 13 : 1782973222
Total Pages : 627 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (829 download)
Download or read book Athenian Potters and Painters written by John H. Oakley and published by Oxbow Books. This book was released on 2009-05-01 with total page 627 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents the proceedings of the second Athenian Potters and Painters conference, which was held at the American School of Classical Studies, Athens 2007. Together with the 1994 conference (Volume I, Oxbow 1997), these are the first of their kind - focusing purely on Athenian pottery and addressing key aspects of its study. The thirty-two papers contained here are the result not only of a large amount of new material but also the dynamic appearance of a younger generation of scholars dealing with the subject. Subject areas range from the study of the potters and painters themselves, to shape, subject matter, chronology, export, excavation pottery, context, and the influence of Athenian vases on pottery from other regions of the Mediterranean and vice versa. Three papers in Greek.
Author : Bronwen L. Wickkiser
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 0801889782
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (18 download)
Download or read book Asklepios, Medicine, and the Politics of Healing in Fifth-Century Greece written by Bronwen L. Wickkiser and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Delving deeply into ancient medical history, Bronwen L. Wickkiser explores the early development and later spread of the cult of Asklepios, one of the most popular healing gods in the ancient Mediterranean. Though Asklepios had been known as a healer since the time of Homer, evidence suggests that large numbers of people began to flock to the cult during the fifth century BCE, just as practitioners of Hippocratic medicine were gaining dominance. Drawing on close readings of period medical texts, literary sources, archaeological evidence, and earlier studies, Wickkiser finds two primary causes for the cult’s ascendance: it filled a gap in the market created by the refusal of Hippocratic physicians to treat difficult chronic ailments and it abetted Athenian political needs. Wickkiser supports these challenging theories with side-by-side examinations of the medical practices at Asklepios' sanctuaries and those espoused in Hippocratic medical treatises. She also explores how Athens' aspirations to empire influenced its decision to open the city to the healer-god's cult. In focusing on the fifth century and by considering the medical, political, and religious dimensions of the cult of Asklepios, Wickkiser presents a complex, nuanced picture of Asklepios' rise in popularity, Athenian society, and ancient Mediterranean culture. The intriguing and sometimes surprising information she presents will be valued by historians of medicine and classicists alike.
Author : Adam M. Schor
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520948610
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)
Download or read book Theodoret's People written by Adam M. Schor and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2011-05-17 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Theodoret’s People sheds new light on religious clashes of the mid-fifth century regarding the nature (or natures) of Christ. Adam M. Schor focuses on Theodoret, bishop of Cyrrhus, his Syrian allies, and his opponents, led by Alexandrian bishops Cyril and Dioscorus. Although both sets of clerics adhered to the Nicene creed, their contrasting theological statements led to hostilities, violence, and the permanent fracturing of the Christian community. Schor closely examines council transcripts, correspondence, and other records of communication. Using social network theory, he argues that Theodoret’s doctrinal coalition was actually a meaningful community, bound by symbolic words and traditions, riven with internal rivalries, and embedded in a wider world of elite friendship and patronage.
Author : Marie Delcourt
Publisher : Presses Universitaires de France - PUF
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Légendes et cultes de héros en Grèce written by Marie Delcourt and published by Presses Universitaires de France - PUF. This book was released on 1992 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
