Redefining Dionysos

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Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110301326
Total Pages : 700 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (13 download)

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Book Synopsis Redefining Dionysos by : Alberto Bernabé

Download or read book Redefining Dionysos written by Alberto Bernabé and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2013-06-26 with total page 700 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contributes to the understanding of Dionysos, the Greek god of wine, dancing, theatre and ecstasy, by putting together 30 studies of classical scholars. They combine the analysis of specific instances of particular dimensions of the god in cult, myth, literature and iconography, with general visions of Dionysos in antiquity and modern times. Only from the combination of different perspectives can we grasp the complex personality of Dionysos, and the forms of his presence in different cults, literary genres, and artistic forms, from Mycenaean times to late antiquity. The ways in which Dionysos was experienced may vary in each author, each cult, and each genre in which this god is involved. Therefore, instead of offering a new all-encompassing theory that would immediately become partial, the book narrows the focus on specific aspects of the god. Redefinition does not mean finding (again) the essence of the god, but obtaining a more nuanced knowledge of the ways he was experienced and conceived in antiquity.

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Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 0244102023
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (441 download)

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ISBN 13 : 0244966559
Total Pages : 236 pages
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Poetic Language and Religion in Greece and Rome

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Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443855650
Total Pages : 345 pages
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Book Synopsis Poetic Language and Religion in Greece and Rome by : J. Virgilio García

Download or read book Poetic Language and Religion in Greece and Rome written by J. Virgilio García and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2014-01-08 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume contains twenty-five contributions adapted from papers presented at the International Conference on Poetic Language and Religion in Greece and Rome, held at the University of Santiago de Compostela on 31tst May – 1st June 2012. The book fulfils two principal aims: to highlight the impulse and continuity of a research field that combines Indo-European and Classical Studies, which has generally been recognised for several decades as a very fruitful collaboration, and to provide the academic community with the current results of one of the most important topics of Classical Studies. The first part of the book focuses on the Indo-European tradition, tracking its remnants, particularly in the Classical languages. The Indo-European poetic tradition can be traced through linguistic reconstruction (formulae, onomastics) and some scattered mentions in literary texts. In the second part, the focus is placed on the poetic language in Greece and Rome. The rich and complex tradition of Classical literatures makes a clear-cut description of the inherited or innovative aspects of the religious and literary development more problematical. Ritual or cultic poetry, onomastics, phraseology, paeans and hymns, oracles as divine language, and magic all receive deep and thorough treatment from a reliable ensemble of scholars.

Instructions for the Netherworld

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004163719
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (41 download)

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Book Synopsis Instructions for the Netherworld by : Alberto Bernabé Pajares

Download or read book Instructions for the Netherworld written by Alberto Bernabé Pajares and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2008 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Orphic gold tables are key documents for the knowledge of rites and beliefs of Orphics, an atypical group that configured a highly original creed and that influenced powerfully over other Greek writers and thinkers. The recent discovery of some tablets has forced a noteworthy modification of some points of view and a review ofthe different hypothesis proposed about them. The book presents a complete edition of the texts, their translation and some fundamental keys for their interpretation, in an attempt at updating our current knowledge on Orphic ideas about the soul and the Afterlife stated in those texts. The work is improved with an appendix of iconographic annotations in which some plastic representations in drawings are reproduced related to the universe of tablets, selected and commented on by Ricardo Olmos.

Greek Lyric Poetry and Its Influence

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Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1527560465
Total Pages : 411 pages
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Download or read book Greek Lyric Poetry and Its Influence written by Alejandro Cantarero de Salazar and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2020-10-06 with total page 411 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book deals with Greek lyric composed more than twenty-five centuries ago. These poems sing of everyday events and emotions in human life, from the most festive to the most serious, presenting a living portrait of the ancient Greeks. This multidisciplinary volume begins with a panorama of Greek lyric poetic genres, their main authors and their representative topics. The first part contains philological studies and literary analyses, first of some Greek poets—Anacreon, Sappho and Lycophron, among others—then of their influence on Horace’s Latin poetry, and on contemporary poetry. The second part, illustrated with colour images, studies Greek lyric from socio-political and iconographic perspectives, analysing its coincidences and reflections in images from Greek pottery, sculptures and reliefs. In addition, this section includes two works on musical theory and composition related to ancient Greek lyric. The volume closes with two studies of the image of Sappho in cinema.

katarsygrammy

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ISBN 13 : 0244702802
Total Pages : 192 pages
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ISBN 13 : 0244964173
Total Pages : 205 pages
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Scritti scelti sulla religione greca e romana e sul Cristianesimo

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004296492
Total Pages : 492 pages
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Download or read book Scritti scelti sulla religione greca e romana e sul Cristianesimo written by Margherita Guarducci and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2015-09-07 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Preliminary material -- LA «ESCHARA» DEL TEMPIO GRECO ARCAICO -- BRYAKTES Un contributo allo studio dei «banchetti» eroici -- CIBELE IN UN'EPIGRAFE ARCAICA DI LOCRI EPIZEFIRÎ -- L'EPIGRAMMA GRECO DEL BAMBINO EUTYCHES AD ALBANO LAZIALE -- ANCORA SULL'INNO CRETESE A ZEUS DICTEO -- L'OFFERTA DI XENOKRATEIA NEL SANTUARIO DI CEFISO AL F ALERO -- GLI «ANGELI» DI TERA -- LAMINETTE AUREE ORFICHE: ALCUNI PROBLEMI -- QUALCHE OSSERVAZIONE SULLA LAMINETTA ORFICA DI HIPPONION -- ANCORA SUL MISTERIOSO E DI DELFI -- HORA QUIRINI -- LA FORTUNA E SERVIO TULLIO IN UN'ANTICHISSIMA SORS -- ANCORA SULL'ANTICA SORS DELLA FORTUNA E DI SERVIO TULLIO -- SOL INVICTUS AUGUSTUS -- IL TEMPIO DELLA DEA CONCORDIA IN UN BASSORILIEVO DEI MUSEI VATICANI -- IANUS GEMINUS -- L'ISOLA TIBERINA E LA SUA TRADIZIONE OSPITALIERA -- ENEA E VESTA -- L'EPIGRAFE REX NELLA REGIA DEL FORO ROMANO -- NUOVE OSSER VAZIONI SULLA LAMINA BRONZEA DI CERERE A LAVINIO -- LA MISTERIOSA ISCRIZIONE MEDIEVALE DI PISA, BARGA E LUCCA -- ISCRIZIONE IMPRECATORIA DI SPERLONGA -- L'EPIGRAFE GRECA DELLA «CELESTE ANNA» NEL MUSEO OLIVERIANO -- L'ISCRIZIONE DI ABERCIO E ROMA -- L'ISCRIZIONE DI ABERCIO E LA «VERGINE CASTA» -- VALENTINIANI A ROMA: RICERCHE EPIGRAFICHE ED ARCHEOLOGICHE -- ANCORA SUI VALENTINIANI A ROMA -- IL MISSIONARIO DI LIONE -- IL PRIMATO DELLA CHIESA DI ROMA -- DAL GIOCO LETTERALE ALLA CRITTOGRAFIA MISTICA -- ÉTUDES PRÉLIMINAIRES AUX RELIGIONS ORIENTALES DANS L'EMPIRE ROMAIN.

The Crusader

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Publisher : Doubleday Canada
ISBN 13 : 0385673833
Total Pages : 419 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (856 download)

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Download or read book The Crusader written by Michael Alexander Eisner and published by Doubleday Canada. This book was released on 2011-06-22 with total page 419 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is the Year of Our Lord 1275, Santes Creus monastery, Spain. Brother Lucas, a venal but moderately trustworthy monk, is put in charge of an exorcism. His former fellow acolyte, the brooding and magnetic aristocrat Francisco Montcada, has returned from the Crusades possessed by demons. If Brother Lucas can drive out the demons, his monastery will be enriched by the Montcada patriarch and he himself will be made a bishop. Gradually, Francisco comes out of his possession and begins to spin the tale of his Crusade: How he set out to free the soul of his dead brother lost at sea before he could reach the Holy Land; his fierce friendship with his cousin Andres, a mighty warrior with an honest heart; his intense love for Andres’s feisty sister, Isabel; the high ideals of his battle-hardened commander Ramon; and the amoral cruelty of the perfidious Don Fernando, a noble who delights in executing Muslim women and children. The Crusaders win a great battle at Toron, taking it back from the Infidel, but at the gigantic fortress Krak des Chevaliers, the key to the Christian position in the Holy Land, the Saracens have laid siege. In the fierce battle to defend the fortress, Francisco will lose everything: including, unless the dodgy Brother Lucas succeeds, his immortal soul.

Mystic Cults in Magna Graecia

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Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292749945
Total Pages : 583 pages
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Book Synopsis Mystic Cults in Magna Graecia by : Giovanni Casadio

Download or read book Mystic Cults in Magna Graecia written by Giovanni Casadio and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2013-08-15 with total page 583 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Vergil's Aeneid, the poet implies that those who have been initiated into mystery cults enjoy a blessed situation both in life and after death. This collection of essays brings new insight to the study of mystic cults in the ancient world, particularly those that flourished in Magna Graecia (essentially the area of present-day Southern Italy and Sicily). Implementing a variety of methodologies, the contributors to Mystic Cults in Magna Graecia examine an array of features associated with such "mystery religions" that were concerned with individual salvation through initiation and hidden knowledge rather than civic cults directed toward Olympian deities usually associated with Greek religion. Contributors present contemporary theories of ancient religion, field reports from recent archaeological work, and other frameworks for exploring mystic cults in general and individual deities specifically, with observations about cultural interactions throughout. Topics include Dionysos and Orpheus, the Goddess Cults, Isis in Italy, and Roman Mithras, explored by an international array of scholars including Giulia Sfameni Gasparro ("Aspects of the Cult of Demeter in Magna Graecia") and Alberto Bernabé ("Imago Inferorum Orphica"). The resulting volume illuminates this often misunderstood range of religious phenomena.

Approaches to Greek and Latin Language, Literature and History

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Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1527522369
Total Pages : 363 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (275 download)

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Book Synopsis Approaches to Greek and Latin Language, Literature and History by : Gréta Kádas

Download or read book Approaches to Greek and Latin Language, Literature and History written by Gréta Kádas and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2018-11-27 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This peer-reviewed collection of essays provides an account of several current foci of research in Classics. It gathers fifteen contributions covering subjects such as Greek and Latin papyrology and epigraphy. It also includes approaches to various key literary texts, from Homer to post-classical Humanists, in addition to chapters on navigation, coinage, and sculpture. This book represents a useful research tool for a wide range of scholars in Greek, Latin and Ancient History, as well as an up-to-date source for any classicist.

La Divinità Nemica

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Publisher : L'Osssione Espressa Editore - Milano
ISBN 13 : 8890460253
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (94 download)

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Book Synopsis La Divinità Nemica by : Enrico Francot

Download or read book La Divinità Nemica written by Enrico Francot and published by L'Osssione Espressa Editore - Milano. This book was released on 2017-09-12 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Non è vero che in un individuo l’equilibrio si raggiunge con l’equilibrio tra la parte maschile e la parte femminile né si sa cosa tali “parti” siano davvero. Non è vero che l’anima è un archetipo che può “far crescere” un maschio soltanto se proiettato su una donna, farlo procedere dallo stato beluino a quello di “vero uomo” o, più falso ancora, da bambino ad adulto. Semmai sono le donne a essere le eterne bambine. Non è vero che un uomo possa avere pace soltanto armonizzando in unità di tutte le componenti della psiche. Al contrario, può raggiungere se non quiete almeno dignità e rispetto per se stesso soltanto imparando a navigare tra le sue contraddizioni, nel suo caos. Un altro luogo comune da sfatare? La teoria della santificante conciliazione degli opposti. Conduce a scelte devastanti per la società e assassine per l’individuo, è la culla di ogni bastardo compromesso politico, è il frutto avvelenato del pensiero di Hegel e dell’eterno oscillare tra assolutismo assassino e lassismo scatenato proprio della sua patria tedesca. Ultima chicca: nel rapporto con i sentimenti è la donna a essere handicappata, schiava com’è delle emozioni che sono causa prima dei sentimenti stessi ma in grado, se non filtrate alchenicamente, di soffocarli sul nascere, di portare ogni individuo – donna o uomo che sia – alle scelte più sbagliate della propria vita. Erich Weisz esamina tutti questi “miti” dell’età moderna, “miti” nel senso etimologico di indiscutibili verità. Sono verità assolute come in passato lo sono state quelle che affermavano essere i negri non umani, la terra piatta, le donne inferiori quando non streghe, unico dio il dio dominante della cultura militarmente superiore. Ipotesi da cui Erich Weisz deduce essere ogni guerra una guerra tra dèi combattuta con la carne e il sangue degli umani. Tra tanti luoghi comuni incrollabili, pietrificati opinioni Erich Weisz naviga per fare aprire gli occhi del lettore sul fatto che tante devastanti menzogne sono volte a riportare al potere assoluto nella cultura occidentale una divinità arcaica ostile al maschio della specie e al progredire della specie umana. Per lui tale divinità nemica è la Grande Madre. Weisz espone il proprio eterodosso pensiero attraverso un saggio romanzato in cui compaiono dèi, oltre a uomini e donne. Gli dèi intervengono nelle loro umane vicende come facevano in remoti poemi epici o come sono sentiti vivi e presenti e vengono invocati ogni giorno in famiglie religiose d’ogni credo. Gli dèi di questa saga non sono come i pupazzi di un cartone animato o le figure costruite al computer in storie contemporanee di grande successo, in film e romanzi. Non sono mere immagini commoventi. Non offrono effetti visivi speciali in 3D, roba da videogiochi. Sono dèi veri ed eterni. Sono dèi difficili da “sentire” ma turbano quando toccano l’animo. Il loro costellarsi grazie alle righe di queste libro possono disturbare molti, come disturbano le verità più profonde, le verità che si agitano nel profondo dell’inconscio. Se inascoltate, possono persino sconvolgere, irritare, fare arrabbiare. Si sconsiglia pertanto la lettura de La Divinità Nemica a conformisti e iracondi, qualunque sia la loro età e il modo di esprimere la propria sessualità.

Dear Olivia

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Publisher : Canongate Books
ISBN 13 : 1847677355
Total Pages : 433 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (476 download)

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Book Synopsis Dear Olivia by : Mary Contini

Download or read book Dear Olivia written by Mary Contini and published by Canongate Books. This book was released on 2014-04-10 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this fascinating follow-up to the highly successful Dear Francesca, Mary Contini writes to her other daughter, Olivia, to tell the story of her great-grandparents, the humble Italian shepherds who emigrated to Edinburgh and then helped to transform Britain's food culture. Sharing some of the recipes that they brought over, the tomatoes, the garlic, the sausage, the wine, this is a mouthwatering memoir of family and food. It is also a brilliant evocation of life between the wars, a triumphant story of survival against all the odds, that captures the sights and smells of Italian life and culture, at home and abroad.

Dionysus and Rome

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Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110672235
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (16 download)

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Book Synopsis Dionysus and Rome by : Fiachra Mac Góráin

Download or read book Dionysus and Rome written by Fiachra Mac Góráin and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2019-12-16 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While most work on Dionysus is based on Greek sources, this collection of essays examines the god’s Roman and Italian manifestations. Nine contributions address Bacchus’ appearance at the crossroads of Greek and Roman cultures, tracing continuities and differences between literary and archaeological sources for the god. The essays offer coverage of Dionysus in Roman art, Italian epigraphy; Latin poetry including epic, drama and elegy; and prose, including historiography, rhetorical and Christian discourse. The introduction offers an overview of the presence of Dionysus in Italy from the archaic to the imperial periods, identifying the main scholarly trends, with treatment of key Dionysian episodes in Roman history and literature. Individual chapters address the reception of Euripides’ Bacchae across Greek and Roman literature from Athens to Byzantium; Dionysus in Roman art of the archaic and Augustan periods; the god’s relationship with Fufluns and Liber in the 4th and 3rd centuries BCE; Dionysian associations; Bacchus in Cicero; Ovid’s Tristia 5.3; Bacchus in the writings of Christian Latin writers. The collection sheds light on a relatively understudied aspect of Dionysus, and will stimulate further research in this area.

The Play of Words

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Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110390213
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (13 download)

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Book Synopsis The Play of Words by : Giulia Maria Chesi

Download or read book The Play of Words written by Giulia Maria Chesi and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2014-08-27 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The play of words" examines the dynamics of interfamilial violence in the Oresteia. It argues that the key element of the play's discourse about violence is to be found in the inquiry for a definition of Clytemnestra's motherhood. The failure of this research challenges the reader with some open questions: who is Clytemnestra? Where is justice if a mother dies? By reading the play's narrative on interfamilial violence and matricide as a narrative of uncertainties in terms of the role of the mother figure, this book illustrates the complexity of the maternal role of Clytemnestra. It also breaks silence among scholars, who have generally portrayed Clytemnestra as the bad mother who kills the children's father and as the bad wife who betrays her husband.

IL SOGNATORE DEL "MONDO VERO"

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ISBN 13 : 1291712577
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (917 download)

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Download or read book IL SOGNATORE DEL "MONDO VERO" written by Alessio Arzuffi and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2011-12-05 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Carne, sangue, acciaio, plastica e tutti i materiali possibili e immaginabili: non solo, il mondo è fatto anche di idee. A volte, un'idea può cambiare il mondo. Non è un'ipotesi: è un dato di fatto. Ci sono idee che, come le stelle in cielo, illuminano la Terra per epoche intere. Come le stelle, le idee ogni tanto tramontano, e non è detto che, prima di scomparire per sempre, diventino nefasti buchi neri. Le idee possono salvare, ma anche uccidere.Il Sognatore del «Mondo vero» parte dall'idea che per Sigmund Freud sia possibile, sulla base della metodologia scientifica, arrivare a una Visione del mondo razionale, coerente, libera da millenarie illusioni. Ma la psicoanalisi può e deve essere ritenuta a tutti gli effetti -- scienza? Domanda di capitale importanza, se si pensa che il banco di prova sperimentale della verità della psicoanalisi sono i suoi pazienti, donne e uomini in carne e ossa...Un viaggio alle sorgenti del pensiero freudiano, alla luce di un'unica parola, antica quanto l'uomo: "libertà".