1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910789089203321

Autore

Winiarczyk Marek

Titolo

The "Sacred history" of Euhemerus of Messene [[electronic resource] /] / Marek Winiarczyk ; translated from Polish by Witold Zbirohowski-Kościa

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin, : De Gruyter, 2013

ISBN

3-11-029488-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (296 p.)

Collana

Beiträge zur Altertumskunde ; ; 312

Altri autori (Persone)

Zbirohowski-KościaWitold

Disciplina

883/.01

Soggetti

LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Preface -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- I. The life of Euhemerus -- II. Euhemerus’ Ἱερὰ Ἀναγραφή -- III. The theological views of Euhemerus of Messene -- IV. Society and economy in the Ἱερὰ Ἀναγραφή -- V. The Zeus Sanctuary on the Island of Panchaea -- VI. An attempt to interpret the Ἱερὰ Ἀναγραφή -- VII. Ennius’ Euhemerus sive sacra historia -- VIII. Euhemerism in the ancient world -- IX. Conclusions -- Appendix I: Homines pro diis culti -- Appendix II: Deos homines fuisse -- Appendix III: The tombs of the gods -- Bibliography -- Indexes

Sommario/riassunto

In his utopian novel Hiera Anagraphe (Sacred History) Euhemerus of Messene (ca. 300 B.C.) describes his travel to the island Panchaia in the Indian Ocean where he discovered an inscribed stele in the temple of Zeus Triphylius. It turned out that the Olympian gods (Uranos, Kronos, Zeus) were deified kings. The travels of Zeus allowed to describe peoples and places all over the world. Winiarczyk investigates the sources of the theological views of Euhemerus. He proves that Euhemerus’ religious views were rooted in old Greek tradition (the worship of heroes, gods as founders of their own cult, tombs of gods, euergetism, rationalistic interpretation of myths, the explanations of the origin of religion by the sophists, the ruler cult). The description of the Panchaian society is intended to suggest an archaic and closed culture, in which the stele recording res gestae of the deified kings might have been preserved. The translation of Ennius’ Euhemerus sive Sacra historia (ca. 200 - ca. 194) is a free prose rendering, which



Lactantius knew only indirectly. The book is concluded by a short history of Euhemerism in the pagan, Christian and Jewish literature.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910784133103321

Titolo

The afterlife of John Brown [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Andrew Taylor and Eldrid Herrington

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Palgrave Macmillan, 2005

ISBN

1-281-36391-X

9786611363918

1-4039-7846-8

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (256 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

TaylorAndrew <1968->

HerringtonEldrid

Disciplina

973.7/114

Soggetti

Public opinion - United States

American literature - History and criticism

Abolitionists - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [225]-238) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Black people's ally, white people's bogeyman : a John Brown story  / Louis A DeCaro, Jr. -- "The blood of millions" : John Brown's body, public violence, and political community / Franny Nudelman -- John Brown, bearded patriarch / Jean Libby -- "Earth feels the time of prophet-song" : John Brown and public poetry / Joe Lockard -- Consenting to violence : Henry David Thoreau, John Brown, and the transcendent intellectual / Andrew Taylor -- Transforming the "madman into a saint" : the cultural memory site of John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry in antislavery literature and history / Kristen Proehl -- Meteor of war : the John Brown cycle / John Stauffer and Zoe Trodd -- Transatlantic Spartacus / Janine C. Hartman -- W.E.B. Du Bois's John Brown : placing racial justice at the center of a socialist politics / Julie Husband -- "I see your mouth calling/before the words arrive" : Muriel Rukeyser's "The soul and body of John Brown" and 1930s America /



Bruce A. Ronda -- John Brown and children's literature / Tyler Hoffman -- More heat than light : the legacy of John Brown in Russell Banks's Cloudsplitter / Kimberly Rae Connor.

Sommario/riassunto

"An examination of the influence--however contested--of John Brown of the Harper's Ferry Rebellion on the national narrative of the United States"--Amazon.com.