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Sovereignty and Divinity in Classical Greek Thought --$t2. The Mother of the Gods and the Sovereignty of Midas --$t3. The Mother of the Gods and the Ideals of Lydian Tyranny --$t4. The Mother of the Gods and the Practices of Lydian Tyranny --$t5. Asia, the Oikoum?n;, and the Map of the World --$t6. The Mother of the Gods and Persian Sovereignty --$t7. Persian Sovereignty and the Gods of the Athenians --$t8. Herodotus and the Gods --$t9. The Mother of the Gods at Athens --$tBibliography --$tGeneral index --$tIndex of select Greek terms --$tIndex locorum 330 $aAmong maternal deities of the Greek pantheon, the Mother of the Gods was a paradox. She is variously described as a devoted mother, a chaste wife, an impassioned lover, and a virgin daughter; she is said to be both foreign and familiar to the Greeks. In this erudite and absorbing study, Mark Munn examines how the cult of Mother of the Gods came from Phrygia and Lydia, where she was the mother of tyrants, to Athens, where she protected the laws of the Athenian democracy. Analyzing the divergence of Greek and Asiatic culture at the beginning of the classical era, Munn describes how Kybebe, the Lydian goddess who signified fertility and sovereignty, assumed a different aspect to the Greeks when Lydia became part of the Persian empire. Conflict and resolution were played out symbolically, he shows, and the goddess of Lydian tyranny was eventually accepted by the Athenians as the Mother of the Gods, and as a symbol of their own sovereignty. This book elegantly illustrates how ancient divinities were not static types, but rather expressions of cultural systems that responded to historical change. Presenting a new perspective on the context in which the Homeric and Hesiodic epics were composed, Munn traces the transformation of the Asiatic deity who was the goddess of Sacred Marriage among the Assyrians and Babylonians, equivalent to Ishtar. Among the Lydians, she was the bride to tyrants and the mother of tyrants. To the Greeks, she was Aphrodite. An original and compelling consideration of the relations between the Greeks and the dominant powers of western Asia, The Mother of the Gods, Athens, and the Tyranny of Asia is the first thorough examination of the way that religious cult practice and thought influenced political activities during and after the sixth and fifth centuries B.C. 410 0$aJoan Palevsky imprint in classical literature. 606 $aCybele (Goddess)$xCult$zGreece$zAthens$xHistory 606 $aCybele (Goddess)$xCult$zLydia (Kingdom) 606 $aDespotism$xReligious aspects$xHistory of doctrines 606 $aReligion and politics$zGreece$zAthens$xHistory 606 $aReligion and politics$zLydia (Kingdom)$xHistory 606 $aSovereignty$xReligious aspects$xHistory of doctrines 610 $aancient greece. 610 $aaphrodite. 610 $aasia. 610 $aassyria. 610 $aathens. 610 $ababylon. 610 $achastity. 610 $aclassicism. 610 $aclassics. 610 $ademocracy. 610 $adivinity. 610 $aempire. 610 $aepic poetry. 610 $afeminine divine. 610 $afemininity. 610 $agender. 610 $agods and goddesses. 610 $agreek goddesses. 610 $agreek gods. 610 $agreek pantheon. 610 $ahellenism. 610 $ahesiod. 610 $ahesiodic epics. 610 $ahomer. 610 $ahomeric epics. 610 $aishtar. 610 $alydia. 610 $amaternal. 610 $amaternity. 610 $amother of the gods. 610 $amotherhood. 610 $amyth. 610 $amythology. 610 $anonfiction. 610 $apanteon. 610 $apersian empire. 610 $aphilosophy. 610 $aphrygia. 610 $apolitics. 610 $apurity. 610 $areligion. 610 $areligious cults. 610 $asacred marriage. 610 $asexuality. 610 $atyranny. 610 $atyrants. 610 $awar. 610 $awestern asia. 615 0$aCybele (Goddess)$xCult$xHistory. 615 0$aCybele (Goddess)$xCult 615 0$aDespotism$xReligious aspects$xHistory of doctrines. 615 0$aReligion and politics$xHistory. 615 0$aReligion and politics$xHistory. 615 0$aSovereignty$xReligious aspects$xHistory of doctrines. 676 $a292.2/114 686 $a11.15$2bcl 700 $aMunn$b Mark Henderson$0440449 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910784405903321 996 $aThe Mother of the Gods, Athens, and the tyranny of Asia$93691851 997 $aUNINA