The gods of ancient Greece : identities and transformations / / edited by Jan N. Bremmer and Andrew Erskine [[electronic resource]] |
Autore | Bremmer Jan N. |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Edinburgh : , : Edinburgh University Press, , 2010 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xxi, 528 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
Disciplina | 292.2113 |
Collana | Edinburgh Leventis studies |
Soggetto topico |
Gods, Greek
Civilization, Classical Mythology, Greek |
ISBN |
0-7486-7075-0
1-282-74995-1 9786612749957 0-7486-4289-7 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Introduction: The Greek Gods in the Twentieth Century / Jan N. Bremmer ---- 1. What is a Greek God? / Albert Henrichs ---- Part I. Systematic aspects. 2. Canonizing the Pantheon: the Dodekatheon in Greek Religion and its Origins / Ian Rutherford --- 3. Gods in Greek Inscriptions: Some Methodological Questions / Fritz Graf --- 4. Metamorphoses of Gods into Animals and Humans / Richard Buxton --- 5. Sacrificing to the Gods: Ancient Evidence and Modern Interpretations / Stella Georgoudi --- 6. Getting in Contact: Concepts of Human-Divine Encounter in Classical Greek Art / Anja Klockner --- 7. New Statues for Old Gods / Kenneth Lapatin ---- Part II. Individual Divinities and Heroes. 8. Zeus at Olympia / Judith M. Barringer --- 9. Zeus in Aeschylus: the Factor of Monetization / Richard Seaford --- 10. Hephaistos Sweats or How to Construct an Ambivalent God / Jan N. Bremmer --- 11. Transforming Artemis: from the Goddess of the Outdoors to City Goddess / Ivana Petrovic --- 12. Herakles between Gods and Heroes / Emma Stafford --- 13. Identities of Gods and Heroes: Athenian Garden Sanctuaries and Gendered Rites of Passage / Claude Calame ---- Part III. Diachronic Aspects. 14. Early Greek Theology: God as Nature and Natural Gods / Simon Trépanier --- 15. Gods in Early Greek Historiography / Robert L. Fowler --- 16 Gods in Apulia / T.H. Carpenter --- 17. Lucian's Gods: Lucian's Understanding of the Divine / Matthew W. Dickie --- 18. The Gods in the Greek Novel / Ken Dowden --- 19. Reading Pausanias: Cults of the Gods and Representation of the Divine / Vinciane Pirenne-Delforge --- 20. Kronos and the Titans as Powerful Ancestors: A Case Study of the Greek Gods in Later Magical Spells / Christopher A. Faraone --- 21. Homo fictor deorum est: Envisioning the Divine in Late Antique Divinatory Spells / Sarah Iles Johnston --- 22. The Gods in Later Orphism / Alberto Bernabé --- 23. Christian Apologists and Greek Gods / Lautaro Roig Lanzillotta --- 24 The Materiality of God's Image: Olympian Zeus and Ancient Christology / Christoph Auffarth ---- Part IV. Historiography. 25. The Greek Gods in Late Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century German and British Scholarship / Michael Konaris. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910785163803321 |
Bremmer Jan N. | ||
Edinburgh : , : Edinburgh University Press, , 2010 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The gods of ancient Greece : identities and transformations / / edited by Jan N. Bremmer and Andrew Erskine [[electronic resource]] |
Autore | Bremmer Jan N. |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Edinburgh : , : Edinburgh University Press, , 2010 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xxi, 528 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
Disciplina | 292.2113 |
Collana | Edinburgh Leventis studies |
Soggetto topico |
Gods, Greek
Civilization, Classical Mythology, Greek |
ISBN |
0-7486-7075-0
1-282-74995-1 9786612749957 0-7486-4289-7 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Introduction: The Greek Gods in the Twentieth Century / Jan N. Bremmer ---- 1. What is a Greek God? / Albert Henrichs ---- Part I. Systematic aspects. 2. Canonizing the Pantheon: the Dodekatheon in Greek Religion and its Origins / Ian Rutherford --- 3. Gods in Greek Inscriptions: Some Methodological Questions / Fritz Graf --- 4. Metamorphoses of Gods into Animals and Humans / Richard Buxton --- 5. Sacrificing to the Gods: Ancient Evidence and Modern Interpretations / Stella Georgoudi --- 6. Getting in Contact: Concepts of Human-Divine Encounter in Classical Greek Art / Anja Klockner --- 7. New Statues for Old Gods / Kenneth Lapatin ---- Part II. Individual Divinities and Heroes. 8. Zeus at Olympia / Judith M. Barringer --- 9. Zeus in Aeschylus: the Factor of Monetization / Richard Seaford --- 10. Hephaistos Sweats or How to Construct an Ambivalent God / Jan N. Bremmer --- 11. Transforming Artemis: from the Goddess of the Outdoors to City Goddess / Ivana Petrovic --- 12. Herakles between Gods and Heroes / Emma Stafford --- 13. Identities of Gods and Heroes: Athenian Garden Sanctuaries and Gendered Rites of Passage / Claude Calame ---- Part III. Diachronic Aspects. 14. Early Greek Theology: God as Nature and Natural Gods / Simon Trépanier --- 15. Gods in Early Greek Historiography / Robert L. Fowler --- 16 Gods in Apulia / T.H. Carpenter --- 17. Lucian's Gods: Lucian's Understanding of the Divine / Matthew W. Dickie --- 18. The Gods in the Greek Novel / Ken Dowden --- 19. Reading Pausanias: Cults of the Gods and Representation of the Divine / Vinciane Pirenne-Delforge --- 20. Kronos and the Titans as Powerful Ancestors: A Case Study of the Greek Gods in Later Magical Spells / Christopher A. Faraone --- 21. Homo fictor deorum est: Envisioning the Divine in Late Antique Divinatory Spells / Sarah Iles Johnston --- 22. The Gods in Later Orphism / Alberto Bernabé --- 23. Christian Apologists and Greek Gods / Lautaro Roig Lanzillotta --- 24 The Materiality of God's Image: Olympian Zeus and Ancient Christology / Christoph Auffarth ---- Part IV. Historiography. 25. The Greek Gods in Late Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century German and British Scholarship / Michael Konaris. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910812389503321 |
Bremmer Jan N. | ||
Edinburgh : , : Edinburgh University Press, , 2010 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Initiation into the mysteries of the ancient world / / Jan N. Bremmer |
Autore | Bremmer Jan N. |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | De Gruyter, 2014 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (274 pages) |
Disciplina | 292.9 |
Collana | Münchner Vorlesungen zu antiken Welten |
Soggetto topico |
Mysteries, Religious
Civilization, Classical History, Ancient |
Soggetto non controllato |
Antiquity
cult initiation mysteries |
ISBN |
3-11-037699-7
3-11-029955-0 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Conventions and Abbreviations -- I. Initiation into the Eleusinian Mysteries: A 'Thin' Description -- II. Mysteries at the Interface of Greece and Anatolia: Samothracian Gods, Kabeiroi and Korybantes -- III. Orpheus, Orphism and Orphic-Bacchic Mysteries -- IV. Greek Mysteries in Roman Times -- V. The Mysteries of Isis and Mithras -- VI. Did the Mysteries Influence Early Christianity? -- Appendix 1: Demeter and Eleusis in Megara / Sfameni Gasparro, Giulia -- Appendix 2: The Golden Bough: Orphic, Eleusinian and Hellenistic-Jewish Sources of Virgil's Underworld in Aeneid VI -- Bibliography -- Index of Names, Subjects and Passages |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910133972903321 |
Bremmer Jan N. | ||
De Gruyter, 2014 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Initiation into the mysteries of the ancient world / / Jan N. Bremmer |
Autore | Bremmer Jan N. |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | De Gruyter, 2014 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (274 pages) |
Disciplina | 292.9 |
Collana | Münchner Vorlesungen zu antiken Welten |
Soggetto topico |
Mysteries, Religious
Civilization, Classical History, Ancient |
Soggetto non controllato |
Antiquity
cult initiation mysteries |
ISBN |
3-11-037699-7
3-11-029955-0 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Conventions and Abbreviations -- I. Initiation into the Eleusinian Mysteries: A 'Thin' Description -- II. Mysteries at the Interface of Greece and Anatolia: Samothracian Gods, Kabeiroi and Korybantes -- III. Orpheus, Orphism and Orphic-Bacchic Mysteries -- IV. Greek Mysteries in Roman Times -- V. The Mysteries of Isis and Mithras -- VI. Did the Mysteries Influence Early Christianity? -- Appendix 1: Demeter and Eleusis in Megara / Sfameni Gasparro, Giulia -- Appendix 2: The Golden Bough: Orphic, Eleusinian and Hellenistic-Jewish Sources of Virgil's Underworld in Aeneid VI -- Bibliography -- Index of Names, Subjects and Passages |
Record Nr. | UNISA-996308840003316 |
Bremmer Jan N. | ||
De Gruyter, 2014 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno | ||
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