Inconsistencies In Greek And Roman Religion Volume 2 Transition And Reversal In Myth And Ritual

Author : Henk Versnel
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2015-09-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004296732

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Inconsistencies in Greek and Roman Religion, Volume 2: Transition and Reversal in Myth and Ritual by Henk Versnel Pdf

This is the second of a two-volume collection of studies on inconsistencies in Greek and Roman religion. Their common aim is to argue for the historical relevance of various types of ambiguity and dissonance. While the first volume focused on the central paradoxes in ancient henotheism, the present one discusses the ambiguities in myth and ritual of transition and reversal. After an introduction to the history of the myth and ritual debate (with a focus on New Year festivals and initiation) in the first chapter, the second and third chapters discuss myth and ritual of reversal—Kronos and the Kronia, and Saturnus and the Saturnalia respectively; the fourth treats two women's festivals—that of Bona Dea and the Thesmophoria; the fifth investigates the initiatory aspects of Apollo and Mars. In the background is the basic conviction that the three approaches to religion known as 'substantivistic', functionalist and cultural-symbolic respectively, need not be mutually exclusive.

Author : H. S. Versnel
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9004092676

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Inconsistencies in Greek and Roman Religion by H. S. Versnel Pdf

This second volume of a two-part collection of studies on inconsistencies in Greek and Roman religion focuses on the ambiguities in myth and ritual of transition and reversal.

Author : H. S. Versnel
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Greece
ISBN : 9004092676

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Transition and Reversal in Myth and Ritual by H. S. Versnel Pdf

Author : Robert L. Fowler
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 849 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : 9780198147411

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Early Greek Mythography by Robert L. Fowler Pdf

Volume 2 is a detailed commentary on the texts of Early Greek Mythography: Volume 1, a critical edition of the twenty-nine authors of this genre from the late 6th to early 4th centuries BC. Volume 2 provides a mythological commentary of the original works, as well as a philological commentary on separate authors.

Author : Evy Johanne Håland
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 479 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2017-06-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781443896177

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Greek Festivals, Modern and Ancient by Evy Johanne Håland Pdf

This volume represents a multi-faceted, cross-period product of fieldwork conducted in contemporary Greece in combination with ancient sources. Based on a comparative analysis of important religious festivals and life-cycle rituals, the book investigates the importance of cults connected with the Greek female sphere and its relation to the official male-dominated ideology. Within these festivals are encountered supplementary, complementary or competing ideologies connected with men and women, and it is shown that there is not a one-way power structure or male dominance within Greek culture, but rather competing powers linked to the two sexes and their respective spheres. In addition to gender, the book also explores the relationship between the “great” and “little” societies, in the form of official and popular religion. As such, it will serve to broaden the reader’s knowledge of ancient, but also modern, society, because it concerns the relationship between various spheres of life which each possess their own competing and overlapping, but also co-existing, value-systems.

Author : Daniel Ogden
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 521 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2010-02-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781444334173

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A Companion to Greek Religion by Daniel Ogden Pdf

This major addition to Blackwell’s Companions to the Ancient World series covers all aspects of religion in the ancient Greek world from the archaic, through the classical and into the Hellenistic period. Written by a panel of international experts Focuses on religious life as it was experienced by Greek men and women at different times and in different places Features major sections on local religious systems, sacred spaces and ritual, and the divine

Author : Sarah Iles JOHNSTON
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2009-06-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674039186

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Ancient Religions by Sarah Iles JOHNSTON Pdf

Religious beliefs and practices, which permeated all aspects of life in antiquity, traveled well-worn routes throughout the Mediterranean: itinerant charismatic practitioners peddled their skills as healers, purifiers, cursers, and initiators; and vessels decorated with illustrations of myths traveled with them. This collection of essays, drawn from the groundbreaking reference work Religion in the Ancient World, offers an expansive, comparative perspective on this complex spiritual world.

Author : Andrew D. Dimarogonas
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 510 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1998-10-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9057025620

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Synopsis: An Annual Index of Greek Studies, 1993, 3 by Andrew D. Dimarogonas Pdf

Presents 12,860 entries listing scholarly publications on Greek studies. Research and review journals, books, and monographs are indexed in the areas of classical, Hellenistic, Biblical, Byzantine, Medieval, and modern Greek studies., but no annotations are included. After the general listings, entries are also indexed by journal, text, name, geography, and subject. The CD-ROM contains an electronic version of the book. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Josine Blok
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2015-08-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004301436

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The Early Amazons by Josine Blok Pdf

The Early Amazons offers a new understanding of the ancient Amazon myth, situating mythical representations in the realm of cultural history. The first section examines how the Amazons have presented a challenge to views on history, myth and gender in classical mythology from the late eighteenth century up to the impact of structuralism. Topics included are nineteenth-century historiography and the interest in linguistics. The second section sheds new light on the culture of archaic Greece, offering a coherent assessment of literary and visual representations. Taking mythical narrative as a form of oral storytelling, it shows the emergence of the Amazon motif and its meaning in the world of epic. Iconographical analysis reveals how the visual arts have made a contribution of their own to the imaginary presence of the Amazons.

Author : P. J. Heslin,Peter Heslin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2005-08-11
Category : History
ISBN : 0521851459

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The Transvestite Achilles by P. J. Heslin,Peter Heslin Pdf

Offers the first book-length examination of Statius' unfinished epic, the Achilleid.

Author : Sarah Iles Johnston
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 750 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2004-11-30
Category : History
ISBN : 0674015177

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Religions of the Ancient World by Sarah Iles Johnston Pdf

This groundbreaking, first basic reference work on ancient religious beliefs collects and organizes available information on ten ancient cultures and traditions, including Greece, Rome, and Mesopotamia, and offers an expansive, comparative perspective on each one.

Author : David Dodd,Christopher A. Faraone
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2013-09-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135143657

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Initiation in Ancient Greek Rituals and Narratives by David Dodd,Christopher A. Faraone Pdf

Scholars of classical history and literature have for more than a century accepted `initiation' as a tool for understanding a variety of obscure rituals and myths, ranging from the ancient Greek wedding and adolescent haircutting rituals to initiatory motifs or structures in Greek myth, comedy and tragedy. In this books an international group of experts including Gloria Ferrari, Fritz Graf and Bruce Lincoln, critique many of these past studies, and challenge strongly the tradition of privileging the concept of initiation as a tool for studying social performances and literary texts, in which changes in status or group membership occur in unusual ways. These new modes of research mark an important turning point in the modern study of the religion and myths of ancient Greece and Rome, making this a valuable collection across a number of classical subjects.

Author : Claude Calame
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2009-05-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521888585

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Greek Mythology by Claude Calame Pdf

Argues that the meaning of Greek myths can only be studied according to their artistic forms of expression. Using myths such as those of Persephone, Bellerophon, Helen and Teiresias, Claude Calame surveys Greek mythology as a category inseparable from the literature in which so much of it is found.

Author : Mark William Padilla
Publisher : Bucknell University Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Drama
ISBN : 083875418X

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Rites of Passage in Ancient Greece by Mark William Padilla Pdf

This volume reflects on liminality as it relates to initiatory themes in Greek literature and on literary works, especially tragedy, that represent heroes and heroines undergoing rites of passage. Featured works include Aeschylus's Prometheus Bound, Euripides' Ion and Iphigenia in Tauris, and Sophocles' Antigone and Women of Trachis.

Author : Donald G. Kyle
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2012-11-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134862726

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Spectacles of Death in Ancient Rome by Donald G. Kyle Pdf

The elaborate and inventive slaughter of humans and animals in the arena fed an insatiable desire for violent spectacle among the Roman people. Donald G. Kyle combines the words of ancient authors with current scholarly research and cross-cultural perspectives, as he explores * the origins and historical development of the games * who the victims were and why they were chosen * how the Romans disposed of the thousands of resulting corpses * the complex religious and ritual aspects of institutionalised violence * the particularly savage treatment given to defiant Christians. This lively and original work provides compelling, sometimes controversial, perspectives on the bloody entertainments of ancient Rome, which continue to fascinate us to this day.