Naming And Mapping The Gods In The Ancient Mediterranean

Author : Thomas Galoppin,Elodie Guillon,Max Luaces,Asuman Lätzer-Lasar,Sylvain Lebreton,Fabio Porzia,Jörg Rüpke,Emiliano Rubens Urciuoli,Corinne Bonnet
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 1080 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2022-12-31
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783110798432

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Naming and Mapping the Gods in the Ancient Mediterranean by Thomas Galoppin,Elodie Guillon,Max Luaces,Asuman Lätzer-Lasar,Sylvain Lebreton,Fabio Porzia,Jörg Rüpke,Emiliano Rubens Urciuoli,Corinne Bonnet Pdf

Ancient religions are definitely complex systems of gods, which resist our understanding. Divine names provide fundamental keys to gain access to the multiples ways gods were conceived, characterized, and organized. Among the names given to the gods many of them refer to spaces: cities, landscapes, sanctuaries, houses, cosmic elements. They reflect mental maps which need to be explored in order to gain new knowledge on both the structure of the pantheons and the human agency in the cultic dimension. By considering the intersection between naming and mapping, this book opens up new perspectives on how tradition and innovation, appropriation and creation play a role in the making of polytheistic and monotheistic religions. Far from being confined to sanctuaries, in fact, gods dwell in human environments in multiple ways. They move into imaginary spaces and explore the cosmos. By proposing a new and interdiciplinary angle of approach, which involves texts, images, spatial and archeaeological data, this book sheds light on ritual practices and representations of gods in the whole Mediterranean, from Italy to Mesopotamia, from Greece to North Africa and Egypt. Names and spaces enable to better define, differentiate, and connect gods.

Author : Corinne Bonnet
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2024-02-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781009394789

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The Names of the Gods in Ancient Mediterranean Religions by Corinne Bonnet Pdf

From Greece to Palmyra, Tyre or Babylon, the names of the gods, like 'Thundering Zeus', 'Three-faced Moon', 'Baal of the Force' or the enigmatic YHWH, reveal their history, family ties, fields of competence and capacity for action. Shared or specific, these names bring to light networks of gods: the Saviour gods, the Ancestral gods, the gods of a city or a family. Names tell stories about the relationship between men and gods, gods and places, places and cultures and so on. They show how gods travel and spread, how they appear and disappear, how they participate in the political, social, intellectual history of each community. Through the study of divine names, the twelve chapters of this book unfold a gallery of portraits that reveal the changing aspects of the divine throughout the ancient Mediterranean.

Author : Alaya Palamidis,Corinne Bonnet
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 896 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2024-03-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9783111326511

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What's in a Divine Name? by Alaya Palamidis,Corinne Bonnet Pdf

Divine Names are a key component in the communication between humans and gods in Antiquity. Their complexity derives not only from the impressive number of onomastic elements available to describe and target specific divine powers, but also from their capacity to be combined within distinctive configurations of gods. The volume collects 36 essays pertaining to many different contexts - Egypt, Anatolia, Levant, Mesopotamia, Greece, Rome - which address the multiple functions and wide scope of divine onomastics. Scrutinized in a diachronic and comparative perspective, divine names shed light on how polytheisms and monotheisms work as complex systems of divine and human agents embedded in an historical framework. Names imply knowledge and play a decisive role in rituals; they move between cities and regions, and can be translated; they interact with images and reflect the intrinsic plurality of divine beings. This vivid exploration of divine names pays attention to the balance between tradition and innovation, flexibility and constraints, to the material and conceptual parameters of onomastic practices, to cross-cultural contexts and local idiosyncrasies, in a word to human strategies for shaping the gods through their names.

Author : Edwin Oliver James
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1964
Category : Gods, Assyro-Babylonian
ISBN : UOM:39076005346395

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The Ancient Gods by Edwin Oliver James Pdf

Author : Robert Parker
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2017-05-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520967250

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Greek Gods Abroad by Robert Parker Pdf

From even before the time of Alexander the Great, the Greek gods spread throughout the Mediterranean, carried by settlers and largely adopted by the indigenous populations. By the third century b.c., gods bearing Greek names were worshipped everywhere from Spain to Afghanistan, with the resulting religious systems a variable blend of Greek and indigenous elements. Greek Gods Abroad examines the interaction between Greek religion and the cultures of the eastern Mediterranean with which it came into contact. Robert Parker shows how Greek conventions for naming gods were extended and adapted and provides bold new insights into religious and psychological values across the Mediterranean. The result is a rich portrait of ancient polytheism as it was practiced over 600 years of history.

Author : Alaya Palamidis, Corinne Bonnet, Julie Bernini, Enrique Nieto Izquierdo, Lorena Pérez Yarza
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 1167 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2024-08-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783111327563

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What’s in a Divine Name? by Alaya Palamidis, Corinne Bonnet, Julie Bernini, Enrique Nieto Izquierdo, Lorena Pérez Yarza Pdf

Author : F Porzia,C Bonnet
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2023-09-14
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9042951613

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Divine Names on the Spot II by F Porzia,C Bonnet Pdf

English summary: Names, images, and narratives are intimately related and frequently polysemous. As pieces of information on the gods, they convey fragments of knowledge and attempts to interpret the multifaceted complexity of the divine world. In what Robert Parker describes as an "archipelago", images and narratives are like compasses used to approach the mapping of the gods. The different contributions collected in this volume, dealing with the Greek and the Semitic worlds (the two main areas of the "Mapping Ancient Polytheisms" project), explore connections but also discrepancies between these different semantics, in order to highlight specificities and commonalities in the onomastic and iconographic languages. French description: Les noms, les images et les recits sont intimement lies et volontiers polysemiques. En tant qu'elements d'information sur les dieux, ils vehiculent des fragments de connaissance et constituent autant de tentatives d'interpretation de la complexite multiforme du monde divin. Dans ce que Robert Parker decrit comme un archipel, les images et les recits sont comme des boussoles qui facilitent la cartographie des dieux. Les differentes contributions rassemblees dans ce volume, traitant des mondes grec et semitique (les deux principaux domaines abordes dans le projet Mapping Ancient Polytheisms), explorent les connexions mais aussi les divergences existant entre ces differentes semantiques, afin de mettre en evidence les specificites et les points communs entre langage onomastique et langage iconographique.

Author : Mark H. Munn
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 478 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2006-07-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780520931589

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The Mother of the Gods, Athens, and the Tyranny of Asia by Mark H. Munn Pdf

Among 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.

Author : Brita Alroth
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Gods, Greek
ISBN : OCLC:1419327588

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Greek Gods and Figurines by Brita Alroth Pdf

Author : Hans Beck,Julia Kindt
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 407 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2023-03-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781009301831

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The Local Horizon of Ancient Greek Religion by Hans Beck,Julia Kindt Pdf

Which dimensions of the religious experience of the ancient Greeks become tangible only if we foreground its local horizons? This book explores the manifold ways in which Greek religious beliefs and practices are encoded in and communicate with various local environments. Its individual chapters explore 'the local' in its different forms and formulations. Besides the polis perspective, they include numerous other places and locations above and below the polis-level as well as those fully or largely independent of the city-state. Overall, the local emerges as a relational concept that changes together with our understanding of the general or universal forces as they shape ancient Greek religion. The unity and diversity of ancient Greek religion becomes tangible in the manifold ways in which localizing and generalizing forces interact with each other at different times and in different places across the ancient Greek world.

Author : Lorena Pérez Yarza
Publisher : de Gruyter
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2024
Category : History
ISBN : 3111326276

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What's in a Divine Name? by Lorena Pérez Yarza Pdf

Divine Names are a key component in the communication between humans and gods in Antiquity. The book collects 36 essays pertaining to many different contexts - Egypt, Anatolia, Levant, Mesopotamia, Greece, Rome - which address the multiple funct

Author : Mary Barnett
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Art and mythology
ISBN : 0766601625

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Gods and Myths of the Ancient World by Mary Barnett Pdf

Author : Jan N. Bremmer
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 552 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2010-07-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780748642892

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Gods of Ancient Greece by Jan N. Bremmer Pdf

This collection offers a fresh look at the nature and development of the Greek gods in the period from Homer until Late Antiquity The Greek gods are still very much present in modern consciousness. Although Apollo and Dionysos, Artemis and Aphrodite, Zeus and Hermes are household names, it is much less clear what these divinities meant and stood for in ancient Greece. In fact, they have been very much neglected in modern scholarship. Bremmer and Erskine bring together a team of international scholars with the aim of remedying this situation and generating new approaches to the nature and development of the Greek gods in the period from Homer until Late Antiquity. The Gods of Ancient Greece looks at individual gods, but also asks to what extent cult, myth and literary genre determine the nature of a divinity and presents a synchronic and diachronic view of the gods as they functioned in Greek culture until the triumph of Christianity.

Author : Nichola Wil
Publisher : Tribe Metrics
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2019-12-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1950766845

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Ancient Mythology: The Realms of the Gods Around the World by Nichola Wil Pdf

What is it that fascinates us about ancient Gods? Why do some myths persist and some fade away? Why can we not seem to get them out of our heads? Today only, get this Amazon book for just $19.99 for a limited time. Regularly priced at $45.99. If you have ever wondered what ancient civilizations thought of their world, you need look no further than their mythology. Gods, Goddesses, and stories were just a reflection of their worldview. Even if you're just curious about the kind of stories people made up back in the day, you're in the right place!Ancient mythology is a vast universe, but in this book, you're going to learn all about the ancient Greeks, the ancient Indians, Sumerians, and the Norsemen. While the Greeks and Norsemen receive their fair share of attention, less is known about the inhabitants of ancient India. Even less is known of the civilization of Sumer, which incidentally lasted the longest of all!Here Is A Preview Of What You'll Learn...● Greek myths and heroes - Theseus, Perseus, and more ● How the world was created and what every civilization thought of the world ● Morality and logic according to the ancients ● Epics and tales of heroes you've never heard of ● The underworlds the ancients believed in ● And so much more! Join the people who have been enthralled by this glimpse into a world long forgotten. Scroll Up & Click to Buy Now! Scroll Up To Purchase Your Print Copy Today! Take action right away by ordering this book "Ancient Mythology: The Realms of the Gods Around the World", for a limited time discount of only $19.99! Hurry Up!! Tags: Ancient Mythology stories Ancient Mythology Ancient Mythology Ancient Mythology gods Ancient Mythology creatures Ancient Mythology names Ancient Mythology game

Author : Carolina López-Ruiz
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2010-06-15
Category : History
ISBN : 0674049462

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When the Gods Were Born by Carolina López-Ruiz Pdf

"With admirable erudition, Lopez-Ruiz brings to life intimacies and exchanges between the ancient Greeks and their Northwest Semitic neighbors, portraying the ancient Mediterranean as a fluid, dynamic contact zone. She explains networks of circulation, shows creative uses of traditional material by peoples in motion, and radically transforms our understanding of ancient cosmogonies."---Page duBois, author of Out of Athens: The New Ancient Greeks --