Könyv Worshipping Virtues Emma Stafford

Worshipping Virtues

Personification and the Divine in Ancient Greece

Szerző: Emma Stafford
Nyelv: Angol
Kötés: Kemény kötésű
Elérhetőség: 50 % esély
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27 973 Ft
The culture of ancient Greece was thronged with personifications. In poetry and the visual arts, per...

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Szerző
Nyelv
Angol
Kötés
Könyv - Kemény kötésű
Kiadva
2001
oldal
274
EAN
9780715630440
ISBN
071563044X
Enbook ID
09292240
Súly
628
Méretek
244 x 165 x 21

Teljes leírás

The culture of ancient Greece was thronged with personifications. In poetry and the visual arts, personified figures of what might seem abstractions claim our attention. The Greeks, in Dr Johnson's phrase, 'shock the mind by ascribing effects to non-entity'. This study examines the logic, the psychology and the practice of Greeks who worshipped these personifications with temples and sacrifices, and beseeched them with hymn and prayers. Dr Stafford conducts case-studies of deified 'abstractions', such as Peitho (Persuasion), Eirene (Peace) and Hygieia (Health). She also considers general questions of Greek psychology, such as why so many of these figures were female. Modern scholars have asked, "Did the Greeks believe their own myths?" This study contributes to the debate, by exploring widespread and creative popular theology in the historical period.

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