Divine images and human imaginations in Ancient Greece and Rome / edited by Joannis Mylonopoulos.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Mylonopoulos, Jannis.

Μυλωνόπουλος, Ιωάννης., Editor.

Series:

Religions in the Graeco-Roman world ; v. 170.

Religions in the Graeco-Roman world, 0927-7633 ; v. 170

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Greece--Religion.

Greece.

Religion.

Rome--Religion.

Rome.

Rome (Empire).

Idols and images--Greece.

Idols and images.

Idols and images--Rome.

Genre:

Kongress -- Erfurt -- 2007.

Physical Description:

xvi, 437 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2010.

Summary:

"The polytheistic religious systems of ancient Greece and Rome reveal an imaginative attitude towards the construction of the divine. One of the most important instruments in this process was certainly the visualisation. Images of the gods transformed the divine world into a visually experienceable entity, comprehensible even without a theoretical or theological superstructure. For the illiterates, images were together with oral traditions and rituals the only possibility to approach the idea of the divine; for the intellectuals, images of the gods could be allegorically transcended symbols to reflect upon. Based on the art historical and textual evidence, this volume offers a fresh view on the historical, literary, and artistic significance of divine images as powerful visual media of religious and intellectual communication"-- Jacket.

Contents:

Introduction : divine images versus cult images : an endless story about theories, methods, and terminologies / Joannis Mylonopoulos

A pantheon without attributes? : goddesses and gods in Minoan and Mycenean iconography / Fritz Blakolmer

Aniconism and the notion of "primitive" in Greek antiquity / Milette Gaifman

Finding the gods : Greek and Cypriot votive korai revisited / Catherine M. Keesling

Gods and statues : an approach to archaistic images in the fifth century BCE / Fernande Hölscher

Greek priests and "cult statues" : in how far are they unnecessary? / Vinciane Pirenne-Delforge

Theseus and the stone : the iconographic and ritual contexts of a Greek votive relief in the Louvre / Gunnel Ekroth

Odysseus with a trident : the use of attributes in ancient Greek imagery / Joannis Mylonopoulos

The life story of a cult statue as an allegory : Kallimachos' Hermes perpheraios / Ivana Petrovic

Arcadian cult images between religion and politics / Tanja Scheer

Synnaos theos : images of Roman emperors in Greek temples / Dirk Steuernagel

Simulacra deorum versus ornamenta aedium : the status of divine images in the temples of Rome / Sylvia Estienne

The dedication of cult statues at the altar : a Roman pictorial formula for the introduction of new cults / Katja Moede

Ornamenta, monumenta, exempla : Greek images of gods in the public spaces of Constantinople / Alessandra Bravi.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

9789004179301

9004179305

9789004283169

9004283161

OCLC:

455871536