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The world of Greek religion and mythology Collected essays II / Jan N. Bremmer.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bremmer, Jan N., author.
- Series:
- Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament ; 0512-1604 433.
- Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament, 0512-1604 ; 433.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Greece--Religion.
- Greece.
- Religion.
- Mythology, Greek.
- Gods, Greek.
- Cults--Greece.
- Cults.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xxii, 564 pages.)
- Place of Publication:
- Tübingen : Mohr Siebeck, [2019]
- System Details:
- text file
- Contents:
- The Greek gods in the twentieth century
- The power of Poseidon : horses, chaos and brute force
- Dionysos in 1933
- Hephaistos sweats or how to construct an ambivalent god
- Divinities in the Orphic gold leaves : Eukles, Eubouleus, Brimo, Kybele, Kore and Persephone
- The emergence of the hero cult
- The agency of statues
- Manteis, magic, mysteries and mythography : messy margins of polis religion
- The status and symbolic capital of the seer
- Incantatory magic : the date, place and author of the Getty Hexameters
- Body and soul between death and funeral in archaic Greece
- The construction of an individual eschatology : the case of the Orphic gold leaves
- Religious secrets and secrecy in Classical Greece
- No country for old women
- Greek Maenadism
- Greek religion and the ancient Near East
- Animal sacrifice
- The sacrifice of pregnant animals
- Myth and ritual in Greek human sacrifice : Lykaon, Polyxena and the case of the Rhodian criminal
- The sacrifice of Iphigeneia
- Imagining human sacrifice in Euripides' Iphigeneia in Aulis
- Human sacrifice in Euripides' Iphigeneia in Tauris : Greek and Barbarian
- What is a Greek myth?
- Myth and ritual : a difficult relationship
- Myth and history : the foundation of Cyrene
- Myth as propaganda : Athens and Sparta
- Myth and mythography : the pride of Halicarnassus
- Myth and the novel
- Myth and personifications : the birth of the seasons (Hôrai)
- A brief history of the study of Greek mythology.
- Notes:
- Collected essays I was published as: Maidens, magic and martyrs in early Christianity: Tübingen : Mohr Siebeck , 2017.
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on print version record.
- Other Format:
- PDF version
- ISBN:
- 9783161589492
- 3161589491
- Publisher Number:
- 99989830593
- 9783161589492 (PDF)
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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