The names of the gods in ancient Mediterranean religions / edited by Corinne Bonnet ; translated by Ralph Häussler.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bonnet, Corinne, editor.

Häussler, Ralph, 1968- translator.

Series:

Classical scholarship in translation

Standardized Title:

Noms de dieux. English.

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Gods.

Goddesses.

God--Name.

God.

Names, Personal--Religious aspects.

Names, Personal.

Mythology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxiv, 282 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2024.

Summary:

"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." --Provided by publisher

Contents:

Cover

Half-title page

Series page

Title page

Copyright page

Dedication

Contents

List of Figures

List of Tables

List of Contributors

Acknowledgements

Foreword

List of Abbreviations

Introduction In the Mirror of Vertumnus

Chapter 1 'To the Immortals Everything Is Possible': Portraits of Homeric Gods Between Savagery and Empathy

Chapter 2 All Sides of the Moon: A Greek Incantation from Late Antique Egypt

Chapter 3 'May the Force Be With You!': Men and Gods in Battle in the Phoenician World

Chapter 4 Dionysos in the Mirror of Poseidon: Crossed Onomastic Portraits

Chapter 5 Lord of the Universe, the World and Eternity: Gods with Unlimited Powers in Palmyra?

Chapter 6 This Is Not a Name: The Polyvalence of Divine Names in Mesopotamia

Chapter 7 The Sword and the Patera: Zeus Helios Great Sarapis

Chapter 8 A Travelling Portrait: The Baal of Tyre, From One Rock to Another

Chapter 9 Pantheus, a 'Total' God in the Greek and Roman World

Chapter 10 'I Will Be Who I Will Be' (Exod. 3:14): Portrait of a Deity that Would be Nameless and Imageless

Chapter 11 Golden Locks Among the Greeks, or the Hair Secrets of the Beautiful Apollo

Chapter 12 Athena

Artemis: An Attempt to Outline Two Sisters by Their Epicleses

Epilogue

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 28 Feb 2024).

ISBN:

9781009394772

1009394770

9781009394789

1009394789

9781009394796

1009394797