Lucian Divine
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Lucian Divine
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Author : Renee Carlino
language : en
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Release Date : 2017-01-09
Lucian Divine written by Renee Carlino and has been published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-01-09 with Dating relationships categories.
From USA Today Bestselling Author, Renée Carlino, comes a totally unique love story that is sure to make you question what's out there . . . or who. "My guardian angel is a drunk." Evelyn Casey's life is at a standstill. She's in her mid-twenties, struggling with the dating scene in San Francisco. Nothing seems to be working out, and she's starting to think that she'll live out her days in her crummy apartment with her overbearing roommate, Brooklyn. It's absurd, but sometimes Evey longs for a guardian angel to show up and save the day. And then he does. Seriously. His name is Lucian and he's a guardian angel, been on the job for two thousand years. His sudden presence in her life is both good-he's brilliant, witty, and warm-and bad-he's brilliant, witty, warm, and hot as ----. But as perfect as Lucian seems, he's got problems of his own. He's taken up drinking and he's brazenly inserted himself into Evey's life, going against the greatest cosmic law ever created. For Evey, the rules are simple: You are not allowed to hook up with your guardian angel. But sometimes fulfilling your destiny requires a leap of faith, a confrontation with God. Yes, God as in God.
Lucian S Laughing Gods
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Author : Inger NI Kuin
language : en
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Release Date : 2023-04-10
Lucian S Laughing Gods written by Inger NI Kuin and has been published by University of Michigan Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-04-10 with Literary Criticism categories.
No comic author from the ancient world features the gods as often as Lucian of Samosata, yet the meaning of his works remain contested. He is either seen as undermining the gods and criticizing religion through his humor, or as not engaging with religion at all, featuring the gods as literary characters. His humor was traditionally viewed as a symptom of decreased religiosity, but that model of religious decline in the second century CE has been invalidated by ancient historians. Understanding these works now requires understanding what it means to imagine as laughing and laughable gods who are worshipped in everyday cult. In Lucian's Laughing Gods, author Inger N. I. Kuin argues that in ancient Greek thought, comedic depictions of divinities were not necessarily desacralizing. In religion, laughter was accommodated to such an extent as to actually be constituent of some ritual practices, and the gods were imagined either to reciprocate or push back against human laughter—they were never deflated by it. Lucian uses the gods as comic characters, but in doing so, he does not automatically negate their power. Instead, with his depiction of the gods and of how they relate to humans—frivolous, insecure, callous—Lucian challenges the dominant theologies of his day as he refuses to interpret the gods as ethical models. This book contextualizes Lucian’s comedic performances in the intellectual life of the second century CE Roman East broadly, including philosophy, early Christian thought, and popular culture (dance, fables, standard jokes, etc.). His texts are analyzed as providing a window onto non-elite attitudes and experiences, and methodologies from religious studies and the sociology of religion are used to conceptualize Lucian’s engagement with the religiosity of his contemporaries.
Doubting The Divine In Early Modern Europe
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Author : George McClure
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2018-06-21
Doubting The Divine In Early Modern Europe written by George McClure and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-06-21 with History categories.
The classical tradition -- Renaissance antihero: Leon Battista Alberti's Momus, the novel -- Momus and the Reformation -- The execution of Giordano Bruno -- Milton's Lucifer -- God of modern criticks -- Momus and modernism
Studies In Lucian S De Syria Dea
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Author : R.A. Oden, Jr.
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2019-01-28
Studies In Lucian S De Syria Dea written by R.A. Oden, Jr. and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-01-28 with Literary Collections categories.
Lucian And His Roman Voices
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Author : Eleni Bozia
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2014-10-03
Lucian And His Roman Voices written by Eleni Bozia and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-10-03 with Literary Criticism categories.
Lucian and His Roman Voices examines cultural exchanges, political propaganda, and religious conflicts in the Early Roman Empire through the eyes of Lucian, his contemporary Roman authors, and Christian Apologists. Offering a multi-faceted analysis of the Lucianic corpus, this book explores how Lucian, a Syrian who wrote in Greek and who became a Roman citizen, was affected by the socio-political climate of his time, reacted to it, and how he ‘corresponded’ with the Roman intelligentsia. In the process, this unique volume raises questions such as: What did the title ‘Roman citizen’ mean to native Romans and to others? How were language and literature politicized, and how did they become a means of social propaganda? This study reveals Lucian’s recondite historical and authorial personas and the ways in which his literary activity portrayed second-century reality from the perspectives of the Romans, Greeks, pagans, Christians, and citizens of the Roman Empire
Ode To Divine And Dirt
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Author : LUCIAN. STEPHENSON
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2018
Ode To Divine And Dirt written by LUCIAN. STEPHENSON and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018 with categories.
Ode To Divine And Dirt
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Author : LUCIAN. STEPHENSON
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2018
Ode To Divine And Dirt written by LUCIAN. STEPHENSON and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018 with categories.
Divine Epiphany In Greek Literature And Culture
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Author : Georgia Petridou
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2015
Divine Epiphany In Greek Literature And Culture written by Georgia Petridou and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015 with History categories.
"In ancient Greece, epiphanies were embedded in cultural production, and employed by the socio-political elite in both perpetuating pre-existing power-structures and constructing new ones. This volume is the first comprehensive survey of the history of divine epiphany as presented in the literary and epigraphic narratives of the Greek-speaking world. It demonstrates that divine epiphanies not only reveal what the Greeks thought about their gods; they tell us just as much about the preoccupations, the preconceptions, and the assumptions of ancient Greek religion and culture. In doing so, it explores the deities who were prone to epiphany and the contexts in which they manifested themselves, as well as the functions (narratives and situational) they served, addressing the cultural specificity of divine morphology and mortal-immortal interaction. 'Divine epiphany in Greek literature and culture' re-establishes epiphany as a crucial mode in Greek religious thought and practice, underlines its centrality in Greek cultural production, and foregrounds its impact on both the political and the societal organization of the ancient Greeks."
Lucian S Dialogues
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Author : Lucian (of Samosata.)
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1893
Lucian S Dialogues written by Lucian (of Samosata.) and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1893 with Sculpture, Egyptian categories.
Gods Of Ancient Greece
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Author : Jan N. Bremmer
language : en
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Release Date : 2010-07-30
Gods Of Ancient Greece written by Jan N. Bremmer and has been published by Edinburgh University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-07-30 with Religion categories.
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.