In Search Of The Dioskouroi Image Myth And Cult
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In Search Of The Dioskouroi Image Myth And Cult
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Author : Sarah V. Graham
language : en
Publisher: Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Release Date : 2024-11-21
In Search Of The Dioskouroi Image Myth And Cult written by Sarah V. Graham and has been published by Archaeopress Publishing Ltd this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-11-21 with History categories.
This book re-examines the Greek Dioskouroi, Kastor and Polydeukes, exploring their roles in image, myth, and cult. Case studies focus on their homelands in myth – Sparta, Messene, and Argos – and areas where Greek mariners sought their protection. Findings suggest that, for the Greeks, the term ‘Dioskouroi’ may have held a specific votive meaning.
In Search Of The Dioskouroi
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Author : Sarah Graham
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2015
In Search Of The Dioskouroi written by Sarah Graham and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015 with Dioscuri (Greek mythology) categories.
Stealing Helen
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Author : Lowell Edmunds
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2020-04-28
Stealing Helen written by Lowell Edmunds and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-04-28 with History categories.
It's a familiar story: a beautiful woman is abducted and her husband journeys to recover her. This story’s best-known incarnation is also a central Greek myth—the abduction of Helen that led to the Trojan War. Stealing Helen surveys a vast range of folktales and texts exhibiting the story pattern of the abducted beautiful wife and makes a detailed comparison with the Helen of Troy myth. Lowell Edmunds shows that certain Sanskrit, Welsh, and Old Irish texts suggest there was an Indo-European story of the abducted wife before the Helen myth of the Iliad became known. Investigating Helen’s status in ancient Greek sources, Edmunds argues that if Helen was just one trope of the abducted wife, the quest for Helen’s origin in Spartan cult can be abandoned, as can the quest for an Indo-European goddess who grew into the Helen myth. He explains that Helen was not a divine essence but a narrative figure that could replicate itself as needed, at various times or places in ancient Greece. Edmunds recovers some of these narrative Helens, such as those of the Pythagoreans and of Simon Magus, which then inspired the Helens of the Faust legend and Goethe. Stealing Helen offers a detailed critique of prevailing views behind the "real" Helen and presents an eye-opening exploration of the many sources for this international mythical and literary icon.
The Cult Of Castor And Pollux In Ancient Rome
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Author : Amber Gartrell
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2021-04-29
The Cult Of Castor And Pollux In Ancient Rome written by Amber Gartrell 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 2021-04-29 with Art categories.
The Dioscuri first appeared at the Battle of Lake Regillus in 496 BC to save the new Republic. Receiving a temple in the Forum in gratitude, the gods continued to play an important role in Roman life for centuries and took on new responsibilities as the needs of the society evolved. Protectors of elite horsemen, boxers and sailors, they also served as guarantors of the Republic's continuation and, eventually, as models for potential future emperors. Over the course of centuries, the cult and its temples underwent many changes. In this book, Amber Gartrell explores the evolution of the cult. Drawing on a range of methodological approaches and a wide range of ancient evidence, she focuses on four key aspects: the gods' two temples in Rome, their epiphanies, their protection of varied groups, and their role as divine parallels for imperial heirs, revealing how religion, politics and society interacted and influenced each other.
Goddess Mystery Cults And The Miracle Of Minyan Prehistoric Greece
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Author : Dionysious Psilopoulos
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Release Date : 2023-01-03
Goddess Mystery Cults And The Miracle Of Minyan Prehistoric Greece written by Dionysious Psilopoulos and has been published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-01-03 with Social Science categories.
As this book demonstrates, the cradle of the Mystery Cults of the Goddess and of Western civilization is the Aegean region, an area extending from the Balkans to Crete and from the Ionian Sea to Asia Minor. The Eleusinian Mysteries do not originate from Old Europe or Egypt, but from the worship of the Pelasgian goddess Daeira, Mother Earth, who preceded Demeter and whose cult was indigenous to Eleusis. As shown here, in the Mysteries of the Goddess, the initiates descend into the depths of their psyche, perceive the midnight sun, transcend duality, and achieve cosmic consciousness symbolized by the unity and harmony of the Great Goddess. The Pelasgians, Minyans, and Minoans, the Aegean region’s prehistoric tribes and ancestors of the Mycenaeans and modern Greeks, share the same cultural heritage, continuity, and autochthony with the region’s Proto-Greek, pre-Deukalion-Flood inhabitants. The book also argues that religious and scientific traces of pre-Flood knowledge can be discerned in the Mysteries and the technical achievements of prehistoric Minyan and Minoan Greeks. Even from the third millennium, the Minyans and Minoans, with their advanced nautical, geographic, and astronomical knowledge, sailed not only the Mediterranean, but using the Atlantic currents had reached the copper mines of northern Europe and America.
In Search Of God The Mother
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Author : Lynn E. Roller
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 1999-07-13
In Search Of God The Mother written by Lynn E. Roller and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999-07-13 with History categories.
This is the first thorough account of the nature and the spread of the cult of Cybele, the Great Mother, and the first to present her worship soberly as a religion rather than sensationally as an orgiastic celebration of self-castrated priest-attendants.
Boiotia In Antiquity
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Author : Albert Schachter
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2016-05-16
Boiotia In Antiquity written by Albert Schachter 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 2016-05-16 with Art categories.
A collection of papers - revised or previously unpublished - about the history, institutions, and literature of Boiotia, by a leading expert on the region.
Ancient Greek Cults
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Author : Jennifer Lynn Larson
language : en
Publisher: Psychology Press
Release Date : 2007
Ancient Greek Cults written by Jennifer Lynn Larson and has been published by Psychology Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with History categories.
Using archaeological, epigraphic and literary sources, and incorporating current scholarly theories, this volume offers an accessible account of the Greek gods for undergraduate students.
Zeus Zeus God Of The Bright Sky
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Author : Arthur Bernard Cook
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1964
Zeus Zeus God Of The Bright Sky written by Arthur Bernard Cook and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1964 with Classical antiquities categories.
The Sacrificial Rituals Of Greek Hero Cults In The Archaic To The Early Hellenistic Period
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Author : Gunnel Ekroth
language : en
Publisher: Presses universitaires de Liège
Release Date : 2013-05-15
The Sacrificial Rituals Of Greek Hero Cults In The Archaic To The Early Hellenistic Period written by Gunnel Ekroth and has been published by Presses universitaires de Liège this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-05-15 with History categories.
This study questions the traditional view of sacrifices in hero-cults during the Archaic to the early Hellenistic periods. The analysis of the epigraphical and literary evidence for sacrifices to heroes in these periods shows, contrary to the traditional notion, that the main ritual in hero-cults was a thysia at which the worshippers consumed the meat from the animal victim. A particular handling of the animal’s blood or a holocaust, rituals previously taken to be typical for heroes, can rarely be documented and must be considered as marginal features in hero-cults. The terms eschara, escharon, bothros, enagizein, enagisma, enagismos and enagisterion, believed to be characteristic for hero-cults, are seldom used in hero-contexts before the Roman period and occur mainly in the Byzantine lexicographers and in the scholia. Since the main kind of sacrifice in hero-cults was a thysia, a ritual intimately connected with the social structure of society, the heroes must have fulfilled the same role as the gods within the Greek religious system. The fact that the heroes were dead seems to have been of little significance for the sacrificial rituals and it is questionable whether the rituals of hero-cults are to be considered as originating in the cult of the dead.