Light And Darkness In Ancient Greek Myth And Religion
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Light And Darkness In Ancient Greek Myth And Religion
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Author : Menelaos Christopoulos
language : en
Publisher: Lexington Books
Release Date : 2010-09-25
Light And Darkness In Ancient Greek Myth And Religion written by Menelaos Christopoulos and has been published by Lexington Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-09-25 with Literary Criticism categories.
Light and Darkness in Ancient Greek Myth and Religion is a ground-breaking volume dedicated to a thorough examination of the well known empirical categories of light and darkness as it relates to modes of thought, beliefs and social behavior in Greek culture. With a systematic and multi-disciplinary approach, the book elucidates the light/darkness dichotomy in color semantics, appearance and concealment of divinities and creatures of darkness, the eye sight and the insight vision, and the role of the mystic or cultic.
Light And Darkness In Ancient Greek Myth And Religion
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Author : Menelaos Christopoulos
language : en
Publisher: Greek Studies: Interdisciplina
Release Date : 2010
Light And Darkness In Ancient Greek Myth And Religion written by Menelaos Christopoulos and has been published by Greek Studies: Interdisciplina this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with History categories.
Light and Darkness in Ancient Greek Myth and Religion is a ground-breaking volume dedicated to a thorough examination of the well known empirical categories of light and darkness as it relates to modes of thought, beliefs and social behavior in Greek culture. With a systematic and multidisciplinary approach, the book elucidates the light/darkness dichotomy in color semantics, appearance and concealment of divinities and creatures of darkness, the eye sight and the insight vision, and the role of the mystic or cultic.
The Uses Of Greek Mythology
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Author : Ken Dowden
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2002-09-11
The Uses Of Greek Mythology written by Ken Dowden and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-09-11 with History categories.
In an innovative sequence of topics, Ken Dowden explores the uses Greeks made of myth and the uses to which we can put myth in recovering the richness of their culture. Most aspects of Greek life and history - including war, religion and sexuality - which are discernable through myth, as well as most modern approaches, are given a context in a book which is designed to be useful, accessible and stimulating.
Greek Mythology
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Author : Patrick Auerbach
language : en
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Release Date : 2016-06-07
Greek Mythology written by Patrick Auerbach 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 2016-06-07 with categories.
Greek Mythology is the body of myths and teachings that belong to the ancient Greeks, concerning their gods and heroes, the nature of the world, and the origins and significance of their own cult and ritual practices. It was a part of the religion in ancient Greece. The Greeks were polytheistic in their religious beliefs. Polytheistic means they believed in and worshiped many different gods. Modern scholars refer to and study the myths in an attempt to shed light on the religious and political institutions of Ancient Greece and its civilization, and to gain understanding of the nature of myth-making itself. In Greek Mythology, the gods often represented different forms of nature. Their religion/mythology had no formal structure with the exception of various festivals held in honor of the gods. There was no sacred book or code of conduct to live by. The most powerful Greek gods were known as the Olympians. The Greeks believed the Olympians lived on the highest mountain in Greece, Mount Olympus. The Olympian gods included: Zeus, Hera, Apollo, Aphrodite, Ares, Artemis, Athena, Demeter, Hades, Hermes, Hephaestus, Poseidon and Hestia or later she was replaced in some lists by Dionysus. Greek Mythology is explicitly embodied in a large collection of narratives, and implicitly in Greek representational arts, such as vase-paintings and votive gifts. Greek myth attempts to explain the origins of the world, and details the lives and adventures of a wide variety of gods, goddesses, heroes, heroines and mythological creatures. These accounts initially were disseminated in an oral-poetic tradition; today the Greek myths are known primarily from Greek literature. The oldest known Greek literary sources, Homer's epic poems Iliad and Odyssey, focus on the Trojan War and its aftermath. Scroll to the top of the page and click Add To Cart to read more about this extraordinary chapter of history.
Light As Experience And Imagination From Paleolithic To Roman Times
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Author : David S. Herrstrom
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2017-09-26
Light As Experience And Imagination From Paleolithic To Roman Times written by David S. Herrstrom and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-09-26 with Literary Criticism categories.
This book is an interdisciplinary synthesis and interpretation about the experience of light as revealed in a wide range of art and literature from Paleolithic to Roman times. Humanistic in spirit and in its handling of facts, it marshals a substantial body of scholarship to develop an explication of light as a central, even dramatic, reality of human existence and experience in diverse cultural settings. David S. Herrstrom underscores our intimacy with light—not only its constant presence in our life but its insinuating character. Focusing on our encounters with light and ways of making sense of these, this book is concerned with the personal and cultural impact of light, exploring our resistance to and acceptance of light. Its approach is unique. The book’s true subject is the individual’s relationship with light, rather than the investigation of light’s essential nature. Ittells the story of light seducing individuals down through the ages. Consequently, it is not concerned with the “progress” of scientific inquiries into the physical properties and behavior of light (optical science), but rather with subjective reactions to it as reflected in art (Paleolithic through Roman), architecture (Egyptian, Grecian, Roman), mythology and religion (Paleolithic, Egyptian), and literature (e.g., Akhenaten, Plato, Aeschylus, Lucretius, John the Evangelist, Plotinus, and Augustine). This book celebrates the complexity of our relation to light’s character. No individual experience of light is “truer” than any other; none improves on any previous experience of light’s “tidal pull” on us. And the wondrous variety of these encounters has yielded a richly layered tapestry of human experience. By its broad scope and interdisciplinary approach, this pioneering book is without precedent.
The Oxford Handbook Of Light In Archaeology
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Author : Costas Papadopoulos
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2021-12-09
The Oxford Handbook Of Light In Archaeology written by Costas Papadopoulos 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 2021-12-09 with Social Science categories.
Light plays a crucial role in mediating relationships between people, things, and spaces, yet lightscapes have been largely neglected in archaeology study. This volume offers a full consideration of light in archaeology and beyond, exploring diverse aspects of illumination in different spatial and temporal contexts from prehistory to the present.
The Light Of The Gods
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Author : Eva Parisinou
language : en
Publisher: Bristol Classical Press
Release Date : 2000-12-22
The Light Of The Gods written by Eva Parisinou and has been published by Bristol Classical Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-12-22 with History categories.
This book examines the use and significance of light in ancient Greek cult of the Archaic and Classical periods (from the seventh to the fourth century BCE). The research covers all available evidence, ranging from literary texts and inscriptions to representations of light in vase-painting and sculpture, and surviving physical remains from excavations of Greek sanctuaries. Light is treated both as an abstract component of brightness which forms part of the nature of the gods and as an artefact which assumes concrete forms in divine hands. As a possession of mortals, light was regularly involved in contact with the gods. The book considers a numberof rituals in connection with the types and amount of light that they required, and the different roles that light played in them. It shows that the involvement of light in Greek cult was a complex phenomenon, which penetrated a great variety of ritual practices and religious beliefs surrounding the worship of gods in Archaic and Classical Greece.
The Sea In The Greek Imagination
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Author : Marie-Claire Beaulieu
language : en
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Release Date : 2016
The Sea In The Greek Imagination written by Marie-Claire Beaulieu and has been published by University of Pennsylvania Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016 with Literary Criticism categories.
In The Sea in the Greek Imagination, Marie-Claire Beaulieu unifies the multifarious representations of the sea and sea-crossing in Greek myth and imagery by positing the sea as a cosmological boundary between the worlds of the living, the dead, and the gods, or between reality and imagination.
The Cosmos In Ancient Greek Religious Experience
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Author : Efrosyni Boutsikas
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2020-10-29
The Cosmos In Ancient Greek Religious Experience written by Efrosyni Boutsikas 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 2020-10-29 with History categories.
Reconstructs ancient rituals in their day/night/season combining them with relevant mythology and astronomical observations to understand the ritual's cosmological links.
Sensational Pleasures In Cinema Literature And Visual Culture
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Author : G. Padva
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2014-02-25
Sensational Pleasures In Cinema Literature And Visual Culture written by G. Padva and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-02-25 with Performing Arts categories.
This international collection focuses on the phallic character of classic and contemporary literary and visual cultures and their invasive nature. It focuses on thrillers, horror cinema, sexual art and photography, erotic literature, female and male body politics, queer pleasures, gender/cross-gender/transgenderism, CCTV and phallic ethnicities.