The Role of Metamorphosis in Grego [i.e. Greco]-Roman Religious Thought
Author : David Walter Leinweber
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Page : 524 pages
File Size : 28,31 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Metamorphosis
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Author : David Walter Leinweber
Publisher :
Page : 524 pages
File Size : 28,31 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Metamorphosis
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Author : David W. Leinweber
Publisher :
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 28,13 MB
Release : 1992
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Author : Turid Karlsen Seim
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 28,76 MB
Release : 2009-05-05
Category : Religion
ISBN : 3110202999
How were ideas and experiences of transformation expressed in early Christianity and early Judaism? This volume explores the social and philosophical frameworks within which transformative ideas such as resurrection and practices of becoming “a new being” were shaped. It also explores the analogies and parameters by which transformation was being observed, noted and asserted. The focus on transformation helps to connect topics that tend to be studied separately, such as cosmology, resurrection, aging, gender, and conversion. The textual material is wide-ranging and there are new readings of core passages. Ideas and experiences of transformations in early Christianity and early Judaism Connects topics that tend to be studied seperately (cosmology, resurrection, aging, gender, conversion) With wide-ranging textual material
Author : Pauline A. LeVen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 43,55 MB
Release : 2020-12-03
Category : Art
ISBN : 110714874X
Examines questions raised, in antiquity and now, by mythical narratives about humans transforming into non-human musical beings.
Author : Jan N. Bremmer
Publisher : Peeters Publishers
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 35,95 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Magic
ISBN : 9789042912274
Deities, demons, and angels became important protagonists in the magic of the Late Antique world, and were also the main reasons for the condemnation of magic in the Christian era. Supplicatory incantations, rituals of coercion, enticing suffumigations, magical prayers and mystical songs drew spiritual powers to the humain domain. Next to the magician's desire to regulate fate and fortune, it was the communion with the spirit world that gave magic the potential to purify and even deify its practitioners. The sense of elation and the awareness of a metaphysical order caused magic to merge with philosophy (notably Neoplatonism). The heritage of Late Antique theurgy would be passed on to the Arab world, and together with classical science and learning would take root again in the Latin West in the High Middle Ages. The metamorphosis of magic laid out in this book is the transformation of ritual into occult philosophy against the background of cultural changes in Judaism, Graeco-Roman religion and Christianity. This volume, the first in the new series Groningen Studies in Cultural Change, offers the papers presented at the workshop The Metamorphosis of Magic from Late Antiquity to the Early Modern Period held from 22 to 24 June 2000, and organised by Jan N. Bremmer and Jan R. Veenstra. The papers have been written by scholars from such varying disciplines as classics, theology, philosophy, cultural history, and law. Their contributions shed new light upon several old obscurities; they show magic to be a significant area of culture, and they advance the case for viewing transformations in the lore and practice of magic as a barometer with which to measure cultural change.
Author : Andrew D. Dimarogonas
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 17,85 MB
Release : 1996-12-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9789057025419
Synopsis is an electronic and print index to scholarly publications on Greek Studies. Consisting of a PC or Macintosh formatted disk, a print edition of the index, and a copy of Euretes, a computer user's manual that will aid in record retrieval and conversion of information contained in the database, the annual is compiled out of more than 950 scholarly journals and other publications, and out of the holdings of major US libraries, the Library of Congress and the National Library of Greece.Indexing nearly 5,100 journal paper titles and 3,100 book titles, Synopsis covers the areas of Classical, Hellenistic, Biblical, Byzantine, Medieval and Modern Greek Studies. The volume of collected material has been compiled in three indexes: 1) the general listing and the author index; 2) the list of the indexed scholarly journals and other publications; and, 3) the text, geographical, name and subject index
Author : Walter Burkert
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 514 pages
File Size : 41,40 MB
Release : 1985
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674362819
A survey of the religious beliefs of ancient Greece covers sacrifices, libations, purification, gods, heroes, the priesthood, oracles, festivals, and the afterlife.
Author : Margaret Froelich
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Page : 202 pages
File Size : 14,47 MB
Release : 2018-10-05
Category : Bible
ISBN : 9781946230188
The contributions open a window to an impressive variety of reactions to Dennis MacDonald
Author : Ovid
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Page : 366 pages
File Size : 40,75 MB
Release : 2021-01-12
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"It is the single most important work of poetry in ancient history" - M. L. Andres, author of 'A Simple but Effective Strategy for Success' & founder of The Block Bard. Ovid's 15-book epic, written in exquisite Latin hexameter, is a rollercoaster of a read. Beginning with the creation of the world, and ending with Rome in his own lifetime, the Metamorphoses drags the reader through time and space, from beginnings to endings, from life to death, from moments of delicious joy to episodes of depravity and abjection.The madness and chaos of some 250 stories, spanning around 700 lines of poetry per book, are woven together by the theme of metamorphosis or transformation. The artistic dexterity involved in pulling off this literary feat is testimony to Ovid's skill and ambition as a poet. This accomplishment also goes a long way in explaining the rightful place the Metamorphoses holds within the canon of classical literature, placed as it is beside other great epics of Mediterranean antiquity such as the Iliad, Odyssey and Aeneid.
Author : John Chadwick
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 37,46 MB
Release : 1976-03-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521290371
John Chadwick summarizes the results of research into Mycenaean Greece.