| What Is a God?: Studies in the Nature of Greek Divinity Contributor(s): Lloyd, Alan B. (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1905125356 ISBN-13: 9781905125357 Publisher: Classical Press of Wales OUR PRICE: $33.25 Product Type: Paperback Published: December 2009 Annotation: Eleven papers on aspects of Greek religion from Minoans to the classical world. Striking similarities are revealed between religious ideas in Greece and non-Greek Asia. There are special studies of Apollo, Athena, and Dionysiac religion and new patterns are identified in the archaic and classical thought of Heraclitus, Herodotus and Sophocles. The contributors are: Bernard Dietrich, Walter Burkert, Catherine Osborne, J. K. Davies, Michael Clarke, A. C. Villing, Thomas Harrison, Seth L. Schein, Richard Seaford, Susan Deacy and Anne-France Morand. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Ancient - Greece - Religion | History - Social Science | Folklore & Mythology |
| Dewey: 292 |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 6.1" W x 9.1" (0.75 lbs) 187 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - Ancient (To 499 A.D.) - Cultural Region - Greece |
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| Publisher Description: In recent study Greek religion has often dissolved itself into many religions. The eleven original essays here focus both on extremes of the Greek world and on its classical 'centre'. Distinguished scholars examine the earliest traces of religious thought in the Minoan and Mycenaean cultures. Striking similarities are revealed between religious ideas of Greece and of non-Greek Asia. There are special studies of Apollo, Athena, and Dionysiac religion. And new patterns are identified in the archaic and classical thought of Heraclitus, Herodotus and Sophocles. |