Format:
1 Online-Ressource (XXII, 564 Seiten)
ISBN:
9783161589492
Series Statement:
Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament 433
Content:
Cover -- Titel -- Preface -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Section I. Gods and Heroes -- 1. The Greek Gods in the Twentieth Century -- 2. The Power of Poseidon: Horses, Chaos and Brute Force -- 3. Dionysos in 1933 -- 4. Hephaistos Sweats or How to Construct an Ambivalent God -- 5. Divinities in the Orphic Gold Leaves: Euklês, Eubouleus, Brimo, Kybele, Kore and Persephone -- 6. The Emergence of the Hero Cult -- 7. The Agency of Statues -- Section II. Aspects of Greek Religion -- 8. Manteis, Magic, Mysteries and Mythography: Messy Margins of Polis Religion -- 9. The Status and Symbolic Capital of the Seer -- 10. Incantatory Magic: The Date, Place and Author of the Getty Hexameters -- 11. Body and Soul between Death and Funeral in Archaic Greece -- 12. The Construction of an Individual Eschatology: The Case of the Orphic Gold Leaves -- 13. Religious Secrets and Secrecy in Classical Greece -- 14. No Country for Old Women -- 15. Greek Maenadism -- 16. Greek Religion and the Ancient Near East -- Section III. Animal and Human Sacrifice -- 17. Animal Sacrifice -- 18. The Sacrifice of Pregnant Animals -- 19. Myth and Ritual in Greek Human Sacrifice: Lykaon, Polyxena and the Case of the Rhodian Criminal -- 20. The Sacrifice of Iphigeneia -- 21. Imagining Human Sacrifice in Euripides' Iphigeneia in Aulis -- 22. Human Sacrifice in Euripides' Iphigeneia in Tauris: Greek and Barbarian -- Section IV. Myth -- 23. What is a Greek Myth? -- 24. Myth and Ritual: A Difficult Relationship -- 25. Myth and History: The Foundation of Cyrene -- 26. Myth as Propaganda: Athens and Sparta -- 27. Myth and Mythography: The Pride of Halicarnassus -- 28. Myth and the Novel -- 29. Myth and Personifications: The Birth of the Seasons (Hôrai) -- 30. A Brief History of the Study of Greek Mythology -- Appendix -- Gerardus van der Leeuw and Jane Ellen Harrison -- Acknowledgements.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783161544514
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Bremmer, Jan N., 1944 - Collected essays ; 2: The world of Greek religion and mythology Tübingen : Mohr Siebeck, 2019 ISBN 9783161544514
Language:
English
Subjects:
Theology
Keywords:
Griechenland
;
Religion
;
Mythologie
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/kxp/detail.action?docID=6012956
Author information:
Bremmer, Jan N. 1944-
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