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ISBN: 1-108-99410-5 , 1-316-39361-5 , 1-316-39685-1 , 1-316-39905-2 , 1-316-39959-1 , 1-139-04873-2 , 1-316-40013-1 , 1-316-39847-1

Content: This book provides a groundbreaking reassessment of the prehistory of Homeric epic. It argues that in the Early Iron Age bilingual poets transmitted to the Greeks a set of narrative traditions closely related to the one found at Bronze-Age Hattusa, the Hittite capital. Key drivers for Near Eastern influence on the developing Homeric tradition were the shared practices of supralocal festivals and venerating divinized ancestors, and a shared interest in creating narratives about a legendary past using a few specific storylines: theogonies, genealogies connecting local polities, long-distance travel, destruction of a famous city because it refuses to release captives, and trying to overcome death when confronted with the loss of a dear companion. Professor Bachvarova concludes by providing a fresh explanation of the origins and significance of the Greco-Anatolian legend of Troy, thereby offering a new solution to the long-debated question of the historicity of the Trojan War.

Note: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 08 Sep 2016). , Introduction -- Hurro-Hittite narrative song at Hattusa -- Gilgamesh at Hattusa: written texts and oral traditions -- The Hurro-Hittite ritual context of Gilgamesh at Hattusa -- The plot of the Song of release -- The place of the Song of release in its eastern Mediterranean context -- The function and prehistory of the Song of release -- Sargon the Great: from history to myth -- Long-distance interactions: theory, practice, and myth -- Festivals: a milieu for cultural contact -- The context of epic in Late Bronze and Early Iron Age Greece -- Cyprus as a source of Syro-Anatolian epic in the Early Iron Age -- Cultural contact in Late Bronze Age western Anatolia -- Continuity of memory at Troy and in Anatolia -- The history of the Homeric tradition -- The layers of Anatolian influence in the Iliad.

Additional Edition: ISBN 1-108-74992-5

Additional Edition: ISBN 0-521-50979-3

Language: English

Subjects: Ancient Studies

URL: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139048736

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Format: 1 online resource (XIX, 876 p.)

Edition: 1st ed.

ISBN: 3-11-132651-9

Content: Divine Names are a key component in the communication between humans and gods in Antiquity. Their complexity derives not only from the impressive number of onomastic elements available to describe and target specific divine powers, but also from their capacity to be combined within distinctive configurations of gods. The volume collects 36 essays pertaining to many different contexts - Egypt, Anatolia, Levant, Mesopotamia, Greece, Rome - which address the multiple functions and wide scope of divine onomastics. Scrutinized in a diachronic and comparative perspective, divine names shed light on how polytheisms and monotheisms work as complex systems of divine and human agents embedded in an historical framework. Names imply knowledge and play a decisive role in rituals; they move between cities and regions, and can be translated; they interact with images and reflect the intrinsic plurality of divine beings. This vivid exploration of divine names pays attention to the balance between tradition and innovation, flexibility and constraints, to the material and conceptual parameters of onomastic practices, to cross-cultural contexts and local idiosyncrasies, in a word to human strategies for shaping the gods through their names.

Note: Frontmatter -- , Contents -- , Abbreviations -- , Introduction. What Does a Divine Name Do? -- , Part 1: Ritual Names: Communication with the Divine and Human Agency -- , Introduction -- , Writing Divine Names in Ritual Practices of Ancient Mesopotamia -- , Divine Naming in Greek and Chinese Polytheism -- , Divine Names in Ritual Settings in the Dead Sea Scrolls -- , Strategies for Naming the Gods in Greek Hymns -- , Divine Names and Naming the Divine in Livy -- , Part 2: One and Many: Onomastic Bricolage -- , Introduction -- , Incomplete Ištar Assimilation: Reconsidering the Goddess's Divine History in Light of a Madonnine Analogy -- , The Many Faces of Hadad in Aramaean Syria and Anatolia (1st Mill. BCE). Three Case Studies on Hadad at Sikāni, Samʾal, and Damascus -- , Demeter as Thesmophoros: What Does She Bring Forth? -- , The Onomastic Attributes of Greek Healing Deities -- , Part 3: Names and Images -- , Introduction -- , What Do Attributes Say About Apollo? -- , Gods' Names - Gods' Images. Dedications and Communication Process in Sanctuaries -- , Epithets and Iconographic Attributes of Kubaba in Syro-Anatolian Iron Age Sources -- , How to Create a God: The Name and Iconography of the Deified Deceased Piyris at Ayn El-Labakha (Kharga Oasis, Egypt) -- , Part 4: Plural Divine Configurations, "Pantheons"and Divine Sovereignty -- , Introduction -- , In Search of God Baal in Phoenician and Cypriot Epigraphy (First Millennium BCE) -- , Zeus hupatos kreionton: A Comparative Study on Divine Sovereignty, Between Attica and Syria -- , Divine Configurations and "Pantheons": Some Assemblages of Theoi in North-Western Greece -- , The Carian Stratonicea's Exception: Two Equal Megistoi Theoi as Divine Patrons in the Roman Period -- , Part 5: Human Names, Divine Names -- , Introduction -- , In the Name of Gods. In Search of Divine Epithets Through Luwic Personal Names -- , Who's in a Name? Human-Divine Relations in Personal Names from the Tophet of Carthage -- , Theophoric Aramaic Personal Names as Onomastic Sequences in Diasporic and Cosmopolitan Communities -- , Christian Contexts, Non-Christian Names: Onomastic Mobility and Transmission in Late Antique Syria -- , Human Honours and Divine Attributes -- , Call Me by God's Name. Onomaturgy in Three Early Christian Texts -- , Part 6: Names and Knowledge -- , Introduction -- , The Names of Greek Gods. Divine Signs or Human Creations? -- , "If by This Name it Pleases Him to be Invoked": Ancient Etymology and Greek Polytheism -- , The All-Encompassing Name: Multilingualism, Myth and Materiality in a Late Greek Papyrus of Ritual Power (PGM XIII) -- , Yahweh's Divine "Names". Changing Configurations in the Hebrew Bible and Ancient Israel -- , The Lord of Spirits in the Book of Parables of Enoch from a Levantine Point of View -- , Part 7: Mobility, Transmission, Translation -- , Introduction -- , Interpretatio Among Levantines in Hellenistic Egypt -- , Divine Names, Heavenly Bodies, and Human Visions: The Septuagint and the Transformation of Ancient Israelite Religion -- , Divine Names and Bilingualism in Rome: Religious Dynamics in Multilingual Spaces -- , Apollo Delphinios - Again -- , Cross-Cultural Pilgrimage and Religious Change: Translation, Filial Cults, and Networks -- , Postface -- , Postface -- , Some Thoughts on the Origins of the Divine and Interaction with Divinity in the Ancient Near East -- , Naming the Gods between Immanence and Transcendence in Greco-Roman Polytheisms -- , Index Nominum -- , People -- , Places -- , Topics , Issued also in print. , In English.

Additional Edition: ISBN 3-11-132627-6

Language: English

DOI: 10.1515/9783111326511

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ISBN: 9783110798432 , 9783110798456

Content: Ancient religions are definitely complex systems of gods, which resist our understanding. Divine names provide fundamental keys to gain access to the multiples ways gods were conceived, characterized, and organized. Among the names given to the gods many of them refer to spaces: cities, landscapes, sanctuaries, houses, cosmic elements. They reflect mental maps which need to be explored in order to gain new knowledge on both the structure of the pantheons and the human agency in the cultic dimension. By considering the intersection between naming and mapping, this book opens up new perspectives on how tradition and innovation, appropriation and creation play a role in the making of polytheistic and monotheistic religions.Far from being confined to sanctuaries, in fact, gods dwell in human environments in multiple ways. They move into imaginary spaces and explore the cosmos. By proposing a new and interdiciplinary angle of approach, which involves texts, images, spatial and archeaeological data, this book sheds light on ritual practices and representations of gods in the whole Mediterranean, from Italy to Mesopotamia, from Greece to North Africa and Egypt. Names and spaces enable to better define, differentiate, and connect gods

Note: Frontmatter , Contents , Volume 1 , Introduction , 1 Naming and Locating the Gods: Space as a Divine Onomastic Attribute , 1.1 Egypt and Near East , The Names of Osiris in the Litany of the So-Called Spell 141/142 of the Book of the Dead in Ancient Egypt , Divine Epithets as Perspectival Discourse , Nomina nuda tenemus: The God Elyon (ʿlyn) , Naming and Mapping the Gods in Cyprus: a Matter of Scales? , 1.2 Greece: Literature , Regional Loyalties in the Iliad: The Cases of Zeus, Apollo, and Athena , Agrotera: Situating Artemis in Her Landscapes , πολύθεοι ἕδραι: Terms for Spatio-Cultic Relationships in Greek , Les épiclèses toponymiques comme outil interprétatif chez Hérodote : quelques exemples , ΚΥΠΡΙΣ. Ovvero l’interpretazione degli epiteti divini nel Περὶ θεῶν di Apollodoro di Atene (244 FGrHist 353) , Place Names as Divine Epithets in Pausanias , 1.3 Greece: Local and Regional Approaches , Artemis and Her Territory: Toponymic and Topographical Cult-Epithets of Artemis in Attica , Alla ricerca della “Buona Fama”: Eukleia tra epiclesi di Artemide e teonimo indipendente , Insights into the Cult of Apollo and Artemis at the Parian Sanctuaries , Founders, Leaders, or Ancestors? Ἀρχηγέτης/-ις: Variations on a Name , Zeus « qui-règne-sur Dodone (Hom., Il. 16.233–234) » et ses épigones. Les attributs onomastiques construits sur medeôn, -ousa + toponyme , 1.4 Rome and the West , The Quadruviae: Cult Mobility and Social Agency in the Northern Provinces of the Roman Empire , Naming the Gods in Roman Sicily: The Case of Enguium , 2 Mapping the Divine: Presenting Gods in Space , 2.1 Egypt and Near East , Khnoum d’Éléphantine et Isis de Philae : la lutte pour le contrôle de la première cataracte du Nil et du Dodécaschène , From High to Low: Reflections about the Emplacement of Religion in Ancient Mesopotamia , A New Mobilities Approach to Naming and Mapping Deities: Presence, Absence, and Distance at Kuntillet ‘Ajrud , Entre espace et puissance : le séjour des morts et la persistance de structures polythéistes dans la Bible hébraïque , 2.2 Phoenician and Punic World , Death at the Centre of Life: Some Notes on Gods and the Dead, Temples and Tombs in the Phoenician Context , In and Out What Archaeology Can Tell Us About the Role of Liminality in the Phoenician Rites , Graeco-Phoenician Figurines in Phoenicia. A Medley of Imports, Derivatives, Imitations, and Hybrids , The Gods of the Others: Images of Foreign Deities in the Hellenistic Cult Place of Kharayeb , Remarques sur le rôle du sel dans les pratiques votives de Kition : un exemple d’interaction entre les figurines divines et leur milieu , On Gods and Caves: Comparing Cave-Sanctuaries in the Ancient Western Mediterranean , Between Astarte, Isis and Aphrodite/Venus. Cultural Dynamics in the Coastal Cities of Sardinia in the Roman Age: The Case Study of Nora , 2.3 Archaic and Classical Greece , Déplacements, mobilité, communication. Quelques réflexions sur le mode d’action d’Iris dans la poésie archaïque , Spatialité, performance, choralité divines et humaines : les Charites de Pindare et Bacchylide , Linking Centre and Periphery: Nymphs and Their Cultic Space in Euripides, Electra 803–843 , 2.4 Rome and its Empire , La plebs des dieux. Réflexions sur la hiérarchie et la spatialité des dieux romains , A Contest for the Control of Ideological Space in Ovid’s Metamorphoses XI 146–94: Apollo/Augustus, Pan, and an Allegory of the Romanization of Hellenistic Lydia , The Gods at Play: Mapping the Divine at the Amphitheatres in Hispania , Spaces of Reinvented Religious Traditions in the Danubian Provinces , Where Did the Gods Speak? A Proposal for (Re)defining “Oracular Sanctuaries” on the Basis of Anatolian Data of the Hellenistic and Roman Period , Volume 2 , 3 Gods and Cities: Urban Religion, Sanctuaries and the Emergence of Towns , 3.1 Egypt and Near East , Akhenaten and His Aten Cult in Abydos and Akhmim , Nippur: City of Enlil and Ninurta , Urban Religion in First Millennium BCE Babylonia , Hatra of Shamash. How to assign the city under the divine power? , 3.2 Greek World , Un réseau de rapports symboliques. Santuari, territorio e pratiche collettive nella Sparta arcaica , Spatializing ‘Divine Newcomers’ in Athens , L’articulation de l’espace religieux et de l’espace civique : l’exemple du sanctuaire de Zeus sur l’agora de Thasos , Squaring Nemesis: Alexander’s Dream, the Oracle, and the Foundation of the New Smyrna , 3.3 Rome and the West , Gods in the City , « Religious Ancient Placemaking » : une nouvelle approche méthodologique pour l’évaluation des religions à l’époque antique , Cybele and Attis from the Phrygian Crags to the City. History, Places and Forms of the Cult of Magna Mater in Rome , La ritualisation des territoires ibériques : les sanctuaires urbains de l’Âge du Fer , Jumping Among the Temples: Early Christian Critique of Polytheism’s “Spatial Fix” , The Space of “Paganism” in the Early Medieval City: Rome’s Polytheistic Past along the Real and Imaginary Topography of the Pilgrims’ Paths , Epilogue , Que faut-il pour faire un sanctuaire ? , Index Nominum , Issued also in print , Beiträge überwiegend englisch, teilweise französisch, teilweise italienisch

Additional Edition: ISBN 9783110796490

Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Naming and mapping the gods in the Ancient Mediterranean Berlin : De Gruyter, 2022 ISBN 9783110796490

Language: English

Subjects: History

DOI: 10.1515/9783110798432

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Format: 1 online resource (xvii, 277 pages) : , digital, PDF file(s).

ISBN: 1-316-48187-5 , 1-316-48488-2 , 1-316-48574-9 , 1-316-48531-5 , 1-316-48746-6 , 1-139-42438-6

Content: A body of theory has developed about the role and function of memory in creating and maintaining cultural identity. Yet there has been no consideration of the rich Mediterranean and Near Eastern traditions of laments for fallen cities in commemorating or resolving communal trauma. This volume offers new insights into the trope of the fallen city in folk-song and a variety of literary genres. These commemorations reveal memories modified by diverse agendas, and contains narrative structures and motifs that show the meaning of memory-making about fallen cities. Opening a new avenue of research into the Mediterranean genre of city lament, this book examines references to, or re-workings of, otherwise lost texts or ways of commemorating fallen cities in the extant texts, and with greater emphasis than usual on the point of view of the victors.

Note: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Feb 2016). , Machine generated contents note: Foreword / Margaret Alexiou -- Introduction / Ann Suter -- The city lament genre in the Ancient Near East / John Jacobs -- The destroyed city in ancient 'world history': from Agade to Troy / Mary R. Bachvarova -- Mourning a city 'empty of men': stereotypes of Anatolian communal lament in Aeschylus' Persians / Mary R. Bachvarova and Dorota Dutsch -- Seven Against Thebes, city laments, and Athenian history / Geoffrey Bakewell -- Lament for fallen cities in Early Roman drama: Naevius, Ennius, and Plautus / Seth A. Jeppesen -- City lament in Augustan epic: antitypes of Rome from Troy to Alba / Longa Alison Keith -- The fall of Troy in Seneca's Troades / Jo-Ann Shelton -- How to lament an eternal city: the ambiguous fall of Rome / Catherine Conybeare -- Messengers, angels, and laments for the fall of Constantinople / Andromache Karanika -- 'A sudden longing': remembering the lost city of Smyrna / Gail Holst-Warhaft. , English

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URL: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139424387

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Format: 1 Online-Ressource (xvii, 277 pages) , digital, PDF file(s)

ISBN: 9781139424387

Content: A body of theory has developed about the role and function of memory in creating and maintaining cultural identity. Yet there has been no consideration of the rich Mediterranean and Near Eastern traditions of laments for fallen cities in commemorating or resolving communal trauma. This volume offers new insights into the trope of the fallen city in folk-song and a variety of literary genres. These commemorations reveal memories modified by diverse agendas, and contains narrative structures and motifs that show the meaning of memory-making about fallen cities. Opening a new avenue of research into the Mediterranean genre of city lament, this book examines references to, or re-workings of, otherwise lost texts or ways of commemorating fallen cities in the extant texts, and with greater emphasis than usual on the point of view of the victors

Content: Machine generated contents note: Foreword / Margaret Alexiou -- Introduction / Ann Suter -- The city lament genre in the Ancient Near East / John Jacobs -- The destroyed city in ancient 'world history': from Agade to Troy / Mary R. Bachvarova -- Mourning a city 'empty of men': stereotypes of Anatolian communal lament in Aeschylus' Persians / Mary R. Bachvarova and Dorota Dutsch -- Seven Against Thebes, city laments, and Athenian history / Geoffrey Bakewell -- Lament for fallen cities in Early Roman drama: Naevius, Ennius, and Plautus / Seth A. Jeppesen -- City lament in Augustan epic: antitypes of Rome from Troy to Alba / Longa Alison Keith -- The fall of Troy in Seneca's Troades / Jo-Ann Shelton -- How to lament an eternal city: the ambiguous fall of Rome / Catherine Conybeare -- Messengers, angels, and laments for the fall of Constantinople / Andromache Karanika -- 'A sudden longing': remembering the lost city of Smyrna / Gail Holst-Warhaft

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Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9781107031968

Language: English

Subjects: Ancient Studies

Keywords: Griechisch ; Latein ; Literatur ; Stadt ; Untergang ; Kollektives Gedächtnis ; Antike ; Stadt ; Untergang

DOI: 10.1017/CBO9781139424387

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Content: "A body of theory has developed about the role and function of memory in creating and maintaining cultural identity. Yet there has been no consideration of the rich Mediterranean and Near Eastern traditions of laments for fallen cities in commemorating or resolving communal trauma. This volume offers new insights into the trope of the fallen city in folk song and a variety of literary genres. These commemorations reveal memories modified by diverse agendas, and contain responses to the narrative structures and motifs in which the meaning of memory-making about fallen cities resided, repurposing them or even denying their meaning or silencing them. Opening a new avenue of research into the Mediterranean genre of city lament, this book examines references to, or re-workings of, otherwise lost texts or ways of commemorating fallen cities in the extant texts, and with greater emphasis than usual on the point of view of the victors"...

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Language: English

Subjects: Ancient Studies

Keywords: Griechisch ; Latein ; Literatur ; Stadt ; Untergang ; Antike ; Stadt ; Untergang ; Kollektives Gedächtnis ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung

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Format: 1 online resource (XX, 1069 p.)

Edition: 1st ed.

ISBN: 9783110798432 , 3110798433

Content: Ancient religions are definitely complex systems of gods, which resist our understanding. Divine names provide fundamental keys to gain access to the multiples ways gods were conceived, characterized, and organized. Among the names given to the gods many of them refer to spaces: cities, landscapes, sanctuaries, houses, cosmic elements. They reflect mental maps which need to be explored in order to gain new knowledge on both the structure of the pantheons and the human agency in the cultic dimension. By considering the intersection between naming and mapping, this book opens up new perspectives on how tradition and innovation, appropriation and creation play a role in the making of polytheistic and monotheistic religions. Far from being confined to sanctuaries, in fact, gods dwell in human environments in multiple ways. They move into imaginary spaces and explore the cosmos. By proposing a new and interdsiciplinary angle of approach, which involves texts, images, spatial and archaeological data, this book sheds light on ritual practices and representations of gods in the whole Mediterranean, from Italy to Mesopotamia, from Greece to North Africa and Egypt. Names and spaces enable to better define, differentiate, and connect gods.

Note: Frontmatter -- , Contents -- , Volume 1 -- , Introduction -- , 1 Naming and Locating the Gods: Space as a Divine Onomastic Attribute -- , 1.1 Egypt and Near East -- , The Names of Osiris in the Litany of the So-Called Spell 141/142 of the Book of the Dead in Ancient Egypt -- , Divine Epithets as Perspectival Discourse -- , Nomina nuda tenemus: The God Elyon (ʿlyn) -- , Naming and Mapping the Gods in Cyprus: a Matter of Scales? -- , 1.2 Greece: Literature -- , Regional Loyalties in the Iliad: The Cases of Zeus, Apollo, and Athena -- , Agrotera: Situating Artemis in Her Landscapes -- , πολύθεοι ἕδραι: Terms for Spatio-Cultic Relationships in Greek -- , Les épiclèses toponymiques comme outil interprétatif chez Hérodote : quelques exemples -- , ΚΥΠΡΙΣ. Ovvero l’interpretazione degli epiteti divini nel Περὶ θεῶν di Apollodoro di Atene (244 FGrHist 353) -- , Place Names as Divine Epithets in Pausanias -- , 1.3 Greece: Local and Regional Approaches -- , Artemis and Her Territory: Toponymic and Topographical Cult-Epithets of Artemis in Attica -- , Alla ricerca della “Buona Fama”: Eukleia tra epiclesi di Artemide e teonimo indipendente -- , Insights into the Cult of Apollo and Artemis at the Parian Sanctuaries -- , Founders, Leaders, or Ancestors? Ἀρχηγέτης/-ις: Variations on a Name -- , Zeus « qui-règne-sur Dodone (Hom., Il. 16.233–234) » et ses épigones. Les attributs onomastiques construits sur medeôn, -ousa + toponyme -- , 1.4 Rome and the West -- , The Quadruviae: Cult Mobility and Social Agency in the Northern Provinces of the Roman Empire -- , Naming the Gods in Roman Sicily: The Case of Enguium -- , 2 Mapping the Divine: Presenting Gods in Space -- , 2.1 Egypt and Near East -- , Khnoum d’Éléphantine et Isis de Philae : la lutte pour le contrôle de la première cataracte du Nil et du Dodécaschène -- , From High to Low: Reflections about the Emplacement of Religion in Ancient Mesopotamia -- , A New Mobilities Approach to Naming and Mapping Deities: Presence, Absence, and Distance at Kuntillet ‘Ajrud -- , Entre espace et puissance : le séjour des morts et la persistance de structures polythéistes dans la Bible hébraïque -- , 2.2 Phoenician and Punic World -- , Death at the Centre of Life: Some Notes on Gods and the Dead, Temples and Tombs in the Phoenician Context -- , In and Out What Archaeology Can Tell Us About the Role of Liminality in the Phoenician Rites -- , Graeco-Phoenician Figurines in Phoenicia. A Medley of Imports, Derivatives, Imitations, and Hybrids -- , The Gods of the Others: Images of Foreign Deities in the Hellenistic Cult Place of Kharayeb -- , Remarques sur le rôle du sel dans les pratiques votives de Kition : un exemple d’interaction entre les figurines divines et leur milieu -- , On Gods and Caves: Comparing Cave-Sanctuaries in the Ancient Western Mediterranean -- , Between Astarte, Isis and Aphrodite/Venus. Cultural Dynamics in the Coastal Cities of Sardinia in the Roman Age: The Case Study of Nora -- , 2.3 Archaic and Classical Greece -- , Déplacements, mobilité, communication. Quelques réflexions sur le mode d’action d’Iris dans la poésie archaïque -- , Spatialité, performance, choralité divines et humaines : les Charites de Pindare et Bacchylide -- , Linking Centre and Periphery: Nymphs and Their Cultic Space in Euripides, Electra 803–843 -- , 2.4 Rome and its Empire -- , La plebs des dieux. Réflexions sur la hiérarchie et la spatialité des dieux romains -- , A Contest for the Control of Ideological Space in Ovid’s Metamorphoses XI 146–94: Apollo/Augustus, Pan, and an Allegory of the Romanization of Hellenistic Lydia -- , The Gods at Play: Mapping the Divine at the Amphitheatres in Hispania -- , Spaces of Reinvented Religious Traditions in the Danubian Provinces -- , Where Did the Gods Speak? A Proposal for (Re)defining “Oracular Sanctuaries” on the Basis of Anatolian Data of the Hellenistic and Roman Period -- , Volume 2 -- , 3 Gods and Cities: Urban Religion, Sanctuaries and the Emergence of Towns -- , 3.1 Egypt and Near East -- , Akhenaten and His Aten Cult in Abydos and Akhmim -- , Nippur: City of Enlil and Ninurta -- , Urban Religion in First Millennium BCE Babylonia -- , Hatra of Shamash. How to assign the city under the divine power? -- , 3.2 Greek World -- , Un réseau de rapports symboliques. Santuari, territorio e pratiche collettive nella Sparta arcaica -- , Spatializing ‘Divine Newcomers’ in Athens -- , L’articulation de l’espace religieux et de l’espace civique : l’exemple du sanctuaire de Zeus sur l’agora de Thasos -- , Squaring Nemesis: Alexander’s Dream, the Oracle, and the Foundation of the New Smyrna -- , 3.3 Rome and the West -- , Gods in the City -- , « Religious Ancient Placemaking » : une nouvelle approche méthodologique pour l’évaluation des religions à l’époque antique -- , Cybele and Attis from the Phrygian Crags to the City. History, Places and Forms of the Cult of Magna Mater in Rome -- , La ritualisation des territoires ibériques : les sanctuaires urbains de l’Âge du Fer -- , Jumping Among the Temples: Early Christian Critique of Polytheism’s “Spatial Fix” -- , The Space of “Paganism” in the Early Medieval City: Rome’s Polytheistic Past along the Real and Imaginary Topography of the Pilgrims’ Paths -- , Epilogue -- , Que faut-il pour faire un sanctuaire ? -- , Index Nominum , Issued also in print. , In English.

Additional Edition: ISBN 9783110796490

Additional Edition: ISBN 311079649X

Language: English

Keywords: History. ; History. ; History.

DOI: 10.1515/9783110798432

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Format: 1 online resource (XIX, 876 p.)

Edition: 1st ed.

ISBN: 3-11-132651-9

Content: Divine Names are a key component in the communication between humans and gods in Antiquity. Their complexity derives not only from the impressive number of onomastic elements available to describe and target specific divine powers, but also from their capacity to be combined within distinctive configurations of gods. The volume collects 36 essays pertaining to many different contexts - Egypt, Anatolia, Levant, Mesopotamia, Greece, Rome - which address the multiple functions and wide scope of divine onomastics. Scrutinized in a diachronic and comparative perspective, divine names shed light on how polytheisms and monotheisms work as complex systems of divine and human agents embedded in an historical framework. Names imply knowledge and play a decisive role in rituals; they move between cities and regions, and can be translated; they interact with images and reflect the intrinsic plurality of divine beings. This vivid exploration of divine names pays attention to the balance between tradition and innovation, flexibility and constraints, to the material and conceptual parameters of onomastic practices, to cross-cultural contexts and local idiosyncrasies, in a word to human strategies for shaping the gods through their names.

Note: Frontmatter -- , Contents -- , Abbreviations -- , Introduction. What Does a Divine Name Do? -- , Part 1: Ritual Names: Communication with the Divine and Human Agency -- , Introduction -- , Writing Divine Names in Ritual Practices of Ancient Mesopotamia -- , Divine Naming in Greek and Chinese Polytheism -- , Divine Names in Ritual Settings in the Dead Sea Scrolls -- , Strategies for Naming the Gods in Greek Hymns -- , Divine Names and Naming the Divine in Livy -- , Part 2: One and Many: Onomastic Bricolage -- , Introduction -- , Incomplete Ištar Assimilation: Reconsidering the Goddess's Divine History in Light of a Madonnine Analogy -- , The Many Faces of Hadad in Aramaean Syria and Anatolia (1st Mill. BCE). Three Case Studies on Hadad at Sikāni, Samʾal, and Damascus -- , Demeter as Thesmophoros: What Does She Bring Forth? -- , The Onomastic Attributes of Greek Healing Deities -- , Part 3: Names and Images -- , Introduction -- , What Do Attributes Say About Apollo? -- , Gods' Names - Gods' Images. Dedications and Communication Process in Sanctuaries -- , Epithets and Iconographic Attributes of Kubaba in Syro-Anatolian Iron Age Sources -- , How to Create a God: The Name and Iconography of the Deified Deceased Piyris at Ayn El-Labakha (Kharga Oasis, Egypt) -- , Part 4: Plural Divine Configurations, "Pantheons"and Divine Sovereignty -- , Introduction -- , In Search of God Baal in Phoenician and Cypriot Epigraphy (First Millennium BCE) -- , Zeus hupatos kreionton: A Comparative Study on Divine Sovereignty, Between Attica and Syria -- , Divine Configurations and "Pantheons": Some Assemblages of Theoi in North-Western Greece -- , The Carian Stratonicea's Exception: Two Equal Megistoi Theoi as Divine Patrons in the Roman Period -- , Part 5: Human Names, Divine Names -- , Introduction -- , In the Name of Gods. In Search of Divine Epithets Through Luwic Personal Names -- , Who's in a Name? Human-Divine Relations in Personal Names from the Tophet of Carthage -- , Theophoric Aramaic Personal Names as Onomastic Sequences in Diasporic and Cosmopolitan Communities -- , Christian Contexts, Non-Christian Names: Onomastic Mobility and Transmission in Late Antique Syria -- , Human Honours and Divine Attributes -- , Call Me by God's Name. Onomaturgy in Three Early Christian Texts -- , Part 6: Names and Knowledge -- , Introduction -- , The Names of Greek Gods. Divine Signs or Human Creations? -- , "If by This Name it Pleases Him to be Invoked": Ancient Etymology and Greek Polytheism -- , The All-Encompassing Name: Multilingualism, Myth and Materiality in a Late Greek Papyrus of Ritual Power (PGM XIII) -- , Yahweh's Divine "Names". Changing Configurations in the Hebrew Bible and Ancient Israel -- , The Lord of Spirits in the Book of Parables of Enoch from a Levantine Point of View -- , Part 7: Mobility, Transmission, Translation -- , Introduction -- , Interpretatio Among Levantines in Hellenistic Egypt -- , Divine Names, Heavenly Bodies, and Human Visions: The Septuagint and the Transformation of Ancient Israelite Religion -- , Divine Names and Bilingualism in Rome: Religious Dynamics in Multilingual Spaces -- , Apollo Delphinios - Again -- , Cross-Cultural Pilgrimage and Religious Change: Translation, Filial Cults, and Networks -- , Postface -- , Postface -- , Some Thoughts on the Origins of the Divine and Interaction with Divinity in the Ancient Near East -- , Naming the Gods between Immanence and Transcendence in Greco-Roman Polytheisms -- , Index Nominum -- , People -- , Places -- , Topics , Issued also in print. , In English.

Additional Edition: ISBN 3-11-132627-6

Language: English

DOI: 10.1515/9783111326511

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Format: 1 Online-Ressource (213 pages) , illustrations, maps

ISBN: 9781782974758 , 178297475X , 9781782974772 , 1782974776

Note: Includes bibliographical references and index , Troy as a contested periphery : - archaeological perspectives on cross-cultural and cross-disciplinary interactions concerning Bronze Age Anatolia / , Purple-dyers in Lazpa / , Multiculturalism in the Mycenaean world / , Hittite Lesbos? / , The seer Mopsos as a historica figure / , Setting up the Goddess of the Night separately / , The songs of Zintuḫis : - chorus and ritual in Anatolia and Greece / , Homer at the interface / , The poet's point of view and the prehistory of the Iliad / , Hittite ethnicity? - Constructions of identity in Hittite literature / , Writing systems and identity / , Luwian migration in light of linguistic contacts / , Hermit crabs, or new wine in old bottles : - Anatolian-Hellenic connections from Homer and before Antiochus I of Commagene and after / , Possessive constructions in Anatolian, Hurrian and Urartian as evidence for language contact / , Greek mólybdos as a loanword from Lydian / , Kybele as Kubaba in a Lydo-Phrygian context / , King Midas in southeastern Anatolia / , The GALA and the gallos / , Patterns of elite interaction : - animal-headed vessels in Anatolia in the eighth and seventh centuries BC / , A feast of music : - the Greco-Lydian musical movement on the Assyrian periphery /

Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Anatolian interfaces ISBN 9781842172704

Language: English

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Format: 1 Online-Ressource

ISSN: 2193-2840

Series Statement: Encyclopedia of the Bible and its Reception 08, Essenes – Fideism

Note: In English

In: Encyclopedia of the bible and its reception, Berlin : de Gruyter, 2009, 8(2014), 2193-2840

In: volume:8

In: year:2014

Additional Edition: ISBN 9783110183764

Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als ISBN 9783110183764

Language: English

DOI: 10.1515/ebr.feastsandfestivals

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Author information: Burge, Stephen

Author information: Körting, Corinna 1967-