UID:
almafu_9960117100402883
Umfang:
1 online resource (xxi, 467 pages) :
,
digital, PDF file(s).
Ausgabe:
First edition.
ISBN:
1-316-67343-X
Originaltitel:
Papyri graecae magicae. English.
Inhalt:
This interdisciplinary study investigates the divine personas in the so-called magical hymns of the Greek magical papyri which, in a corpus usually seen as a significant expression of religious syncretism with strong Egyptian influence, were long considered to be the 'most authentically Greek' contribution. Fifteen hymns receive a line-by-line commentary focusing on religious concepts, ritual practice, language and style. The overarching aim is to categorise the nature of divinity according to its Greek or Egyptian elements, examining earlier Greek and Egyptian sources and religious-magical traditions in order to find textual or conceptual parallels. Are the gods of the magical hymns Greek or Egyptian in nature? Did the magical hymns originate in a Greek or Egyptian cultural background? The book tries to answer these questions and to shed light on the religious plurality and/or fusion of the two cultures in the treatment of divinity in the Greek magical papyri.
Anmerkung:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 28 Nov 2016).
,
Cover -- Half-title -- Title page -- Copyright information -- Table of contents -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on the text -- Quoted Egyptian hymns in BD and ÄHG -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Preliminary remarks -- Greeks and Egyptians in Graeco-Roman Egypt and the survival of indigenous religious tradition: an outline -- 'Magical' papyri and 'magical' hymns: notes on the features of a 'genre' -- PGM and PDM -- Purpose and methodology -- Magical hymns -- History of studies -- Background of the magical hymns -- Egyptian and Greek hymnography: a brief comparison -- Selection and organization of the material -- Part I Hymns to the male deity -- Hymns 1 and 2 Four Versions of a Hymn to Apollo-Helios-Horus -- Hymn 1 -- Version one, to Apollo: I 296-327 and 341-7 (fourth/fifth century) -- Translation -- Commentary -- Hymn 2 -- Versions two, three and four to Helios-Horus: IV 436-61 [A], 1957-89 [B] (fourth century) and VIII 74-81 (fourth/fifth century) [C] -- Spell of version A (IV 296-466) -- Spell of version B (IV 1928-2005) -- Spell of version C (VIII 64-110) -- Translation -- Commentary -- Conclusions to 1 and 2 -- Hymn 3 Hymn to Helios: III 198-230 (early fourth century) -- Translation -- Commentary -- Conclusions -- HYMN 4 Hymn to Helios: III 549-58 (early fourth century) -- Translation -- Commentary -- Conclusions -- Hymn 5 Hymn to Horus Harpocrates: IV 939-48 (fourth century) -- Translation -- Commentary -- Conclusions -- Hymn 6Hymn to Apollo: II 2-7 (fourth century) -- Translation -- Commentary -- Conclusions -- HYMN 7 Hymn to Apollo-Helios: II 81-102 (fourth century) -- Translation -- Commentary -- Conclusions -- Hymn 8 Hymn to Apollo: VI 6-45 (second/third century) -- Translation -- Commentary -- Conclusions -- HYMN 9 Hymn to the creator god: XII 244-52 (second/third century) -- Translation -- Commentary -- Conclusions.
,
Job 34.13 -- Job 38 -- Part II Hymns to the female chthonic/lunar deity -- HYMN 10 Hymn to Hecate-Persephone and her followers: IV 1399-434 (fourth century) -- Translation -- Commentary -- Conclusions -- Hymn 11 Hymn to Hecate-Selene: IV 2242-347 (fourth century) -- Translation -- Commentary -- Conclusions -- Hymn 12 Hymn to Hecate-Selene-Persephone-Artemis: IV 2522-67 (fourth century) -- Translation -- Commentary -- Conclusions -- Hymn 13 Hecate-Selene's deltaiotaabetalambda: IV 2574-610 [A] and IV 2643-74 [B] (fourth century) -- Translation -- Translation -- Commentary -- Conclusions -- Hymn 14 Hymn to Hecate-Selene-Persephone-Artemis: IV 2714-83 (fourth century) -- Translation -- Commentary -- Conclusions -- HYMN 15 Hymn to Hecate-Selene-Persephone-Artemis: IV 2786-870 (fourth century) -- Translation -- Commentary -- Conclusions -- Conclusions -- Deities in context: aims of the magical procedures -- Language, structure and style in relation to contents -- Homeric language -- Judaeo-Christian vocabulary -- Comparison with the Orphic Hymns -- Style and structure -- Divine attributes in cultural backgrounds -- The Egyptian background of the hymns' compilers -- The interaction of religion, the seclusion of magic -- Bibliography -- Index of subjects -- Index of discussed Egyptian epithets -- Index locorum -- Index of Greek words.
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 1-107-10838-1
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 1-107-51940-3
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 1-316-25799-1
Sprache:
Englisch
Bookmarklink
