Cargando…

Naming and mapping the gods in the ancient Mediterranean : spaces, mobilities, imaginaries /

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,...

Descripción completa

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Galoppin, Thomas, 1986- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berlin : De Gruyter, 2022.
Temas:
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Intro
  • 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 (ʻlyn)
  • 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
  • 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