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Greek gods abroad : names, natures, and transformations /
"From even before the time of Alexander the Great, the Greek gods spread throughout the Mediterranean, carried by settlers and largely adopted by the indigenous populations. By the third century BC, gods bearing Greek names were worshipped everywhere from Spain to Afghanistan, with the resultin...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oakland, California :
University of California Press,
[2017]
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| Colección: | Sather classical lectures ;
v. 72. Joan Palevsky imprint in classical literature. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Names and epithets
- Interpretatio
- Gods of many nations and their naming in Greek : non-Greek naming traditions
- Supreme, ancestral, and personal gods
- Ad maiorem deorum gloriam
- Delos : where god meets god
- Appendix A : Post-classical use of the epithet o
- Appendix B : Translated theophoric names
- Appendix C : Interpretatio in India
- Appendix D : Non-Greek theonyms of Anatolia
- Appendix E : Thasian Herakles
- Appendix F : Some epithets in bilingual texts
- Appendix G : Divine and human names juxtaposed
- Appendix H : Exported gods : the cults of Hellenistic colonies.