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What Is a God? : Studies in the Nature of Greek Divinity.

"In recent study Greek religion has often dissolved itself into many religions. The eleven original essays here focus both on extremes of the Greek world and on its classical 'centre'. Distinguished scholars examine the earliest traces of religious thought in the Minoan and Mycenaean...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Lloyd, Alan B.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Swansea : Classical Press of Wales, The, 2009.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • From Knossos to Homer / Bernard Dietrich
  • From epiphany to cult statue / Walter Burkert
  • Heraclitus and the rites of established religion / Catherine Osborne
  • Moral dimension of Pythian Apollo / J.K. Davies
  • Gods and mountains in Greek myth and poetry / Michael Clarke
  • Aspects of Athena in the Greek polis: Sparta and Corinth / A.C. Villing
  • Herodotus and the certainty of divine retribution / Thomas Harrison
  • Divinity and moral agency in Sophoclean tragedy / Seth L. Schein
  • Thunder, lightning and earthquake in the Bacchae and the Acts of the Apostles / Richard Seaford
  • Athena and the Amazons: mortal and immortal femininity in Greek myth / Susan Deacy
  • Orphic gods and other gods / Anne-France Morand.