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Die lex sacra von Selinunt. /
In the Greek archaic, the idea developed that the dead can be manipulated with the help of portraits (dolls, figures, etc.), be it to make them serviceable or to banish them. Based on the "lex sacra" by Selinunt in Sicily, a long Greek-language inscription with sacrifice instructions, firs...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Alemán |
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Wiesbaden :
Harrassowitz Verlag,
2018.
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| Colección: | Philippika / Altertumskundliche Abhandlungen.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | In the Greek archaic, the idea developed that the dead can be manipulated with the help of portraits (dolls, figures, etc.), be it to make them serviceable or to banish them. Based on the "lex sacra" by Selinunt in Sicily, a long Greek-language inscription with sacrifice instructions, first published in the 1990s, Kresimir Matijevic discusses and analyzes all other relevant literary, epigraphic and archaeological sources that provide information about how the Greeks used their dead instrumentalized. It is proven that the probable place of origin of this rite lies in Mesopotamia, where figures were used to act on dead as well as living people as well as on demons. As with voodoo rituals, dolls could also be used in Mesopotamia for the purpose of curing diseases. Matijevic shows that the view held by parts of the research that the Greeks had this custom as early as the Bronze Age, i.e. in the 2nd millennium BC. known, is not tenable after evaluating the sources. Even the early epics of Homer and Hesiod show no trace of this idea, here the dead are still fundamentally powerless. Only in the post-Homeric period did the dead gain more influence over the world of the living, roughly at the same time as the transfer of corresponding rites from the eastern Mediterranean to Greece, in which deceased and living people were supposed to be manipulated by means of portraits. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (viii, 124 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9783447196956 3447196955 |