Author: David Walter Leinweber
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Metamorphosis
Languages : en
Pages : 524
Book Description
The Role of Metamorphosis in Grego [i.e. Greco]-Roman Religious Thought
Author: David Walter Leinweber
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Metamorphosis
Languages : en
Pages : 524
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Metamorphosis
Languages : en
Pages : 524
Book Description
The role of metamorphosis in Greco-Roman thought
Author: David W. Leinweber
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 249
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 249
Book Description
Metamorphoses
Author: Turid Karlsen Seim
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 3110202999
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
How were ideas and experiences of transformation expressed in early Christianity and early Judaism? This volume explores the social and philosophical frameworks within which transformative ideas such as resurrection and practices of becoming “a new being” were shaped. It also explores the analogies and parameters by which transformation was being observed, noted and asserted. The focus on transformation helps to connect topics that tend to be studied separately, such as cosmology, resurrection, aging, gender, and conversion. The textual material is wide-ranging and there are new readings of core passages. Ideas and experiences of transformations in early Christianity and early Judaism Connects topics that tend to be studied seperately (cosmology, resurrection, aging, gender, conversion) With wide-ranging textual material
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 3110202999
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
How were ideas and experiences of transformation expressed in early Christianity and early Judaism? This volume explores the social and philosophical frameworks within which transformative ideas such as resurrection and practices of becoming “a new being” were shaped. It also explores the analogies and parameters by which transformation was being observed, noted and asserted. The focus on transformation helps to connect topics that tend to be studied separately, such as cosmology, resurrection, aging, gender, and conversion. The textual material is wide-ranging and there are new readings of core passages. Ideas and experiences of transformations in early Christianity and early Judaism Connects topics that tend to be studied seperately (cosmology, resurrection, aging, gender, conversion) With wide-ranging textual material
Music and Metamorphosis in Greco-Roman Thought
Author: Pauline A. LeVen
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 110714874X
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 291
Book Description
Examines questions raised, in antiquity and now, by mythical narratives about humans transforming into non-human musical beings.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 110714874X
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 291
Book Description
Examines questions raised, in antiquity and now, by mythical narratives about humans transforming into non-human musical beings.
The Metamorphosis of Magic from Late Antiquity to the Early Modern Period
Author: Jan N. Bremmer
Publisher: Peeters Publishers
ISBN: 9789042912274
Category : Magic
Languages : en
Pages : 426
Book Description
Deities, demons, and angels became important protagonists in the magic of the Late Antique world, and were also the main reasons for the condemnation of magic in the Christian era. Supplicatory incantations, rituals of coercion, enticing suffumigations, magical prayers and mystical songs drew spiritual powers to the humain domain. Next to the magician's desire to regulate fate and fortune, it was the communion with the spirit world that gave magic the potential to purify and even deify its practitioners. The sense of elation and the awareness of a metaphysical order caused magic to merge with philosophy (notably Neoplatonism). The heritage of Late Antique theurgy would be passed on to the Arab world, and together with classical science and learning would take root again in the Latin West in the High Middle Ages. The metamorphosis of magic laid out in this book is the transformation of ritual into occult philosophy against the background of cultural changes in Judaism, Graeco-Roman religion and Christianity. This volume, the first in the new series Groningen Studies in Cultural Change, offers the papers presented at the workshop The Metamorphosis of Magic from Late Antiquity to the Early Modern Period held from 22 to 24 June 2000, and organised by Jan N. Bremmer and Jan R. Veenstra. The papers have been written by scholars from such varying disciplines as classics, theology, philosophy, cultural history, and law. Their contributions shed new light upon several old obscurities; they show magic to be a significant area of culture, and they advance the case for viewing transformations in the lore and practice of magic as a barometer with which to measure cultural change.
Publisher: Peeters Publishers
ISBN: 9789042912274
Category : Magic
Languages : en
Pages : 426
Book Description
Deities, demons, and angels became important protagonists in the magic of the Late Antique world, and were also the main reasons for the condemnation of magic in the Christian era. Supplicatory incantations, rituals of coercion, enticing suffumigations, magical prayers and mystical songs drew spiritual powers to the humain domain. Next to the magician's desire to regulate fate and fortune, it was the communion with the spirit world that gave magic the potential to purify and even deify its practitioners. The sense of elation and the awareness of a metaphysical order caused magic to merge with philosophy (notably Neoplatonism). The heritage of Late Antique theurgy would be passed on to the Arab world, and together with classical science and learning would take root again in the Latin West in the High Middle Ages. The metamorphosis of magic laid out in this book is the transformation of ritual into occult philosophy against the background of cultural changes in Judaism, Graeco-Roman religion and Christianity. This volume, the first in the new series Groningen Studies in Cultural Change, offers the papers presented at the workshop The Metamorphosis of Magic from Late Antiquity to the Early Modern Period held from 22 to 24 June 2000, and organised by Jan N. Bremmer and Jan R. Veenstra. The papers have been written by scholars from such varying disciplines as classics, theology, philosophy, cultural history, and law. Their contributions shed new light upon several old obscurities; they show magic to be a significant area of culture, and they advance the case for viewing transformations in the lore and practice of magic as a barometer with which to measure cultural change.
Forms of Astonishment
Author: Richard Buxton
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0199245495
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
An illustrated study of a number of Greek myths about the transformations of humans and gods. Richard Buxton poses the question of how seriously the Greeks took these tales, and in doing so also illuminates issues explored by anthropologists and students of religion.
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0199245495
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
An illustrated study of a number of Greek myths about the transformations of humans and gods. Richard Buxton poses the question of how seriously the Greeks took these tales, and in doing so also illuminates issues explored by anthropologists and students of religion.
Synopsis
Author: Andrew D. Dimarogonas
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9789057025419
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Synopsis is an electronic and print index to scholarly publications on Greek Studies. Consisting of a PC or Macintosh formatted disk, a print edition of the index, and a copy of Euretes, a computer user's manual that will aid in record retrieval and conversion of information contained in the database, the annual is compiled out of more than 950 scholarly journals and other publications, and out of the holdings of major US libraries, the Library of Congress and the National Library of Greece.Indexing nearly 5,100 journal paper titles and 3,100 book titles, Synopsis covers the areas of Classical, Hellenistic, Biblical, Byzantine, Medieval and Modern Greek Studies. The volume of collected material has been compiled in three indexes: 1) the general listing and the author index; 2) the list of the indexed scholarly journals and other publications; and, 3) the text, geographical, name and subject index
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9789057025419
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Synopsis is an electronic and print index to scholarly publications on Greek Studies. Consisting of a PC or Macintosh formatted disk, a print edition of the index, and a copy of Euretes, a computer user's manual that will aid in record retrieval and conversion of information contained in the database, the annual is compiled out of more than 950 scholarly journals and other publications, and out of the holdings of major US libraries, the Library of Congress and the National Library of Greece.Indexing nearly 5,100 journal paper titles and 3,100 book titles, Synopsis covers the areas of Classical, Hellenistic, Biblical, Byzantine, Medieval and Modern Greek Studies. The volume of collected material has been compiled in three indexes: 1) the general listing and the author index; 2) the list of the indexed scholarly journals and other publications; and, 3) the text, geographical, name and subject index
Greek Gods, Human Lives
Author: Mary R. Lefkowitz
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300107692
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
Insightful and fun, this new guide to an ancient mythology explains why the Greek gods and goddesses are still so captivating to us, revisiting the work of Homer, Ovid, Virgil, and Shakespeare in search of the essence of these stories. (Mythology & Folklore)
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300107692
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
Insightful and fun, this new guide to an ancient mythology explains why the Greek gods and goddesses are still so captivating to us, revisiting the work of Homer, Ovid, Virgil, and Shakespeare in search of the essence of these stories. (Mythology & Folklore)
Greek Religion
Author: Walter Burkert
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674362819
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 514
Book Description
A survey of the religious beliefs of ancient Greece covers sacrifices, libations, purification, gods, heroes, the priesthood, oracles, festivals, and the afterlife.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674362819
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 514
Book Description
A survey of the religious beliefs of ancient Greece covers sacrifices, libations, purification, gods, heroes, the priesthood, oracles, festivals, and the afterlife.
The Mycenaean World
Author: John Chadwick
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521290371
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
John Chadwick summarizes the results of research into Mycenaean Greece.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521290371
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
John Chadwick summarizes the results of research into Mycenaean Greece.