Sandra Blakely

Myth, Ritual and Metallurgy in Ancient Greece and Recent Africa

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book, first published in 2006, provides new insights into the position of technology in Greek myth.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 344
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. März 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 246mm x 189mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 667g
• ISBN-13: 9781107652392
• ISBN-10: 1107652391
• Artikelnr.: 40787895

Autorenporträt

Sandra Blakely is Associate Professor of Classics at Emory University. A scholar of the religions of the classical world, she has received fellowships from the American School of Classical Studies in Athens, the Albright School of Archaeological Research in Jerusalem, and the Center for Hellenic Studies in Washington, DC.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Part I. Data and Methodologies: 1. The Greek daimones
2. Iconography and metallurgy
3. African iron: history, ritual, and investigation
Part II. Metallurgy and Birth: 4. Birth, craft, and the daimones: the Erectrian hymn to the Daktyloi
5. Gender and production: the Fipa
6. The daimones: fertility and ritual performance
7. Pharmaka and apotropaia
Part III. Metallurgy and Political Power: 8. Iron and political power: Africa
9. Bakongo investiture: kings, iron, and autochthones
10. Daimones and political power: Idaian Daktyloi in the Phoronis
11. Pindar's Telchines
Conclusion.