Names of the Gods in Ancient Mediterranean Religions (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Bonnet, Corinne (Scuola Normale Superiore / Übersetzer: Haussler, Ralph

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

From Greece to Palmyra, Tyre or Babylon, the names of the gods, like 'Thundering Zeus', 'Three-faced Moon', 'Baal of the Force' or the enigmatic YHWH, reveal their history, family ties, fields of competence and capacity for action. Shared or specific, these names bring to light networks of gods: the Saviour gods, the Ancestral gods, the gods of a city or a family. Names tell stories about the relationship between men and gods, gods and places, places and cultures and so on. They show how gods travel and spread, how they appear and disappear, how they participate in the political, social, intellectual history of each community. Through the study of divine names, the twelve chapters of this book unfold a gallery of portraits that reveal the changing aspects of the divine throughout the ancient Mediterranean.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Februar 2024
• ISBN-13: 9781009394789
• Artikelnr.: 70912211

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction. In the mirror of Vertumnus; 1. 'To the Immortals everything
is possible': portraits of Homeric gods between savagery and empathy
Corinne Bonnet; 2. All sides of the moon: a Greek incantation from late
antique Egypt Thomas Galoppin; 3. 'May the Force be with you!'. Men and
gods in battle in the Phoenician world Maria Bianco; 4. Dionysos in the
mirror of Poseidon: crossed onomastic portraits Sylvain Lebreton; 5. Lord
of the Universe, the World and Eternity: Gods with unlimited powers in
Palmyra? Aleksandra Kubiak-Schneider; 6. This is not a name: the
polyvalence of divine names in Mesopotamia Marinella Ceravolo; 7. The sword
and the patera: Zeus Helios Great Sarapis Laurent Bricault; 8. A travelling
portrait: the Baal of Tyre, from one rock to another Elodie Guillon; 9.
Pantheus, a 'total' god in the Greek and Roman world Ginevra Benedetti; 10.
'I will be who I will be' (Exod. 3:14). Portrait of a deity that would be
nameless and imageless Fabio Porzia; 11. Golden locks among the Greeks, or
the hair secrets of the beautiful Apollo Adeline Grand-Clément; 12. Athena
- Artemis. An attempt to outline two sisters by their epiclesis Pierre
Brulé.