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1 online resource (xvii, 423 pages.) |
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Cambridge classical studies
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Cambridge classical studies.
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
"Studied for many years by scholars with Christianising assumptions, Greek religion has often been said to be quite unlike Christianity: a matter of particular actions (orthopraxy), rather than particular beliefs (orthodoxies). This volume dares to think that, both in and through religious practices and in and through religious thought and literature, the ancient Greeks engaged in a sustained conversation about the nature of the gods and how to represent and worship them. It excavates the attitudes towards the gods implicit in cult practice and analyses the beliefs about the gods embedded in such diverse texts and contexts as comedy, tragedy, rhetoric, philosophy, ancient Greek blood sacrifice, myth and other forms of storytelling. The result is a richer picture of the supernatural in ancient Greece, and a whole series of fresh questions about how views of and relations to the gods changed over time"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Contents |
Cover; Half-title; Series information; Title page; Copyright information; Table of contents; List of figures; Notes on contributors; Preface; Note on spellings and abbreviations; 1 Introduction; 2 The story of theology and the theology of the story; Introduction; The story of ancient Greek theology; Theology in older scholarship; A new paradigm: theology in scholarship since the 1940s and 50s; Polis religion and the theologia tripertita; Poetic, philosophical and popular theologies; The theologia tripertita -- a Greek way of thinking about religion?; Outlook |
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3 Theologies of the family in Homer and HesiodDivergent receptions; The right of the mother; Sublime frivolity; Convergent receptions; 4 Who's afraid of Cypselus?; The theology written upon the Cypselid dedications; The theology of the story of Croesus' dedications; Conclusion; 5 Heraclitus on Apollo's signs and his own; Apollo's paradox; Heraclitus' paradox; Apolline and Heraclitean signs: the analogy and its limits; Final remarks; 6 The 'theology' of the Dionysia and Old Comedy; A brief history of Dionysus Eleuthereus; God of phallic and verbal aggression; God of choruses |
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Gods of competition and victoryGod of plenty; Conclusion; 7 Polytheism and tragedy; 8 Gods and men in ancient Greek conceptions of lawgiving; The balance of divine and human agency; The negotiation of divine and mortal identity; Human and divine constructions of authority; Divine and mortal authority in inscribed law; 9 Popular theologies; Introduction; The problem of popular theology; The embedding of popular theology; Phthonos; Mortal phthonos: the gift; Homeric phthonos; Divine phthonos: a gift that can never be repaid; Conclusion; 10 Sacrificial theologies |
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11 Theologies of statues in Classical Greek artTheology and Greek art?; A visual discourse on statues of gods; A visual meditation on Apollo's statue; Magnifying an ancient statue on the Athenian Acropolis; 12 The gods in the Athenian assembly; The preliminaries; The debate on (and unclear instances); Conclusion; 13 Plato and the secularisation of Greek theology; Mythical theology and philosophical theology; Two tendencies in philosophical theology; Plato and secularised theology; Plato's philosophical mythology; 14 Providence and religion in Middle Platonism; Introduction |
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Atticus against AristotleProvidence 'as far as the moon'; The transitivity of providence; Philosophy as religion; Appendix; 15 Narratives of continuity and discontinuity; Modern narratives of difference; Theological narratives in late antiquity; Bibliography; Index |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Greece -- Religion.
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Greece. |
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Religion. |
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Theology.
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Theology. |
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theology. |
| Added Author |
Eidinow, Esther, 1970- editor.
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Kindt, Julia, 1975- editor.
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Osborne, Robin, 1957- editor.
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| Other Form: |
Original 9781107153479 1107153476 (DLC) 2016011381 (OCoLC)945072617 |
| ISBN |
9781316597811 (electronic book) |
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1316597814 (electronic book) |
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9781107153479 |
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1107153476 |
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9781316607503 (paperback) |
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131660750X |
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