Research Catalog

Title

What is a god? : studies in the nature of Greek divinity / editor, Alan B. Lloyd ; contributors, Walter Burkert ... [et al.].

Publication

Swansea : Classical Press of Wales, 2009.

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Additional Authors

• Lloyd, Alan B.
• Burkert, Walter, 1931-2015
• Lloyd, Alan Brian
• University of Wales. Institute of Classics and Ancient History, organizer.

Description

vii, 187 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Summary

"In recent study Greek religion has often dissolved itself into many religions. The eleven original essays here focus both on extremes of the Greek world and on its classical 'centre'. Distinguished scholars examine the earliest traces of religious thought in the Minoan and Mycenaean cultures. Striking similarities are revealed between religious ideas of Greece and of non-Greek Asia. There are special studies of Apollo, Athena, and Dionysiac religion. And new patterns are identified in the archaic and classical thought of Heraclitus, Herodotus and Sophocles"--Back cover.

Alternative Title

Studies in the nature of Greek divinity

Subjects

• Conference papers and proceedings
• Greece > Religion > Congresses
• Gods, Greek > Congresses
• Mythology, Greek > Congresses
• God (Greek religion) > Congresses

Genre/Form

Conference papers and proceedings

Note

• "This volume stems from a colloquium with the same title, held in July 1994 at Gregynog by the University of Wales Institute of Classics and Ancient History"--P. vii.
• Originally published: London: Duckworth, 1997.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

From Knossos to Homer / Bernard Dietrich -- From epiphany to cult statue / Walter Burkert -- Heraclitus and the rites of established religion / Catherine Osborne -- Moral dimension of Pythian Apollo / J.K. Davies -- Gods and mountains in Greek myth and poetry / Michael Clarke -- Aspects of Athena in the Greek polis: Sparta and Corinth / A.C. Villing -- Herodotus and the certainty of divine retribution / Thomas Harrison -- Divinity and moral agency in Sophoclean tragedy / Seth L. Schein -- Thunder, lightning and earthquake in the Bacchae and the Acts of the Apostles / Richard Seaford -- Athena and the Amazons: mortal and immortal femininity in Greek myth / Susan Deacy -- Orphic gods and other gods / Anne-France Morand.

ISBN

• 9781905125357 (pbk.)
• 1905125356 (pbk.)

OCLC

• 716715644
• SCSB-12251393

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library