Mixanthrôpoi : animal-human hybrid deities in Greek religion
Many of the beings in this book Cheiron, Pan, Acheloos, the Sirens and others will be familiar from the narratives of Greek mythology, in which fabulous anatomies abound. However, they have never previously been studied together from a religious perspective, as recipients of cult and as members of t...
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| Format: | Thèse numérique |
| Idioma: | Anglais |
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Liége :
Presses universitaires de Liège
2017.
Marseille : OpenEdition |
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| Accés en línia: | Ressource accessible en libre accès Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM ; Accès complet au document dans sa version HTML. Pas d'accès aux autres formats (PDF, Epub). |
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Description d'après la consultation, 2018-01-22 Titre provenant de la page de titre du document électronique La pagination de l'édition imprimée correspondante est de 383 p. OpenEdition Books (freemium) |
| Autres localisations: | Voir dans le Sudoc |
| Edition sous un autre format: | • Mixanthrôpoi, animal-human hybrid deities in Greek religion, Emma Aston, 2011, Liège, Centre international d'Etude de la Religion Grecque Antique, 1 vol. (383 p.), 978-2-9600717-8-8 |
| Sumari: | Many of the beings in this book Cheiron, Pan, Acheloos, the Sirens and others will be familiar from the narratives of Greek mythology, in which fabulous anatomies abound. However, they have never previously been studied together from a religious perspective, as recipients of cult and as members of the ancient pantheon. This book is the first major treatment of the use of part-animal mixanthropic form in the representation and visual imagination of Greek gods and goddesses, and of its significance with regard to divine character and function. What did it mean to depict deities in a form so strongly associated in the ancient imagination with monstrous adversaries? How did iconography, myth and ritual interact in particular sites of worship? Drawing together literary and visual material, this study establishes the themes dominant in the worship of divine mixanthropes, and argues that, so far from being insignificant curiosities, they make possible a greater understanding of the fabric of ancient religious practice, in particular the tense and challenging relationship between divinity and visual representation. |
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| Descripció de l’ítem: | Description d'après la consultation, 2018-01-22 Titre provenant de la page de titre du document électronique La pagination de l'édition imprimée correspondante est de 383 p. OpenEdition Books (freemium) |
| Format: | Navigateur Web |
| Bibliografia: | Bibliographie |
| ISBN: | 9782821895638 |
| Accés: | L'accès complet au document est ouvert à tous dans sa version HTML. L'accès aux autres formats (PDF, Epub) est réservé aux usagers des établissements qui en ont fait l'acquisition. |