Worshipping Virtues

Name: Worshipping Virtues
Brand: Classical Press of Wales
SKU: 9780715630440
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Personification and the Divine in Ancient Greece

Autor: Emma Stafford

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Editura: Classical Press of Wales

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The culture of ancient Greece was thronged with personifications. In poetry and the visual arts, per...

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Autor

Emma Stafford

Limbă

engleză

Legare

Carte - Copertă tare

Publicat

2001

Pagini

274

EAN

9780715630440

ISBN

071563044X

Enbook ID

09292240

Editura

Classical Press of Wales

Greutate

628

Dimensiuni

244 x 165 x 21

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The culture of ancient Greece was thronged with personifications. In poetry and the visual arts, personified figures of what might seem abstractions claim our attention. The Greeks, in Dr Johnson's phrase, 'shock the mind by ascribing effects to non-entity'. This study examines the logic, the psychology and the practice of Greeks who worshipped these personifications with temples and sacrifices, and beseeched them with hymn and prayers. Dr Stafford conducts case-studies of deified 'abstractions', such as Peitho (Persuasion), Eirene (Peace) and Hygieia (Health). She also considers general questions of Greek psychology, such as why so many of these figures were female. Modern scholars have asked, "Did the Greeks believe their own myths?" This study contributes to the debate, by exploring widespread and creative popular theology in the historical period.

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