The Names of the Gods in Ancient Mediterranean Religions

Inbunden, Engelska, 2024

Av Corinne Bonnet, Pisa) Bonnet, Corinne (Scuola Normale Superiore

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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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Utgivningsdatum2024-03-07
Mått157 x 236 x 22 mm
Vikt580 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieClassical Scholarship in Translation
Antal sidor306
FörlagCambridge University Press
ISBN9781009394826
ÖversättareHäussler, Ralph, Häussler, Ralph, Haussler, Ralph

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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.

'The book has the feeling of an academic workshop … The sense of trust between contributors suffused through the volume is engaging, and it will certainly make the book more palatable to the general reader. … It is a fitting advertisement for the MAP database, and as such the contributors - and translator Ralph Häussler, who has done an excellent job of retaining the authors' voices - should be proud of their achievement.' Dominic Dalglish, Bryn Mawr Classical Review