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What is a God?: Studies in the Nature of Greek Divinity

By Alan B. Lloyd

Book information

Publisher
Classical Press of Wales
Year
2009
ISBN
9781910589519, 1910589519
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
4 MB (4705782 bytes)
Pages
189\189
Library
Mobilism
Time added
2023-11-04 05:14:44

Description

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.

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