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Author : Julia Kindt
Release : 2016-09-26
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 570/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Revisiting Delphi by : Julia Kindt
Download or read book Revisiting Delphi written by Julia Kindt. This book was released on 2016-09-26. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An innovative reading of how different authors tell stories about the Delphic Oracle, focusing on the religious views thereby conveyed.
Author : Lindsay Gayle Driediger-Murphy
Release : 2019
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 549/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Ancient Divination and Experience by : Lindsay Gayle Driediger-Murphy
Download or read book Ancient Divination and Experience written by Lindsay Gayle Driediger-Murphy. This book was released on 2019. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. This volume sets out to re-examine what ancient people - primarily those in ancient Greek and Roman communities, but also Mesopotamian and Chinese cultures - thought they were doing through divination, and what this can tell us about the religions and cultures in which divination was practised. The chapters, authored by a range of established experts and upcoming early-career scholars, engage with four shared questions: What kinds of gods do ancient forms of divination presuppose? What beliefs, anxieties, and hopes did divination seek to address? What were the limits of human 'control' of divination? What kinds of human-divine relationships did divination create/sustain? The volume as a whole seeks to move beyond functionalist approaches to divination in order to identify and elucidate previously understudied aspects of ancient divinatory experience and practice. Special attention is paid to the experiences of non-elites, the perception of divine presence, the ways in which divinatory techniques could surprise their users by yielding unexpected or unwanted results, the difficulties of interpretation with which divinatory experts were thought to contend, and the possibility that divination could not just ease, but also exacerbate, anxiety in practitioners and consultants.
Author : Richard Hunter
Release : 2021-10-25
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Rating : 57X/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Layers of the Text by : Richard Hunter
Download or read book The Layers of the Text written by Richard Hunter. This book was released on 2021-10-25. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume collects the most recent essays of Richard Hunter, one of the world's leading experts in the field of Greek and Latin literature. The essays range across all periods of ancient literature from Homer to late antiquity, with a particular focus not just on the texts in their original contexts, but also on how they were interpreted and exploited for both literary and more broadly cultural purposes later in antiquity. Taken together, the essays sketch a picture of a continuous tradition of critical and historical engagement with the literature of the past from the period of Aristophanes and then Plato and Aristotle in classical Athens to the rich prose literature of the Second Sophistic. Richard Hunter's earlier essays are collected in On Coming After (Berlin 2008).
Author : Deepak Chhabra
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Book Synopsis Sustainable Development and Resilience of Tourism by : Deepak Chhabra
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Author : Nickolas P. Roubekas
Release : 2022-07-14
Genre : Religion
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Book Synopsis The Study of Greek and Roman Religions by : Nickolas P. Roubekas
Download or read book The Study of Greek and Roman Religions written by Nickolas P. Roubekas. This book was released on 2022-07-14. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How should ancient religious ideas be approached? Is "religion" an applicable term to antiquity? Should classicists, ancient historians, and religious studies scholars work more closely together? Nickolas P. Roubekas argues that there is a disciplinary gap between the study of Greek and Roman religions and the study of “religion” as a category-a gap that has often resulted in contradictory conclusions regarding Greek and Roman religion. This book addresses this lack of interdisciplinarity by providing an overview, criticism, and assessment of this chasm. It provides a theoretical approach to this historical period, raising the issue of the relationship between “theory of religion” and “history of religion,” and explores how history influences theory and vice versa. It also presents an in-depth critique of some crucial problems that have been central to the discussions of scholars who work on Graeco-Roman antiquity, encouraging us to re-examine how we approach the study of ancient religions.
