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1 online resource (xxviii, 690 pages) : illustrations, maps |
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Religions in the Graeco-Roman world ; volume 178 |
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Religions in the Graeco-Roman world ; v. 178.
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| Contents |
Preface A Personal Note; Acknowledgements; List of Illustrations and Maps; Part One Introduction: Greek Polytheism; Chapter One Raising Questions; 1.1 'Greek Religion'-An Academic Construct?; 1.2 Religion between History and Antropology, Sociology and Psychology; 1.3 A Greek Puzzle: One Religion and Many Pantheons; 1.4 Local Deities and Panhellenic Identities; 1.5 Models of Greek Religion; Chapter Two Definitions and Approaches; 2.1 Preamble: 'Where I Come From'; 2.2 Theoretical Premises: A System; 2.3 Ancient Greek Realia: A Mesocosm |
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2.4 Locality: 'Definite Places' and Local Religious SystemsChapter Three Categories, Data, Paradigms; 3.1 Categories; 3.1.1 Participants: Deities; 3.1.2 Participants: Worshippers; 3.1.3 Time Setting: Festivals; 3.1.4 Space Setting: Sacred Sites and Sanctuaries. Sacred Topography; 3.1.5 Means of Communication: Myths and Rituals, Myths versus Rituals; 3.1.6 Means of Communication: Gifts for the Gods; 3.1.7 Interrelating Categories; 3.2 Data; 3.2.1 Material Evidence; 3.2.2 Textual Evidence; 3.2.3 Myths as Historical Evidence; 3.3 Paradigms of Interpretation; 3.3.1 The Role and Power of Paradigms |
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3.3.2 Evolutionary Paradigm3.3.3 Initiation Paradigm; 3.3.4 Olympian-Chthonian Paradigm; 3.3.5 City-Countryside Paradigm; 3.3.6 Structuralist Paradigm; 3.3.7 Biological Etholody and Psychoanalysis; 3.3.8 Conclusion; Chapter Four Conception of the Divine in Greek Polytheism; 4.1 The Subject Matter of This Book: Focus on Deities; 4.2 Conception of the Divine in Greek Polytheism; 4.3 Indigenous Classes of Supernatural Beings in Greek Polytheism; 4.3.1 Gods, daimones, Heroes, and the Dead; 4.3.2 Olympians and Chthonians; 4.3.3 Deities, Inc[orporated]; 4.3.4 Abstractions Personified |
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4.3.5 Classes of Meaningful Forms4.3.6 Anthropomorphism and Personhood: Moral and Immoral; Chapter Five Pantheons and Meaningful God Sets; 5.1 Polytheistic Plurality; 5.2 Numerical Parameters of Polytheism; 5.3 Pantheon: Chaos or System?; 5.4 Structures of Pantheons: How to Find? Panhellenic Templates; 5.5 Structures of Pantheons and Cultic Systems: Where to Look?; Chapter Six Social Roles of Deities in Local Cults; 6.1 'Cults' versus 'Pantheon'; 6.2 Social Roles of Deities; 6.3 Determining Social Roles of a Local Deity; 6.3.1 Name; 6.3.2 Epithet; 6.3.3 Visual Representations |
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6.3.4 Topography of Sanctuary6.3.5 Attributes of Sanctuary; 6.3.6 Votives; 6.3.7 Rituals; 6.3.8 Worshipping Groups; 6.3.9 Conclusions; Part Two The Aiginetan System of Cults; Chapter Seven Aiginetan Deities and Cults: Synchronic Analysis of Social Roles; 7.1 The Subject and Presentation; 7.1.1 Aiginetan Deities: Order and Number; 7.1.2 Aiginetan Deities? Errata and Dubitanda; 7.2 Aiakos and the Aiakids; 7.2.1 Aiakos and the Aiakids: Together and Apart; 7.2.2 A Sanctuary or Sanctuaries?; 7.2.3 Cult Images; 7.2.4 Social Roles: Military Allies; 7.2.5 Social Roles: Markers of Aiginetan Identity |
| Summary |
This book provides the first comprehensive and detailed study of the deities and cults of the important Greek island-state of Aigina from the Geometric to Classical periods (800-400 BCE) |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
BODY, MIND & SPIRIT -- Spirituality -- Paganism & Neo-Paganism.
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RELIGION -- Antiquities & Archaeology.
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Religion.
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Religion
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Polytheïsme.
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| SUBJECT |
Aigina (Greece) -- Religion
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Greece -- Aigina.
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Ägina
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Egina.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9789004262089 |
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9004262083 |
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