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The Gods of The Greeks
Drawing on a wealth of sources, from Hesiod to Pausanias and from the Orphic Hymns to Proclus, Professor Kerényi provides a clear and scholarly exposition of all the most important Greek myths. After a brief introduction, the complex genealogies of the gods lead him from the begettings of the Titans, from Aphrodite under all her titles and aspects, to the reign of Zeus, to Apollo and Hermes, touching the affairs of Pan, nymphs, satyrs, cosmogonies and the birth of mankind, until he reaches the ineffable mysteries of Dionysos. The lively and highly readable narrative is complemented by an appendix of detailed references to all the original texts and a fine selection of illustrations taken fr...
Essays in Memory of Karl Kerényi
Edgar C. Polome: Karl Kerenyi?A biographical sketchEdgar C. Polome: Some thoughts on the methodology of Comparative Religion, with special focus on Indo EuropeanR. Panikkar: Yama?A Myth of the Primordial ManFrithjof Hallman: The LabyrinthMythology and landscapeHellmut Sichtermann: Kerenyi?s humanistic approach to ancient religionJohannes Kleinstuck: Mythical night and night of a mythFuri Jesi: Reflections on the Pseudo Euripidean RhesosGodo Lieberg: The Theologia Tripertita as an intellectual modelGeo Widengren: ?Was Not Then Our Heart Burning in Us??Hans Peter Isler: The animal frieze in archaic Greek art.
Dionysos
No other god of the Greeks is as widely present in the monuments and nature of Greece and Italy, in the sensuous tradition of antiquity, as Dionysos. In myth and image, in visionary experience and ritual representation, the Greeks possessed a complete expression of indestructible life, the essence of Dionysos. In this work, the noted mythologist and historian of religion Carl Kerényi presents a historical account of the religion of Dionysos from its beginnings in the Minoan culture down to its transition to a cosmic and cosmopolitan religion of late antiquity under the Roman Empire. From the wealth of Greek literary, epigraphic, and monumental traditions, Kerényi constructs a picture of Di...
The Dionysian Self
The series presents outstanding monographic interpretations of Nietzsche's work as a whole or of specific themes and aspects. These works are written mostly from a philosophical, literary, communication science, sociological or historical perspective. The publications reflect the current state of research on Nietzsche's philosophy, on his sources, and on the influence of his writings. The volumes are peer-reviewed.
Eleusis
Reprint. Originally published: New York: Bollingen Foundation, 1967. (Bollingen series; 65, v. 4) (Archetypal images in Greek religion; v. 4).
Hermeneutics, Politics, and the History of Religions
This volume comprises papers presented at a conference marking the 50th anniversary of Joachim Wach's death, and the centennial of Mircea Eliade's birth. Its purpose is to reconsider both the problematic, separate legacies of these two major twentieth-century historians of religions, and the bearing of these two legacies upon each other. Shortly after Wach's death in 1955, Eliade succeeded him as the premiere historian of religions at the University of Chicago. As a result, the two have been associated with each other in many people's minds as the successive leaders of the so-called "Chicago School" in the history of religions. In fact, as this volume makes clear, there never was a monolithi...
Apollo
Apollo -- a popular favorite among Greek deities and yet most misunderstood of divine concepts. Here is the original Apollo, a mysterious light-and-dark force revealed by the renowned psychological mythographer, Karl Kerenyi. The four chapters examine Apollonian cult, myth, and thought, ranging through such disparate symbols as the serpents at Delphi, the broom of Ion, the swans of the Phaedo, and the winds of the North -- Publisher.
Myth, Matriarchy and Modernity
This study explores the prevalence in German culture of myths about ancient matriarchal societies, discussing their presence in left and right wing politics, feminist and antifeminist writing, sociology, psychoanalysis and literary production. By tracing the influence of the works of the Swiss jurist and theorist of matriarchy, Johann Jakob Bachofen (1815–1887), and the controversies about the reception and interpretation of his work, this study shows how debate about the matriarchal origins of culture was inextricably linked with anxieties about modernity and gender identities at the turn of the twentieth century. By moving beyond the discussion of canonical authors and taking seriously the scope of the discussion, it becomes clear that it is not possible to reduce matriarchal theories to any particular political ideology; instead, they function as a mythic counterdiscourse to a modernity conceived as oppressive, rational and masculine. Writers considered include Ludwig Klages, Hofmannsthal, Kafka, Hauptmann, Lou Andreas-Salomé, Sir Galahad, Clara Viebig, Mathilde Vaerting, Thomas Mann, Elisabeth Langgässer, Ilse Langner, Otto Gross, Franz Werfel, and many others.
