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Approaches to Greek and Latin Language, Literature and History
This peer-reviewed collection of essays provides an account of several current foci of research in Classics. It gathers fifteen contributions covering subjects such as Greek and Latin papyrology and epigraphy. It also includes approaches to various key literary texts, from Homer to post-classical Humanists, in addition to chapters on navigation, coinage, and sculpture. This book represents a useful research tool for a wide range of scholars in Greek, Latin and Ancient History, as well as an up-to-date source for any classicist.
Tracing Orpheus
There is hardly a more controversial issue in the study of ancient religion than Orphism. More than two centuries of debate have not closed the subject, since new evidence and divergent approaches have kept appearing regularly. This volume sheds light on the most relevant pieces of evidence for ancient Orphism, collected in the recent edition by Alberto Bernabé. It contains 65 short new studies on Orphic fragments by leading international scholars who comment one of the most controversial phenomena in Antiquity from a plurality of perspectives. Readers will acquire a global vision of the multiple dimensions of the Orphic tradition, as well as many new insights into particular Orphic fragments.
2012
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Orphic Tradition and the Birth of the Gods
"Orphic Tradition and the Birth of the Gods is a literary history that attempts to reconstruct the fragments of four theogonies that were attributed to the legendary singer Orpheus: the Derveni, Eudemian, Hieronyman, and Rhapsodic Theogonies. Most modern scholars have described these poems as if they were similar to Hesiod's Theogony—lengthy chronological accounts of the births of the gods from the beginning of time to the present—but this book suggests that a better model for understanding how these poems were composed is to see each of them as an individual product of bricolage (as explained by Claude Lévi-Strauss), rather than as items in the stemma of a static manuscript tradition (...
Divine Powers in Late Antiquity
"This volume explores how some of the most prominent philosophers and theologians of late antiquity conceptualize the idea that the divine is powerful. The period under consideration spans roughly four centuries (from the first to the fifth CE), which are of particular interest because they 'witness' the successive development and mutual influence of two major strands in the history of Western thought: Neoplatonism on the one hand, and early Christian on the other."--Introduction, p. [1].
Redefining Dionysos
This book contributes to the understanding of Dionysos, the Greek god of wine, dancing, theatre and ecstasy, by putting together 30 studies of classical scholars. They combine the analysis of specific instances of particular dimensions of the god in cult, myth, literature and iconography, with general visions of Dionysos in antiquity and modern times. Only from the combination of different perspectives can we grasp the complex personality of Dionysos, and the forms of his presence in different cults, literary genres, and artistic forms, from Mycenaean times to late antiquity. The ways in which Dionysos was experienced may vary in each author, each cult, and each genre in which this god is involved. Therefore, instead of offering a new all-encompassing theory that would immediately become partial, the book narrows the focus on specific aspects of the god. Redefinition does not mean finding (again) the essence of the god, but obtaining a more nuanced knowledge of the ways he was experienced and conceived in antiquity.
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Mito y Modernidad en la obra de Rosamel del Valle
La siguiente investigación aborda la relación entre mito y modernidad en la obra literaria (poemas, cuentos, novelas y crónicas) del autor chileno Rosamel del Valle (Curacaví, 1901 – Santiago de Chile, 1965). En sus distintos textos existe una tensión entre un proyecto poético basado en una visión mítica del mundo y un contexto histórico que privilegia posturas más racionalistas, relegando lo poético y lo mítico. Ya en el siglo XIX la modernidad y los fenómenos asociados de la modernización producen el desplazamiento de la poesía como discurso y del poeta como persona a una situación deficitaria dentro de la sociedad, lo que se extiende en el siglo XX. Debido a este conflic...
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La critica dei culti nel teatro del V secolo
Ziel des Buchs ist es, den religiösen Aspekt der Kritik von Aristophanes an den Tragödien des Euripides, die in den "Thesmophoriazusen" und den "Fröschen" spürbar ist, zu besprechen und eine vergleichende Studie über die Religiosität beider Autoren zu liefern. Die Tragödien des Euripides, die Aristophanes parodiert oder auf die er bloß anspielt, scheinen ganz besonders für die Gedanken des Euripides über die Religion repräsentativ zu sein, insbesondere für sein bestimmtes Interesse an 'fremden' Kulten (wie denen von Dionysos oder der Mutter der Götter) und an der Orphik. Im Gegensatz zum wissenschaftlichen Konsens ist der Euripides des Aristophanes also kein von sophistischen Theorien durchdrungener Atheist, sondern der Verfechter einer alternativen Form der Religiosität. Vor dem Hintergrund der seltsamen Kulte des Euripides betont Aristophanes seine eigene Religiosität, die tief in den Traditionen der athenischen Polis verwurzelt ist: Der Sieg des Aischylos im poetischen Agon der "Frösche" ist auch der Sieg der Mysterien von Eleusis über die exotischen und unorthodoxen Überzeugungen des Euripides.
