Anglais Mixanthrôpoi. Animal-human hybrid deities in Greek religion

Emma Aston

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Many of the beings in this book - Cheiron, Pan, Acheloos, the Sirens and others - will be familiar from the narratives of Greek mythology, in which fabulous anatomies abound. However, they have never previously been studied together from a religious perspective, as recipients of cult and as members of the ancient pantheon. This book is the first major treatment of the use of part-animal - mixanthropic - form in the representation and visual imagination of Greek gods and goddesses, and of its significance with regard to divine character and function. What did it mean to depict deities in a form so strongly associated in the ancient imagination with monstrous adversaries? How did iconography, myth and ritual interact in particular sites of worship? Drawing together literary and visual material, this study establishes the themes dominant in the worship of divine mixanthropes, and argues that, so far from being insignificant curiosities, they make possible a greater understanding of the fabric of ancient religious practice, in particular the tense and challenging relationship between divinity and visual representation.


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Categories : Religion & Esotérisme > Religion généralités > Histoire des religions
Categories : Religion & Esotérisme > Autres religions > Religions de l'Antiquité / Mythologie


  • Authors

    Emma Aston

  • Publisher

    PULG

  • Distributeur

    Cid - Fmsh

  • Publication date

    01/01/2011

  • EAN

    9782960071788

  • Availablity

    Available

  • Nombre de pages

    383 Pages

  • Height

    24 cm

  • Width

    16 cm

  • Thickness

    2.5 cm

  • Item weight

    800 g

  • Diffuseur

    FMSH Diffusion

  • Support principal

    Grand format

Infos supplémentaires : Broché  

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