Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2013. — 412 p. — (Religionsgeschichtliche Versuche und Vorarbeiten 60). Ever since Vlastos’ “Theology and Philosophy in Early Greek Thought,” scholars have known that a consideration of ancient philosophy without attention to its theological, cosmological and soteriological dimensions remains onesided. Yet, philosophers continue to discuss thinkers...
London : Routledge, 2018. — 214 p., 21 b/w illus. — (Gods and Heroes of the Ancient World series). Hermes redresses the gap in modern English scholarship on this fascinating and complex god, presenting its readers with an introduction to Hermes’ social, religious and political importance through discussions of his myths, iconography and worship. It also brings together in one...
Université Charles de Gaulle - Lille III, 2017. — 428 p. Réunissant des sources littéraires, épigraphiques, archéologiques, iconographiques et archéozoologiques, cette thèse étudie la question de la symbolique de l’animal dans la relation entre le mortel et la divinité, en s’intéressant particulièrement à Artémis et à Déméter, deux déesses en charge des problèmes des femmes à...
Université Charles de Gaulle - Lille III, 2017. — 119 Pls. Les planches présentent des reproductions de photographies liées aux sanctuaires (localisation, plan, bâtiments, mobilier général, offrandes animales, restes fauniques) et aux animaux (figurines, peintures de vases, petites trouvailles). La documentation réunie dans ce volume de planches est exclusivement secondaire :...
De Gruyter, 2021. — 950 p. The origins of satyr drama, and particularly the reliability of the account in Aristotle, remains contested, and several of this volume's contributions try to make sense of the early relationship of satyr drama to dithyramb and attempt to place satyr drama in the pre-Classical performance space and traditions. What is not contested is the relationship...
Cambridge University Press, 2023. — 414 p. Which dimensions of the religious experience of the ancient Greeks become tangible only if we foreground its local horizons? This book explores the manifold ways in which Greek religious beliefs and practices are encoded in and communicate with various local environments. Its individual chapters explore 'the local' in its different...
Brill Academic Publishers, 2013. — 248 p. — (Religions in the Graeco-Roman World 176).
Worlds Full of Signs compares Greek divination to divinatory practices in Neo-Assyrian Mesopotamia and Republican Rome. It argues that the character of Greek divination differed fundamentally from that of the two comparanda. Ample attention is given to background and method at first....
De Gruyter, 2013. — 700 p. — (MythosEikonPoiesis).
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...
Brill Academic Publishers, 2008. — 392 p. — (Religions in the Graeco-Roman World 162).
Orphic gold tables are key documents for the knowledge of rites and beliefs of Orphics, an atypical group that configured a highly original creed and that influenced powerfully over other Greek writers and thinkers. The recent discovery of some tablets has forced a noteworthy modification of...
Cambridge University Press, 2020. — 278 p. In this book, Efrosyni Boutsikas examines ancient Greek religious performances, intricately orchestrated displays comprising topography, architecture, space, cult, and myth. These various elements were unified in a way that integrated the body within cosmic space and made the sacred extraordinary. Boutsikas also explores how natural...
Cambridge University Press, 2018. — xvi + 314 p. This is the first integrated study of Greek religion and cults of the Black Sea region, centred upon the Bosporan Kingdom of its northern shores, but with connections and consequences for Greece and much of the Mediterranean world. David Braund explains the cohesive function of key goddesses (Aphrodite Ourania, Artemis Ephesia,...
Oxford University Press, 1994. — 122 p. — (New Surveys in the Classics 24).
In this brief but highly informative book Jan Bremmer presents an outline of Greek religion in the classical period. After a survey of its main characteristics, he offers a clear and innovative view of the great gods and heroes as well as their sanctuaries and also the main myths, rituals and mysteries:...
Routledge, 2015. — 183 p. — (Gods and Heroes of the Ancient World).
Artemis is a literary, iconographic, and archaeological study of the ancient Greek goddess of the hunt, who presided over the transitions and mediations between the wild and the civilized, youth and maturity, life and death. Beginning with a study of the early origins of Artemis and her cult in the Bronze and...
Capital Decisions Ltd., 2003. — 338 p. This study examines Aphrodite's emergence into the Greek pantheon. It is an inquiry into the intellectual and religious history of Greece and the trade and cultural contacts between the Aegean and the Near East. What this study provides is a multi-disciplinary approach to the problem. Making use of literature (Greek, Linear B, Ugaritic,...
Capital Decisions Ltd., 2003. — 338 p. This study examines Aphrodite's emergence into the Greek pantheon. It is an inquiry into the intellectual and religious history of Greece and the trade and cultural contacts between the Aegean and the Near East. What this study provides is a multi-disciplinary approach to the problem. Making use of literature (Greek, Linear B, Ugaritic,...
Cambridge (Mass.): Princeton University Press, 1987. — ix + 181 p. — ISBN: 0-674-03386-8. Personal Needs in This Life and after Death Organizations and Identities Theologia and Mysteries: Myth, Allegory and Platonism The Extraordinary Experience Abbreviations Notes Index of Greek Terms General Index
2. überarbeitete und erweiterte Auflage. — Stuttgart: W. Kohlhammer, 2011. — 545 S. — (Die Religionen der Menschheit 15). Unter den Religionen des Altertums ist die griechische Religion mit am lebendigsten bezeugt. In Verbindung mit großartiger Literatur und bildender Kunst hat sie auf die Entfaltung der abendländischen Kultur immer wieder Einfluss genommen. Das vorliegende...
2., um ein Nachwort erweiterte Auflage. — Berlin – New York: Walter de Gruyter, 1997. — xii, 378 S. Das vorliegende Werk ist im Grund eine Studie über Mythos und Ritual in der altgriechischen, vorchristlichen Religion und verleugnet keinesfalls' den hergebrachten Rahmen der Klassischen Philologie. Es bedient sich einer vergleichenden Methode, die einheitliche Strukturen in...
University of California Press, 1983. — 335 p.
Blood sacrifice, the ritual slaughter of animals, has been basic to religion through history, so that it survives in spiritualized form even in Christianity. How did this violent phenomenon achieve the status of the sacred? This question is examined in Walter Burkert's famous study.
Sacrifice, Hunting, and Funerary Rituals....
Jaca Book, 1984. — 331 p. — (Storia delle religioni). Nel presentare al lettore italiano l'opera di W. Burkert è opportuno subito avvertirlo, con le stesse parole chiare e decise dell'A., che "uno schizzo adeguato della religione greca sotto più di un aspetto è oggi impossibile". L'ampiezza del materiale documentario, la diversità degli approcci metodologici, la problematicità...
Jaca Book, 1984. — 209 p. — (Storia delle religioni). Nel presentare al lettore italiano l'opera di W. Burkert è opportuno subito avvertirlo, con le stesse parole chiare e decise dell'A., che "uno schizzo adeguato della religione greca sotto più di un aspetto è oggi impossibile". L'ampiezza del materiale documentario, la diversità degli approcci metodologici, la problematicità...
Harvard University Press, 1995. — 226 p.
The splendid culture of the ancient Greeks has often been described as emerging like a miracle from a genius of its own, owing practically nothing to its neighbors. Walter Burkert offers a decisive argument against that distorted view, pointing toward a balanced picture of the archaic period "in which, under the influence of the Semitic...
Brill Academic Pub, 2005. — 532 p. — (Religions in the Graeco-Roman World 156). This book deals with the making and the reuses of the divine words which were ascribed to Apollo from the 2nd to the 6th centuries AD and which have now become available in both epigraphical and literary sources. The larger part has been issued by the sanctuaries of Claros and Didyma. This...
University of Texas Press, 2009. — 390 p. In Vergil's Aeneid , the poet implies that those who have been initiated into mystery cults enjoy a blessed situation both in life and after death. This collection of essays brings new insight to the study of mystic cults in the ancient world, particularly those that flourished in Magna Graecia (essentially the area of present-day...
University of Texas Press, 2009. — 390 p. In Vergil's Aeneid , the poet implies that those who have been initiated into mystery cults enjoy a blessed situation both in life and after death. This collection of essays brings new insight to the study of mystic cults in the ancient world, particularly those that flourished in Magna Graecia (essentially the area of present-day...
De Gruyter, 2021. — 277 p. A monograph concerning the sanctuary of Dodona and its role in the political context of Epirus might be a remarkable input. Located in a region that has received more interest in the last years, this book attempts to analyze the way the shrine evolved in connection with the political developments of its surrounding region. The study employs a...
De Gruyter, 2021. — 276 p. A monograph concerning the sanctuary of Dodona and its role in the political context of Epirus might be a remarkable input. Located in a region that has received more interest in the last years, this book attempts to analyze the way the shrine evolved in connection with the political developments of its surrounding region. The study employs a...
University of California Press, 2004. — 292 p. The division of land and consolidation of territory that created the Greek polis also divided sacred from productive space, sharpened distinctions between purity and pollution, and created a ritual system premised on gender difference. Regional sanctuaries ameliorated competition between city-states, publicized the results of...
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1914. — xliii, 888 p. Артур Бернард Кук (1868 - 1952) — английский ученый-античник, археолог и историк религии. Профессор Кембриджа, член Британской академии (с 1941). Его знаменитая работа «Zeus: A Study in Ancient Religion» - фундаментальное трехтомное исследование древнегреческого культа Зевса List of plates Abbreviations Zeus as God of...
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1925. — xliii, 858 p. "The first volume of this treatise dealt with Zeusas god of the Bright Skyand traces his evolution in that capacity from early Hellenic to late Hellenistic times. It included therefore both the pre-classical change from Zeus the animate Sky to Zeus the anthropomorphic Sky-god and the post-classical connexion of the...
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1925. — 543 [859-1401] p. Appendix : Kairos. The Mountain-Cults of Zeus. The Kyklops in Folk-Tales. The Dioskouroi and Helene in modern Folk-Tales. Orphic Theogonies and the Cosmogonic Eros. Zeus Klesios . Zeus Agamemnon . Zeus Amphiaraos . Zeus Trephonios or Trophonios . Zeus Asklepios . Zeus Meilichios . Zeus Philios . Addenda....
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1940. — xxx, 1300 p. "Volume III with its two Parts comprises the hird, and final, instalment of my work on Zeus: numero dues impare gaudet. Volume I was to deal with Zeus as god of the Bright Sky, Volume II with Zeus as god of the Dark Sky—an arrangement of essentials approved by the high authority of Otto Weinreich (Archiv f. Rel. 1937...
Brill, 1983. — 48 p. Sabazios (Ancient Greek: Σαβάζιος) is the horseman and sky father god of the Phrygians and Thracians. In Indo-European languages, such as Phrygian, the -zios element in his name derives from dyeus, the common precursor of Latin deus ('god') and Greek Zeus. Though the Greeks interpreted Phrygian Sabazios as both Zeus and Dionysus, representations of him, even...
Brill, 1985. — 119 p. Sabazios (Ancient Greek: Σαβάζιος) is the horseman and sky father god of the Phrygians and Thracians. In Indo-European languages, such as Phrygian, the -zios element in his name derives from dyeus, the common precursor of Latin deus ('god') and Greek Zeus. Though the Greeks interpreted Phrygian Sabazios as both Zeus and Dionysus, representations of him, even...
Brill, 1989. — 68 p. Sabazios (Ancient Greek: Σαβάζιος) is the horseman and sky father god of the Phrygians and Thracians. In Indo-European languages, such as Phrygian, the -zios element in his name derives from dyeus, the common precursor of Latin deus ('god') and Greek Zeus. Though the Greeks interpreted Phrygian Sabazios as both Zeus and Dionysus, representations of him, even...
Routledge, 2002. — 292 p. Mystery cults represent the spiritual attempts of the ancient Greeks to deal with their mortality. As these cults had to do with the individual’s inner self, privacy was paramount and was secured by an initiation ceremony, a personal ritual that established a close bond between the individual and the gods. Once initiated, the individual was liberated...
Routledge, 2002. — 292 p. Mystery cults represent the spiritual attempts of the ancient Greeks to deal with their mortality. As these cults had to do with the individual’s inner self, privacy was paramount and was secured by an initiation ceremony, a personal ritual that established a close bond between the individual and the gods. Once initiated, the individual was liberated...
Routledge, 2003. — 292 p. — ISBN: 0415248736. Written by an international team of acknowledged experts, this excellent book studies a wide range of contributions and showcases new research on the archaeology, ritual and history of Greek mystery cults. With a lack of written evidence that exists for the mysteries, archaeology has proved central to explaining their significance...
Global Grey, 2018. — 114 p. This is a study of star-worship collected from all available astrological and astronomical texts from antiquity. Cumont shows that astronomical knowledge was developed over time in the ancient Near East, eventually allowing prediction of phenomena such as the location of the planets, the phases of the moon, and eclipses. This knowledge was used as...
Global Grey, 2018. — 114 p. This is a study of star-worship collected from all available astrological and astronomical texts from antiquity. Cumont shows that astronomical knowledge was developed over time in the ancient Near East, eventually allowing prediction of phenomena such as the location of the planets, the phases of the moon, and eclipses. This knowledge was used as...
Global Grey, 2018. — 114 p. This is a study of star-worship collected from all available astrological and astronomical texts from antiquity. Cumont shows that astronomical knowledge was developed over time in the ancient Near East, eventually allowing prediction of phenomena such as the location of the planets, the phases of the moon, and eclipses. This knowledge was used as...
Routledge, 2010. — 176 p. — (Gods and Heroes of the Ancient World). Aphrodite explores the many myths and meanings of the Greek goddess of love, sex and beauty. One of the most widely worshipped and popular deities in Greek antiquity, Aphrodite emerges from the imaginations of the ancient Greek writers and artists as a multifaceted, powerful and charismatic figure. This volume...
Brill Academic Pub, 2001. — 475 p. Among ancient Greek deities, none has enjoyed as rich a life as Athena - goddess of war, wisdom and the arts - and she continues to fascinate and challenge today. This volume sheds light on the goddess more comprehensively than has previously been attempted. It brings together the latest research, centring on Greek and Roman religion,...
Gods and Heroes of the Ancient World Pages: 194 Publisher: Routledge (This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2008.) Quality: good: PDF A survey of one of the most enduringly popular of ancient deities, this book introduces Athena's myth, cult and reception, while directing the reader to a detailed discussion. It assesses the various representations and...
Routledge, 2003. — 448 p. It has often been thought that participation in fertility rituals was women's most important religious activity in classical Greece. Matthew Dillon's wide-ranging study makes it clear that women engaged in numerous other rites and cults, and that their role in Greek religion was actually more important than that of men. Women invoked the gods' help in...
Routledge, 2013. — 294 p. Scholars of classical history and literature have for more than a century accepted `initiation' as a tool for understanding a variety of obscure rituals and myths, ranging from the ancient Greek wedding and adolescent haircutting rituals to initiatory motifs or structures in Greek myth, comedy and tragedy. In this books an international group of...
Gods and Heroes of the Ancient World Pages: 177 Publisher: Routledge (This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2005.) Quality: good: PDF Myths and legends of this rebellious god, who defied Zeus to steal fire for mankind, thrive in art and literature from ancient Greece to the present day. Prometheus' gifts to mortals of the raw materials of culture and...
Oxford University Press, 2001. — 256 p. The Raft of Odysseus looks at the fascinating intersection of traditional myth with an enthnographically-viewed Homeric world. Carol Dougherty argues that the resourcefulness of Odysseus as an adventurer on perilous seas served as an example to Homer's society which also had to adjust in inventive ways to turbulent conditions. The...
Princeton, Princeton University Press, 2019. — XVIII, 482 p. What did magic mean to the people of ancient Greece and Rome? How did Greeks and Romans not only imagine what magic could do, but also use it to try to influence the world around them? In Drawing Down the Moon, Radcliffe Edmonds, one of the foremost experts on magic, religion, and the occult in the ancient world,...
Gods and Heroes of the Ancient World Pages: 201 Publisher: Routledge (This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2006.) Quality: good: PDF An guide to the myth of Oedipus this book is the first to analyze its long and varied history from ancient times to the modern day, and presented with an authoritative survey that considers Oedipus in art and music as well as...
Oxford University Press, 2015. - 2057 p. This handbook sets out to offer both students and teachers of ancient Greek religion a comprehensive overview of the current state of the field. It aims both to present key information about the subject, and to explore the ways in which this information is gathered, and the different approaches that have shaped the subject. Overall, we...
Oxford University Press, 2015. — 730 p. — ISBN: 978–0–19–964203–8. This handbook offers both students and teachers of ancient Greek religion a comprehensive overview of the current state of scholarship on ancient Greek religion from the Archaic, Classical, and Hellenistic periods. Each chapter provides not only key information about its subject but also reflection on the...
Cambridge University Press, 2016. — 438 p. Studied for many years by scholars with Christianising assumptions, Greek religion has often been said to be quite unlike Christianity: a matter of particular actions (orthopraxy), rather than particular beliefs (orthodoxies). This volume dares to think that, both in and through religious practices and in and through religious thought...
Oxford University Press, 2007. — 534 p. In this book, question tablets from the Oracle at Dodona are set side-by-side with curse tablets (katadesmoi or defixiones) from across the Ancient Greek world (for the period 6th-1st centuries BCE). It explores what these texts reveal about perceptions of and responses to the uncertain future, and the nature of risk among ordinary Greek...
Brill Academic Pub, 2004. — 449 p. — (Supplements to Novum Testamentum 111).
This well-researched and inspiring collection of ten essays by leading American and European scholars challenges the tendency among scholars of Greek religion to ignore what have traditionally been called "magical" practices in ancient Greece. Disputing the preconceived notion that a clear dichotomy...
Routledge, Kegan and Paul, 1989. — 280 p. First published in 1989, Among the Gods uses archaeological evidence to explore ancient Greek religion. The book analyses cult-statues and inscriptions to provide a detailed discussion of gods and goddesses, the priesthood, and healing sanctuaries. In doing so, it highlights the external, formal nature of religious practice in ancient...
Routledge, 2023. — 218 p. This fresh, comprehensive study of ancient Greek atheism aims to dismantle the current consensus that atheism was ‘unthinkable’ in ancient Greece, demonstrating instead that atheism was not only thinkable but inextricably embedded in the Greek religious environment. Through careful analysis of a wide range of source material provided in modern English...
Routledge, 2023. — 218 p. This fresh, comprehensive study of ancient Greek atheism aims to dismantle the current consensus that atheism was ‘unthinkable’ in ancient Greece, demonstrating instead that atheism was not only thinkable but inextricably embedded in the Greek religious environment. Through careful analysis of a wide range of source material provided in modern English...
Cornell University Press, 2001. — 198 p. Surveying funerary rites and attitudes toward death from the time of Homer to the fourth century B.C., Robert Garland seeks to show what the ordinary Greek felt about death and the dead. The Second Edition features a substantial new prefatory essay in which Garland addresses recent questions and debates about death and the early Greeks....
Turnhout: Brepols Publishers, 2010. — 208 p. — (Recherches sur les Rhétoriques Religieuses 11). This volume presents a collection of papers given at the 16th Conference of the International Society for the History of Rhetoric (Strasbourg, 24-28 July 2007), two sessions of which were dedicated to Ancient Greek prayer. As a discourse addressed to the divinity, prayer raises the...
Routledge, 2007. — 257 p.
Fascinating texts written on small gold tablets that were deposited in graves provide a unique source of information about what some Greeks and Romans believed regarding the fate that awaited them after death, and how they could influence it. These texts, dating from the late fifth century BCE to the second century CE, have been part of the scholarly...
Gods and Heroes of the Ancient World Pages: 179 Publisher: Routledge (This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2008.) Quality: good: PDF From his first attestations in Homer, to the opposition between Apollo and Dionysos in nineteenth- and twentieth-century thinking, Graf examines Greek religion and myth to provide a full account of Apollo in the ancient world....
Bicester, Oxfordshire: Archaeopress, 2024. — 292 p. This book re-examines the Greek Dioskouroi, Kastor and Polydeukes, exploring their roles in image, myth, and cult. Case studies focus on their homelands in myth – Sparta, Messene, and Argos – and areas where Greek mariners sought their protection. Findings suggest that, for the Greeks, the term ‘Dioskouroi’ may have held a...
Routledge, 2006. — 147 p. — (Gods and Heroes of the Ancient World). 'Medea' is a comprehensive guide to sources that paint a vivid portrait of the Greek sorceress famed in myth for the murder of her children after she is banished from her home and replaced by a new wife. Abstract: Paints a vivid portrait of the Greek sorceress Medea, famed in myth for the murder of her...
London: Macmillan and Сo., Limited, 1913. — XVI, 312 p. As it stands the essay is limited to the principles and the origins of the methods of divination practised in ancient Greece. It does not attempt to deal with oracles, though it has something to say of the methods practised at oracular shrines. It is primarily an analysis of method rather than an historical account, and...
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1912. – xxxii, 560 p. Drawing upon a range of disciplines including anthropology, classical studies, archaeology and psychology, Jane Ellen Harrison (1850-1928) seminal 1912 work Themis pieces together the origins of early Greek religion... This revolutionary study (by S. Hyman's definition) traces Themis back through history, as a...
Oxford University Press, 2002. — 332 p. Critics of Herodotus have generally shown unease in the face of the religious passages of the Histories , a sense that he ‘lets himself down’ by delving into matters irrelevant to the proper purpose of history. They have tended consequently to latch on to isolated instances of scepticism in an attempt to vindicate Herodotus from imagined...
Edited by Harvey Yunis — De Gruyter, 2019. — 634 p. This volume contains the collected papers of Albert Henrichs on numerous subjects in ancient Greek myth and religion. What was ancient Greek religion really like? What is the reality of belief and action that lies behind the unwieldy sources, which stem from vast areas and epochs of the ancient world? What is the meaning,...
De Gruyter, 2011. — 472 p. — (Sozomena 10). 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...
Cambridge University Press, 2017. — 340 p. This volume brings together studies on Greek animal sacrifice by foremost experts in Greek language, literature and material culture. Readers will benefit from the synthesis of new evidence and approaches with a re-evaluation of twentieth-century theories on sacrifice. The chapters range across the whole of antiquity and go beyond the...
Franz Steiner Verlag, 2009. — 219 p. Welche Bedeutung besitzt ein antiker Mythos in der (Post-) Moderne? Spuren der Erzählung vom tragischen Himmelsstürmer Phaëthon reichen bis in die Archaik der Griechen zurück. Der Mythos wurde breit in Literatur und Kunst aufgenommen und fand seinen Weg in die Geschichte der Mobilität: Phaëthon hießen im 18. Jahrhundert elegante...
Brill Academic Pub, 2002. — 242 p. — (Religions in the Graeco-Roman World 142). A collection of papers with new insights on ancient religion, read at a colloquium in honour of Professor H.S. Versnel ("Inconsistencies in Greek and Roman Religion"). The contributions, presented by nine leading scholars in the field, cover many areas of the religious experience of the Greeks and...
The Ohio State University, 2018. — 235 p. In this dissertation I explore the association of Herakles and Dionysos in archaic Greece as reflected both in the epic poetry attributed to Homer and Hesiod and also in Athenian black-figure pottery.In Homer, Herakles functions as one of the greatest heroes of the past to whose example Homeric heroes turn, and Achilles in the Iliad and...
Oxford University Press, 2004. — 400 p. The Strangeness of Gods combines studies of changes in modern interpretations of Greek religion with studies of changes in Athenian ritual. The combination is necessary in order to combat influential stereotypes: that Greek religion consisted of ritual without theological speculation, that ritual is inherently conservative. To re-examine the...
Brill Academic Publishers, 2007. — 383 p. — (Religions in the Graeco-Roman World 160).
For the Greek, Dionysos was a very important god: for individuals as well as for the community as a whole. As there are only a few written sources dating from before the 5th Century BC the many images of Dionysos on Greek vases may well offer a genuine approach to the meaning given by the...
Brill Academic Publishers, 2015. — 290 p. — (Religions in the Graeco-Roman World 181). Dionysos, with his following of satyrs and women, was a major theme in a big part of the figure painted pottery in 500-300 B.C. Athens. As an original testimonial of their time, the imagery on these vases convey what this god meant to his worshippers. It becomes clear that - contrary to what...
Wiley-Blackwell, 2008. — 205 p. The first English-language survey of ancient Greek divinatory methods, Ancient Greek Divination offers a broad yet detailed treatment of the earliest attempts by ancient Greeks to seek the counsel of the gods. Offers in-depth discussions of oracles, wandering diviners, do-it-yourself methods of foretelling the future, magical divinatory...
Brill Academic Publishers, 2008. — 415 p. — (Religions in the Graeco-Roman World 164).
A 'Near Eastern religion', along the lines of 'Greek religion' or 'Roman religion', is hard to distinguish for the Classical period, since the religious cultures of the many cities, villages and regions that constituted the Near East in the Hellenistic and Roman periods were, despite some...
Frankfurt am Main–Bern–New York–Paris: Peter Lang, 1991. — 287 S. — ISBN 3631419880. Die vorliegende Arbeit beschreibt den Wandel des Bildes der Athena in der Zeit der attischen Demokratie und zeigt die Göttin als Trägerin von Wertvorstellungen des klassischen Athen. Bewußt werden die auf staatliche Repräsentanz angelegten Züge in ihrem Bild in den Vordergrund gerückt....
Routledge, 2021. — 270 p. Cave and Worship in Ancient Greece brings together a series of stimulating chapters contributing to the archaeology and our modern understanding of the character and importance of cave sanctuaries in the fi rst millennium BCE Mediterranean. Written by emerging and established archaeologists and researchers, the book employs a fascinating and wide range...
Routledge, 2021. — 270 p. Cave and Worship in Ancient Greece brings together a series of stimulating chapters contributing to the archaeology and our modern understanding of the character and importance of cave sanctuaries in the fi rst millennium BCE Mediterranean. Written by emerging and established archaeologists and researchers, the book employs a fascinating and wide range...
Wiley, 2010. — 384 p. Ancient Greek Religion: Historical Sources in Translation presents a wide range of documents relating to the religious world of the ancient Greeks from the earliest surviving literature to around the end of the fourth century BCE. Presents a wide range of documents relating to the religious world of the ancient Greeks, from the earliest surviving...
Leiden: Brill, 1972. — 167 p. — (Numen Book Series 20). Mit diesem Buch mochte ich einen Schritt zur Darstellung der griechischen Religion als Religion tun. Eine Lucke in unserer Kenntnis der Religionsgeschichte Europas soll gefüllt werden. Religionsgeschichte ist die Geschichte einer Korrelation, die zwischen dem Menschen und von ihm verehrten Wesen besteht. Die Korrelation...
Routledge, 2020. — 320 p. This book provides the first systematic study of the role of animals in different areas of the ancient Greek religious experience, including in myth and ritual, the literary and the material evidence, the real and the imaginary. An international team of renowned contributors shows that animals had a sustained presence not only in the traditionally...
Routledge, 2020. — 320 p. This book provides the first systematic study of the role of animals in different areas of the ancient Greek religious experience, including in myth and ritual, the literary and the material evidence, the real and the imaginary. An international team of renowned contributors shows that animals had a sustained presence not only in the traditionally...
Cambridge University Press. 2012. — 250 p. Who marched in religious processions and why? How were blood sacrifice and communal feasting related to identities in the ancient Greek city? With questions such as these, current scholarship aims to demonstrate the ways in which religion maps on to the socio-political structures of the Greek polis ('polis religion'). In this book Dr...
Franz Steiner Verlag, 2004. — 204 S. — (Palingenesia 84). Die Mysterien von Eleusis (neben Olympia und Delphi das wichtigste religiöse Zentrum Griechenlands) ziehen seit ältester Zeit die Menschen in ihren Bann. Die Göttinnen Demeter und Kore, denen der Kult galt, wurden jedoch nicht nur in Eleusis, sondern auch in Athen und ganz Attika, ja in ganz Griechenland verehrt. Ihrer...
Oxford University Press, 2016. — 384 p. The nineteenth century is a key period in the history of the interpretation of the Greek gods. The Greek Gods in Modern Scholarship examines how German and British scholars of the time drew on philology, archaeology, comparative mythology, anthropology, or sociology to advance radically different theories on the Greek gods and their...
Moon Books, 2022. — 128 p. The Temple Priestesses of Antiquity tells the story of the Oracles and Sibyls, Seers, Psychics, Sacred Dancers and Healers of ancient civilizations. They were empowered women who enthralled those who sought their advice and served the Goddess they revered. Tales about ancient Priestesses and the Sacred Temples where they lived, prayed and worked...
Leiden/Boston/Köln: Brill, 2002. – 226 p. – (Religions in the Graeco-Roman World 149) This volume deals with the figure of Attis. The work aims to reconsider the mythical and cultic information about this character, trying to provide proof of the processes of "construction" and "reconstruction" that have contributed to the moulding of the different forms of Attis that developed as...
Brill Academic Publishers, 1996. — 456 p. — (Religions in the Graeco-Roman World 131). This volume brings together articles on the cult of the mother-goddess Cybele and her consort Attis, from the emergence of the religion in Anatolia through its expansion into Greece and Italy to the latest times of the Roman Empire and its farthest extent west, the Iberian Peninsula. It...
Routledge, 2007. — 305 pp. — ISBN: 0-203-35698-5. Using archaeological, epigraphic, and literary sources; and incorporating current scholarly theories, this volume will serve as an excellent companion to any introduction to Greek mythology, showing a side of the Greek gods to which most students are rarely exposed. Detailed enough to be used as a quick reference tool or text,...
Routledge, 2016. — 430 p. Understanding Greek Religion is one of the first attempts to fully examine any religion from a cognitivist perspective, applying methods and findings from the cognitive science of religion to the ancient Greek world. In this book, Jennifer Larson shows that many of the fundamentals of Greek religion, such as anthropomorphic gods, divinatory procedures,...
Routledge, 2016. — 430 p. Understanding Greek Religion is one of the first attempts to fully examine any religion from a cognitivist perspective, applying methods and findings from the cognitive science of religion to the ancient Greek world. In this book, Jennifer Larson shows that many of the fundamentals of Greek religion, such as anthropomorphic gods, divinatory procedures,...
De Gruyter, 2021. — 328 p. While modern students of Greek religion are alert to the occasion-boundedness of epiphanies and divinatory dreams in Greek polytheism, they are curiously indifferent to the generic parameters of the relevant textual representations on which they build their argument. Instead, generic questions are normally left to the literary critic, who in turn is...
Walter de Gruyter, 2021. — 328 p. While modern students of Greek religion are alert to the occasion-boundedness of epiphanies and divinatory dreams in Greek polytheism, they are curiously indifferent to the generic parameters of the relevant textual representations on which they build their argument. Instead, generic questions are normally left to the literary critic, who in...
The Classical Press of Wales, 1997. — 194 p. Eleven papers on aspects of Greek religion from Minoans to the classical world. Striking similarities are revealed between religious ideas in Greece and non-Greek Asia. There are special studies of Apollo, Athena, and Dionysiac religion and new patterns are identified in the archaic and classical thought of Heraclitus, Herodotus and...
2nd Edition with a Postscript. — Brill Academic Publishers, 2009. — 537 p. — (Religions in the Graeco-Roman World 152). This work contains two parts. Part I constitutes a guide to the corpus of Greek sacred law and its contents. A discussion of the history of the corpus and the principles governing its composition is followed by a detailed review of its contents, in which the...
University of South Carolina Press, 1993. — 410 p.
Comprehensive study of Minoan religion combining archaeological evidence and iconography with theories derived from the anthropology of religion, art history, structuralism, and the social sciences, this new synthesis interprets ritual as an integral part of social organization, hierarchy of power, and religious belief.
University of South Carolina Press, 1993. — 310 p. — ISBN: 9780872497443, 0872497445. Comprehensive study of Minoan religion combining archaeological evidence and iconography with theories derived from the anthropology of religion, art history, structuralism, and the social sciences, this new synthesis interprets ritual as an integral part of social organization, hierarchy of...
Routledge, 2000. — 170 p. Naked Goddesses can take on various forms: mistresses of animals, seductresses, fertility figures, even monsters. Nudity, however, has a consistent message: power. This book explores the power of naked females in the art of the Levant and Early Greece, tracing the path and transformation of these magical symbols from their place of origin to Crete and...
Routledge, 2000. — 180 p. Naked Goddesses can take on various forms: mistresses of animals, seductresses, fertility figures, even monsters. Nudity, however, has a consistent message: power. This book explores the power of naked females in the art of the Levant and Early Greece, tracing the path and transformation of these magical symbols from their place of origin to Crete and...
Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2016. — 347 pp. — (Religions in the Graeco-Roman World; Vol. 183). — ISBN: 978-90-04-31918-9. Jon D. Mikalson offers for classical and Hellenistic Athens a study of the terminology and contexts of praises of religious actions and artefacts and an investigation of the various authorities in religious activities. The terms of approbation apply to priests,...
University of California Press, 1998. — 376 p. — (Hellenistic culture and society 29). Until now, there has been no comprehensive study of religion in Athens from the end of the classical period to the time of Rome's domination of the city. Jon D. Mikalson provides a chronological approach to religion in Hellenistic Athens, disproving the widely held belief that Hellenistic...
3rd Edition. — Wiley-Blackwell, 2021. — 312 p. Ancient Greek Religion offers a detailed yet accessible introduction to the beliefs, myths, rituals, and deities of Greek religion. Author Jon D. Mikalson provides a vivid depiction of Greek religious practice in Athens, Delphi, and Olympia during the Classical period and in select other cities during the Hellenistic period. This...
Brill Academic Publishers, 2001. — 374 p. — (Religions in the Graeco-Roman World 143 ).
The book is a study of the Orphic Hymns, a collection of 87 Greek texts in hexameter addressed to various deities. These hymns are closely related to one another and seem to originate in Asia Minor during the first centuries of the Christian era. The great originality of this corpus is that...
Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1925. — 276 p. In this book the eminent classical scholar Gilbert Murray (1866-1957) details the evolution of Greek religion, from a cycle of festivals devoted to the principal Olympian Gods, through the Homeric hymns, Hellenistic philosophy including Platonism and Gnosticism. Murray traces elements through centuries of Greek spirituality which...
New York: Oxford University Press, 2013. — 448 p. — ISBN: 978-0-19-991640-5. Animal sacrifice has been critical to the study of ancient Mediterranean religions since the nineteenth century. Recently, two theories have dominated the subject of sacrifice: the psychological and ethological approach of Walter Burkert and the sociological and cultural approach of Jean-Pierre Vernant...
Reprinted. — Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1952. — 316 p. This book outlines the history of ancient Greek religion. The following subjects are covered: Minoan-Mycenaean religion and its survival in Greek religion; Origins of Greek mythology; Primitive belief and ritual; Gods of nature and of human life; The Homeric anthropomorphism and rationalism; Legalism and mysticism;...
Lund: Berlingska boktryckeriet, 1927. — xxiii, 590 p. Preface. List of Plates and Text Illustratjons. Addenda et Corrigenda . The Minoan - Mycenaean religion according to the Monuments . Nature Sanctuaries. House Sanctuaries. Altars, Tables of Offering, and Sacral Vessels. Sacral Dress. The Horns of Consecration and the Facade of the Minoan Shrines. The Double Axe. Animal...
Bd. I. 2. Aufl. — München: Beck, 1955; Bd. II. 1950. — XXIV, 872 SS.; XXIV, 716 SS. — (Handbuch der Altertumswissenschaft V.II.1) Основной труд по греческой религии, остается непревзойденным.
Wiley-Blackwell, 2007. — 521 p.
This major addition to Blackwell’s Companions to the Ancient World series covers all aspects of religion in the ancient Greek world from the archaic, through the classical and into the Hellenistic period. Written by a panel of international experts Focuses on religious life as it was experienced by Greek men and women at different times and in...
Routledge, 2008. — 219 p. — (Gods and Heroes of the Ancient World). — ISBN 0-203-93213-7. The son of Zeus, Perseus belongs in the first rank of Greek heroes. Indeed to some he was a greater hero even than Heracles. With the help of Hermes and Athena he slew the Gorgon Medusa, conquered a mighty sea monster and won the hand of the beautiful princess Andromeda. This volume tells...
London: Thames and Hudson, 1954. — viii, 310 p. Walter F. Otto (1874 – 1958) was a professor of classical philology at the University of Frankfurt. His book "The Homeric Gods: The Spiritual Meaning of the Greek Religion" ( German : Die Götter Griechenlands. Das Bild des Göttlichen im Spiegel des griechischen Geistes ) was published in 1929. The main thesis of this book is that...
Translated with an Introduction by Robert B. Palmer. Indiana University Press, 1965. — 288 p. It would be idle to deny that the scholarship devoted to the history of religions has escaped the effect of the gradual disappearance of this vision. To be sure, the first religions to be affected were the "nature" religions of primitive society which existed without a dogma of...
Adelphi, 2016. — 343 p. Appassionante ricostruzione dell'universo religioso greco, questo lavoro avvicina il lettore alle figure della religione olimpica attraverso un duplice percorso: analizza da un lato il sostrato culturale dei dodici dei olimpici, dall'altro li presenta come esseri che, grazie alle loro divine epifanie, vivono una vita inesauribile. Raccontati in uno stile...
Clarendon Press, 1997. — 370 p. This book is an attempt to take seriously the cliche that Greek religion is an eminently social phenomenon. It differs from Histories of Greek Religion by focusing on a particular Greek city with particular social structures. It treats a much broader range of phenomena than do books on "Athenian festivals". It seeks to bridge the gap that usually...
University of California Press, 2017. — 272 p. — ISBN: 978-0-520-29394-6, 978-0-520-96725-0. From even before the time of Alexander the Great, the Greek gods spread throughout the Mediterranean, carried by settlers and largely adopted by the indigenous populations. By the third century b.c., gods bearing Greek names were worshipped everywhere from Spain to Afghanistan, with the...
University of California Press, 2017. — 272 p. — ISBN 978-0-520-29394-6, 978-0-520-96725-0. From even before the time of Alexander the Great, the Greek gods spread throughout the Mediterranean, carried by settlers and largely adopted by the indigenous populations. By the third century b.c., gods bearing Greek names were worshipped everywhere from Spain to Afghanistan, with the...
Clarendon Press, 1996. — 432 p. Anyone who has sampled even a few of the most commonly read Greek texts will have encountered pollution. The pollution of bloodshed is a frequent theme of tragedy: Orestes is driven mad; Oedipus brings plague upon all Thebes. In historical texts we find cities intervening in the internalaffairs of others to `drive out the pollution', or making war...
Cornell University Press, 2011. — 328 p. In On Greek Religion , Robert Parker offers a provocative and wide-ranging entrée into the world of ancient Greek religion, focusing especially on the interpretive challenge of studying a religious system that in many ways remains desperately alien from the vantage point of the twenty-first century. One of the world's leading authorities...
Oxford University Press, 2005. — 576 p. This book is the first attempt that has ever been made to give a comprehensive account of the religious life of ancient Athens. The city's many festivals are discussed in detail, with attention to recent anthropological theory; so too, for instance, are the cults of households and of smaller groups, the role of religious practice and...
Oxford University Press, 2016. — 368 p. Was Ancient Greek religion really "mere ritualism?" Early Christians denounced the pagans for the disorderly plurality of their cults, and reduced Greek religion to ritual and idolatry; Protestant theologians condemned the pagan "religion of form" (with Catholicism as its historical heir). For a long time, scholars tended to conceptualize...
Edizioni Università di Macerata, 2017. — 206 p. Travelling to oracular sanctuaries was one of the main motivations for long-distance movements in antiquity. Located on the fringes of the Greek world, the oracular sanctuary of Zeus at Dodona attracted visitors from the Early Iron Age, but only from the mid-7th century BC onwards did its catchment area expand far beyond the...
Cambridge University Press, 2022. — 348 p. The goddess Hera is represented in mythology as an irascible wife and imperfect mother in the face of a frivolous Zeus. Beginning with the Iliad, many narrative traditions depict her wrath, the infidelities of her royal husband and the persecutions to which she subjects his illegitimate offspring. But how to relate this image to the...
Cambridge University Press, 2022. — 348 p. The goddess Hera is represented in mythology as an irascible wife and imperfect mother in the face of a frivolous Zeus. Beginning with the Iliad, many narrative traditions depict her wrath, the infidelities of her royal husband and the persecutions to which she subjects his illegitimate offspring. But how to relate this image to the...
Brill Academic Pub, 2013. — 690 p. — (Religions in the Graeco-Roman World 178). 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). It rests on a thorough first-hand reconsideration of the archaeological, epigraphic and literary evidence. The...
Routledge, 2024. — 166 p. Seers, Shrines and Siren s (1965) surveys the history of Greek religion during the great formative and revolutionary era of the sixth century BC. It treats, among other subjects, the rise to prominence of the Delphic Oracle, the growth of religious festivals and mysteries, the worship of Dionysus, including the development of the drama and appearance...
Routledge, 2024. — 166 p. Seers, Shrines and Siren s (1965) surveys the history of Greek religion during the great formative and revolutionary era of the sixth century BC. It treats, among other subjects, the rise to prominence of the Delphic Oracle, the growth of religious festivals and mysteries, the worship of Dionysus, including the development of the drama and appearance...
Brill Academic Pub, 2005. — 737 p. — (Religions in the Graeco-Roman World 154). — ISBN10: 9004142363; ISBN13: 9789004142367. This volume documents the development of Cretan sanctuaries and associated cults from the end of the Late Bronze Age into the Archaic Period (c.1200–600 BC). The book supplies up-to-date site catalogues and discusses recurring types of sanctuaries, the...
Cambridge University Press, 1999. — 230 p. This is a book about the religious life of the Greeks from archaic times to the fifth century AD, looked at in the context of a variety of different cities and periods. Simon Price examines local practices and concepts in the light of general Greek ideas, relating them to such issues as gender roles, political life, and the trial of...
Routledge, 2023. — 226 p. Employing frameworks of lived religion and materiality, this book provides the first full-length study of personal religious experience in the Greek Archaic and Classical periods. Rask analyzes archeological, epigraphic, and textual evidence to highlight the role of individuals as vital actors and makers of Greek religion. A range of perspectives, such...
Routledge, 2020. — 184 p. This volume presents a case for how and why people in archaic and classical Greece worshipped Underworld gods. These gods are often portrayed as malevolent and transgressive, giving an impression that ancient worshippers derived little or no benefit from developing ongoing relationships with them. In this book, the first book-length study that focuses...
Routledge, 2020. — 184 p. This volume presents a case for how and why people in archaic and classical Greece worshipped Underworld gods. These gods are often portrayed as malevolent and transgressive, giving an impression that ancient worshippers derived little or no benefit from developing ongoing relationships with them. In this book, the first book-length study that focuses...
Oxford University Press, 2010. — 427 p. — (American Classical Studies 54).
Two Greek cities which in their time were leading states in the Mediterranean world, Selinus in Sicily and Cyrene in Libya, set up inscriptions of the kind called sacred laws, but regulating worship on a larger scale than elsewhere - Selinus in the mid fifth century B.C., Cyrene in the late fourth. In...
London, 1925. — 626 p.
"This book offers an account of the opinions held by the Greeks about the life of the human soul after death, and is thus intended as a contribution to the history of Greek religion".
Part I
Beliefs about the Soul and Cult of Souls in Homeric Poems
Islands of the Blest
Cave Deities. Subterranean
Heroes
The Cult of Souls
The Eleusinian Mysteries...
Brill Academic Publishers, 2001. — 186 p. — (Religions in the Graeco-Roman World 139 ).
This book addresses cult and religion in the city of Corinth from the 4th to 7th centuries of our era. The work incorporates and synthesizes all available evidence, literary, archaeological and other. The interaction and conflict between Christian and non-Christian activity is placed into...
Oxford University Press, 2020. — 416 p. Our knowledge of ancient Greece has been transformed in the last century by an increased understanding of the cultures of the Ancient Near East. This is particularly true of ancient religion. This book looks at the relationship between the religious systems of Ancient Greece and the Hittites, who controlled Turkey in the Late Bronze Age...
Oxford University Press, 2020. — 416 p. Our knowledge of ancient Greece has been transformed in the last century by an increased understanding of the cultures of the Ancient Near East. This is particularly true of ancient religion. This book looks at the relationship between the religious systems of Ancient Greece and the Hittites, who controlled Turkey in the Late Bronze Age...
Walter De Gruyter, 2011. — 754 p. Within modern frameworks of knowledge and representation, Dionysos often appears to be atypical for ancient culture, an exception within the context of ancient polytheism, or even an instance of a difference that anticipates modernism. How can recent research contribute to a more precise understanding of the diverse transformations of the ancient...
Leiden - Boston: Brill, 2009. — 309 p. — (Religions in the Graeco-Roman World 169). A proper understanding of the words and and the context in which they occur is fundamental to the study of Greek religion. This volume seeks to make a significant portion of the source material available to present-day students of religions in the Graeco-Roman world. The ancient texts are...
Gods and Heroes of the Ancient World Pages: 177 Publisher: Routledge (This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2006.) Quality: good: PDF Dionysos is one of the most-studied ancient Greek gods for students and academics. He is popularly known as the god of wine and frenzied abandon, and has great significance for theatre - drama, in fact, originated as part of...
Translated by Jakob Zeyl, edited by Alan Shapiro with a foreword by Fritz Graf — University of Wisconsin Press, 2021. — 440 p. Originally published fifty years ago, The Gods of the Greeks has remained an enduring work. Influential scholar Erika Simon was one of the first to emphasize the importance of analyzing visual culture alongside literature to better understand how...
Leipzig: Druck und Verlag von B. G. Teubner, 1890. — 405 S. Vorrede. Begriff und Quellen der Gestikulation. Ausdruck von Gefühlen und Gemütsbewegungen. Der Beifall. Totenklage. Konventionelle Begrüßung. Symbolische Gebärden. Deisidämonie. Rechtssymbolik. Ehrerbietung. Gebärden des Gebetes. Schauspieler und Redner. Zeichensprache. Tanz und Pantomimus. Fingerrechnen. Die Gebärden...
Würzburg: Commisionsverlag der Stahelschen Verlagsanstalt, 1898. — 54 S. Dionysisches Treiben und Dichten. Verzeichnis der Abkürzungen. Der Weingott im Familien- und Fremdeskreise. Dionysisches Festleben. Anhänge: Dionysosbilder. Schematische Bilder. Glossar.
Brill, 2010. — 471 p. — (Brill's Companions to Classical Studies). Brill's Companion to Aphrodite brings together an international and multidisciplinary team of experts in the study of Aphrodite—one of the best known, yet ambiguous and complex Graeco-Roman deities. The contributions, which reevaluate conventional approaches to this remarkable goddess, are thematically grouped...
(Соколовский Фр. Сакральные законы Малой Азии). — École Française d'Athènes, 1955. — 213 p.
Монография состоит из ряда очерков, посвящённых рассмотрению такой категории источников, как сакральные законы региона Малой Азии.
Paris: de Boccard, 1969. — x, 369 p. — (Ecole française d'Athènes, Travaux et mémoires 18). Edition of sacred laws from various Ancient Greek city-states with rich epigraphic, religious and historical commentary.
Routledge, 2012. — 302 p. — (Gods and Heroes of the Ancient World).
There is more material available on Herakles than any other Greek god or hero. His story has many more episodes than those of other heroes, concerning his life and death as well as his battles with myriad monsters and other opponents. In literature, he appears in our earliest Greek epic and lyric poetry, is...
Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2012. — 392 p. — (Potsdamer altertumswissenschaftliche Beiträge 39). Mythen von Geburt und Kindheitstaten der Götter und Heroen sind sowohl in der literarischen Überlieferung als auch in der Bilderwelt des antiken Griechenland präsent. Michaela Stark betrachtet das momentan in der Forschung intensiv diskutierte Thema "Kindheit" von einem neuen...
Archaeopress, 2023. — 338 p. This volume publishes the proceedings of the conference of the same name, held in Rhodes in October 2018. Contributions draw on archaeological and literary sources to explore both the development and continuity of cults in the Dodecanese, from the Early Iron Age through to the 1st century BC. Religion and cult in the Dodecanese during the 1st...
Brill Academic Publishers, 1995. — 465 p. — (Religions in the Graeco-Roman World 127 ).
This text presents a collection, analysis and interpretation of the representations of animal sacrifice from ancient Greece. Whilst Archaic and Classical material is dealt with comprehensively, later evidence is adduced more selectively for the sake of comparison. Based on a combined study...
Oxford University Press, 2014. — 400 p. - Provides the first in-depth analysis of the Greek concept of soteria - Draws on recent paradigms in the study of Greek polytheism, and exploits a wide range of epigraphic, literary, and material evidence - Compares the Greek phenomenon of soteria with that in Christianity From the Archaic to the Roman imperial period, an impressive...
Oxford University Press, 2014. — 400 p. Sharing with the Gods examines one of the most ubiquitous yet little studied aspects of ancient Greek religion, the offering of so-called "first-fruits" (aparchai) and "tithes" (dekatai), from the Archaic period to the Hellenistic. While most existing studies of Greek religion tend to focus on ritual performance, this volume investigates...
New York: J. W. Bouton, S. West, 1891. — 148 p. This is Thomas Taylor's brilliant inquiry into the mysteries that were central to religious life and society of ancient Greece and even Rome. The inner teachings of these Mediterranean mystery religions were lost with the ascent of Christianity, but Taylor found the skeleton key to unlock their secrets and give us insight into what...
De Gruyter, 2023. — 270 p. — (Untersuchungen zur antiken Literatur und Geschichte 155). Despite the relevance of astrology in Graeco-Roman mentality, our information about the early period of Hellenistic astrology is marred by the scarcity of original sources. Personal astrology did not take off until the late Hellenistic period, due to the more substantial Hellenization of...
Brill Academic Publishers, 1998. — 384 p. — (Religions in the Graeco-Roman World 135). This is the first systematic study of the cults of the Bosporan Kingdom, which existed in South Russia in the first centuries AD. The research is based on a variety of sources: archaeological evidence and inscriptions, largely unknown to the non-Russian readers, as well as historical and...
Brill Academic Publishers, 1996. — 465 p. — (Religions in the Graeco-Roman World 127). This text presents a collection, analysis and interpretation of the representations of animal sacrifice from ancient Greece. Whilst Archaic and Classical material is dealt with comprehensively, later evidence is adduced more selectively for the sake of comparison. Based on a combined study of...
California State University, Long Beach, 2015. — 146. The Orphic myth in the Pseudo-Clementines has attracted the attention of scholars attempting to decipher the evolution of the myth. Between the two versions of the Pseudo-Clementines, the Klementia (also known as the Homilies) and the Recognition, the majority of scholars have determined that the Homilies preserve the oldest...
Archaeopress, 2019. — 188 p. This volume features a group of select peer-reviewed papers by an international group of authors, both younger and senior academics and researchers. It has its origins in a conference held at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, which aimed to bring up the frequently-neglected popular cult and other ritual practices in prehistoric and...
Archaeopress, 2019. — 188 p. This volume features a group of select peer-reviewed papers by an international group of authors, both younger and senior academics and researchers. It has its origins in a conference held at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, which aimed to bring up the frequently-neglected popular cult and other ritual practices in prehistoric and...
Paris: Édition du Seuil, 1990. — 127 p. — ISBN 2-02-010489-X. Французский антиковед и антрополог Жан-Пьер Вернан (1914 – 2007) умел кратко, общедоступно, и вместе с тем академически емко излагать результаты своих исследований. Так, его небольшая книга «Происхождение древнегреческой мысли» (1962, русский перевод – 1988) стала научным бестселлером, - как и эта книга, посвященная...
Brill, 2011. — 608 p. — (Religions in the Graeco-Roman World 173). Inspired by a critical reconsideration of current monolithic approaches to the study of Greek religion, this book argues that ancient Greeks displayed a disquieting capacity to validate two (or more) dissonant, if not contradictory, representations of the divine world in a complementary rather than mutually...
Brill Academic Pub, 2011. — 609 p. — (Religions in the Graeco-Roman World 173).
Inspired by a critical reconsideration of current monolithic approaches to the study of Greek religion, this book argues that ancient Greeks displayed a disquieting capacity to validate two (or more) dissonant, if not contradictory, representations of the divine world in a complementary rather than...
Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2000. — 291 S. — (Religionsgeschichtliche Versuche und Vorarbeiten 46). The author examines a group of myths and festivals in ancient Greek religion in which the motifs of the exchange of gender roles and sexual transformation play a central role. The application of present-day theories from the realm of religious studies, and of the results of...
Berlin: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 1959. The last book of the scholar, wherein, In his words, 'he makes an attempt to follow the emergence, the changes and the passing from the faith into the myth and the disappearance of this belief, while the cult remains, through the centuries to the gods of the Hellenes, but only to these."
Cambridge University Press, 2023. — 350 p. This volume examines the phenomena of ancient Greek prophecy and divination. With contributions from a distinguished, international cast of scholars, it offers fresh perspectives and interpretations of key aspects of these practices. Considering issues such as comparativism, ethnography, cognitive function, orality, and...
Cambridge University Press, 1992. — 306 p. This book is a translation into English of La religion grecque by Louise Bruit Zaidman and Pauline Schmitt Pantel, described by Dr Simon Price as 'an excellent book, by far the best introduction to the subject in any language'. It is the purpose of the book to consider how religious beliefs and cultic rituals were given expression in...
Cambridge University Press, 1992. — 306 p. This book is a translation into English of La religion grecque by Louise Bruit Zaidman and Pauline Schmitt Pantel, described by Dr Simon Price as 'an excellent book, by far the best introduction to the subject in any language'. It is the purpose of the book to consider how religious beliefs and cultic rituals were given expression in...
Oxford: BAR Publishing, 2013. — 232 p. This monograph examines the religious and mythological concepts of Zeus from prehistoric times until the Early Archaic period. The research was performed as an interdisciplinary study involving the evidence of the Homeric poems, archaeology, linguistics, as well as comparative Indo-European material. It is argued that Greek Zeus, as a god...
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1971. — xiii, 425 p., 31 pls. The first section is a study of the cult of a pre-Greek mother-goddess in Malta and Sicily and of the worship of Persephone in Magna Graecia. Special attention is paid to the votive terracottas found in Sicily and in Lokri. The second part of the book contains a reconstruction of the Ka0apyoi of Empedocles with detailed...
Москва: Эксмо, 2023. Мифы и легенды Древней Греции – вечная классика, знакомая каждому с детства. Но что, если эти истории гораздо актуальнее и остроумнее, чем кажутся? Любовь и войны, скандалы и интриги, путешествия и подвиги богов и героев так похожи на проблемы современного жителя большого города. Современный пересказ мифов, которые легли в основу сюжетов шедевров...
Петроград: 1916. - VIII, 241 с. Весьма насыщенное исследование Б.Л.Богаевского перекликается с работами по греческой народной религии М.Нильссона (которого сам Богаевский часто цитирует). Темы исследования - религиозное миросозерцание афинян, хтоническая природа греческой религии, теофании и символика в аграрных циклах, подробности земледельческих сакральных ритуалов и...
Пер. с нем. М. Витковской и В. Витковского. — СПб.: Алетейя, 2004. — 584 с. — (Миф, религия, культура). — ISBN 5-89329-661-3. Впервые на русском языке издается книга швейцарского профессора Вальтера Буркерта о древнегреческой религии, признанная в мировой науке классическим трудом в этой области. Культы богов и героев от Микен до классической эпохи, ритуалы, мистерии,...
Пер. с нем. М. Витковской и В. Витковского. — СПб.: Алетейя, 2004. — 584 с. — (Миф, религия, культура). — ISBN 5-89329-661-3. Впервые на русском языке издается книга швейцарского профессора Вальтера Буркерта о древнегреческой религии, признанная в мировой науке классическим трудом в этой области. Культы богов и героев от Микен до классической эпохи, ритуалы, мистерии,...
Пер. с нем. М. Витковской и В. Витковского. — СПб.: Алетейя, 2004. — 584 с. — (Миф, религия, культура). — ISBN: 5-89329-661-3. Впервые на русском языке издается книга швейцарского профессора Вальтера Буркерта о древнегреческой религии, признанная в мировой науке классическим трудом в этой области. Культы богов и героев от Микен до классической эпохи, ритуалы, мистерии,...
Репринт. — М.: Либроком, 2012. — XXXVIII+424 с. — (Академия фундаментальных исследований: история).
Французский историк Огюст Буше-Леклерк (1842-1923) предпринял всестороннее исследование традиции гадательного ведовства (мантики) у древних греков. Рассматриваются мифологические и философские предпосылки искусства мантики, всевозможные формы гаданий и их ритуальный контекст....
Пер. под ред. и с предисл: Мищенок Ф.Г. — Киев: Л.В. Ильницкий, 1881. — 427 c. Книга французского историка Огюста Буша-Леклерка (1842—1923) представляет собой часть его обширного труда, посвященного истории гадания в Античности, в которой исследуются различные виды и исторические формы ведовства у древних греков. Книга состоит из двух частей. В первой части автор рассматривает...
Сергиев Посад: Типография Свято-Троицкой Сергиевой Лавры, 1909. - 267 с. Сергей Сергеевич Глаголев (1865-1937), лучший специалист по религиоведению в дореволюционной России, был профессором Московской духовной академии, где преподавал апологетику (основное богословие), философию и историю религии. В 1900 г. на съезде религиоведов в Париже Глаголев был избран вице-президентом...
СПб.: Алетейя, 2000. — 507 с. — (Античная библиотека). — ISBN 5-89329-257-Х. Книга современного английского филолога-классика Эрика Робертсона Доддса "Греки и иррациональное" (1949) стремится развеять миф об исключительной рациональности древних греков; опираясь на примеры из сочинений древнегреческих историков, философов, поэтов, она показывает огромное значение иррациональных...
СПб.: Алетейя, 2000. — 507 с. — (Античная библиотека). — ISBN: 5-89329-257-Х. Книга современного английского филолога-классика Эрика Робертсона Доддса "Греки и иррациональное" (1949) стремится развеять миф об исключительной рациональности древних греков; опираясь на примеры из сочинений древнегреческих историков, философов, поэтов, она показывает огромное значение...
СПб.: Алетейя, 2000. — 507 с. — (Античная библиотека). — ISBN: 5-89329-257-Х. Книга современного английского филолога-классика Эрика Робертсона Доддса "Греки и иррациональное" (1949) стремится развеять миф об исключительной рациональности древних греков; опираясь на примеры из сочинений древнегреческих историков, философов, поэтов, она показывает огромное значение...
СПб.: Алетейя, 2000. — 507 с. — (Античная библиотека). — ISBN: 5-89329-257-Х. Книга современного английского филолога-классика Эрика Робертсона Доддса "Греки и иррациональное" (1949) стремится развеять миф об исключительной рациональности древних греков; опираясь на примеры из сочинений древнегреческих историков, философов, поэтов, она показывает огромное значение...
Пер. с англ. М.Л. Хорькова. — М. ; СПб.: Московский философский фонд; Университетская книга, 2000. — 319 с. — ISBN 5-85133-021-Х. Культурная инициатива Книга современного английского филолога-классика Эрика Робертсона Доддса "Греки и иррациональное" (1949) стремится развеять миф об исключительной рациональности древних греков; опираясь на примеры из сочинений древнегреческих...
Пер. с англ. М.Л.Хорькова. — М.; СПб.: Московский философский фонд; Университетская книга, 2000. — 319 с. — ISBN 5-85133-021-Х. Культурная инициатива Книга современного английского филолога-классика Эрика Робертсона Доддса "Греки и иррациональное" (1949) стремится развеять миф об исключительной рациональности древних греков; опираясь на примеры из сочинений древнегреческих...
СПб.: Типография И. Н. Скороходова, 1893. — 63 с. Сергей Александрович Жебелёв (10 (22) сентября 1867, Петербург — 28 декабря 1941, Ленинград) — русский, советский историк, специалист в области античной истории, эпиграфики, археологии и классической филологии и начальной истории христианства, академик АН СССР (1927). Еще в бытность свою студентом, почти в одно время с...
К.: Синто, 1993. — 128 с. — ISBN 5-7768-0255-5. Введение. Обожествление природы. Освящение труда. Объявление бога в красоте. Освящение человеческого общежития. Объявление бога в добре. Религиозная философия. Объявление бога в истине. Заключение.
К.: Синто, 1993. — 128 с. — ISBN 5-7768-0255-5. Зелинский Фаддей Францевич (1859—1944 гг.) - выдающийся ученый, филолог-классик, известный исследователь античной культуры. Его творческое наследие огромно - список научных трудов насчитывает более 800 работ. "Древнегреческая религия" впервые была издана в 1918 году. На страницах книги автор выстроил мир доказательств, которые...
Петроград: Огни, 1918. — 163 с. Фаддей Францевич Зелинский (1859—1944) - филолог-классик, историк культуры и поэт, один из ярчайших деятелей Серебряного века русской культуры - и "русский поляк", в 1922 г. переехавший из Советской России в Польшу. В своей книге Ф.Ф. Зелинский поставил целью подробно изложить сущность греческой религии в эпоху расцвета древнегреческой...
Б.м., б.и., б.г. — 255 с. Автор этой книги - известный исследователь античной культуры - ставил целью подробно изложить сущность греческой религии в эпоху расцвета древнегреческой цивилизации. Трудность ее достижения обусловливалась отсутствием канонической книги, подобной Евангелию, Корану или Торе, а также богословской литературы. Сведения приходилось черпать из греческой...
СПб.: Квадривиум; Алетейя, 2014. — 864 с. — (Hellenica). — ISBN: 978-5-9906155-9-5. Настоящее издание обнимает собой первые три тома монументального труда выдающегося русского филолога Φ. Ф. Зелинского «История античных религий». Если два первых тома ("Древнегреческая религия" и "Религия эллинизма") были известны русскому читателю по изданиям начала XX века и переизданиям в...
Томск: Водолей, 1996. — 159 с. Зелинский Фаддей Францевич (1859-1944 гг. ) - выдающийся ученый, филолог-классик, известный исследователь античной культуры. Его творческое наследие огромно - список научных трудов насчитывает более 800 работ. "'Религия эллинизма" впервые была издана в 1925 году. Книга является продолжением предыдущей "Древнегреческой религии". Содержание...
Томск: Водолей, 1996. — 159 с. Мой очерк о древнегреческой религии был представлен читателю как самодовлеющая обработка определенной и замкнутой в себе темы; это значение я и теперь желал бы за ним сохранить. От историзма я в нем сознательно отвлекся; не оспаривая его прав в руководстве большого объема и строго научного характера, каковое и поныне составляет долг всенародной...
Минск: Экономпресс, 2003. — 330 с. — ISBN: 985-6479-33-9. Настоящее издание объединило в себе две книги известного русского ученого Фаддея Францевича Зелинского (1859—1944): книгу "Древнегреческая религия", впервые изданную в 1918 году и ее продолжение "Религия эллинизма", увидевшее свет в 1922 году. На их страницах Зелинский попытался выстроить особый мир доказательств,...
Минск: Экономпресс, 2003. — 330 с. — ISBN: 985-6479-33-9. Настоящее издание объединило в себе две книги известного русского ученого Фаддея Францевича Зелинского (1859—1944): книгу "Древнегреческая религия", впервые изданную в 1918 году и ее продолжение "Религия эллинизма", увидевшее свет в 1922 году. На их страницах Зелинский попытался выстроить особый мир доказательств,...
Москва: Рипол Классик, 2021. — 334 с. — (Librarium). — ISBN 978-5-386-14314-5. Очерк «Религия эллинизма» Ф.Ф. Зелинского, классика отечественного антиковедения, можно считать продолжением «Древнегреческой религии» - исследовании о корнях религиозных таинств древних греков, архетипах и культуре. Фаддей Францевич приводит множество переводов величайших философов, литераторов и...
М.: Алетейя, 2000. — 352 с. — (Античная библиотека. Исследования). — ISBN5-89329-243-X. Выдающийся русский поэт, ученый и антиковед Вячеслав Иванов (1866-1949) широко известен своими многочисленными талантами. Но даже на этом фоне "Дионис и прадионисийство" - уникальная книга. Начатая в 1912 г. в Риме, книга была закончена и опубликована только в 1923 г. в Баку. "Новым Заветом...
М.: Алетейя, 2000. — 352 с. — (Античная библиотека. Исследования). — ISBN5-89329-243-X. Выдающийся русский поэт, ученый и антиковед Вячеслав Иванов (1866-1949) широко известен своими многочисленными талантами. Но даже на этом фоне "Дионис и прадионисийство" - уникальная книга. Начатая в 1912 г. в Риме, книга была закончена и опубликована только в 1923 г. в Баку. "Новым Заветом...
Москва: Алетейя, 2000. — 352 с. — (Античная библиотека. Исследования). — ISBN5-89329-243-X. Выдающийся русский поэт, ученый и антиковед Вячеслав Иванов (1866-1949) широко известен своими многочисленными талантами. Но даже на этом фоне "Дионис и прадионисийство" - уникальная книга. Начатая в 1912 г. в Риме, книга была закончена и опубликована только в 1923 г. в Баку. "Новым...
М.: Алетейя, 1994. — 350 с. — (Античная библиотека). — ISBN: 5-86557-012-9. Выдающийся русский поэт, ученый и антиковед Вячеслав Иванов (1866-1949) широко известен своими многочисленными талантами. Но даже на этом фоне `Дионис и прадионисийство` - уникальная книга. Начатая в 1912 г. в Риме, книга была закончена и опубликована только в 1923 г. в Баку. `Новым Заветом в эллинстве`...
М.: Алетейя, 1994. — 350 с. — (Античная библиотека). — ISBN 5-86557-012-9. Выдающийся русский поэт, ученый и антиковед Вячеслав Иванов (1866-1949) широко известен своими многочисленными талантами. Но даже на этом фоне `Дионис и прадионисийство` - уникальная книга. Начатая в 1912 г. в Риме, книга была закончена и опубликована только в 1923 г. в Баку. `Новым Заветом в эллинстве`...
Харьков: Типо-литография Г.П. Радовильского, 1918. — 81 с. Вступление. История научной разработки табличек с проклятиями. Психологические и религиозно-исторические основы проклятия. Его роль в частной и общественной жизни Греции. Внешний вид табличек с проклятиями. Основные типы строения словесной формулы проклятия. Стиль и стереотипные приемы в проклятиях. Происхождение и...
Монография. СПб.: Сенатская типография, 1913. - 327 с. Работа «Культ фетишей, растений и животных…» состоит из трёх частей, в каждой из которых рассматривается сущность культа (фетишей, растений и животных соответственно), предлагается классификация объектов поклонения и исследуются основные формы каждого культа. Важное значение имеет работа, проведённая автором, по...
Кагаровъ Евг. — СПб.: Сенатская типография, 1913. — 327 с.
Работа «Культ фетишей, растений и животных…» состоит из трёх частей, в каждой из которых рассматривается сущность культа (фетишей, растений и животных соответственно), предлагается классификация объектов поклонения и исследуются основные формы каждого культа. Важное значение имеет работа, проведённая автором, по...
Харьков: Типо-литография Г.П. Радовильскаго 1918, — 46 с. Предисловiе. Настоящее изследованiе представляетъ собою лишь первую часть задуманной мною серiи этюдовъ въ области народныхъ верованй и магической литературы древнихъ грековъ.Кто знаетъ, удастся ли мне когда-нибудь выпустить въ светъ другия части своего труда. Но именно потому я решился приступить къ изданию хотя бы...
М.: Институт общегуманитарных исследований, 2006. — 174 с. — ISBN: 5-88230-197-1. Мировоззрение человека древнего мира заключалось в восприятии жизни как единой последовательности всех происходящих процессов. С каждым новым периодом жизни древний грек восходил к духовному освящению, проходя религиозный церемониальный ритуал перехода — инициацию. В процессе прохождения инициации...
М.: Институт общегуманитарных исследований, 2006. — 174 с. — ISBN: 5-88230-197-1. Мировоззрение человека древнего мира заключалось в восприятии жизни как единой последовательности всех происходящих процессов. С каждым новым периодом жизни древний грек восходил к духовному освящению, проходя религиозный церемониальный ритуал перехода — инициацию. В процессе прохождения инициации...
М.: Институт общегуманитарных исследований, 2006. — 174 с. — ISBN: 5-88230-197-1. Мировоззрение человека древнего мира заключалось в восприятии жизни как единой последовательности всех происходящих процессов. С каждым новым периодом жизни древний грек восходил к духовному освящению, проходя религиозный церемониальный ритуал перехода — инициацию. В процессе прохождения инициации...
М.: Ладомир, 2007. — 319 с. — ISBN: 978-5-86218-438-9; ISBN: 978-5-94451-044-0. Карл Кереньи (1897-1973) - крупнейший деятель европейской гуманитарной науки, автор ряда монументальных трудов по античной мифологии и религии. Благодаря книге "Дионис: Прообраз неиссякаемой жизни" читатель сможет совершить путешествие по следам "прибывающего" бога, познакомиться с новыми...
М.: Ладомир, 2007. — 319 с. — ISBN: 978-5-86218-438-9; ISBN: 978-5-94451-044-0. Карл Кереньи (1897-1973) - крупнейший деятель европейской гуманитарной науки, автор ряда монументальных трудов по античной мифологии и религии. Благодаря книге "Дионис: Прообраз неиссякаемой жизни" читатель сможет совершить путешествие по следам "прибывающего" бога, познакомиться с новыми...
Научная статья. Опубликовано: Вестник Нижегородского университета им. Н.И. Лобачевского. № 4 (1). 2013. С. 252-259. Рассматриваются основные версии происхождения культа Диониса. Изучение существующих концепций показывает, что в основе культа Диониса лежали универсальные для традиционных обществ представления об умирающем и воскресающем божестве. Ключевая роль в формировании...
Киев: 1899. — 128 с. Книга выдающегося русского антиковеда и византиниста Ю.А. Кулаковского (1855-1919) посвящена эсхатологическим сюжетам древнегреческой мифологии, религии и философии. Для историков философии, культурологов, религиоведов, всех интересующихся историей античной культуры. Гомер. Боги и люди у Гомера Смерть и душа по Гомеру Аид, как местопребывание души по смерти...
Пер. с нем. Н. Федоровой. — М.: Энигма, 1996. — 368 с.: ил. — (История духовной культуры). — ISBN: 3-87838-498-2, 5-7808-0002-2. Книга Дитера Лауэнштайна посвящена крупнейшему мистериальному центру Древней Греции — Элевсину. Привлекая античные источники и материалы новейших археологических исследований, автор пытается воссоздать ход Элевсинских мистерий и понять опыт и...
М.: Энигма, 1996. — 368 с.: ил. — (История духовной культуры) — ISBN: 3-87838-498-2, 5-7808-0002-2. Книга немецкого ученого Дитера Лауэнштайна посвящена крупнейшему мистериальному центру Древней Греции - Элевсину. Привлекая античные источники и материалы новейших археологических исследований, автор пытается воссоздать ход этого религиозного празднества и понять опыт и...
Пер. с нем. Н. Федоровой. — М.: Энигма, 1996. — 368 с.: ил. — (История духовной культуры). — ISBN: 3-87838-498-2, 5-7808-0002-2. Книга Дитера Лауэнштайна посвящена крупнейшему мистериальному центру Древней Греции — Элевсину. Привлекая античные источники и материалы новейших археологических исследований, автор пытается воссоздать ход Элевсинских мистерий и понять опыт и...
М.: Университетская типография, 1850. — 344 с. Первое в русской науке крупное историко-филологическое исследование древнегреческих мифов и религиозных культов, посвященных верховному олимпийскому божеству - Зевсу (второе - у А.Ф. Лосева). Павел Михайлович Леонтьев (1822—1874) - русский филолог, один из основателей журнала "Русский вестник", соиздатель (с М.Н. Катковым) газеты...
М.: Университетская типография, 1850. — 344 с. Первое в русской науке крупное историко-филологическое исследование древнегреческих мифов и религиозных культов, посвященных верховному олимпийскому божеству - Зевсу (второе - у А.Ф. Лосева). Павел Михайлович Леонтьев (1822-1874) - русский филолог, один из основателей журнала "Русский вестник", соиздатель (с М.Н. Катковым) газеты...
М.: Языки русской культуры, 2000. - 352 с. (Язык. Семиотика. Культура) ISBN: 5-7859-0108-0 Парфенон - замечательный древнегреческий храм, стоящий на вершине афинского Акрополя. «Здание имеет свою судьбу», - говорили древние римляне. Мы проследим историю этого здания-символа, которое было и древнегреческим храмом богини Афины-Девы, и православной церковью, и католическим...
М.: Языки русской культуры, 2000. - 352 с. (Язык. Семиотика. Культура) ISBN: 5-7859-0108-0 Парфенон - замечательный древнегреческий храм, стоящий на вершине афинского Акрополя. «Здание имеет свою судьбу», - говорили древние римляне. Мы проследим историю этого здания-символа, которое было и древнегреческим храмом богини Афины-Девы, и православной церковью, и католическим...
Пер. с англ. и указ. Светланы Клементьевой; Отв. ред. проф. А.И. Зайцев. — СПб.: Алетейя, 1998. — 218 с.: 13 л. ил. — ISBN: 5-89329-094-3 Труды выдающегося исследователя античной цивилизации Мартина Нильссона (1874–1967) никогда прежде не издавались на русском языке. В этой небольшой и достаточно популярно написанной работе автор излагает свой взгляд на древнегреческую религию,...
С-Пб.: Алетейя, 1998. - 256 с.
Труды выдающегося исследователя античной цивилизации Мартина Нильссона (1874–1967) никогда прежде не издавались на русском языке. В этой небольшой и достаточно популярно написанной работе автор излагает свой взгляд на древнегреческую религию, основу которой он видит в земледельческих культах. Повествуя о праздниках и обрядах, верованиях и...
СПб.: Алетейя, 1998. — 218 с.: 13 л. ил. — ISBN: 5-89329-094-3 Труды выдающегося исследователя античной цивилизации Мартина Нильссона (1874–1967) никогда прежде не издавались на русском языке. В этой небольшой и достаточно популярно написанной работе автор излагает свой взгляд на древнегреческую религию, основу которой он видит в земледельческих культах. Повествуя о праздниках...
СПб.: 1887. — 181 с.
Книга содержит исследование Элевсинских мистерий, которые представляли собой обряды инициации в культах богинь плодородия Деметры и Персефоны и считались наиболее важными из всех обрядов древности. В книге рассматриваются письменные источники о мистических культах, принадлежащие к различным периодам.
Книга рекомендуется историкам, религиоведам,...
Монография. — Москва: Прогресс-Традиция, 1999. — 592 с. В книге рассматриваются изначальные представления древних греков о сознании и душе, судьбе человека и его отношениях с богами. Античное мироздание реконструируется благодаря семантическому и контекстуальному анализу поэм Гомера, лирики VIII-V вв. до п.э. и аттической трагедии с привлечением многих позднейших текстов. Автор...
М.: Прогресс-Традиция, 1999. — 592 с. — ISBN: 5-89-826-024-2. В книге рассматриваются изначальные представления древних греков о сознании и душе, судьбе человека и его отношениях с богами. Античное мироздание реконструируется благодаря семантическому и контекстуальному анализу поэм Гомера, лирики VIII-V вв. до н.э. и аттической трагедии с привлечением многих позднейших текстов....
М.: Эксмо-Пресс, 2001. — 432 с. — ISBN: 04-007903-6. Посвящение в таинства, или мистерии, считается вершиной языческого духовного опыта. Однако большая часть дошедших до нас древних текстов — это то, что принято называть экзотерикой, то есть литературой для всех, для непосвященных. Завесу над таинством подлинного мистического опыта можно приподнять лишь путем знакомства с...
М.: Эксмо-Пресс, 2001. — 432 с. — ISBN: 04-007903-6. Посвящение в таинства, или мистерии, считается вершиной языческого духовного опыта. Однако большая часть дошедших до нас древних текстов — это то, что принято называть экзотерикой, то есть литературой для всех, для непосвященных. Завесу над таинством подлинного мистического опыта можно приподнять лишь путем знакомства с...
М.: Клуб Касталия, 2016. — 224 с. От автора. Дионис не был включен в мою работу «Боги Греции» (1929), поскольку не принадлежит к кругу истинных олимпийцев, которому посвящалась книга. Теперь же он становится центральной темой отдельной работы. То, что было представлено мной в данной работе, во многом значительно противоречит общепринятым тенденциям в исследовании мифологии. Обычно...
М.: Клуб Касталия, 2016. — 224 с. От автора. Дионис не был включен в мою работу «Боги Греции» (1929), поскольку не принадлежит к кругу истинных олимпийцев, которому посвящалась книга. Теперь же он становится центральной темой отдельной работы. То, что было представлено мной в данной работе, во многом значительно противоречит общепринятым тенденциям в исследовании мифологии. Обычно...
Пер. с нем. О.С. Ракитянской. — СПб.: Владимир Даль, 2019. — 320 с. — (Слово о сущем). — ISBN: 978-5-93615-212-2. Вальтер Фридрих Отто (1874-1958) — немецкий филолог-классик, антиковед. Наиболее известная его работа «Боги Греции» (нем. «Die Götter Griechenlands», 1929). Профессор Франкфуртского университета. Родился в семье фармацевта. Учился у профессоров О. Крузиуса, Л....
Пер. с немецкого О.С. Ракитянской. — СПб.: Владимир Даль, 2019. — 320 с. — (Слово о сущем). — ISBN: 978-5-93615-212-2. Книга немецкого филолога и религиоведа Вальтера Фридриха Отто (1874—1958) в свое время была воспринята как вызов всей современной ему науке. Она не вписывалась ни в одну из господствующих тогда методологий изучения древних религий, поскольку многие его идеи...
В даном файле есть информация о ВСЕХ богов грецкой мифологии.
Если твой папа бог войны, а мама - богиня красоты, то, наверное, логично, что сам ты - бог сексуального желания.
М.: Прогресс-Традиция, 1999. — 592 с. — (В зеркале языка). — IBSN 5-89-826-025-0. Исследование древнегреческой мантики (искусства прорицания) по произведениям античных авторов и текстам оракулов. Методом семантического и лингвистического анализа реконструируется и объясняется церемониальная картина пророческого священнодейства, анализируются мифологические и религиозные...
М.: Прогресс-Традиция, 1999. — 592 с. — (В зеркале языка). — IBSN 5-89-826-025-0. Исследование древнегреческой мантики (искусства прорицания) по произведениям античных авторов и текстам оракулов. Методом семантического и лингвистического анализа реконструируется и объясняется церемониальная картина пророческого священнодейства, анализируются мифологические и религиозные...
Монография. — Киев: Стилос, 2005. — 559 с. Книга посвящена исследованию главных проблем религиозного мировоззрения эллинов Причерноморья в античную эпоху. Основное внимание уделено рассмотрению отдельных мифов во взаимосвязи с культами и политикой в понтийских государствах, а также характеристике древнегреческих общественных и домашних святилищ. Это первая научная работа в...
Монография. — Киев: Издательский дом "Стилос", 2005. — 559 с.
Книга посвящена исследованию главных проблем религиозного мировоззрения эллинов Причерноморья в античную эпоху. Основное внимание уделено рассмотрению отдельных мифов во взаимосвязи с культами и политикой в понтийских государствах, а также характеристике древнегреческих общественных и домашних святилищ. Это первая...
СПб.: Алетейя, 2000. — 256 с.
Андре-Жан Фестюжьер (1898-1982) - известный французский ученый-классик, специалист по греческой религии, священник доминиканского ордена. Он автор таких книг, как `Религиозный идеал греков и Евангелие` (1932), `Сократ` (1934), `Откровение Гермеса Трисмегиста` (I-II, 1944-49), `Эпикур и его боги` (1946), переводчик и издатель многочисленных...
Пер. с англ., коммент. и указатель С. В. Пахомова. — СПб.: Алетейя, 2000. — 253 с. — (Античная библиотека). — ISBN 5-89329-289-8. Андре-Жан Фестюжьер (1898-1982) — известный французский ученый-классик, специалист по греческой религии, священник доминиканского ордена. Он автор таких книг, как «Религиозный идеал греков и Евангелие» (1932), «Сократ» (1934), тетралогия «Откровение...
СПб.: Алетейя, 2000. — 256 с. Андре-Жан Фестюжьер (1898-1982) - известный французский ученый-классик, специалист по греческой религии, священник доминиканского ордена. `Личная религия греков` (Personal Religion Among the Greeks) издана впервые в 1954 г., на английском языке, в Беркли и Лос-Анджелесе, как итог его лекционного курса в местном университете. Переиздана в 1960 г....
СПб.: Алетейя, 2000. — 256 с. Андре-Жан Фестюжьер (1898-1982) - известный французский ученый-классик, специалист по греческой религии, священник доминиканского ордена. `Личная религия греков` (Personal Religion Among the Greeks) издана впервые в 1954 г., на английском языке, в Беркли и Лос-Анджелесе, как итог его лекционного курса в местном университете. Переиздана в 1960 г....
СПб.: Алетейя, 2000. — 256 с. Андре-Жан Фестюжьер (1898-1982) - известный французский ученый-классик, специалист по греческой религии, священник доминиканского ордена. `Личная религия греков` (Personal Religion Among the Greeks) издана впервые в 1954 г., на английском языке, в Беркли и Лос-Анджелесе, как итог его лекционного курса в местном университете. Переиздана в 1960 г....
Пер. с англ., коммент. и указатель С. В. Пахомова. — СПб.: Алетейя, 2000. — 253 с. — (Античная библиотека). Андре-Жан Фестюжьер (1898-1982) — известный французский ученый-классик, специалист по греческой религии, священник доминиканского ордена. Он автор таких книг, как «Религиозный идеал греков и Евангелие» (1932), «Сократ» (1934), тетралогия «Откровение Гермеса Трисмегиста»...
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