Divine Images and Human Imaginations in Ancient Greece and Rome

Erscheinungsjahr 2009
ISBN: 978-90-04-17930-1
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 170, 438 Seiten, Format (B × H): 168 mm x 244 mm, Gewicht: 930 g

Reihe: Religions in the Graeco-Roman World

The polytheistic religious systems of ancient Greece and Rome reveal an imaginative attitude towards the construction of the divine. One of the most important instruments in this process was certainly the visualisation. Images of the gods transformed the divine world into a visually experienceable entity, comprehensible even without a theoretical or theological superstructure. For the illiterates, images were together with oral traditions and rituals the only possibility to approach the idea of the divine; for the intellectuals, images of the gods could be allegorically transcended symbols to reflect upon. Based on the art historical and textual evidence, this volume offers a fresh view on the historical, literary, and artistic significance of divine images as powerful visual media of religious and intellectual communication.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Mylonopoulos, Joannis

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contributors include: Fritz Blakolmer, Alessandra Bravi, Gunnel Ekroth, Sylvia Estienne, Milette Gaifman, Fernande Hölscher, Catherine M. Keesling, Katja Moede, Joannis Mylonopoulos, Ivana Petrovic, Vinciane Pirenne-Delforge, Tanja Scheer, Dirk Steuernagel.

Über Autor(innen)

Joannis Mylonopoulos, Ph.D. (2001) in Classical Archaeology, University of Heidelberg, is Assistant Professor of Art History and Archaeology at Columbia University. He has published extensively on the archaeology of Greek religion including 'Πελοπόννησος οἰκητήÏιον Ποσειδῶνος'. 'Heiligtümer und Kulte des Poseidon auf der Peloponnes' (CIERGA, 2003) and 'Archäologie und Ritual' (Phoibos, 2006).