Helios Megistos: Zur Synkretistischen Theologie Der Spätantike

Erscheinungsjahr 1995
ISBN: 978-90-04-10194-4
Verlag: BRILL ACADEMIC PUB

Buch, Deutsch, Band 125, 268 Seiten, Format (B × H): 164 mm x 245 mm, Gewicht: 685 g

Reihe: Religions in the Graeco-Roman World

Helios Megistos deals with conceptions of the Greek sun-god Helios in some selected works of late antique literature. The syncretistic picture is characterized by the heterogenous contours and polyvalent functions that were assigned to the god.
The main part of the book presents Helios in the Orphic hymns, in the Greek-Egyptian Magical Papyri, in Neoplatonic philosophy and in the Dionysiac epic of Nonnos. The introduction gives a summary of the importance attached to Helios in the older Greek literary tradition, and the appendix contains a sketch of the roles attributed to Ancient Near Eastern sun-deities. Both sections shed light on the conditions that gave rise to the phenomenon of late antique sun theology.
These texts, analysed for the first time from the point of view of that sun theology, rather than on the basis only of cultic or political data, extend and enrich our picture of a post-Christian sun religion that reflects strong classical and oriental influences.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Fauth, Wolfgang

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsgeschichte Religionen der Antike

Über Autor(innen)

Wolfgang Fauth, Dr.Phil. (1953) University of Göttingen, is Professor of classical philology at the University of Göttingen. He has published numerous articles on the classical and oriental history of religions.