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Greek Praise Poetry and the Rhetoric of Divinity
Language: en
Pages: 266
Authors: Felix Johannes Meister
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020 - Publisher: Academic

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Surveying a large body of Greek (and occasionally Roman) literature, as well as material remains, this volume offers the first systematic study of a central mot
Pindar and Greek Religion
Language: en
Pages: 295
Authors: Hanne Eisenfeld
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2022-12-01 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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Pindar's victory songs teem with divinity. By exploring them within the lived religious landscapes of the fifth century BCE, Hanne Eisenfeld demonstrates that t
The Study of Greek and Roman Religions
Language: en
Pages: 192
Authors: Nickolas P. Roubekas
Categories: Religion
Type: BOOK - Published: 2022-07-14 - Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

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How should ancient religious ideas be approached? Is "religion" an applicable term to antiquity? Should classicists, ancient historians, and religious studies s
Pindar and the Sublime
Language: en
Pages: 280
Authors: Robert L. Fowler
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2022-01-13 - Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

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Pindar-the 'Theban eagle', as Thomas Gray famously called him-has often been taken as the archetype of the sublime poet: soaring into the heavens on wings of la
Mythogenesis, Interdiscursivity, Ritual
Language: en
Pages: 512
Authors: Burkhard Fehr
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2024-08-15 - Publisher: BRILL

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The studies included in Mythogenesis, Interdiscursivity, Ritual —offered to Professor Demetrios Yatromanolakis, a pioneering scholar— shed new light on a va
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