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Worshipping Virtues - Personification and the Divine in Ancient Greece (Paperback)
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Worshipping Virtues - Personification and the Divine in Ancient Greece (Paperback)
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The culture of ancient Greece was thronged with personifications.
In poetry and the visual arts, personified figures of what might
seem abstractions claim our attention. The Greeks, in Dr Johnson's
phrase, 'shock the mind by ascribing effects to non-entity'. This
study examines the logic, the psychology and the practice of Greeks
who worshipped these personifications with temples and sacrifices,
and beseeched them with hymn and prayers. Dr Stafford conducts
case-studies of deified 'abstractions', such as Peitho
(Persuasion), Eirene (Peace) and Hygieia (Health). She also
considers general questions of Greek psychology, such as why so
many of these figures were female. Modern scholars have asked, "Did
the Greeks believe their own myths?" This study contributes to the
debate, by exploring widespread and creative popular theology in
the historical period.
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