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Divine Epiphany in Greek Literature and Culture (Hardcover)
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Divine Epiphany in Greek Literature and Culture (Hardcover)
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In ancient Greece, epiphanies were embedded in cultural production,
and employed by the socio-political elite in both perpetuating
pre-existing power-structures and constructing new ones. This
volume is the first comprehensive survey of the history of divine
epiphany as presented in the literary and epigraphic narratives of
the Greek-speaking world. It demonstrates that divine epiphanies
not only reveal what the Greeks thought about their gods; they tell
us just as much about the preoccupations, the preconceptions, and
the assumptions of ancient Greek religion and culture. In doing so,
it explores the deities who were prone to epiphany and the contexts
in which they manifested themselves, as well as the functions
(narratives and situational) they served, addressing the cultural
specificity of divine morphology and mortal-immortal interaction.
Divine Epiphany in Greek Literature and Culture re-establishes
epiphany as a crucial mode in Greek religious thought and practice,
underlines its centrality in Greek cultural production, and
foregrounds its impact on both the political and the societal
organization of the ancient Greeks.
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