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The "Sacred History" of Euhemerus of Messene (Hardcover)
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The "Sacred History" of Euhemerus of Messene (Hardcover)
Series: Beitrage zur Altertumskunde
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In his utopian novel Hiera Anagraphe (Sacred History) Euhemerus of
Messene (ca. 300 B.C.) describes his travel to the island Panchaia
in the Indian Ocean where he discovered an inscribed stele in the
temple of Zeus Triphylius. It turned out that the Olympian gods
(Uranos, Kronos, Zeus) were deified kings. The travels of Zeus
allowed to describe peoples and places all over the world.
Winiarczyk investigates the sources of the theological views of
Euhemerus. He proves that Euhemerus' religious views were rooted in
old Greek tradition (the worship of heroes, gods as founders of
their own cult, tombs of gods, euergetism, rationalistic
interpretation of myths, the explanations of the origin of religion
by the sophists, the ruler cult). The description of the Panchaian
society is intended to suggest an archaic and closed culture, in
which the stele recording res gestae of the deified kings might
have been preserved. The translation of Ennius' Euhemerus sive
Sacra historia (ca. 200 - ca. 194) is a free prose rendering, which
Lactantius knew only indirectly. The book is concluded by a short
history of Euhemerism in the pagan, Christian and Jewish
literature.
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