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Epiphanies and Dreams in Greek Polytheism - Textual Genres and 'Reality' from Homer to Heliodorus (Hardcover)
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Epiphanies and Dreams in Greek Polytheism - Textual Genres and 'Reality' from Homer to Heliodorus (Hardcover)
Series: MythosEikonPoiesis
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While modern students of Greek religion are alert to the
occasion-boundedness of epiphanies and divinatory dreams in Greek
polytheism, they are curiously indifferent to the generic
parameters of the relevant textual representations on which they
build their argument. Instead, generic questions are normally left
to the literary critic, who in turn is less interested in religion.
To evaluate the relation of epiphanies and divinatory dreams to
Greek polytheism, the book investigates relevant representations
through all major textual genres in pagan antiquity. The evidence
of the investigated genres suggests that the 'epiphany-mindedness'
of the Greeks, postulated by most modern critics, is largely an
academic chimaera, a late-comer of Christianizing
19th-century-scholarship. It is primarily founded on a
misinterpretation of Homer's notorious anthropomorphism (in the
Iliad and Odyssey but also in the Homeric Hymns). This
anthropomorphism, which is keenly absorbed by Greek drama and
figural art, has very little to do with the religious lifeworld
experience of the ancient Greeks, as it appears in other genres. By
contrast, throughout all textual genres investigated here,
divinatory dreams are represented as an ordinary and real part of
the ancient Greeks' lifeworld experience.
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