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Zeus in Early Greek Mythology and Religion - From prehistoric times to the Early Archaic period (Paperback) Loot Price: R2,142
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Zeus in Early Greek Mythology and Religion - From prehistoric times to the Early Archaic period (Paperback): Olga A. Zolotnikova

Zeus in Early Greek Mythology and Religion - From prehistoric times to the Early Archaic period (Paperback)

Olga A. Zolotnikova

Series: British Archaeological Reports International Series

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This monograph examines the religious and mythological concepts of Zeus from prehistoric times until the Early Archaic period. The research was performed as an interdisciplinary study involving the evidence of the Homeric poems, archaeology, linguistics, as well as comparative Indo-European material. It is argued that Greek Zeus, as a god with certainly established Indo-European origins, was essentially a god of the open sky and the supposed progenitor of everything, a supreme, but not ruling deity; initially, he must have been distinct from the god of storms, who, for unknown reasons, completely disappeared from Greek religion and mythology by as early as the Late Bronze Age. From the time of Homer, Zeus-Father appeared as a storm-god, the autocratic ruler of the universe, and an offspring of elder deities, on the level of mythology. Such a concept does not correspond to the traditional Indo-European patterns and seems to have been formed under the influence of Near-Eastern concepts of the supreme almighty god, on the one hand, and the Cretan-Minoan concept of a young god/divine child, on the other. However, the Homeric concept of Zeus was adopted by his practising cults much later, only from the Late Archaic period.

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Imprint: Bar Publishing
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Series: British Archaeological Reports International Series
Release date: April 2013
First published: 2013
Authors: Olga A. Zolotnikova
Dimensions: 297 x 210 x 13mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback
Pages: 233
ISBN-13: 978-1-4073-1106-7
Categories: Books > Humanities > Archaeology > Archaeology by period / region > European archaeology > Classical Greek & Roman archaeology
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LSN: 1-4073-1106-9
Barcode: 9781407311067

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