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"This is the first history of epiphany as both a phenomenon and a cultural discourse within the Graeco-Roman world. It explores divine manifestations and their representations not only in art but also in literary, historical and epigraphic accounts, and sets the cultural analysis of this unfamiliar conceptual phenomenon within a historical framework that explores its development from the archaic period to the Roman Empire. In particular, a surprisingly large number of the surviving images from antiquity are not only religious but epiphanically charged. Verity Platt argues that the enduring potential for divine incursions into mortal experience provides a reliable cognitive structure which supports both ancient religion and mythology. At the same time, Graeco-Roman culture exhibits a sophisticated awareness of the difficulties and ambiguities in apprehending deity and representing the divine presence, and of the potential for the manmade sign to lead the worshipper back to an unmediated epiphanic encounter"--
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Epiphany and Representation in Graeco-Roman Culture
Sep 26, 2011, Cambridge University Press
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0521861713 9780521861717
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