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100 1 $aPlatt, Verity J.$q(Verity Jane),$d1977-
245 10 $aFacing the gods :$bepiphany and representation in Graeco-Roman art, literature and religion /$cVerity Platt.
260 $aCambridge, UK ;$aNew York :$bCambridge University Press,$c2011.
300 $axviii, 482 p. :$bill. ;$c26 cm.
490 1 $aGreek culture in the Roman world
520 $a"This is the first history of epiphany as both a phenomenon and a cultural discourse within the Graeco-Roman world. It explores divine manifestations and their representations not only in art but also in literary, historical and epigraphic accounts, and sets the cultural analysis of this unfamiliar conceptual phenomenon within a historical framework that explores its development from the archaic period to the Roman Empire. In particular, a surprisingly large number of the surviving images from antiquity are not only religious but epiphanically charged. Verity Platt argues that the enduring potential for divine incursions into mortal experience provides a reliable cognitive structure which supports both ancient religion and mythology. At the same time, Graeco-Roman culture exhibits a sophisticated awareness of the difficulties and ambiguities in apprehending deity and representing the divine presence, and of the potential for the manmade sign to lead the worshipper back to an unmediated epiphanic encounter"--$cProvided by publisher.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aFraming epiphany in art and text -- Material epiphany : encountering the divine in cult images -- Epiphany and authority in Hellenistic Greece -- The poetics of epiphany in Hellenistic epigram -- Virtual visions : piety and paideia in Second Sophistic literature -- Dream visions and cult images in the Second Sophistic literature -- The apologetics of representation in Philostratus' Life of Apollonius of Tyana -- Dying to see : epiphanic sarcophagi from imperial Rome.
651 0 $aRome$xReligion.
651 0 $aGreece$xReligion.
650 0 $aEpiphany in art.
651 0 $aRome$xCivilization.
651 0 $aGreece$xCivilization.
648 7 $aGeschichte 27 v. Chr.-300.$2swd
648 7 $aGeschichte.$2swd
830 0 $aGreek culture in the Roman world.
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856 42 $3Contributor biographical information$uhttp://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1108/2011012624-b.html
856 42 $3Publisher description$uhttp://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1108/2011012624-d.html
856 41 $3Table of contents only$uhttp://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1108/2011012624-t.html
856 $uhttp://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&doc_number=024368432&line_number=0001&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA$zInhaltsverzeichnis