An edition of Facing the gods (2011)

Facing the gods

epiphany and representation in Graeco-Roman art, literature, and religion

Facing the gods
Verity J. Platt, Verity J. Pla ...
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An edition of Facing the gods (2011)

Facing the gods

epiphany and representation in Graeco-Roman art, literature, and religion

"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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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Published in
Cambridge, New York
Series
Greek culture in the Roman world

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Dewey Decimal Class
292
Library of Congress
BL810 .P53 2011

The Physical Object

Pagination
p. cm.

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL24839221M
ISBN 13
9780521861717
LCCN
2011012624

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