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Divine images and human imaginations in Ancient Greece and Rome

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Brill, BRILL
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English
Pages
437

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2010, Brill
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Divine images and human imaginations in Ancient Greece and Rome
2010, Brill
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2010, Brill, BRILL
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Table of Contents

Introduction: divine images versus cult images : an endless story about theories, methods, and terminologies / Joannis Mylonopoulos
A pantheon without attributes? : goddesses and gods in Minoan and Mycenean iconography / Fritz Blakolmer
Aniconism and the notion of "primitive" in Greek antiquity / Milette Gaifman
Finding the gods : Greek and Cypriot votive korai revisited / Catherine M. Keesling
Gods and statues : an approach to archaistic images in the fifth century BCE / Fernande Hölscher
Greek priests and "cult statues" : in how far are they unnecessary? / Vinciane Pirenne-Delforge
Theseus and the stone : the iconographic and ritual contexts of a Greek votive relief in the Louvre / Gunnel Ekroth
Odysseus with a trident : the use of attributes in ancient Greek imagery / Joannis Mylonopoulos
The life story of a cult statue as an allegory : Kallimachos' Hermes perpheraios / Ivana Petrovic
Arcadian cult images between religion and politics / Tanja Scheer
Synnaos theos : images of Roman emperors in Greek temples / Dirk Steuernagel
Simulacra deorum versus ornamenta aedium : the status of divine images in the temples of Rome / Sylvia Estienne
The dedication of cult statues at the altar : a Roman pictorial formula for the introduction of new cults / Katja Moede
Ornamenta, monumenta, exempla : Greek images of gods in the public spaces of Constantinople / Alessandra Bravi.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Published in
Leiden, Boston
Series
Religions in the Graeco-Roman world -- v. 170, Religions in the Graeco-Roman world -- v. 170.

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Dewey Decimal Class
292.2/18
Library of Congress
BL785 .D58 2010, BL785.D58 2010

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Pagination
xvi, 437 p. :
Number of pages
437

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Open Library
OL24062782M
Internet Archive
divineimageshuma0000unse
ISBN 10
9004179305
ISBN 13
9789004179301
LCCN
2009041612
OCLC/WorldCat
455871536

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