Verfasst von:	Lipka, Michael [VerfasserIn]
Titel:	Epiphanies and dreams in Greek polytheism
Titelzusatz:	textual genres and "reality" from Homer to Heliodorus
Verf.angabe:	Michael Lipka
Verlagsort:	Berlin ; Boston
Verlag:	De Gruyter
E-Jahr:	2022
Jahr:	[2022]
Umfang:	X, 319 Seiten
Format:	23 cm x 15.5 cm
Gesamttitel/Reihe:	MythosEikonPoiesis ; Band 13
Fussnoten:	Literaturverzeichnis Seite 257-286
ISBN:	978-3-11-063636-9
Abstract:	"While modern students of Greek religion are alert to the occasion-boundedness of epiphanies and divinatory dreams in Greek polytheism, they are curiously indifferent to the generic parameters of the relevant textual representations on which they build their argument. Instead, generic questions are normally left to the literary critic, who in turn is less interested in religion. To evaluate the relation of epiphanies and divinatory dreams to Greek polytheism, the book investigates relevant representations through all major textual genres in pagan antiquity. The evidence of the investigated genres suggests that the 'epiphany-mindedness' of the Greeks, postulated by most modern critics, is largely an academic chimaera, a late-comer of Christianizing 19th-century-scholarship. It is primarily founded on a misinterpretation of Homer's notorious anthropomorphism (in the Iliad and Odyssey but also in the Homeric Hymns). This anthropomorphism, which is keenly absorbed by Greek drama and figural art, has very little to do with the religious lifeworld experience of the ancient Greeks, as it appears in other genres. By contrast, throughout all textual genres investigated here, divinatory dreams are represented as an ordinary and real part of the ancient Greeks' lifeworld experience"--
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Schlagwörter:	(s)Griechisch    / (s)Literatur    / (s)Epiphanie <Motiv>    / (s)Traum <Motiv>    / (s)Mythos <Motiv>    / (s)Götter <Motiv>
Sprache:	eng
Bibliogr. Hinweis:	Erscheint auch als : Online-Ausgabe
	Erscheint auch als : Online-Ausgabe
	Erscheint auch als : Online-Ausgabe: Lipka, Michael, 1969 - : Epiphanies and dreams in Greek polytheism. - Berlin : De Gruyter, 2021. - 1 Online-Ressource (X, 319 Seiten)
Sach-SW:	Mythologie grecque
	Épiphanies (Insight)
	Épiphanies (Insight) dans la littérature
	Rêves - Aspect religieux
	Dieux grecs
	Littérature ancienne - Histoire et critique
	Littérature grecque - Histoire et critique
	Rêves dans la littérature
	Classical literature
	Dreams in literature
	Dreams - Religious aspects
	Epiphanies
	Greek literature
	Criticism, interpretation, etc
K10plus-PPN:	1762357763
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