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The Birth of the Gods
Author | : Guy E. Swanson |
Publsiher | : University of Michigan Press |
Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 1960 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0472060937 |
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Analyzes the social structure of 50 primitive peoples to show how it determined the form of their religious worship
When the Gods Were Born
Author | : Carolina López-Ruiz |
Publsiher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 324 |
Release | : 2010-06-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0674049462 |
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"With admirable erudition, Lopez-Ruiz brings to life intimacies and exchanges between the ancient Greeks and their Northwest Semitic neighbors, portraying the ancient Mediterranean as a fluid, dynamic contact zone. She explains networks of circulation, shows creative uses of traditional material by peoples in motion, and radically transforms our understanding of ancient cosmogonies."---Page duBois, author of Out of Athens: The New Ancient Greeks --
Theogony and Works and Days
Author | : Hesiod |
Publsiher | : OUP Oxford |
Total Pages | : 112 |
Release | : 2008-12-11 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780191593499 |
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Hesiod, who lived in Boetia in the late eighth century BC, is one of the oldest known, and possibly the oldest of Greek poets. His Theogony contains a systematic genealogy of the gods from the beginning of the world and an account of the struggles of the Titans. In contrast, Works and Days is a compendium of moral and practical advice on husbandry, and throws unique and fascinating light on archaic Greek society. As well as offering the earliest known sources for the myths of Pandora, Prometheus and the Golden Age, Hesiod's poetry provides a valuable account of the ethics and superstitions of the society in which he lived. Unlike Homer, Hesiod writes about himself and his family, and he stands out as the first personality in European literature. This new translation, by a leading expert on the Hesiodic poems combines accuracy with readability. It is accompanied by an introduction and explanatory notes. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.
Birth of God
Author | : Jean Bottéro |
Publsiher | : Penn State Press |
Total Pages | : 238 |
Release | : 2010-11-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0271040300 |
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Jean Bottero, one of the world's leading figures in Ancient Near Eastern Studies, approaches the Bible as an astounding variety of documents that reveal much of their time of origin, historical events, and climates of thought.
The Birth of the Gods and the Origins of Agriculture
Author | : Jacques Cauvin |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 290 |
Release | : 2000-07-27 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0521651352 |
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A study of social and economic transformations in the Near East during Palaeolithic-Neolithic transition, first published in 2000.
Orphic Tradition and the Birth of the Gods
Author | : Dwayne A. Meisner |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 337 |
Release | : 2018 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 9780190663520 |
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"Orphic Tradition and the Birth of the Gods is a literary history that attempts to reconstruct the fragments of four theogonies that were attributed to the legendary singer Orpheus: the Derveni, Eudemian, Hieronyman, and Rhapsodic Theogonies. Most modern scholars have described these poems as if they were similar to Hesiod's Theogony—lengthy chronological accounts of the births of the gods from the beginning of time to the present—but this book suggests that a better model for understanding how these poems were composed is to see each of them as an individual product of bricolage (as explained by Claude Lévi-Strauss), rather than as items in the stemma of a static manuscript tradition (as reconstructed by Martin West). The Orphic tradition was more fluid and fragmented than modern reconstructions would lead one to believe, but in these four Orphic theogonies certain features stand out, such as points of comparison with Near Eastern myths, the continuous discourse between Orphic poetry and philosophy, and speculations on the nature of the gods in ways that generated unique deities and new narratives. A study of Orphic theogonies reveals that the Orphic myths of Phanes and Zeus were no less important than the Orphic myth of Dionysus"--
mile Durkheim and the Birth of the Gods
Author | : Alexandra Maryanski |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 319 |
Release | : 2018-06-18 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780429995569 |
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The Birth of the Gods is dedicated to Durkheim's effort to understand the basis of social integration. Unlike most social scientists, then and now, Durkheim concluded that humans are naturally more individualistic than collectivistic, that the primal social unit for humans is the macro-level unit ('the horde'), rather than the family, and that social cohesion is easily disrupted by human self-interest. Hence, for Durkheim, one of the "gravest" problems facing sociology is how to mold these human proclivities to serve the collective good. The analysis of elementary religions, Durkheim believed, would allow social scientists to see the fundamental basis of solidarity in human societies, built around collective representations, totems marking sacred forces, and emotion-arousing rituals directed at these totems. The first half of the book traces the key influences and events that led Durkheim to embrace such novel generalizations. The second part makes a significant contribution to sociological theory with an analysis that essentially "tests" Durkheim's core assumptions using cladistic analysis, social network tools and theory, and data on humans closest living relatives—the great apes. Maryanski marshals hard data from primatology, paleontology, archaeology, genetics, and neuroscience that enlightens and, surprisingly, confirms many of Durkheim’s speculations. These data show that integration among both humans and great apes is not so much group or kin oriented, per se, but orientation to a community standing outside each individual that includes a sense of self, but also encompassing a cognitive awareness of a "sense of community" or a connectedness that transcends sensory reality and concrete social relations. This "community complex," as Maryanski terms it, is what Durkheim was beginning to see, although he did not have the data to buttress his arguments as Maryanski is able to do.
The Birth of the Gods
Author | : Guy E. Swanson |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1964 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : OCLC:220728322 |
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