Mixanthrôpoi : Animal-human hybrid deities in Greek religion
Many of the beings in this book – Cheiron, Pan, Acheloos, the Sirens and others – will be familiar from the narratives of Greek mythology, in which fabulous anatomies abound. However, they have never previously been studied together from a religious perspective, as recipients of cult and as members...
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| author | Emma Aston |
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| description | Many of the beings in this book – Cheiron, Pan, Acheloos, the Sirens and others – will be familiar from the narratives of Greek mythology, in which fabulous anatomies abound. However, they have never previously been studied together from a religious perspective, as recipients of cult and as members of the ancient pantheon. This book is the first major treatment of the use of part-animal – mixanthropic – form in the representation and visual imagination of Greek gods and goddesses, and of its significance with regard to divine character and function. What did it mean to depict deities in a form so strongly associated in the ancient imagination with monstrous adversaries? How did iconography, myth and ritual interact in particular sites of worship? Drawing together literary and visual material, this study establishes the themes dominant in the worship of divine mixanthropes, and argues that, so far from being insignificant curiosities, they make possible a greater understanding of the fabric of ancient religious practice, in particular the tense and challenging relationship between divinity and visual representation. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-536212023-12-20T12:38:38Z Mixanthrôpoi : Animal-human hybrid deities in Greek religion Emma Aston H1-99 divinity Greek mythology ancient Greek religion Antiguity religion bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities Many of the beings in this book – Cheiron, Pan, Acheloos, the Sirens and others – will be familiar from the narratives of Greek mythology, in which fabulous anatomies abound. However, they have never previously been studied together from a religious perspective, as recipients of cult and as members of the ancient pantheon. This book is the first major treatment of the use of part-animal – mixanthropic – form in the representation and visual imagination of Greek gods and goddesses, and of its significance with regard to divine character and function. What did it mean to depict deities in a form so strongly associated in the ancient imagination with monstrous adversaries? How did iconography, myth and ritual interact in particular sites of worship? Drawing together literary and visual material, this study establishes the themes dominant in the worship of divine mixanthropes, and argues that, so far from being insignificant curiosities, they make possible a greater understanding of the fabric of ancient religious practice, in particular the tense and challenging relationship between divinity and visual representation. 2021-02-11T19:49:09Z 2021-02-11T19:49:09Z 2020-09-09 12:19:32 2011 book 47743 9782821895638 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/53621 eng image/png http://books.openedition.org/pulg/1613 Presses universitaires de Liège 10.4000/books.pulg.1613 10.4000/books.pulg.1613 2e1be080-04bf-49c1-ba08-e6934a18e43e 9782821895638 open access |
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