عنوان

Facing the gods

(Number (ISBN

9780521861717

Number

90-1390

.Language of Text, Soundtrack etc

انگلیسی

Title Proper

Facing the gods

Other Title Information

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

First Statement of Responsibility

/ Verity Platt.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

; New York

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

: Cambridge University Press

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

, 2011.

Date

1112

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

482 p.

Series Title

Greek culture in the Roman world

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Text of Note

Machine generated contents note: Introduction; Part I: 1. Framing epiphany in art and text; 2. Material epiphany: encountering the divine in cult images; 3. Epiphany and authority in Hellenistic Greece; 4. The poetics of epiphany in Hellenistic epigram; Part II: 5. Virtual visions: piety and paideia in Second Sophistic literature; 6. Dream visions and cult images in the Second Sophistic; 7. The apologetics of representation in Philostratus' Life of Apollonius of Tyana; Part III: 8. Dying to see: epiphany and representation on Roman sarcophagi.

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Text of Note

"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"--

Greece-- Religion.

Epiphany in art.

Greece-- Civilization.

HISTORY / General

Rome, Religion.

Rome, Civilization.

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Class number

Book number

Platt, Verity J., (Verity Jane),1977-

Date of Transaction

20111130140749.0

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251648

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