عنوان

Post Mortem Makes a Difference:

شماره

LA126527

زبان متن نوشتاري يا گفتاري و مانند آن

انگلیسی

عنوان اصلي

Post Mortem Makes a Difference:

نام عام مواد

[Article]

ساير اطلاعات عنواني

On a Redescription of Euhemerism and Its Place in the Study of Graeco-Roman Divine Kingship

نام نخستين پديدآور

Nickolas P. Roubekas

محل نشرو پخش و غیره

Leiden

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

Brill

متن يادداشت

Euhemerus of Messene is one of the most popular ancient theorists of religion. In his now lost work Sacred Inscription he formulated a theory of religion by arguing that the Olympian gods were nothing more than prominent kings that were deified due to their benefactions to mankind. On the other hand, true divinity was to be found in the natural phenomena. However, this theory - known as euhemerism - has been (ab)used in many ways due to the different interpretative agendas of various authors and critics. In this paper I argue that euhemerism needs a new interpretation, a redescription, based primarily on a rereading of the text. In addition, by showing the different usages of the text by Euhemerus's contemporaries and the early Christian writers, I argue that the connection of his theory with the practice of deification of kings in the Graeco-Roman world should be dismissed and reexamined by taking into account contemporary responses to his work that show that his theory was not meant as a justification for the deification of the Graeco-Roman kings. Euhemerus of Messene is one of the most popular ancient theorists of religion. In his now lost work Sacred Inscription he formulated a theory of religion by arguing that the Olympian gods were nothing more than prominent kings that were deified due to their benefactions to mankind. On the other hand, true divinity was to be found in the natural phenomena. However, this theory - known as euhemerism - has been (ab)used in many ways due to the different interpretative agendas of various authors and critics. In this paper I argue that euhemerism needs a new interpretation, a redescription, based primarily on a rereading of the text. In addition, by showing the different usages of the text by Euhemerus's contemporaries and the early Christian writers, I argue that the connection of his theory with the practice of deification of kings in the Graeco-Roman world should be dismissed and reexamined by taking into account contemporary responses to his work that show that his theory was not meant as a justification for the deification of the Graeco-Roman kings.

تاريخ نشر

2012

توصيف ظاهري

319-339

عنوان

Religion and Theology

شماره جلد

19/3-4

شماره استاندارد بين المللي پياييندها

1574-3012

اصطلاح موضوعی

divine kingship

اصطلاح موضوعی

euhemerism

اصطلاح موضوعی

euhemeristic approaches to religion

اصطلاح موضوعی

Euhemerus of Messene

اصطلاح موضوعی

Graeco-Roman antiquity

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Nickolas P. Roubekas

شماره بازیابی

10.1163/15743012-12341237

نام الکترونيکي

فرمت انتشار

p

نوع ماده

[Article]

کد کاربرگه

275578

سطح دسترسي

a

تكميل شده

Y