Conceptualising divine unions in the Greek and near Eastern worlds
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Conceptualising divine unions in the Greek and near Eastern worlds
(Ancient philosophy & religion, v.7)
Brill, c2022
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English text, partially translated from the Ancient Greek
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This volume is an interdisciplinary investigation and contextualization of the various concepts of divine union in the private and public sphere of the Greek and Near Eastern worlds.
Table of Contents
Contents
List of Figures
Abbreviations
Introduction
Eleni Pachoumi
Part 1: Religion, Kingship and Politics
1 The Mesopotamian King between Gods and Men in the First Millennium BCE
Philippe Clancier
2 The Intersection of Gods and Kings in Achaemenid Iran
Christopher J. Tuplin
3 Confronting and Uniting with Divinity in Ancient Egypt
Robert K. Ritner
4 Constantine: God-Man or Man of God?
Mark J. Edwards
Part 2: Religion, Sex and Mythology
5 Human-Divine Interactions in Homer, Hittite and Other Near Eastern Literary Traditions
Elias K. Petropoulos
6 : Sexual Union between Gods and Mortals
Robert Parker
Part 3: Religion, Philosophy and Ritual
7 Genos Olbion, Genos Ouranion: Divine Ancestry in the Orphic Gold Tablets
Miguel Herrero de Ja uregui
8 Union with the Divine in Greece and India: Mysteries and Monetisation
Richard Seaford
9 Philosophy and the Daimonic in Plato
Robert Vinkesteijn
10 Confusion (Ekple xis) and Sympathy (Sympatheia): The Neoplatonist Proclus on the Aesthetics of Epiphany and Theurgic Union
Robbert M. van den Berg
11 Proclus' Theurgic Union, , and the Concept of Fire
Eleni Pachoumi
12 Determinism and Divine Intervention: Divine Punishment in Stoic Theology
Maarten van Houte
13 Divine Unions in Byzantine Christianity: The Penetration of Fire into Iron as a Metaphor of Theosis
Dmitry Biriukov
Index
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