Conceptualising Divine Unions in the Greek and Near Eastern Worlds

Erscheinungsjahr 2022
ISBN: 978-90-04-50251-2
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 7, 326 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 683 g

Reihe: Ancient Philosophy & Religion

The present 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. The collection focuses on human-divine interactions, intersection between kings and the divine, sexual unions with the divine, heroization and divinization rituals, divine epiphanies, mystic unions and assimilations with the divine, philosophical approaches for establishing union with the divine and theurgic unions with the divine.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Pachoumi, Eleni

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Naher & Mittlerer Osten
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Geschichte der klassischen Antike Griechische Geschichte

Über Autor(innen)

Eleni Pachoumi, Ph.D. 2007; affiliated with the Open University in Greece; academic visiting fellow at the University of Oxford; recent publications include The Concepts of the Divine in the Greek Magical Papyri (Mohr Siebeck, 2017), and Praying and Contemplating in Late Antiquity. Religious and Philosophical Interactions (co-edited with Mark Edwards, Mohr Siebeck, 2018); a critical edition with translation and commentary of Proclus' On the Hieratic Art is forthcoming.