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The Names of the Gods in Ancient Mediterranean Religions
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From Greece to Palmyra, Tyre or Babylon, the names of the gods, like 'Thundering Zeus', 'Three-faced Moon', 'Baal of the Force' or the enigmatic YHWH, reveal their history, family ties, fields of competence and capacity for action. Shared or specific, these names bring to light networks of gods: the Saviour gods, the Ancestral gods, the gods of a city or a family. Names tell stories about the relationship between men and gods, gods and places, places and cultures and so on. They show how gods travel and spread, how they appear and disappear, how they participate in the political, social, intellectual history of each community. Through the study of divine names, the twelve chapters of this book unfold a gallery of portraits that reveal the changing aspects of the divine throughout the ancient Mediterranean.
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HistoryTable of contents
- Cover
- Half-title page
- Series page
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- List of Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Foreword
- List of Abbreviations
- Introduction In the Mirror of Vertumnus
- Chapter 1 ‘To the Immortals Everything Is Possible’: Portraits of Homeric Gods Between Savagery and Empathy
- Chapter 2 All Sides of the Moon: A Greek Incantation from Late Antique Egypt
- Chapter 3 ‘May the Force Be With You!’: Men and Gods in Battle in the Phoenician World
- Chapter 4 Dionysos in the Mirror of Poseidon: Crossed Onomastic Portraits
- Chapter 5 Lord of the Universe, the World and Eternity: Gods with Unlimited Powers in Palmyra?
- Chapter 6 This Is Not a Name: The Polyvalence of Divine Names in Mesopotamia
- Chapter 7 The Sword and the Patera: Zeus Helios Great Sarapis
- Chapter 8 A Travelling Portrait: The Baal of Tyre, From One Rock to Another
- Chapter 9 Pantheus, a ‘Total’ God in the Greek and Roman World
- Chapter 10 ‘I Will Be Who I Will Be’ (Exod. 3:14): Portrait of a Deity that Would be Nameless and Imageless
- Chapter 11 Golden Locks Among the Greeks, or the Hair Secrets of the Beautiful Apollo
- Chapter 12 Athena – Artemis: An Attempt to Outline Two Sisters by Their Epicleses
- Epilogue
- Bibliography
- Index
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