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1.
Honor Thy Gods: Popular Religion in Greek Tragedy
Contributors:
Publisher:
University of North Carolina Press 1991
Subjects:
Gods, Greek, In Literature
Greek Drama (Tragedy)--History And Criticism
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...Ion, and Helen, are sonsor daughters of gods; others, like Cassandra, Creusa, and lo...also have close en­counters with gods. Numerous other characters and choruses see their gods,usually as dei ex machina, and learn directly...
2.
The Gods of Ancient Greece: Identities and Transformations
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Publisher:
Edinburgh University Press 2010
Subjects:
Gods, Greek
Civilization, Classical
Mythology, Greek
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...he criticizes received ideas about the gods andexplains certain physical phenomena...Ionian science with various claims aboutthe gods, yet without any attempt to integrate...or at least so itcan seem. But if his gods are not novel in that precise respect...
3.
Biography of the Gods
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Publisher:
Macmillan 1941
Subjects:
Gods
Religions
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...men wholived by nature's sufferance. That the lost gods of these lostpeoples were nature forces, humanized by...at thedawn of history were nature powers. But Sky-gods, Sun-gods,Rain-gods, Storm-gods were not the same everywhere...
4.
The Nature of the Gods
Contributors:
Publisher:
Oxford University Press 1998
Subjects:
Philosophy, Ancient
Gods, Roman
Gods, Greek
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the fact that your gods are strangers to pleasure, and so by yourown...about reverence and devotion* for the gods." Yes, but how does he address the issue...overturnedthe temples and altars of the immortal gods not by violence, asXerxes did,* but...
5.
The Origin of the Gods: A Psychoanalytic Study of Greek Theogonic Myth
Contributors:
Publisher:
Oxford University Press 1993
Subjects:
Gods, Greek--Psychology
Mythology, Greek--Psychology
Psychoanalysis And Religion
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...obsessedwith proving himself superior to the gods that he cut up his sonPelops and served him to the gods for dinner. If any of the godsate a piece...something that they did not know. All the gods recognizedPelops on their plates and refused...
6.
The Supreme Gods of the Bosporan Kingdom: Celestial Aphrodite and the Most High God
Contributors:
Publisher:
Brill 1999
Subjects:
Kerch Strait (Ukraine And Russia)--Religion
Gods--Kerch Strait Region (Ukraine And Russia)--History
Gods, Greek--Kerch Strait Region (Ukraine And Russia)--History
Aphrodite (Greek Deity)--Cult--Kerch Strait Region (Ukraine And Russia)--History
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...art with rep­resentations of Greek gods, alone or together with indigenous culticsymbols...Her. 4.76).The cult of seven main gods is characteristic of the pantheons ofthe...composition of these pantheons. The orderof gods in Herodotus' list might be based on some...
7.
Singers, Heroes, and Gods in the Odyssey
Contributors:
Publisher:
Cornell University Press 1994
Subjects:
Homer. Odyssey
Epic Poetry, Greek--History and Criticism
Odysseus (Greek Mythology) in Literature
Bards and Bardism in Literature
Gods, Greek, in Literature
Heroes in Literature
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...00281986) 122ff.conception of the gods over many centuries need not exclude a...part of the poem's total vision of what gods might and should be. For a good statement...87, where a suitor's comment on the gods' moral watchfulness follows Odys­seus...
8.
A Dictionary of Egyptian Gods and Goddesses
Contributors:
Publisher:
Routledge & Kegan Paul 1986
Subjects:
Gods, Egyptian--Dictionaries
Mythology, Egyptian--Dictionaries
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...site leads to a coalescence of the two gods into Re-Atum.Illustrations of Atum...eventually destroy the world, submerging gods, men and Egypt in the primal waters...there are references to the creation of gods of the elements by Atum. Arising self...
9.
Laughing Gods, Weeping Virgins: Laughter in the History of Religion
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Publisher:
Routledge 1997
Subjects:
Laughter--Religious Aspects--Comparative Studies
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...with his satirical dialogues in which he made fun of the gods, even if those dialogues never made his fortune. In...Lucian’s favourite subjects. He poked fun at old gods, new gods, oracles and men who passed for holy. Lucian’s...
10.
Minds and Gods: The Cognitive Foundations of Religion
Contributors:
Publisher:
Oxford University Press 2006
Subjects:
Psychology, Religious
Thought And Thinking--Religious Aspects
Faith
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...is what ADD and ToMM have to do with gods. Thepromise was not simply to introduce...the con­nections between minds and gods will require other explorations into humancognition...They tell us exactly what kind of things gods are andhow we think about them.Counterintuitive...
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