Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

Greece --- Grèce --- Religious life and customs --- Vie religieuse --- Grèce

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

Magic, Ancient --- Magic, Greek --- Magic, Roman --- Roman magic --- Greek magic --- Greece --- Rome --- Religious life and customs.

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

The oracle of Trophonios at Lebadeia (Boiotia), among the best documented in Greece, was active from the archaic period to the third century AD. At this oracle, divine revelation was given in the form of a ‘visionary trance’, experienced as a psychic journey or leap of the soul into the world of truth. From the beginning, the cult and legend of Trophonios (and of similar heroes) turned upon the boundary between ‘the other world’ and the here-and-now, and were intimately linked with psychagogy, divination (including iatromancy), and the mysteries. The analysis of each of the oracle's components in the light of ancient mentalities has broadened our understanding of both Trophonios and of Greek divination in general.

Trophonius (Greek mythology) --- Cults --- Trophonios (Mythologie grecque) --- Cultes --- Cult --- Culte --- Levadhia (Greece) --- Levadhia (Grèce) --- Religious life and customs --- Vie religieuse --- -292 --- Trophonios (Greek mythology) --- Mythology, Greek --- Godsdiensten van Grieken en Romeinen. Klassieke mythologie --- -Religious life and customs --- Cult. --- Religious life and customs. --- Levadhia (Grèce) --- 292 --- Levadeia (Greece) --- Livadeia (Greece) --- Lebadea (Greece) --- Livadea (Greece) --- Leivadia (Greece)

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

With few exceptions, previous research on so-called personal religion has focused on hymns preserved on stelae from Deir el-Medina. Whereas their significance as testimony of personal choice and religious belief should not be excluded, the stelae must be understood in their communal cultic context. In order to grasp individual religious practices this book seeks to broaden the scope of analysis and include the archaeological remains from the houses at Deir el-Medina. Instead of establishing individual relationships between the human and divine, it appeared that ‘personal’ religion sought to preserve and maintain family continuity. The ancient Egyptian concept of the continuous cycle of creation was thus appropriated at home. Whereas the king guaranteed the order of the cosmos by giving offerings to the gods in the temples, corresponding activities were performed for the well-being of the family at home.

Excavations (Archaeology) --- Stele (Archaeology) --- Fouilles (Archéologie) --- Stèles (Archéologie) --- Deir el-Medina Site (Egypt) --- Egypt --- Deir el-Médineh (Égypte : Site archéologique) --- Egypte --- Religious life and customs --- Antiquities. --- Religious life and customs. --- Vie religieuse --- Antiquités --- Antiquities --- Fouilles (Archéologie) --- Stèles (Archéologie) --- Deir el-Médineh (Égypte : Site archéologique) --- Antiquités --- Religion --- History --- Dayr al-Barsha Site (Egypt)

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

Comment prévoir l’inconnu et contrôler l’inattendu ? Les Anciens ont tenté de répondre à ces questions en interprétant des signes dans lesquels il reconnaissaient des messages divins. Ce recueil permet de comparer la diversité de leurs questionnements dans les sociétés polythéistes ou monothéistes de la Méditerranée antique. Il interroge premièrement la construction rituelle des signes au sein des institutions divinatoires ; deuxièmement, des phénomènes naturels spontanés, qui, apparus hors de toute institution, ont néanmoins valeur de présages ou d’avertissements ; troisièmement, l’intentionnalité manifestée à travers l’intervention divine dans l’histoire des peuples ou les vies singulières ; quatrièmement, l’épistémologie des signes dans des élaborations philosophiques ou théologiques qui éclairent la tension entre données oraculaires et contrôle ritualisé des signes, entre données révélées et argumentations raisonnées visant à neutraliser les injonctions du destin. How to foresee the unknown and master the unexpected? Ancient people tried to answer those questions by interpreting signs considered as divine messages. In this volume, the writers compare and examine this manifold questioning in the polytheistic and monotheistic societies of the ancient Mediterranean Sea. In the first place, it is shown how signs were ritually constructed within instituted practice of divination ; second, how, although some spontaneous natural phenomena appeared out of any instituted context, may nevertheless constitute omens or monition ; third, how the gods’ intervention may reveal a sort of intention in the course of national history or individual life ; finally, the essays study the epistemology of signs at work in some philosophical or theological elaborations, which may enlighten the tension between oracular evidence and ritual control of signs, and between revealed facts and reasoning arguments intending to neutralize the injunctions of the divine.

Omens --- Divination --- Présages --- History --- Religious aspects --- Histoire --- Aspect religieux --- Mediterranean Region --- Méditerranée, Région de la --- Religious life and customs. --- Vie religieuse --- Méditerranée ancienne --- --Divination --- --Religions antiques --- --History --- Religious life and customs --- History. --- 291 --- Religion Comparative religion --- Présages --- Méditerranée, Région de la --- Portents --- Prodigies (Omens) --- Signs (Omens) --- Superstition --- Signs and symbols --- Augury --- Soothsaying --- Occultism --- Worship --- Circum-Mediterranean countries --- Mediterranean Area --- Mediterranean countries --- Mediterranean Sea Region --- Omens - Mediterranean Region - History --- Divination - Mediterranean Region - History --- Religions antiques --- Mediterranean Region - Religious life and customs