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l volume di Claudia Posani cerca di riconoscere elementi della tradizione del Tardo Bronzo che hanno trovato uneco nella documentazione dellEta del Ferro e identificare suggestioni e motivi mutuati dalla conoscenza della documentazione neo-assira. Il volume analizza le iscrizioni neo-ittite in luvio e in aramaico da un punto di vista stilistico-formale volendo evidenziare quali delle metafore, immagini, maledizioni documentate in questi testi possano trovare un qualche riscontro nei testi del secondo millennio a.C. Un ulteriore elemento di indagine in questo volume e costituito dallo studio del supporto scrittorio e dal rapporto tra testo e immagine, la dove il testo sia accompagnato anche da raffigurazioni. Anche in questo caso, il confronto con la documentazione di eta precedente, anche se scarsa, appare estremamente interessante.
Inscriptions, Luwian --- Inscriptions, Luwian --- Inscriptions, Hieroglyphic. --- Luwian language --- Figures of speech.
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Divine Names are a key component in the communication between humans and gods in Antiquity. Their complexity derives not only from the impressive number of onomastic elements available to describe and target specific divine powers, but also from their capacity to be combined within distinctive configurations of gods. The volume collects 36 essays pertaining to many different contexts - Egypt, Anatolia, Levant, Mesopotamia, Greece, Rome - which address the multiple functions and wide scope of divine onomastics. Scrutinized in a diachronic and comparative perspective, divine names shed light on how polytheisms and monotheisms work as complex systems of divine and human agents embedded in an historical framework. Names imply knowledge and play a decisive role in rituals; they move between cities and regions, and can be translated; they interact with images and reflect the intrinsic plurality of divine beings. This vivid exploration of divine names pays attention to the balance between tradition and innovation, flexibility and constraints, to the material and conceptual parameters of onomastic practices, to cross-cultural contexts and local idiosyncrasies, in a word to human strategies for shaping the gods through their names.
HISTORY / Medieval. --- Religions. --- monotheisms. --- onomastics. --- polytheisms.
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