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Emotions --- Emotions in literature. --- Violence --- Violence in literature. --- Emotions dans la littérature --- Violence dans la littérature --- History. --- Histoire --- Emotions dans la littérature --- Violence dans la littérature --- Émotions --- Études comparatives

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"A collection of essays exploring the social aspects of sensation in the ancient Near East and how these cultures represented sensory phenomena in their languages, literature, art, and architecture"--Provided by publisher.

Senses and sensation --- Civilization, Ancient. --- Senses and sensation. --- History. --- Middle East. --- Senses and sensation - Middle East - History --- Civilization, Ancient --- Middle East

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Religious studies --- Sociology of religion

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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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