Divine Names on the Spot II : Exploring the Potentials of Names Through Image...

by Porzia, Fabio (EDT); Bonnet, Corinne (EDT)

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Divine Names on the Spot II : Exploring the Potentials of Names Through Images and Narratives, Hardcover by Porzia, Fabio (EDT); Bonnet, Corinne (EDT), ISBN 9042951613, ISBN-13 9789042951617, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US English summary: Names, images, and narratives are intimately related and frequently polysemous. As pieces of information on the gods, they convey fragments of knowledge and attempts to interpret the multifaceted complexity of the divine world. In what Robert Parker describes as an "archipelago", images and narratives are like compasses used to approach the mapping of the gods. The different contributions collected in this volume, dealing with the Greek and the Semitic worlds (the two main areas of the "Mapping Ancient Polytheisms" project), explore connections but also discrepancies between these different semantics, in order to highlight specificities and commonalities in the onomastic and iconographic languages. French description: Les noms, les images et les recits sont intimement lies et volontiers polysemiques. En tant qu'elements d'information sur les dieux, ils vehiculent des fragments de connaissance et constituent autant de tentatives d'interpretation de la complexite multiforme du monde divin. Dans ce que Robert Parker decrit comme un archipel, les images et les recits sont comme des boussoles qui facilitent la cartographie des dieux. Les differentes contributions rassemblees dans ce volume, traitant des mondes grec et semitique (les deux

• Binding: Hardcover
• ISBN: 9789042951617
• Condition: Fine

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