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Worshipping Virtues : Personification and the Divine in Ancient Greece by Emma Stafford is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
What is Worshipping Virtues : Personification and the Divine in Ancient Greece about?
The Greeks, in Dr. Johnson's phrase, 'shock the mind by ascribing effects to non-entity'. The culture of ancient Greece was thronged with personifications. In poetry and the visual arts, personified figures of what might seem abstractions claim our attention. This study examines the logic, the psychology and the practice of Greeks who worshipped these personifications with temples and sacrifices, and addressed them with hymns and prayers. Emma Stafford conducts case-studies of deified 'abstracti
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Emma Stafford
- Publisher
- Duckworth and the Classical Press of Wales
- Published
- 2000
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780715630464
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Science, Philosophy, Greece
- Updated
- 2026-03-24
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