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xvi, 437 pages : 25 cm "The polytheistic religious systems of ancient Greece and Rome reveal an imaginative attitude towards the construction of the divine. One of the most important instruments in this process was certainly the visualisation. Images of the gods transformed the divine world into a visually experienceable entity, comprehensible even without a theoretical or theological superstructure. For the illiterates, images were together with oral traditions and rituals the only possibility to approach the idea of the divine; for the intellectuals, images of the gods could be allegorically transcended symbols to reflect upon. Based on the art historical and textual evidence, this volume offers a fresh view on the historical, literary, and artistic significance of divine images as powerful visual media of religious and intellectual communication"-- Includes bibliographical references and indexes Introduction : divine images versus cult images : an endless story about theories, methods, and terminologies / Joannis Mylonopoulos -- A pantheon without attributes? : goddesses and gods in Minoan and Mycenean iconography / Fritz Blakolmer -- Aniconism and the notion of "primitive" in G

Author

Jannis Mylonopoulos; Ιωάννης Μυλωνόπουλος

Publisher

Brill ; Extenza Turpin [distributor

Published

2010

Language

EN

ISBN

9789004179301

Subjects

Religion