Divine images and human imaginations in ancient Greece and Rome

Weitere Verfasser: Mylonopoulos, Jannis.
Ort/Verlag/Jahr: Leiden ; : Brill, 2015.
Umfang/Format: xvi, 437 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Schriftenreihe: Religions in the Graeco-Roman world ; v. 170
Inhaltsangabe:
  • 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 Greek antiquity / Milette Gaifman
  • Finding the gods : Greek and Cypriot votive korai revisited / Catherine M. Keesling
  • Gods and statues : an approach to archaistic images in the fifth century BCE / Fernande Holscher
  • Greek priests and "cult statues" : how far are they unnecessary? / Vinciane Pirenne-Delforge
  • Theseus and the stone : the iconographic and ritual contexts of a Greek votive relief in the Louvre / Gunnel Ekroth
  • Odysseus with a trident : the use of attributes in Ancient Greek imagery / Joannis Mylonopoulos
  • The life story of a cult statue as an allegory : Kallimachos' Hermes perpheraios / Ivana Petrovic
  • Arcadian cult images between religion and politics / Tanja Scheer
  • Synnaos theos : images of Roman emperors in Greek temples / Dirk Steuernagel
  • Simulacra deorum versus ornamenta aedium : the status of divine images in the temples of Rome / Sylvia Estienne
  • The dedication of cult statues at the altar : a Roman pictorial formula for the introduction of new cults / Katja Moede
  • Ornamenta, monumenta, exempla : Greek images of gods in the public spaces of Constantinople / Alessandra Bravi.