Sökning: "Greek cult"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 14 avhandlingar innehållade orden Greek cult.

1. 1. The Lenaia vases revisited : image, ritual and Dionysian women

   Författare :Viveca Olsson; Göteborgs universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Attic pottery; black figure vases; red figure vases; Lenaia vases; stamnos; iconography; Dionysus; Dionysian women; maenads; Delphi; Thyiades; Greek cult; cult image; ritual; Etruria;

   Sammanfattning : This study deals with the so-called Lenaia vases, a group of fifty vases which were painted with similar imagery in Attica during 490-420 BC. The motifs of these vases depict "Dionysian" women, drinking wine and sacrificing bloody and bloodless offerings before a cult image of Dionysos. LÄS MER

3. 2. The sacrificial rituals of Greek hero-cults in the Archaic to the early Hellenistic periods

   Författare :Gunnel Ekroth; Robert Parker; Stockholms universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Greek religion; hero-cults; Archiac; Classical; animal sacrifice; libation; theoxenia; blood; holocaust; altar; cult of the dead; cult of the gods; ritual dining; antikens kultur och samhällsliv; Classical Archaeology and Ancient History;

   Sammanfattning : This study questions the traditional view of sacrifices in hero-cults during the Archaic to the early Hellenistic periods (c. 700-300 BC) as consisting mainly in holocausts, rituals focusing on the blood of the animal victim and the presentation of meals, and rarely in thysia sacrifices followed by collective dining. LÄS MER

4. 3. A study of dedications to Aphrodite from Greek magistrates

   Författare :Jenny Wallensten; Institutionen för arkeologi och antikens historia; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Ancient history; epithets; votive gifts; ancient diplomacy; Hermes; inscriptions; epigraphy; the Hellenistic period; Greek religion; dedications; Aphrodite; magistrates; Antikens och forntidens historia;

   Sammanfattning : Through the identification of a series of inscriptions, mainly datable to the Hellenistic era, a link between Aphrodite and the civic life and administration of the Greek poleis has come to light. The inscriptions in question are dedications to Aphrodite through which magistrates of various cities and varying status express their devotion to the goddess. LÄS MER

5. 4. In search of Dionysos. Reassessing a Dionysian context in early Rome

   Författare :Carina Håkansson; Göteborgs universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Dionysos; Dionysus; Roman religion; Archaic religion; paradigm shift; satyrs; liminality; iconography; ritual; cult; performance; Fufluns; Liber; Bacchus; oral tradition; antefix; small finds; intercontextual;

   Sammanfattning : In the present study the possibility of an early appearance of the god Dionysos and his sphere in archaic Rome, in the decades around 500 BC, will be examined. In early scholarship, rooted in the 19th century, the phenomenon of Dionysian ecstatic rites, cults, and satyr-plays in Roman society was denied. LÄS MER

7. 5. Bildet sett fra innsiden : Ikonoklastiske og matematiske konsepter i Florenskijs omvendte perspektiv

   Författare :Fabian Heffermehl; Mattias Martinson; Elena Namli; Per-Arne Bodin; Uppsala universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; icon; reverse perspective; image; Russia; modernism; mathematics; geometry; avant-garde; cult; utopia; apocalypsis; Systematic Theology and Studies in Worldviews; Systematisk teologi med livsåskådningsforskning; Slaviska språk; Slavic Languages; Konstvetenskap; History of Art;

   Sammanfattning : For the Armenian-Russian mathematician, theologian and art-theoretician Pavel Florensky (1882–1937), the so-called reverse perspective of the Byzantine cult-image (in Greek: eikon) functioned not only as a phenomenon within painting, but also as an expression of a world-view that should ultimately define a cultural distinction between Russia and Europe. Florensky argued in various ways that the Russian-Orthodox reverse perspective represents ethical and aesthetical values that are superior to the Western linear perspective. LÄS MER