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familiar with the worship of nymphs at cave shrines, often in company with Pan or other deities concerned with rural life. Altho ...
including hills, lakes, and trees. The common term ‘‘naiad’’ is related to the verbnao ̄,to flow, and many nymph names including ...
Nymphs were worshiped as individuals or as pluralities, usually shown in Greek art as triads. Three recurrent themes appear in t ...
where he was worshiped together with the nymphs and other rustic gods in numerous cave shrines. Contrary to the practice in Arca ...
Popular taboos and cult regulations protected the purity of rivers and springs against the taint of human dirt, excrement, and o ...
Trachiniae, Deianira describes her polymorphous suitor, ‘‘who in three shapes was always asking me from my father – coming now a ...
Wide-Bosomed Earth and All-Seeing Sun Hesiod’sTheogony(117) describes Earth as ‘‘the ever-sure foundation of all,’’ a divine pro ...
female, are sacrificed for the Sun and Earth. The group of Zeus, Ge, and Helius as witnesses to oaths and other official busines ...
those resident in harbor towns (often Aphrodite or Poseidon). The Dioscuri, who appeared in ships’ rigging during storms in the ...
observances are widespread and have a Bronze Age antecedent in the cult of the winds at Mycenaean Knossos. GUIDE TO FURTHER READ ...
CHAPTER FOUR Personification in Greek Religious Thought and Practice Emma Stafford Introduction Personification is an important ...
fundamental problem because in classical antiquity there was no differentiation between upper- and lower-case letters, so there ...
earlier eastern Mediterranean cultures (Burkert 2005b; Duchemin 1980). Sumerian, Akkadian, and Hittite texts inform us of person ...
Moon, Dawn, Night and Day, various winds and stars. A number of abstract qualities are also included: Destiny, Doom, Dreams, Bla ...
already touched on Fear as a participant in battle, but elsewhere in theIliadhe very briefly takes on a more substantial charact ...
account of this festival, nor does he expand on his obscure comment that ‘‘they keep no statue in secret, and there is no openly ...
sanctuary is in a position to make loans totaling up to 56,000 drachmas (IGi^3 248). This increase in the sanctuary’s wealth was ...
a figure which the ancient audience would have taken more seriously. When Euripides’ Cyclops declares that ‘‘Wealth is the only ...
hellenistic period, while a single inscription from late fifth-century Thasos gives us a ‘‘sanctuary of Persuasion’’ alone (IGxi ...
(Hellenica4.4.2) of the massacre which took place on the last day of its celebration in spring 392 BC. The day was specifically ...
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