Inconsistencies in Greek and Roman Religion I: Ter Unus : Isis Dionysus, Hermes Three Studies in Henotheism (Studies in Greek and Roman Religion, Vo)
Language: English
Pages: 267
ISBN: 9004092668
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This is the first of a two-volume collection of studies in inconsistencies in Greek and Roman religion. Their common aim is to argue for the historical relevance of various types of ambiguity and dissonance. The first volume focuses on the central paradoxes in ancient henotheism. The term 'henotheism' -- a modern formation after the stereotyped acclamation: #EIS O QEOS# ("one is the god"), common to early Christianity and contemporaneous paganism -- denotes the specific devotion to one particular god without denying the existence of, or even cultic attention to, other gods. After its prime in the twenties and thirties of this century the term fell into disuse. Nonetheless, the notion of henotheism represents one of the most remarkable and significant shifts in Graeco-Roman religion and hence deserves fresh reconsideration.
in: L 'association dionysiaque 1986, 247-59; Merkelbach 1988, 25-9, and on private thiasoi in general: 15-30. 200 Note that eukosmia is also a Dionysiac feature in the Bacchae: B. K. Gold Eukosmia in Euripides' Bacchae, AJP 98 (1977) 3-16. ' 198 199 Nilsson 1906, 275-79; Deubner 1932, 123-34; Pickard-Cambridge 1969, 1-125. A. Frick~nhaus, Lenäenvasen (72 Berl. Winckelmannspr. 1912), published a collect~on ofthe 29 ,PIe ces known in his time. Some ten new representations have been published smce.
ofthe tragic conflict is strongly supported by this conflict between the two forms of 'wisdom'283. Each party claims superior wisdom and reproaches the other for using sophisms in defending his case. Teiresias' words: interpretation initiated by Hegel and revived in recent decades. Accordingly, this tragedy has given rise to equally contradictory interpretations. After a long period of romantic praise of Antigone, some recent sc hol ars contend that it was Creon (like Pentheus) who had the poet's
shall observe later on. Lucian Tyrannoe. 9, makes his tyrant-slayer say: "I have come here to bring you democracy ( ..... ) and to convey you the happy tiding of freedom" . 47 AsJacobsthal attractively surmised in Metr.Mus.Stud. 5 (1934) 131. "It is a pity that they could not find a better picture of the statues ready-made; or did not commission one from a more expensive painter": G. Vermeule, Five Vases from the Grave Precinct of Dexileos, JDAI 85 (1970) 94-111, esp. 106. 48 IG 112, 450; 646;
ce qu on seralt en drOlt de garder pour Sol', OUYXroPElV n 'implique pas necessalrement que l'auteur de la 'concession' renonce a un droit acquis. De meme les verbes aVElVat et a light Pentheus was not right:. I hope to' show that the Bacchae is the tragedy of two conflicting positions which, though both right in principle, make themselves both guilty of asebeia. And this is a truly tragic paradox. Furthermore, I shall argue that in the context of this tragic objective, Euripides was the first Greek author to recognize and design the image of a revolutionary new type of god and the concomitant religious mentality, an image wh ich , though no doubt tolerated by the unique