The Daily Life of the Greek Gods Tapa blanda - 2000
de Giulia Sissa; Marcel Detienne; Janet Lloyd (Translator)
Primera línea
The daily life of the gods.
Descripción de contraportada
Despite the rousing stories of male heroism in battles, the Trojan War transcended the activities of its human participants. For Homer, it was the gods who conducted and accounted for what happened. In the first part of this book, the authors find in Homer's Iliad material for exploring the everyday life of the Greek gods: what their bodies were made of and how they were nourished, the organization of their society, and the sort of life they led both in Olympus and in the human world. The gods are divided in their human nature: at once a fantasized model of infinite joys and an edifying example of engagement in the world, they have loves, festivities, and quarrels.
In the second part, the authors show how citizens carried on everyday relations with the gods and those who would become the Olympians, inviting them to reside with humans organized in cities. At the heart of rituals and of social life, the gods were omnipresent: in sacrifices, at meals, in political assemblies, in war, in sexuality. In brief, the authors show how the gods were indispensable to the everyday social organization of Greek cities.
To set on stage a number of gods implicated in the world of human beings, the authors give precedence to the feminine over the masculine, choosing to show how such great powers as Hera and Athena wielded their sovereignty over cities, reigning over not only the activities of women but also the moulding of future citizens. Equally important, the authors turn to Dionysus and follow the evolution of one of his forms, that of the phallus paraded in processions. Under this god, so attentive to all things feminine, the authors explore the typically civic ways of thinking about the relations between natural fecundity and the sexuality of daily life.
Descripción de la solapa
Despite the rousing stories of male heroism in battles, the Trojan War transcended the activities of its human participants. For Homer, it was the gods who conducted and accounted for what happened. In the first part of this book, the authors find in Homer's Iliad material for exploring the everyday life of the Greek gods: what their bodies were made of and how they were nourished, the organization of their society, and the sort of life they led both in Olympus and in the human world. The gods are divided in their human nature: at once a fantasized model of infinite joys and an edifying example of engagement in the world, they have loves, festivities, and quarrels.
In the second part, the authors show how citizens carried on everyday relations with the gods and those who would become the Olympians, inviting them to reside with humans organized in cities. At the heart of rituals and of social life, the gods were omnipresent: in sacrifices, at meals, in political assemblies, in war, in sexuality. In brief, the authors show how the gods were indispensable to the everyday social organization of Greek cities.
To set on stage a number of gods implicated in the world of human beings, the authors give precedence to the feminine over the masculine, choosing to show how such great powers as Hera and Athena wielded their sovereignty over cities, reigning over not only the activities of women but also the moulding of future citizens. Equally important, the authors turn to Dionysus and follow the evolution of one of his forms, that of the phallus paraded in processions. Under this god, so attentive to all things feminine, the authors explore the typically civic ways of thinking about the relations between natural fecundity and the sexuality of daily life.
Detalles
- Título The Daily Life of the Greek Gods
- Autor Giulia Sissa; Marcel Detienne; Janet Lloyd (Translator)
- Encuadernación Tapa blanda
- Edición First US Printin
- Páginas 312
- Volúmenes 1
- Idioma ENG
- Editorial Stanford University Press, Stanford
- Fecha de publicación 2000-04-01
- Ilustrado Sí
- ISBN 9780804736145 / 0804736146
- Peso 0.8 libras (0.36 kg)
- Dimensiones 8.5 x 5.56 x 0.71 pulgadas (21.59 x 14.12 x 1.80 cm)
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Temas
- Chronological Period: Ancient (To 499 A.D.)
- Library of Congress subjects Mythology, Greek, Gods, Greek
- Número de catálogo de la Librería del Congreso de EEUU 99087856
- Dewey Decimal Code 292.211
Reseñas en medios
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- Choice, 12/01/2000, Page 703
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