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Cargando... The Daily Life of the Greek Godspor Giulia Sissa, Marcel Detienne, Jean-Pierre Vernant (Editor)
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. This book has interesting information but is oddly organized. The first part tells of how the poets saw the gods: as having daily lives of feasting, traveling, interacting with mortals, discussing with one another. The philosophers disagreed, seeing any action as incompatible with the bliss that definitional for their concept of divinity. We also contrast the relatively stable personalities and attributes of the Olympians in mythology with the fragmented identities in which Aphrodite can be worshipped in one place as a goddess of sex and in another as a war goddess. Book also describes Greek ideas of citizenship, founding of cities (with the establishment of altars and patron gods an important part), and the festivals of Dionysus. Che uso fanno gli dèi del tempo? Per rispondere a questa domanda occorre prima di tutto definire un dio, quindi immaginare l’esperienza che egli ha del tempo, e infine descrivere il suo rapporto col mondo. Per definire un dio la filosofia greca si divideva fra chi sosteneva che un dio esiste in quanto agisce o fra chi concepiva gli dèi beati nella pienezza della loro immobile perfezione. Partendo da queste premesse, adeguatamente argomentate, questo saggio a quattro mani esplora la vita quotidiana degli dèi greci in un confronto continuo col quotidiano dell’altro, degli uomini, affidandosi alle parole dei poeti, in primo luogo Omero, e dei filosofi antichi. La prima parte, a cura di Giulia Sissa, è più scorrevole e trascinante col suo andamento narrativo e avventuroso, i continui richiami all’Iliade contribuiscono a creare questo effetto; la seconda parte, di competenza di Marcel Detienne, di tono più accademico, è meno movimentata ma non per questo meno interessante. Da far precedere o affiancare alla lettura o rilettura, in particolare, dell’Iliade. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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