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  • Visiting the Oracle at Dodona

    Contexts of Unknowing in Ancient Greek Religion

    Edited by Hugh Bowden, Esther Eidinow ...
    Series series Ancient Religion and Cognition
    Previous studies of Greek oracles have largely studied their social and political connections. In contrast, this pioneering volume explores the experience of visiting the oracle of Zeus at Dodona in NW Greece, focusing on the role of the senses and embodied cognition. Building on the unique corpus of oracular question tablets found at the site, it investigates how this experience made new ways of ... Read more

    $106.59 USD

  • Conversing with Chaos in Graeco-Roman Antiquity

    Writing and Reading Environmental Disorder in Ancient Texts

    Edited by Esther Eidinow, Dr Christopher Schliephake ...
    Series series Ancient Environments
    How did ancient Greeks and Romans perceive their environments: did they see order or chaos, chance or control? And how do their views compare to modern perceptions?Conversing with Chaos in Graeco-Roman Antiquity challenges prevailing ideas that ancient perceptions of the non-human world rested on a profound belief in universal order, and that the cosmos was harmonious and under human control ... Read more

    Was $97.99 USD Now $32.39 USD

  • Metamorphosis, Landscape, and Trauma in Greco-Roman Myth

    by Esther Eidinow ...
    This study explores the hidden histories offered by Greco-Roman myths of metamorphosis, and what they can reveal about the lived experience of ancient men and women. It investigates the role of the body, and the embodied experiences of emotions in these stories, arguing that these narratives of transformation allow us to glimpse aspects of our historical subjects, which in other sources remain ... Read more

    $98.99 USD

  • The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion

    Edited by Esther Eidinow, Julia Kindt ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    This handbook offers both students and teachers of ancient Greek religion a comprehensive overview of the current state of scholarship in the subject, from the Archaic to the Hellenistic periods. It not only presents key information, but also explores the ways in which such information is gathered and the different approaches that have shaped the area. In doing so, the volume provides a crucial ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Cognitive Approaches to Ancient Religious Experience

    Edited by Esther Eidinow, Armin W. Geertz, John North ...
    Series series Ancient Religion and Cognition
    For some time interest has been growing in a dialogue between modern scientific research into human cognition and research in the humanities. This ground-breaking volume focuses this dialogue on the religious experience of men and women in the ancient Greek and Roman worlds. Each chapter examines a particular historical problem arising from an ancient religious activity and the contributions range ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Ancient Divination and Experience

    Edited by Lindsay G. Driediger-Murphy, Esther Eidinow ...
    This volume sets out to re-examine what ancient people - primarily those in ancient Greek and Roman communities, but also Mesopotamian and Chinese cultures - thought they were doing through divination, and what this can tell us about the religions and cultures in which divination was practised. The chapters, authored by a range of established experts and upcoming early-career scholars, engage with ... Read more

    $92.69 USD

  • Narratives of Time and Gender in Antiquity

    Edited by Esther Eidinow, Lisa Maurizio ...
    This volume offers new insights into ancient figurations of temporality by focusing on the relationship between gender and time across a range of genres.Each chapter in this collection places gender at the center of its exploration of time, and the volume includes time in treatises, genealogical lists, calendars, prophetic literature, ritual practice and historical and poetic narratives from the ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • The Oxford Companion to Classical Civilization

    Edited by Simon Hornblower, Antony Spawforth, Esther Eidinow ...
    Series series Oxford Companions
    What did the ancient Greeks eat and drink? What role did migration play? Why was emperor Nero popular with the ordinary people but less so with the upper classes? Why (according to ancient authors) was Oedipus ('with swollen foot') so called? For over 2,000 years the civilizations of ancient Greece and Rome have captivated our collective imagination and provided inspiration for so many aspects of ... Read more

    $44.09 USD

  • Theologies of Ancient Greek Religion

    Edited by Esther Eidinow, Julia Kindt, Robin Osborne ...
    Series series Cambridge Classical Studies
    Studied for many years by scholars with Christianising assumptions, Greek religion has often been said to be quite unlike Christianity: a matter of particular actions (orthopraxy), rather than particular beliefs (orthodoxies). This volume dares to think that, both in and through religious practices and in and through religious thought and literature, the ancient Greeks engaged in a sustained ... Read more

    $43.49 USD

  • Women's Ritual Competence in the Greco-Roman Mediterranean

    Edited by Matthew Dillon, Esther Eidinow, Lisa Maurizio ...
    Contributions in this volume demonstrate how, across the ancient Mediterranean and over hundreds of years, women’s rituals intersected with the political, economic, cultural, or religious spheres of their communities in a way that has only recently started to gain sustained academic attention. The volume aims to tease out a number of different approaches and contexts, and to expand existing ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

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  • Approaches to Greek Myth

    by Lowell Edmunds ...
    "A handy introduction to some of the more useful methodological approaches to and the previous scholarship on the subject of Greek myths." — PhoenixSince the first edition of Approaches to Greek Myth was published in 1990, interest in Greek mythology has surged. There was no simple agreement on the subject of "myth" in classical antiquity, and there remains none today. Is myth a narrative or a ... Read more

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  • A Companion to Greek and Roman Sexualities

    Edited by Thomas K. Hubbard ...
    Series series Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World
    A Companion to Greek and Roman Sexualities presents a comprehensive collection of original essays relating to aspects of gender and sexuality in the classical world.Views the various practices and discursive contexts of sexuality systematically and holisticallyDiscusses Greece and Rome in each chapter, with sensitivity to the continuities and differences between the two classical ... Read more

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