Networks and Narratives: A Model for Ancient Greek Religion [PDF]
Kernos, 2011 Polis religion has become the dominant model for the description of ritual activity in ancient Greek communities. Indeed, scholars have invoked polis religion to try to resolve the much-debated question of the definition of magic vs. religion, arguing that particular ‘magical’ practices, and their practitioners, do not belong to ‘collective polis ...
Eidinow, Esther
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La mandragore, non seulement un analgesique narcotique: sa place dans la medecine et la civilisation grecque antique [PDF]
Archives of the Balkan Medical Union, 2018 The mandrake, not just a narcotic: its place in medicine and ancient greek civilization Hippocrates and his followers, as well as Pedanius Dioscorides, Pseudo-Galen and Aretaeus of Cappadocia are just a few of the many ancient Greek physicians who ...
Konstantinos LAIOS +4 more
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Gods, Religion and Its Criticism in the Greek Aesopic Fables
Studia Warmińskie, 2023 About a hundred Greek fables from the Aesopic tradition contain direct or allegorical references to religion. These references were not sufficiently studied.
Michał Wojciechowski
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Das Asklepieion in Pergamon zwischen Religion und Medizin
Godišnjak, 2022 The paper has the task of analyzing the relationship between religion and medicine in the ancient city of Pergamon, primarily in the early days of the Roman emperors, analyzing the cult of Asklepios, one of the central cults, also known for its widely ...
Milan Kostrešević
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“Everything is Full of Gods”; Theologia - Muthologia and the Beginning of the Ancient Greek Political Thought [PDF]
Journal of Philosophical Investigations, 2023 The primary objective of this article is to elucidate that a comprehensive understanding of Greek political thought necessitates an examination of its origins in Ancient Greece.
Mahdi Fayyaz +3 more
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Čajkanović's road from ancient Greek and folk literature to Serbian religion and mythology [PDF]
Glasnik Etnografskog Instituta SANU, 2008 After a careful examination of the works of Čajkanović, the author points out to the importance of his comparative method in studying Ancient Greek literature, traditional folk creation and folk religion and mythology.
Jovanović Bojan
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Filosofia e religião Grécia: dinâmica de ruptura e diálogo
Classica, Revista Brasileira de Estudos Clássicos, 1990 One aspect of the problem we have been asked to examine can be formulated in the question: how does it come about, in the 'axial age', that men start to ask whether human social organization and political decisions should be dominated by religious ...
Sally C. Humphreys
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Magia i religia w świecie starożytnych Greków (zarys problematyki)
Collectanea Philologica, 2020 In the works of anthropologists, ethnologists and sociologists of the 19th and 20th centuries, we may notice their efforts to distinguish magic, on the one hand, from religion, and on the other, from science. One of the criteria, which set the boundaries
Joanna Rybowska
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Temenos, 2008 This article focuses on three interrelated themes in the study of ancient Greek religion, looked at through the mateiral evidence from the sanctuary of Poseidon at Kalaureia on the island of Poros, Greece.
PAKKANEN PETRA
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Ancient Wisdom and the Modern Temper. On the Role of Greek Philosophy and the Jewish Tradition in Hans Jonas’s Philosophical Anthropology [PDF]
, 2017 The question on the essence of man and his relationship to nature is certainly one of the most important themes in the philosophy of Hans Jonas. One of the ways by which Jonas approaches the issue consists in a comparison between the contemporary ...
Fossa, Fabio
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