Divine images and human imaginations in Ancient Greece and Rome
By: edited by Joannis Mylonopoulos.
Contributors: Mylonopoulos, Jannis.
Series: Religions in the Graeco-Roman world -- v. 170; Religions in the Graeco-Roman world -- v. 170.
Publisher: Brill; BRILL
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 437
ISBN-13: 9789004179301
Subjects: Idols and images -- Greece; Idols and images -- Rome; Greece -- Religion; Rome -- Religion
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: divine images versus cult images : an endless story about theories, methods, and terminologies / Joannis Mylonopoulos; title: A pantheon without attributes? : goddesses and gods in Minoan and Mycenean iconography / Fritz Blakolmer; title: Aniconism and the notion of "primitive" in Greek antiquity / Milette Gaifman; title: Finding the gods : Greek and Cypriot votive korai revisited / Catherine M. Keesling; title: Gods and statues : an approach to archaistic images in the fifth century BCE / Fernande Hölscher; title: Greek priests and "cult statues" : in how far are they unnecessary? / Vinciane Pirenne-Delforge; title: Theseus and the stone : the iconographic and ritual contexts of a Greek votive relief in the Louvre / Gunnel Ekroth; title: Odysseus with a trident : the use of attributes in ancient Greek imagery / Joannis Mylonopoulos; title: The life story of a cult statue as an allegory : Kallimachos' Hermes perpheraios / Ivana Petrovic; title: Arcadian cult images between religion and politics / Tanja Scheer; title: Synnaos theos : images of Roman emperors in Greek temples / Dirk Steuernagel; title: Simulacra deorum versus ornamenta aedium : the status of divine images in the temples of Rome / Sylvia Estienne; title: The dedication of cult statues at the altar : a Roman pictorial formula for the introduction of new cults / Katja Moede; title: Ornamenta, monumenta, exempla : Greek images of gods in the public spaces of Constantinople / Alessandra Bravi.