The Greek gods in modern scholarship : interpretation and by Michael D. Konaris

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The 19th century is a key interval within the heritage of the translation of the Greek gods. The Greek Gods in glossy Scholarship examines how German and British students of the time drew on philology, archaeology, comparative mythology, anthropology, or sociology to improve appreciably diverse theories at the Greek gods and their origins. For a few, that they had been personifications of traditional components, for others, that they had all started as common gods just like the Christian god, but for others, they went again to totems or have been projections of workforce harmony. the quantity discusses the perspectives of either famous figures like ok. O. Muller (1797-1840), or Jane Harrison (1850-1928), and of forgotten, yet vital, students like F. G. Welcker (1784-1868). It explores the underlying assumptions and agendas of the rival theories within the gentle in their highbrow and cultural context, laying pressure on how they have been hooked up to broader modern debates over primary questions corresponding to the origins and nature of faith, or the relation among Western tradition and the 'Orient'. It additionally considers the influence of theories from this era on 20th- and twenty-first-century scholarship on Greek faith and attracts implications for the learn of the Greek gods today.

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127. On the romantic circle at Heidelberg see Th. Ziolkowski, Heidelberger Romantik. Mythos und Symbol (Heidelberg: Winter, 2009). 177 On the Symbolik see M. Galland-Szymkowiak, ‘La Symbolique de Friedrich Creuzer. Philologie, Mythologie, Philosophie’, Revue Germanique Internationale 14, 2011, pp. 91–112, Fornaro (2001), Ziolkowski (2009), pp. 186–91, Graf (1993), pp. 20–2. 178 The emphasis on the role of priests was a salient feature of the Symbolik. In his autobiography, Creuzer stated that his work showed how ‘alle ethische und politische Sittigung des Menschengeschlechts nur durch priesterliche Institutionen vererbt und veredelt worden’.

F. Otto, Der Geist der Antike und die christliche Welt (Bonn: Cohen, 1923), p. 124. 147 Otto (1923), p. 124. OUP CORRECTED PROOF – FINAL, 6/11/2015, SPi Introduction 31 continued to dominate scholarship on Greek religion during the nineteenth century as they had done previously. First, was monotheism or polytheism the original form of Greek religion? 150 Nevertheless, J. 151 The negative connotations of the term ‘polytheism’ have had a long afterlife in classical scholarship in Germany and Britain.

In M. Korenjak and K. ), Pontes I. Akten der ersten Innsbrucker Tagung zur Rezeption der klassischen Antike (Innsbruck: Studien, 2001), pp. 28–42 at p. 38, Espagne (2010b), p. 146. On Voss’ opposition to theories of Eastern origins see Williamson (2004), pp. 139–40 and J. Vanden Heuvel, A German Life in the Age of Revolution. : Catholic University of America Press, 2001), p. 146. We should note, however, that Voss did not reject foreign influences on Greek religion altogether, but rather confined them to post-Homeric times: Gruppe (1921), p.

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