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University of California Press, 2006. Hardcover. New/New. New hardcover in a new dust jacket. Pages are clean and free of marks or underlining. (6 x 1.4 x 9 inches) Includes a bibliography, index, maps, and figures. 478 pp. Fast shipping in a secure book box mailer with tracking. Among maternal deities of the Greek pantheon, the Mother of the Gods was a paradox. She is variously described as a devoted mother, a chaste wife, an impassioned lover, and a virgin daughter; she is said to be both foreign and familiar to the Greeks. In this erudite and absorbing study, Mark Munn examines how the cult of Mother of the Gods came from Phrygia and Lydia, where she was the mother of tyrants, to Athens, where she protected the laws of the Athenian democracy. Analyzing the divergence of Greek and Asiatic culture at the beginning of the classical era, Munn describes how Kybebe, the Lydian goddess who signified fertility and sovereignty, assumed a different aspect to the Greeks when Lydia became part of the…
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The Mother of the Gods, Athens, and the Tyranny of Asia: A Study of Sovereignty in Ancient Religion Capa dura - 2006
por Mark H. Munn
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"This book is a remarkable achievement: fascinating, stimulating, in many ways brilliant and revolutionary because it forces us at every turn and on almost every page to reassess traditional views, familiar explanations, and a worldview we took for granted."--Kurt Raaflaub, co-author of The Origins of Democracy in Ancient Greece
"Munn has a superb gift for association, interconnecting facts into completely unexpected new vistas."--Henrik Versnel, author of Triumphus: An Inquiry into the Origin, Development and Meaning of the Roman Triumph
"Munn has a superb gift for association, interconnecting facts into completely unexpected new vistas."--Henrik Versnel, author of Triumphus: An Inquiry into the Origin, Development and Meaning of the Roman Triumph
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- Título The Mother of the Gods, Athens, and the Tyranny of Asia: A Study of Sovereignty in Ancient Religion
- Autor Mark H. Munn
- Encadernação Capa dura
- Edição EXTREME SAVINGS!
- Páginas 478
- Volumes 1
- Idioma ENG
- Editorial University of California Press, Berkeley, CA
- Data de publicação 2006-07-11
- Features Bibliography, Dust Cover, Index, Maps, Table of Contents
- ISBN 9780520243491 / 0520243498
- Peso 1.73 libras (0.78 kg)
- Dimensão 9.26 x 6.32 x 1.36 in. (23.52 x 16.05 x 3.45 cm)
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- Chronological Period: Ancient (To 499 A.D.)
- Interdisciplinary Studies: Classics
- Library of Congress subjects Cybele (Goddess) - Cult - Greece - Athens -, Religion and politics - Greece - Athens -
- Número da Biblioteca do Congresso dos Estados Unidos 2005013449
- Dewey Decimal Code 292.211
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Hardback. New. Examines how the cult of Mother of the Gods came from Phrygia and Lydia, where she was the mother of tyrants, to Athens, where she protected the laws of the Athenian democracy. This work describes how Kybebe, the Lydian goddess, assumed a different aspect to the Greeks when Lydia became part of the Persian empire.
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