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45 produkter
Studying the Religious Mind
Methodology in the Cognitive Science of Religion
Av Leonardo Ambasciano, Esther Eidinow m. fl.
Häftad, 2022
649 kr
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The cognitive science of religion (CSR) does not have its own methodology, and yet from the very beginnings of the discipline, methodology has defined it not only in relation to the general study of religion in the humanities but also to the sciences interested in the mind. CSR scholars are using a …
Oxford Companion to Classical Civilization
Av Esther Eidinow, Antony Spawforth m. fl.
E-bok, 2014
537 kr
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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 …
Oxford Companion to Classical Civilization
Av Esther Eidinow, Antony Spawforth m. fl.
E-bok, 2014
537 kr
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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 …
Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion
Av Julia Kindt, Esther Eidinow
E-bok, 2015
1699 kr
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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 …
Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion
Av Julia Kindt, Esther Eidinow
E-bok, 2015
1699 kr
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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 …
Oracles, Curses, and Risk Among the Ancient Greeks
E-bok, 2007
989 kr
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How did ancient Greek men and women deal with the uncertainty and risk of everyday life? What did they fear most, and how did they manage their anxieties? Esther Eidinow sets side-by-side two collections of material usually studied in isolation: binding curse tablets from across the ancient world, …
Metamorphosis, Landscape, and Trauma in Greco-Roman Myth
E-bok, 2025
1244 kr
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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 …
Ancient Divination and Experience
Av Esther Eidinow, Lindsay G. Driediger-Murphy
E-bok, 2019
64 kr
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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 …
The Oxford Companion to Classical Civilization
Av Simon Hornblower, Antony Spawforth m. fl.
Inbunden, 2014
730 kr
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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 …
Metamorphosis, Landscape, and Trauma in Greco-Roman Myth
Inbunden, 2025
1935 kr
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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 …
The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion
Av Esther Eidinow, Julia Kindt
Häftad, 2017
682 kr
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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 …
Envy, Poison, & Death
Women on Trial in Classical Athens
Häftad, 2018
595 kr
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This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations.At the heart of this volume are three trials held in Athens in the fourth century BCE. …
Ancient Divination and Experience
Av Lindsay G. Driediger-Murphy, Esther Eidinow
Inbunden, 2019
2231 kr
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This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations.This volume sets out to re-examine what ancient people - primarily those in ancient …
Oracles, Curses, and Risk Among the Ancient Greeks
Inbunden, 2007
4873 kr
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Esther Eidinow sets the published question tablets from the oracle at Dodona side by side with the binding-curse tablets from across the ancient Greek world, and explores what they can tell us about perceptions of and expressions of risk among ordinary Greek men and women, as well as the insights …
Envy, Poison, and Death
Women on Trial in Classical Athens
Inbunden, 2015
2100 kr
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This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations.At the heart of this volume are three trials held in Athens in the fourth century BCE. …
The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion
Av Esther Eidinow, Julia Kindt
Inbunden, 2015
2574 kr
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This handbook offers a comprehensive overview of scholarship in ancient Greek religion, from the Archaic to the Hellenistic periods. It presents not only key information, but also explores the ways in which such information is gathered and the different approaches that have shaped the area. In …
Oracles, Curses, and Risk Among the Ancient Greeks
Häftad, 2013
1368 kr
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How did ancient Greek men and women deal with the uncertainty and risk of everyday life? What did they fear most, and how did they manage their anxieties? Esther Eidinow sets side-by-side two collections of material usually studied in isolation: binding curse tablets from across the ancient world, …
Women's Ritual Competence in the Greco-Roman Mediterranean
Av Matthew Dillon, Esther Eidinow m. fl.
Häftad, 2019
728 kr
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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 …
Luck, Fate and Fortune
Antiquity and its Legacy
E-bok, 2011
314 kr
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The impulse to try to anticipate the future, and make sense of apparently random events, is irrepressible. Why and how the ancient Greeks tried to foretell the outcome of the present is the subject of Esther Eidinow's lively appraisal, which explores the legacy of ancient Greek notions of luck, …
Cognitive Approaches to Ancient Religious Experience
Av Esther Eidinow, Armin W. Geertz m. fl.
Häftad, 2023
568 kr
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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 …
Cognitive Approaches to Ancient Religious Experience
Av John North, Armin W. Geertz m. fl.
E-bok, 2022
473 kr
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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 …
Visiting the Oracle at Dodona
Contexts of Unknowing in Ancient Greek Religion
Av Esther Eidinow, Hugh Bowden
E-bok, 2026
1560 kr
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Visiting the Oracle at Dodona
Contexts of Unknowing in Ancient Greek Religion
Av Esther Eidinow, Hugh Bowden
E-bok, 2026
1560 kr
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Visiting the Oracle at Dodona
Contexts of Unknowing in Ancient Greek Religion
Av Hugh Bowden, Esther Eidinow
Inbunden, 2026
1610 kr
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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 …
Deconstructing the Body in Antiquity and Modernity
Av Esther Eidinow, Georgia Petridou
Inbunden, 2026
2480 kr
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This multidisciplinary volume explores ancient and modern corporeal relational dynamics, as well as the agents and processes that produce dominant cultural definitions and elaborations of the body.Bringing together leading experts in Humanities, Medical Humanities, Social Sciences, and Health and …
Narratives of Time and Gender in Antiquity
Av Esther Eidinow, Lisa Maurizio
Häftad, 2023
649 kr
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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 …
Theologies of Ancient Greek Religion
Av Esther Eidinow, Julia Kindt m. fl.
Inbunden, 2016
1801 kr
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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 …
Women's Ritual Competence in the Greco-Roman Mediterranean
Av Lisa Maurizio, Esther Eidinow m. fl.
E-bok, 2016
813 kr
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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. …
Women's Ritual Competence in the Greco-Roman Mediterranean
Av Lisa Maurizio, Esther Eidinow m. fl.
E-bok, 2016
813 kr
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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. …
