Facing the gods : epiphany and representation in Graeco-Roman art, literature and religion /

Facing the gods : epiphany and representation in Graeco-Roman art, literature and religion /

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Author / Creator:	Platt, Verity J. (Verity Jane), 1977-
Imprint:	Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011.
Description:	xviii, 482 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Greek culture in the Roman world Greek culture in the Roman world.
Subject:	Epiphany in art. Civilization. Epiphany in art. Religion. Greece -- Religion. Greece -- Civilization. Rome -- Religion. Rome -- Civilization. Greece. Rome (Empire)
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8507081

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ISBN:	9780521861717 0521861713
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	"This is the first history of epiphany as both a phenomenon and a cultural discourse within the Graeco-Roman world. It explores divine manifestations and their representations not only in art but also in literary, historical and epigraphic accounts, and sets the cultural analysis of this unfamiliar conceptual phenomenon within a historical framework that explores its development from the archaic period to the Roman Empire. In particular, a surprisingly large number of the surviving images from antiquity are not only religious but epiphanically charged. Verity Platt argues that the enduring potential for divine incursions into mortal experience provides a reliable cognitive structure which supports both ancient religion and mythology. At the same time, Graeco-Roman culture exhibits a sophisticated awareness of the difficulties and ambiguities in apprehending deity and representing the divine presence, and of the potential for the manmade sign to lead the worshipper back to an unmediated epiphanic encounter"--

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