Light and Darkness in Ancient Greek Myth and Religion

ISBN-13: 9780739138984 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 324 str.

Menelaos Christopoulos

Opis

Light and Darkness in Ancient Greek Myth and Religion is a ground-breaking volume dedicated to a thorough examination of the well known empirical categories of light and darkness as it relates to modes of thought, beliefs and social behavior in Greek culture. With a systematic and multi-disciplinary approach, the book elucidates the light/darkness dichotomy in color semantics, appearance and concealment of divinities and creatures of darkness, the eye sight and the insight vision, and the role of the mystic or cultic.