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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

Platt, Verity

Hardcover

Series: Greek Culture in the Roman World

Religion General General World History

ISBN10: 0521861713
ISBN13: 9780521861717
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Jul 28 2011
Pages: 502
Weight: 2.56
Height: 1.20 Width: 6.90 Depth: 9.80
Language: English
This is the first history of epiphany as both a phenomenon and as a cultural discourse within the Graeco-Roman world, exploring divine manifestations and their representations, in visual terms as well as in literary, historical and epigraphic accounts. Verity Platt sets the cultural analysis of epiphany within a historical framework that explores its development from the archaic period into the Roman empire. In particular, a surprisingly large number of the images that have survived from antiquity are not only religious, but epiphanically charged. Verity Platt argues that the enduring potential for divine incursions into mortal experience provides a structure of cognitive reliability that supports both ancient religion and mythology. At the same time, Graeco-Roman culture exhibits a sophisticated awareness of the difficulties of the apprehension of deity, the representation of divine presence, and the potential for the manmade sign to lead the worshipper back to an unmediated epiphanic encounter.

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