{"id":1389,"date":"2023-02-27T22:21:00","date_gmt":"2023-02-27T22:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sapere-series.ch\/?p=1389"},"modified":"2024-09-23T20:17:42","modified_gmt":"2024-09-23T20:17:42","slug":"die-griechischen-goetter-ein-ueberblick-ueber-namen-bilder-und-deutungen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sapere-series.ch\/en\/die-griechischen-goetter-ein-ueberblick-ueber-namen-bilder-und-deutungen\/","title":{"rendered":"SAPERE XIV: The Greek Gods - An Overview of Names, Images and Interpretations"},"content":{"rendered":"

SAPERE XIV: The Greek Gods - An Overview of Names, Images and Interpretations<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The Greek Gods - An Overview of Names, Images and Interpretations, introduced, translated and provided with interpretative essays by Heinz-G\u00fcnther Nesselrath \/ Fabio Berdozzo \/ George Boys-Stones \/ Hans-Josef Klauck \/ Ilaria Ramelli \/ Alexei V. Zadorozhnyy, T\u00fcbingen 2009.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lucius Annaeus Cornutus came from Leptis Magna in Libya and lived as a Stoic philosopher in Rome at the time of Emperor Nero. Of his works (writings on rhetoric and philosophy; commentary on the poet Vergil), only the Epidrom\u00ea t\u00f4n kata t\u00ean Hell\u00eanik\u00ean theologian paradedomen\u00f4n <\/em>('Survey of what has been handed down in the Greek doctrine of the gods'), presented here for the first time in a German translation, has survived in its entirety. This work is a unique and idiosyncratic handbook of Stoic allegorical interpretation of the gods, providing for each Greek deity, from Uranos to Hades, an etymological and allegorical interpretation of their names, epithets and attributes, as well as some aspects of the myths, rites and images associated with them. It thus forms a remarkable attempt to interpret classical ancient polytheism with the help of a developed philosophy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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