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LEUCIPPUS AND DEMOCRITUS ON GOD AND THE GODS The atomic theory of Leucippus (fl. post-440? BC) and democritus (460–? BC) represents a watershed in the history of Greek thought in general, but particularly so with respect to the gods.
20 lip 2020 · In ancient Greek and Christian Gnosticism, the two selves are known as the eidelon (temporary personal self) and the daemon (eternal Spiritual Self) (see Freke and Gandy, 1999). In the
By interpreting the Greek oracles from the Andean notions of camac and wak’a, one can reconsider Greek divination as a cosmopraxis of cure between beings of a different nature (humans, metahumans, and nonhumans), and gain other points of view to approach ancient sources and contemporary ethnography.
When the first Indo-Europeans entered Greece in the early centuries of the second millennium BC, they arrived not without gods. So much is clear from comparisons with other Indo-European cultures. It is much harder to know whom they brought and how they called their gods.
focuses on the god Dionysus in two of his domains: the popularly known god of wine and the transcendental god of rebirth and afterlife, whose mysteries remain shrouded in secret. A study of the textual sources and representations of the god in Greek art, especially vase paintings throughout Athens and the southern
Offering an expansive view of the ancient Mediterranean world, Gods, Heroes, and Monsters: A Sourcebook of Greek, Roman, and Near Eastern Myths in Translation, Second Edition, presents essential Greek and Roman sources—including work from Homer, Hesiod, Virgil, and Ovid—alongside analogous narratives from the ancient Near East—Mesopotamia ...
THEISM - Belief in God From Greek qeoj (theos) - God [Theism is] the worldview that an infinite, personal God created the universe and miraculously intervenes in it from time to time. God is both transcendent over the universe and immanent in it. The three great theistic religions are Judaism, Islam, and Christianity (Geisler, 722).
