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Paperback Worshipping Virtues: Personification and the Divine in Ancient Greece Book
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ISBN: 1914535294

ISBN13: 9781914535291

Worshipping Virtues: Personification and the Divine in Ancient Greece

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The Greeks, in Dr. Johnson's phrase, 'shock the mind by ascribing effects to non-entity'. The culture of ancient Greece was thronged with personifications. In poetry and the visual arts, personified figures of what might seem abstractions claim our attention. This study examines the logic, the psychology and the practice of Greeks who worshipped these personifications with temples and sacrifices, and addressed them with hymns and prayers. Emma Stafford...

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