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3Cosmography and the Idea of Hyperborea in Ancient Greece. A Philology of WorldsKernos 35 339-341. 2022.The title of Renaud Gagné’s book hides as much as it reveals. Hyperborea, R.G.’s name for the country of the Hyperboreans, is attested in a wide variety of ancient texts on those fascinating and enigmatic people of the farthest North, of which the A. proposes a “slow reading”: this reading is also a test case in which he tries out his “anthropological philology”. “Philology” might seem too narrow a term, since R.G. does not only look at the texts that talk about the Hyperboreans from Hesiod t...
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9Eleusis und die orphische Dichtung Athens in vorhellenistischer ZeitAmerican Journal of Philology 98 (3): 318. 1977.
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26J. Rabinowitz, The Rotting Goddess. The Origin of the Witch in Classical Antiquity's Demonization of Fertility Religion (review)Kernos 12 321-322. 1999.
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16Greek and Roman Necromancy (review)Classical World: A Quarterly Journal on Antiquity 99 (4): 459-460. 2006.
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27Serious Singing: The Orphic Hymns as Religious TextsKernos 22 169-182. 2009.In the wake of Albrecht Dieterich, in this paper I try to show how the overall arrangement of the hymns in the Orphic hymn book follows the progression of a nocturnal ritual. I insist on the frequency with which the hymns talk about the fear of meeting a divinity or a phasma that would be in an unkind and violent state and could drive the initiates into madness. Thus, the hymns construct the mystery experience as an event that is, at least in part, dangerous and frightening. This concern with ma…Read more
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3LiteraturverzeichnisIn Mythos in Mythenloser Gesellschaft: Das Paradigma Roms, De Gruyter. pp. 324-328. 1993.
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39Greek Wisdom — I Giorgio Colli: La sapienza greca, i: Dioniso, Apollo, Eleusi, Orfeo, Museo, Iperborei, Enigma. Pp. 469. Milan: Adelphi, 1977. L. 38,000 (review)The Classical Review 29 (02): 239-242. 1979.
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7Zum Mythosbegriff in der EthnologieIn Mythos in Mythenloser Gesellschaft: Das Paradigma Roms, De Gruyter. pp. 271-283. 1993.
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36Oral Religion R. Baumgarten: Heiliges Wort und heilige Schrift bei den Griechen. Hieroi Logoi und verwandte Erscheinungen . (ScriptOralia 110. Reihe A: Altertumswissenschaftliche Reihe, 26). Pp. 250. Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag, 1998. Cased, DM 96. ISBN: 3-8233-5420- (review)The Classical Review 51 (02): 281-. 2001.
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14Individual and Common Cult: Epigraphic ReflectionsIn Jörg Rüpke (ed.), The Individual in the Religions of the Ancient Mediterranean, Oxford University Press. pp. 115. 2013.
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5Epigraphic ReflectionsIn Jörg Rüpke (ed.), The Individual in the Religions of the Ancient Mediterranean, Oxford University Press. pp. 115. 2013.
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31Mythos in Mythenloser Gesellschaft: Das Paradigma Roms (edited book)De Gruyter. 1993.Die Colloquia Raurica werden alle zwei Jahre vom CollegiumRauricum veranstaltet. Sie finden auf Castelen, dem Landgut der Römer-Stiftung Dr. René Clavel in Augst (Augusta Raurica) bei Basel, statt. Jedes Colloquium behandelt eine aktuelle geisteswissenschaftliche Frage von allgemeinem Interesse aus der Perspektiveverschiedener Disziplinen. Einen Schwerpunkt bilden dabei Beiträge aus dem Bereich der Altertumswissenschaft. Um möglichst vielseitig abgestützte Erkenntnisse zu gewinnen, erörtern die …Read more
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14Der Eigensinn der Götterbilder in antiken religiösen DiskursenIn StephanHG Hauser (ed.), Homo Pictor, De Gruyter. pp. 227-243. 2001.
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9Quelques remarques sur la mythologie divine à Rome, à propos de Denys d’HalicarnasseIn Mythos in Mythenloser Gesellschaft: Das Paradigma Roms, De Gruyter. pp. 175-188. 1993.
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10A Satirist's SacrificesIn Jennifer Wright Knust & Zsuzsanna Várhelyi (eds.), Ancient Mediterranean Sacrifice, Oup Usa. pp. 203. 2011.
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4Der Mythos bei den Römern. Forschungs- und ProblemgeschichteIn Mythos in Mythenloser Gesellschaft: Das Paradigma Roms, De Gruyter. pp. 25-43. 1993.
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Ohio State UniversityRegular Faculty
Columbus, Ohio, United States of America
Areas of Interest
Philosophy of Religion |
Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy |