Greek Philosophy and Mystery Cults

María José García Blanco, María José Martín-Velasco (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

260 Seiten

2016 | Unabridged edition
Cambridge Scholars Publishing (Verlag)
9781443888301 (ISBN)

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The contributions to this book offer a broad vision of the relationships that were established between Greek Philosophy and the Mystery Cults. The authors centre their attention on such thinkers as Plato, Aristotle, and the Stoic and the Neoplatonist philosophers, who used – and in some cases criticised – doctrinal elements from Mystery Cults, adapting them to their own thinking. Thus, the volume provides a new approach to some of the most renowned Greek philosophers, highlighting the influence that Mystery Cults, such as Orphism, Dionysianism, or the Eleusinian rites, had on the formation of fundamental aspects of their thinking. Given its interdisciplinary character, this book will appeal to a broad academic readership interested in the origin of Hellenic thinking and culture. It will be especially useful for those eager for a deeper approach to two fundamental domains that attract the attention of many Antiquity scholars: Greek philosophy and religion.

Maria José Martín-Velasco is Professor of Greek at the Instituto Arzobispo Gelmírez, Santiago de Compostela, specialising in political philosophy in Greece and especially in Aristotle's Rhetoric and oratory in general. She has worked as an Associate Professor at the University of Santiago de Compostela, teaching Master's courses in Philosophy, Classical Philology and Teacher Training. She is a member of the Iberian Society of Greek Philosophy, under the auspices of which she organized the working sessions on Greek Philosophy and Mystery Cults in 2013, and the International Conference: Poetic Language and Religion in Greece and Rome in 2012. Her recent publications include "What is Convenient in Homer" (2015), "The Concept of Nomos and the Definition of Characters in Alcestis" (2013) and La concepción aristotélica de la historia (2012).María José García Blanco is Professor of Greek Philology at the University of Santiago de Compostela, and specialist in Greek linguistics and dialectology. Her publications include Gramática de las inscripciones eleas (1981). She is the Principal Coordinator of the collective volume Antidoron: Homenaje a Juan José Moralejo (2011) and is responsible for the latest edition of the Codex Calixtinus (2015). She is currently preparing the translation of the final books of Eusebio de Cesarea's Preparación Evangélica, and is involved with the development of the online Greek-Spanish dictionary and with the Royal Galician Academy's project to catalogue all proper nouns of Greek origin which are standardised in Galician.

Erscheinungsdatum	20.05.2016
Verlagsort	Newcastle upon Tyne
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 212 mm
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Altertum / Antike
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Weitere Religionen
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-13	9781443888301 / 9781443888301
Zustand	Neuware