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Hermès passe : ou, Les ambiguïtés de la communication
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ISBN: 2707110531 9782707110534 Year: 1978 Publisher: Paris F. Maspero


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The Ears of Hermes : Communication, Images, and Identity in the Classical World
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ISBN: 0814270689 0814211704 0814256155 Year: 2011 Publisher: Columbus : Ohio State University Press,


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Tracking Hermes, pursuing Mercury
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ISBN: 9780198777342 0198777345 Year: 2019 Publisher: Oxford: Oxford University Press,

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"Of all the divinities of classical antiquity, the Greek Hermes (Mercury in his Roman alter ego) is the most versatile, enigmatic, complex, and ambiguous. The runt of the Olympian litter, he is the god of lies and tricks, yet is also kindly towards mankind and a bringer of luck. His functions embrace both the marking of boundaries and their transgression, but also extend to commerce, lucre, and theft, as well as rhetoric and practical jokes. In another guise, he plays the role of mediator between all realms of human and divine activity, embracing heaven, earth, and the netherworld. 0Pursuing this elusive divinity requires a truly multidisciplinary approach, reflecting his prismatic nature, and the twenty contributions to this volume draw on a wide range of fields to achieve this, from Greek and Roman literature (epic, lyric, and drama), epigraphy, cult, and religion, to vase painting and sculpture. In offering an overview of the myriad aspects of Hermes/Mercury-including his origins, patronage of the gymnasium, and relation to other trickster figures-the volume attempts to track the god's footprints across the many domains in which he partakes. Moreover, in keeping with his deep connection to exchange, commerce, and dialogue, it aims to exemplify and further encourage discourse between Latinists and Hellenists, as well as between scholars of literary and material cultures."--


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Configurations d'Hermès : une "théogonie hermaïque"
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ISBN: 9782960071702 2960071700 2821829051 Year: 2007 Volume: 17 Publisher: Liège : Centre International d'Étude de la Religion Grecque Antique,

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Hermès est le fils de Zeus et de l’Atlantide Maïa. En disant la naissance et les exploits du jeune dieu, l’Hymne homérique à Hermès dessine, sous l’angle compréhensif d’un récit théogonique et théologique, un combiné de puissances en actes : l’histoire du surgissement d’un dieu parmi les autres dieux. C’est ici le mode - énigmatique, parfois comique ou inquiétant - autant que les faits, qui racontent Hermès, non pas comme ce dieu « mineur » trop proche des hommes pour être pleinement divin, mais comme la puissance souveraine de l’espace intermédiaire des passages. Dans le jeu polythéiste, une telle puissance est susceptible d’agir en tout lieu où une liaison est nécessaire. Il est dans la « part » d’Hermès de concilier les pôles hétérogènes, le visible et l’invisible, le préalable et l’accompli, de naviguer entre les espaces relégués du cosmos, les âges anciens, et l’ordre de Zeus. Mais il importe de saisir également, au-delà de ses domaines d’action « institués », la présence du dieu parmi les puissances à l’œuvre en amont des grandes médiations qui scellent la relation des hommes aux dieux : le sacrifice, l’inspiration poétique ou prophétique, l’organisation de l’espace civique. Dans l’agôn où se négocient les prérogatives d’Hermès et de son puissant frère Apollon, au second est attribuée une maîtrise souveraine de la mantique, de la musique et des troupeaux, et à Hermès, solidairement et dans l’ordre du préalable, l’invention initiale de la lyre, le travail sous-jacent d’harmonisation qui conditionne la réalisation du chant poétique, de la mémoire prophétique et du rite.Cet ouvrage explore, non une figure abstraite, reconstituée, d’Hermès, mais une série de positions et de modes d’actions, un ensemble de configurations spécifiques qui, de l’Hymne à d’autres contextes mythiques ou rituels, énoncent Hermès au plus près de l’expérience, pour nous perdue, du polythéisme grec.


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The cults of the Greek states.
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ISBN: 0511710461 1108015476 Year: 2011 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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Lewis Richard Farnell's The Cults of the Greek States, first published between 1896 & 1909, disentangles classical Greek mythology & religion, since the latter had often been overlooked by 19th-century English scholars. Farnell describes the cults of the most significant Greek gods in order to establish their zones of influence, & outlines the personality, monuments, & ideal types associated with each deity. He also resolutely avoids the question of divine origins & focuses instead on the culture surrounding each cult, a position which initially drew some criticism, but which allowed him more space to analyse the religious practices themselves. Written to facilitate a comparative approach to Greek gods, his work is still regularly cited today for its impressive collection of data about the worship of the most popular deities.

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Cults --- History --- Hermes --- Dionysus --- Hestia --- Hephaestus --- Ares --- Greece --- Religion --- Alternative religious movements --- Cult --- Cultus --- Marginal religious movements --- New religions --- New religious movements --- NRMs (Religion) --- Religious movements, Alternative --- Religious movements, Marginal --- Religious movements, New --- Religions --- Sects --- Enyalius --- Αρης --- Арэс --- Арес --- Areso --- Airéas --- ארס --- Arész --- アレース --- Arēsu --- 아레스 --- Arėjas --- Arejs --- Aresi --- Ареј --- Arej --- 阿瑞斯 --- Aruisi --- Mars --- Hephaistos --- Hephäst --- Ήφαιστος --- Hefesto --- Hefest --- Гефест --- Хефест --- Khefest --- Hefaistos --- Héphaestos --- Héafaestas --- Hefæstos --- Efesto --- הפייסטוס --- Hēfaists --- Hefaistas --- Héphaisztosz --- ヘーパイストス --- Hēpaisutosu --- Efèst --- Gefest --- Hefajstos --- Hefesti --- Hefajst --- Vulcan --- Estia --- Gestija --- Heistia --- Hestija --- Hestiya --- Hesztia --- Ἑστία --- هيستيا --- Гестыя --- Гестия --- Гестія --- Хестия --- Хестија --- 헤스티아 --- הסטיה --- ヘスティアー --- 赫斯提亞 --- Vesta --- Bacchus --- Bakchos --- Dionís --- Dionisas --- Dioniso --- Dionīss --- Dionisu --- Dioniz --- Dionizi --- Dionizo --- Dionizos --- Dionüszosz --- Dionysos --- Dionýzos --- Diyonizosse --- Διόνυσος --- Дионис --- ديونيسوس --- 디오니소스 --- דיוניסוס --- ディオニューソス --- 狄俄倪索斯 --- Βάκχος --- Діоніс --- Argeiphontes --- Гермес --- Хермес --- Khermes --- Ερμής --- Ermēs --- Hermeso --- Heirméas --- 헤르메스 --- Herŭmesŭ --- הרמס --- Germes --- Herme --- Hermejs --- Hermis --- Hermész --- ヘルメース --- Hermesi --- 赫耳墨斯 --- He'ermosi --- Mercury --- al-Yūnān --- Ancient Greece --- Ellada --- Ellas --- Ellēnikē Dēmokratia --- Elliniki Dimokratia --- Grčija --- Grèce --- Grecia --- Gret︠s︡ii︠a︡ --- Griechenland --- Hellada --- Hellas --- Hellenic Republic --- Hellēnikē Dēmokratia --- Kingdom of Greece --- République hellénique --- Royaume de Grèce --- Vasileion tēs Hellados --- Xila --- Yaṿan --- Yūnān --- Ελληνική Δημοκρατία --- Ελλάς --- Ελλάδα --- Греция --- اليونان --- يونان --- 希腊

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