Epiphanies and Dreams in Greek Polytheism: Textual Genres and 'Reality' from Homer to Heliodorus

by Michael Lipka

While modern students of Greek religion are alert to the occasion-boundedness of epiphanies and divinatory dreams in Greek polytheism, they are curiously indifferent to the generic parameters of the relevant textual representations on which they build their argument. Instead, generic questions are normally left to the literary critic, who in turn is less interested in religion. To evaluate the relation of epiphanies and divinatory dreams to Greek...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3110636360
• ISBN13: 9783110636369
• Release Date: December 2021
• Publisher: de Gruyter
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.51 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.2"