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Book SynopsisThis volume is an interdisciplinary investigation and contextualization of the various concepts of divine union in the private and public sphere of the Greek and Near Eastern worlds.
Table of ContentsContents List of Figures Abbreviations Introduction Eleni Pachoumi Part 1: Religion, Kingship and Politics 1 The Mesopotamian King between Gods and Men in the First Millennium BCE Philippe Clancier 2 The Intersection of Gods and Kings in Achaemenid Iran Christopher J. Tuplin 3 Confronting and Uniting with Divinity in Ancient Egypt Robert K. Ritner 4 Constantine: God-Man or Man of God? Mark J. Edwards Part 2: Religion, Sex and Mythology 5 Human-Divine Interactions in Homer, Hittite and Other Near Eastern Literary Traditions Elias K. Petropoulos 6 Θεῶν φίλτρα: Sexual Union between Gods and Mortals Robert Parker Part 3: Religion, Philosophy and Ritual 7 Genos Olbion, Genos Ouranion: Divine Ancestry in the Orphic Gold Tablets Miguel Herrero de Jáuregui 8 Union with the Divine in Greece and India: Mysteries and Monetisation Richard Seaford 9 Philosophy and the Daimonic in Plato Robert Vinkesteijn 10 Confusion (Ekplêxis) and Sympathy (Sympatheia): The Neoplatonist Proclus on the Aesthetics of Epiphany and Theurgic Union Robbert M. van den Berg 11 Proclus’ Theurgic Union, θεουργικὴ ἕνωσις, and the Concept of Fire Eleni Pachoumi 12 Determinism and Divine Intervention: Divine Punishment in Stoic Theology Maarten van Houte 13 Divine Unions in Byzantine Christianity: The Penetration of Fire into Iron as a Metaphor of Theosis Dmitry Biriukov Index
