{"product_id":"conceptualising-divine-unions-in-the-greek-and-near-eastern-worlds-9789004502512","title":"Conceptualising Divine Unions in the Greek and Near Eastern Worlds","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContents  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","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53210834862423,"sku":"9789004502512","price":132.8,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/conceptualising-divine-unions-in-the-greek-and-near-eastern-worlds-9789004502512","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}