Hekate is best known to classicists and historians of religion as the horrific patroness of witches. But from the Hellenistic age onwards, some Greek and Roman philosophers and magicians portrayed her quite differently, allotting to her such duties as ensouling the cosmos and the individual men within it, forming the connective boundary between the divine and human worlds, and facilitating such communication between man and god as could lead eventually to the individual soul's release. She was celestial and potentially beneficent, rather than chthonic and threatening.
Hekate Soteira: A Study of Hekate's Roles in the Chaldean Oracles and Related Literature (Society for Classical Studies American Classical Studies)
Oxford University Press
$41.38 - $46.71
(No reviews yet)
Write a Review
Write a Review
Oxford University Press
Hekate Soteira: A Study of Hekate's Roles in the Chaldean Oracles and Related Literature (Society for Classical Studies American Classical Studies)
- UPC:
- 9781555404277
- Maximum Purchase:
- 2 units
- Binding:
- Paperback
- Publication Date:
- 5/1/1990
- Author:
- Johnston, Sarah Iles
- Language:
- English: Published; English: Original Language; English
- Edition:
- 1
- Pages:
- 200
A Study in Scarlet (Oxford World's Classics)
$14.48 - $18.63
Brown Chair Books
It's a Wonderful Life Study Guide: A Bible Study Based on the Christmas Classic It's a Wonderful Life
$11.17 - $20.34
University of Wisconsin Press
A History Of Education In Antiquity (Wisconsin Studies in Classics)
$23.43 - $44.64
Cambridge University Press
The Allegory of Love: A Study in Medieval Tradition (Canto Classics)
$25.27 - $33.27
