10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «THEOMACHIES»
Discover the use of
theomachies in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
theomachies and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
The Iliad: Structure, Myth, and Meaning
Theomachies display a variety of moods. Often comic, at times allegorical, such
scenes appear at odds with the Iliad's tragic presentation of Akhilleus, Hektor,
and Andromakhe. Other episodes are serious, seething with threats and potent ...
2
The Plagues of Egypt: Archaeology, History, and Science Look ...
and explicitly (Pherekydes)—reveal that the Greek narratives speaking of battles
involving giants (gigantomachies), Titans (titanomachies), and gods (
theomachies), or combinations thereof, really reflected one real historical event.
In other ...
Siro Igino Trevisanato, 2005
3
A Commentary on Quintus Smyrnaeus Posthomerica XII
Malcolm Campbell (Ph. D.) equus toto sonuerunt aethere nimbi (A. 2.1 12-335),
which looks like a vestige of the celestial din and discord that are associated with
Theomachies (and Gigantomachies) and which can herald the summa dies36.
Malcolm Campbell (Ph. D.), 1981
4
Heroic Mockery: Variations on Epic Themes from Homer to Joyce
At this point Pope compares the battle to certain theomachies in the Iliad during
which the various Olympians intervene on behalf of their Achaian or Trojan
favorites: No common weapons in their Hands are found, Like Gods they fight,
nor ...
George de Forest Lord, 1977
687-95) Milton has caught the innate futility of Homeric theomachies and has
allowed God to interrupt what would otherwise have been a perpetual comic-strip
series of gigantic deeds of destruction interspersed with pratfalls. Yet in one ...
William Bridges Hunter, 1983
The theomachies help us see the unbridgeable gap between the mortal and the
divine. They show that it is ridiculous for gods to fight like mortals, yet they also
show that human warfare is a concern of the Olympians. The theomachies, by ...
Mark P. O. Morford, Robert J. Lenardon, 1999
7
The Midrashic Imagination: Jewish Exegesis, Thought, and History
1, with its schematic structure and implied critique of Near Eastern theomachies,
is telling proof of the non-mythological temper of ancient Israel. I am not
convinced. Priestly theologies of twentyfive lines or so may have their say; but it is
a long ...
8
Homer Or Moses?: Early Christian Interpretations of the ...
Origen then suggests that the myths of various theomachies were derived from
Moses. In particular, he claims that Pherecydes' reference to Ophioneus, the
mythical antagonist of Kronos, was “hinted at in the story of the serpent” (6pm) in
...
9
A Companion to Ancient Epic
Both of the Iliad's two sets of theomachies, Hera's rebellion against Zeus and
Athena's defeat of Ares, are of the comic present-time type. But the Iliad also
includes inset narratives that suggest the other, serious, kind of theomachy. In
these ...
10
Studies on the 5th [fifth] and 6th [sixth] Essays of ...
176.6ff., and in the recapitulation of his first tropos of interpreting theomachies, at
92.28ff. The whole passage at 87.29— 89. 9 is very reminiscent of Syrianus, in
the details as well as in the overall doctrine expressed. It is therefore reasonable
...
Anne D. R. Sheppard, 1980
