The Hera of Zeus : Intimate Enemy, Ultimate Spouse
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Hardback or Cased Book
Book Series
Classical Scholarship in Translation
ISBN-10
1108841031
ISBN-13
9781108841030
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Imprint
Cambridge University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jan 27th, 2022
Print length
404 Pages
Weight
722 grams
Dimensions
15.30 x 22.90 x 3.20 cms
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General & world historyAncient history: to c 500 CEReligion & beliefsOther non-Christian religionsAncient religions & mythologiesGeneral and world historyAncient historyReligion and beliefsFurther religions and spiritual beliefs,Indigenous peoples in the Americas: religions, belief systems, cultural worldviews and spiritual beliefs
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Rethinks the configuration of power and the workings of polytheism in ancient Greece through exploring the tensions inhabiting the figure of the goddess Hera, who was the intimate but hostile wife of Zeus and the queen on Olympus as well as in the cities inhabited by her worshippers.
The goddess Hera is represented in mythology as an irascible wife and imperfect mother in the face of a frivolous Zeus. Beginning with the Iliad, many narrative traditions depict her wrath, the infidelities of her royal husband and the persecutions to which she subjects his illegitimate offspring. But how to relate this image to the cults of the sovereign goddess in her sanctuaries across Greece? This book uses the Hera of Zeus to open up new perspectives for understanding the society of the gods, the fate of heroes and the lives of men. As the intimate enemy of Zeus but also the fierce guardian of the legitimacy and integrity of the Olympian family, she takes shape in more subtle and complex ways that make it possible to rethink the configuration of power in ancient Greece, with the tensions that inhabited it, and thus how polytheism works.
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