Technologies of the Marvellous in Ancient Greek Religion

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Technologies of the Marvellous in Ancient Greek Religion

Bur, Tatiana

For the first time investigates the ways that technological, and especially mechanical, strategies were integrated into ancient Greek religion. Presents in full the evidence from the fifth century BCE to the second century CE, thereby revealing the shifting matrices of agency between technical objects, mechanical knowledge, gods, and mortals.

DOI
10.1017/9781009331722

Webshop link
http://doi.org/10.1017/9781009 ...

ISBN
9781009331722, 978100933168597810093

Publisher
Cambridge University Press

Publication date and place
2025

Series
Cambridge Classical Studies, CCS

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AWOL is a project of Charles E. Jones, Tombros Librarian for Classics and Humanities at the Pattee Library, Penn State University

AWOL began with a series of entries under the heading AWOL on the Ancient World Bloggers Group Blog. I moved it to its own space here beginning in 2009.

The primary focus of the project is notice and comment on open access material relating to the ancient world, but I will also include other kinds of networked information as it comes available.

The ancient world is conceived here as it is at the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World at New York University, my academic home at the time AWOL was launched. That is, from the Pillars of Hercules to the Pacific, from the beginnings of human habitation to the late antique / early Islamic period.

AWOL is the successor to Abzu, a guide to networked open access data relevant to the study and public presentation of the Ancient Near East and the Ancient Mediterranean world, founded at the Oriental Institute, University of Chicago in 1994. Together they represent the longest sustained effort to map the development of open digital scholarship in any discipline.

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