Divine Mania: Alteration of Consciousness in Ancient Greece
"Cover" -- "Title" -- "Copyright" -- "Contents" -- "Preface" -- "Acknowledgements" -- "Abbreviations" -- "Introduction" -- "Socrates on divine mania" -- "Mania: words and images" -- "Mania as men...
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2017
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| In: | Year: 2017 |
| Edition: | 1st ed |
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| Parallel Edition: | Print version: Ustinova, Yulia: Divine Mania : Alteration of Consciousness in Ancient Greece. - Milton : Taylor and Francis,c2017. - 9781138298118 |
| Summary: | "Cover" -- "Title" -- "Copyright" -- "Contents" -- "Preface" -- "Acknowledgements" -- "Abbreviations" -- "Introduction" -- "Socrates on divine mania" -- "Mania: words and images" -- "Mania as mental disorder: its definition and characteristics" -- "Madness in context: the importance of historicism" -- "Alterations of consciousness between unity and diversity: aspects of methodology and terminology" -- "The scope of this book and its sources" -- "1 Prophetic mania" -- "Inspired prophecy: definitions, ancient and modern" -- "Inspired divination in Greece" -- "Prophetic priests" -- "Laymen who received oracular messages in sanctuaries" -- "Unaffiliated seers" -- "Inspired prophets as instruments of the gods" -- "Inspired prophecy in Greece as compared to other cultures" -- "Prophecy in Mesopotamia in comparison with Greece" -- "Prophecy in ancient Israel in comparison with Greece" -- "Conclusions" -- "2 Telestic mania and near-death experiences" -- "Mystery initiations" -- "The nature of the initiateâs experience I: mania for maniaâs sake or for its treatment" -- "The Corybantic rites" -- "Bacchic and Sabaziac initiations" -- "The nature of the initiateâs experience II: paradosis and epopteia" -- "The core experience in the âgreat mysteries,â mania, and alteration of consciousness" -- "Techniques of âgetting readyâ for the core experience of mystery initiations and mania" -- "Mystery rites and near-death experiences" -- "Conclusions" -- "3 Bakcheia" -- "Dionysus and individual madmen in myths" -- "Dionysus and destructive collective mania in myth" -- "Bakchai and bakchoi in myth, poetry, and art" -- "Bakcheia and gender" -- "The historicity of the savage rites" -- "The dynamics of the thiasos" -- "Bakcheia from a comparative viewpoint" -- "Aspects of physiology and psychology of bakcheia" -- "Conclusions "4 Mania on the battlefi eld and on the march" -- "Combat fury: Lyssa" -- "Psychological injuries and combat stress: Phobos" -- "Panic" -- "Battlefield epiphanies" -- "Conclusions" -- "5 Nympholepsy" -- "Nympholepsy, panolepsy, and vatic abilities" -- "Nympholepts and their caves" -- "Conclusions" -- "6 Poetic mania" -- "The Muses, memory, and inspiration" -- "Music and alteration of consciousness" -- "The nature of poetic inspiration: Plato" -- "The nature of poetic inspiration: Aristotle" -- "Modern poets and musicians and their inspiration" -- "Enthusiastic audiences" -- "Conclusions" -- "7 Erotic mania" -- "Plato on the erotic mania" -- "Greeks on erôs as mania" -- "Blessings of the erotic mania?" -- "Conclusions" -- "8 The philosopherâs mania and his path to truth" -- "Socratesâ mania" -- "Platoâs mystical experiences" -- "Mania and Archaic sages: Epimenides, Aethalides, and Hermotimus" -- "Mania and Presocratic philosophers: Pythagoras, Parmenides, and Empedocles" -- "Shamans and mystics?" -- "Coda: Democritus the mad philosopher" -- "Conclusions" -- "Epilogue: perspectives on the divine mania |
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| ISBN: | 1351581260 |