Divine Names in Classical Greece
Herodotos (ii, 52) gives us the following theory, which I quote in the charming translation of Mr. J. E. Powell:And formerly the Pelasgians in all their sacrifices prayed unto The Gods. … but they gave none of them any name or surname; for they had not yet heard thereof. … But when a long time after...
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| Language: | English |
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Cambridge Univ. Press
1958
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Harvard theological review
Year: 1958, Volume: 51, Issue: 1, Pages: 3-32 |
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| Summary: | Herodotos (ii, 52) gives us the following theory, which I quote in the charming translation of Mr. J. E. Powell:And formerly the Pelasgians in all their sacrifices prayed unto The Gods. … but they gave none of them any name or surname; for they had not yet heard thereof. … But when a long time afterwards they learned from Egypt the names of all the gods except Dionysus, whose name they learned much later, they consulted the oracle at Dodona concerning the names. … And when the Pelasgians consulted the oracle at Dodona, asking if they should receive the names which came from the barbarians, the oracle answered that they should use them. And so from that time forward, when they sacrificed, they used the names of the gods. And the Greeks received them afterwards from the Pelasgians. |
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| ISSN: | 1475-4517 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Harvard theological review
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/S0017816000021040 |