Trophonios De Lebadee: Cultes et Mythes d'Une Cite Beotienne au Miroir de la Mentalite Antique (Religions in the Graeco-Roman World): Cultes Et Mythes ... Au Miroir de la Mentalité Antique: 150 - Hardcover

Bonnechere, Pierre

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9004131027 ISBN 13: 9789004131026

Publisher: Brill, 2003

Synopsis

The oracle of Trophonios at Lebadeia (Boiotia), among the best documented in Greece, was active from the archaic period to the third century AD. At this oracle, divine revelation was given in the form of a 'visionary trance', experienced as a psychic journey or leap of the soul into the world of truth. From the beginning, the cult and legend of Trophonios (and of similar heroes) turned upon the boundary between 'the other world' and the here-and-now, and were intimately linked with psychagogy, divination (including iatromancy), and the mysteries. The analysis of each of the oracle's components in the light of ancient mentalities has broadened our understanding of both Trophonios and of Greek divination in general.

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Review:

'...P. Bonnechère offre une bonne réflexion sur les cultes oraculaires et, par comparaison, mystériques dans l'Antiquité.'
Véronique Mehl, Revue des Études Anciennes, 2004.

About the Author:

Pierre Bonnechere, Ph.D. (1992) in History, Universite Catholique de Louvain, is now Professor (Dept. of History and Centre for Classical Studies) at the Universite de Montreal. He has published on Greek animal and human sacrifice, on Boiotian oracles, and on Greek gardens and sacred groves.

About this edition

• Publisher: Brill
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 9004131027
• ISBN 13: 9789004131026
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 464