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Uniform Title Noms de dieux. English
Title The names of the gods in ancient mediterranean religions / edited by Corinne Bonnet, Université de Toulouse ; translated by Ralph Häussler
Published Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2024

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Description 1 online resource (pages cm.)
Series Classical scholarship in translation
Contents May the Force be with you! Men and gods in battle in the Phoenician world / Maria Bianco -- This is not a name: the polyvalence of divine names in Mesopotamia / Marinella Ceravolo -- Golden locks among the Greeks, or the hair secrets of the beautiful Apollo / Adeline Grand-Clément
Summary "From Greece to Palmyra, Tyre to Babylon, the names of the gods reveal their fields of competence and action. Through the study of divine names, the twelve chapters of this book unfold a gallery of portraits that reveal the changing aspects of the divine throughout the ancient Mediterranean"--
Notes First published in 2020 as Noms de dieux : portraits de divinités antiques
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Description based on print version record
Subject Gods
Goddesses
God -- Name
Names, Personal -- Religious aspects
Mythology
Genre/Form Electronic books
Form Electronic book
Author Bonnet, Corinne, editor
Häussler, Ralph, 1968-, translator
LC no. 2023044534
ISBN 9781009394796
1009394797