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Title Conceptualising divine unions in the Greek and near Eastern worlds / edited by Eleni Pachoumi
Published Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2022]

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 324 pages) : illustrations (some color)
Series Ancient philosophy & religion, 2542-3576 ; volume 7
Ancient philosophy & religion ; v. 7.
Summary "The present volume is an interdisciplinary investigation and contextualization of the various concepts of divine union in the private and public sphere of the Greek and Near Eastern worlds. The collection focuses on human-divine interactions, intersection between kings and the divine, sexual unions with the divine, heroization and divinization rituals, divine epiphanies, mystic unions and assimilations with the divine, philosophical approaches for establishing union with the divine and theurgic unions with the divine"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on January 25, 2022)
Subject Spirituality -- Greece
Spirituality -- Middle East
Spirituality -- Rome
Electronic books.
e-books.
Electronic books
Religion
Spirituality
SUBJECT Greece -- Religion. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85057127
Middle East -- Religion
Rome -- Religion. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh96009771
Subject Greece
Middle East
Rome (Empire)
Form Electronic book
Author Pachoumi, Eleni, 1975- editor.
LC no. 2021053366
ISBN 9004502521
9789004502529
Other Titles Conceptualizing divine unions in the Greek and near Eastern worlds