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Conceptualising divine unions in the Greek and near Eastern worlds

Eleni Pachoumi (Editor)
"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

eBook, English, 2022
Brill, Leiden, 2022