Greek mythology features a certain number of myths where objects of various natures and origins play an important role as means of torture in Hades. The significance of these objects is indicated by frequent references in ancient texts as well as their iconographic popularity. Sometimes the object of a hybrist’s underworld punishment becomes so legendary that it constitutes a recurrent leitmotiv in ancient authors’ and artists’ repertoire (Oknos’ rope, Ixion’s wheel). The possibility to adapt these myths to the dominant socio-political conditions of various eras (Classical, Hellenistic and Roman) and places (Greece, Italy) resulted in their wide diffusion. The present article aims to determine the origin of myths featuring objects as tortur...
Despite the amount of literature written on the subject of mystery cults and their relationship to d...
International audienceThis paper deals with the apparent lack of true mythology in Egyptian traditio...
In the ancient religious imagination, catastrophic events – plagues, droughts, natural disasters – w...
Greek mythology features a certain number of myths where objects of various natures and origins play...
Hades’objects : helmet of invisibility and seats of oblivion. Among the attributes usually devolved ...
Hades’objects : helmet of invisibility and seats of oblivion. Among the attributes usually devolved ...
Depictions of the underworld, in ancient Greek and Roman textual and visual sources, differ signific...
The main aim of this work is the presentation, characterisation and review of the image of the Greek...
Representations of Hades, the Underworld, and the afterlife in ancient Greek literature have traditi...
The main aim of this work is the presentation, characterisation and review of the image of the Greek...
The main aim of this work is the presentation, characterisation and review of the image of the Greek...
Depictions of the underworld, in ancient Greek and Roman textual and visual sources, differ signific...
La punition divine est un phénomène récurrent dans la mythologie grecque. L’hybris, commise par des ...
International audienceThis paper deals with the apparent lack of true mythology in Egyptian traditio...
This dissertation offers an archaeologically and art historically grounded inquiry into the actualit...
Despite the amount of literature written on the subject of mystery cults and their relationship to d...
International audienceThis paper deals with the apparent lack of true mythology in Egyptian traditio...
In the ancient religious imagination, catastrophic events – plagues, droughts, natural disasters – w...
Greek mythology features a certain number of myths where objects of various natures and origins play...
Hades’objects : helmet of invisibility and seats of oblivion. Among the attributes usually devolved ...
Hades’objects : helmet of invisibility and seats of oblivion. Among the attributes usually devolved ...
Depictions of the underworld, in ancient Greek and Roman textual and visual sources, differ signific...
The main aim of this work is the presentation, characterisation and review of the image of the Greek...
Representations of Hades, the Underworld, and the afterlife in ancient Greek literature have traditi...
The main aim of this work is the presentation, characterisation and review of the image of the Greek...
The main aim of this work is the presentation, characterisation and review of the image of the Greek...
Depictions of the underworld, in ancient Greek and Roman textual and visual sources, differ signific...
La punition divine est un phénomène récurrent dans la mythologie grecque. L’hybris, commise par des ...
International audienceThis paper deals with the apparent lack of true mythology in Egyptian traditio...
This dissertation offers an archaeologically and art historically grounded inquiry into the actualit...
Despite the amount of literature written on the subject of mystery cults and their relationship to d...
International audienceThis paper deals with the apparent lack of true mythology in Egyptian traditio...
In the ancient religious imagination, catastrophic events – plagues, droughts, natural disasters – w...