Epithets And The Distinctions Of The Pantheon Flashcards
Why is Pausanias, Description of Greece 4. 27. 6 improtant ?
Each sacrifice listed has a specific epithet
For example: ‘ Hera Argeia and Zeus Nemeios’
And the ‘Messenians to Zeus Ithomatos and the Dioskouroi’
Each epithet if is clearly distinct from the others and the groups are sacrificing to a general god they are sacrificing to a specific geographical epithet
Why is Callimachus Gragment 114 important ?
Shows the functionality of an epithet as demarcating function ‘ Zeus Minenoskopos’ meaning watcher of the heavens
How does Renshaw summaries epithets?
The many faces of the gods
A farmer might pray to Zeus Ombrios the rain giver
And Odysseus prays to Zeus Xenios protectors of travellers
Geographical epithet of Athena ‘Parthenos’ is attached to her Acropolis on a Athens
How does Lebreton make the notion between the two types of epithets ?
topobymic epithet built in place names in reference to the cult Dionysus Eleuthereus in Athens
And
Functional epithets in the field in which the dietary is expected to help
What arguement does Parker 2017 make about the importance of epithets ?
Without an epithet a name of a god was null and void and meant nothing
Artemis Genetaira or Artemis Eulochia
It stop them ‘slipping away like water through the hands’ without epithet the gods and meaningless and don’t provide benefit
- suggest they do not willingly help mortals and gods don’t lend themselves to mortals without an epithet to hold them down
Parker goes so far to say that sometimes they were improved and innovated
How does Burkert contrast to Parker ?
No matter the epithet designated the god is still the same god
What does Sourvinou inwood argue about epithets ?
That, in a sense, it was a different divinity you worship
Athena Polias is different to Athena Corinth
How does Thucydides show an awareness of the relation between epithet and a geographical location
Writes that Spartans prayed to local gods of plateia in hopes of support
- although they are not Spartan gods they still hope for support from them
