Jan Bremmer
Biographic Data
| ID | 225886 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jan Bremmer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jan |
| FAMILY NAME | Bremmer |
| SIGNATURE | BREMMER J |
| AFFILIATIONS | 2Rijksuniversiteit Utrecht, Vakgroep Letterkunde Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, Faculteit der Godgeleerdheid |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 35 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 99 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 34 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1977 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Early Greek Concept of the Soul
Scapegoat Rituals in Ancient Greece
Afterword: De- and neotraditionalisation
Afterword: de-and neotraditionalisationOur essays are sharply different in tenor, concepts, vocabulary, disciplines and modes of analysis.This hardly comes as a surprise.It is to be expected that such differences manifest themselves in this broad comparative effort.Each contribution examines historically and culturally divergent forms of Vergesellschaftung as the societal and symbolic context of the processes of de-or neo-traditionalisation analy…
La Religion grecque
La « religion grecque » n’a jamais existé en tant qu’entité monolithique. Chaque cité avait son propre panthéon, sa propre mythologie, son propre calendrier religieux et ses propres fêtes. Pourtant, ces différentes croyances se recouvraient suffisamment pour que l’on puisse parler de « religion grecque ». C’est de cette « religion » que Jan Bremmer dresse un tableau aux périodes archaïque et classique. Il choisit une approche « éclectique », sans…
The Gods Of Ancient Greece Identities And Transformations
The Greek gods are still very much present in modern consciousness. Although Apollo and Dionysos, Artemis and Aphrodite, Zeus and Hermes are household names, it is much less clear what these divinities meant and stood for in ancient Greece. In fact, they have been very much neglected in modern scholarship. This book brings together a team of international scholars with the aim of remedying this situation and generating new approaches to the natur…
Walter Burkert on Ancient Myth and Ritual: Some Personal Observations
The Gods of Ancient Greece: Identities and Transformations
The Greek gods are still very much present in modern consciousness. Although Apollo and Dionysos, Artemis and Aphrodite, Zeus and Hermes are household names, it is much less clear what these divinities meant and stood for in ancient Greece. In fact, they have been very much neglected in modern scholarship. This book brings together a team of international scholars with the aim of remedying this situation and generating new approaches to the natur…
Manteis, Magic, Mysteries and Mythography: Messy Margins of Polis Religion
Ces dernières décennies, il est devenu habituel de considérer que la polis de la période classique contrôlait la religion sous tous ces aspects. Ce n'est que récemment que ce point de vue a été mis en question. Même si les aspects plus marginaux de la religion de la polis ont déjà reçu l'attention nécessaire, leur étude reste marquée, dans une certaine mesure, par les préjugés des savants des générations antérieures, eux-mêmes nourris des préjugé…
Christian Hell: From the Apocalypse of Peter to the Apocalypse of Paul
Although the Apocalypse of Paul is just one of the hell-scapes that were produced by early Christianity, it is the most important step in the direction that would find its apogee in Dante. It is also a product of a specific place and time, undoubtedly produced for certain needs, even though these are no longer recoverable. In my contribution I first look at its place and date of origin, probably a monastic milieu in Egypt around AD 400. I then co…
Greek Religion and Culture, the Bible and the Ancient Near East
In the last decades there has been an increasing interest in the relationship between Greek religion & culture and the Ancient Near East. This challenging book contributes greatly to this interest by studying the Near Eastern background of important Greek myths, such as those of the creation of the world and the first woman, the Flood, the Golden Fleece, the Titans and travelling seers, but also of the births of Attis and Asclepius as well as the…
Iconoclast, Iconoclastic, and Iconoclasm: Notes Towards a Genealogy
This article aims to contribute to a better understanding of the genealogy of the terms 'iconoclast(ic)' and 'iconoclasm.' After some observations on the beginning of early Christian art that stress the necessity of abandoning a monolithic view of Jewish, Christian, and Islamic art regarding their iconic/aniconic aspects, it is noted that 'iconoclast' is mentioned first just before the start of the iconoclastic struggle and always remained rare i…
Ancient Religions
Don’t Look Back: From the Wife of Lot to Orpheus and Eurydice
Rationalization and Disenchantment in Ancient Greece: Max Weber among the Pythagoreans and Orphics?
Every attempt at periodization in history carries the danger of dividing the flow of time into a strict before and after. Naturally, we would all claim to be aware of this problem, but experience teaches that it is hard to escape such easy categorizations. In any case, a certain truth can hardly be denied to important distinctions such as that represented by the concept of the Renaissance or, even more clearly, that of the Enlightenment. The oppo…
Aëtius, Arius Didymus and the Transmission of Doxography
A Cultural History of Humour. From Antiquity to the Present Day
List of illustrations. Notes on contributors. Preface. Introduction: Humour and History: Jan Bremmer and Herman Roodenburg. 1. Jokes, Jokers and Jokebooks in Ancient Greek Culture: Jan Bremmer. 2. Cicero, Plautus and Roman Laughter: Fritz Graf. 3. Laughter in the Middle Ages: Jacques Le Goff. 4. Bakhtin and his Theory of Carnival: Aaron Gurevich. 5. Frontiers of the Comic in Early Modern Italy, c1350--1750: Peter Burke. 6. The Comic and the Count…
Why Did Medea Kill Her Brother Apsyrtus
Medea: Essays on Medea in Myth, Literature, Philosophy, and Art
A Cultural History of Gesture
Notiunculae Martyrologicae V
Tibullus’ Colonus and His ‘Ambarvalia’
La mémoire des religions. Philippe Borgeaud
From Sappho to De Sade: Moments in the History of Sexuality
Why was a homosexual relationship between two adults unacceptable in ancient Greece? Why did the prohibition of incest extend to the limits of kinship in the Middle Ages? Why was the nineteenth century terrified of masturbation? Why have the brothels with their madams virtually disappeared-in-western Europe? Psychiatrists like Freud and biologists like Kinsey would have been taken aback by these kinds of intriguing questions. Surely, people do 'i…
Notiunculae Martyrologicae Iv
Le martyre chretien continue a poser de nombreuses questions aux chercheurs; c'est pourquoi les auteurs s'interessent a quatre publications recentes qui permettent d'envisager la poursuite des etudes. S. Ronchey s'est attache a la chronologie du recit du martyre de Polycarpe (debut du III e siecle). Th. Baumesteir analyse la theologie du martyre dans le Martyrium Lugdunensium. F. Ruggiero propose une nouvelle edition des Acta Scillitanorum et un …
Interpretations of Greek Mythology
Interpretations of Greek Mythology
Medea: Essays on Medea in Myth, Literature, Philosophy, and Art
From Sappho to De Sade: Moments in the History of Sexuality
Why was a homosexual relationship between two adults unacceptable in ancient Greece? Why did the prohibition of incest extend to the limits of kinship in the Middle Ages? Why was the nineteenth century terrified of masturbation? Why have the brothels with their madams virtually disappeared-in-western Europe? Psychiatrists like Freud and biologists like Kinsey would have been taken aback by these kinds of intriguing questions. Surely, people do 'i…
A Cultural History of Humour. From Antiquity to the Present Day
List of illustrations. Notes on contributors. Preface. Introduction: Humour and History: Jan Bremmer and Herman Roodenburg. 1. Jokes, Jokers and Jokebooks in Ancient Greek Culture: Jan Bremmer. 2. Cicero, Plautus and Roman Laughter: Fritz Graf. 3. Laughter in the Middle Ages: Jacques Le Goff. 4. Bakhtin and his Theory of Carnival: Aaron Gurevich. 5. Frontiers of the Comic in Early Modern Italy, c1350--1750: Peter Burke. 6. The Comic and the Count…
The Early Greek Concept of the Soul
Jan Bremmer presents a provocative picture of the historical development of beliefs regarding the soul in ancient Greece. He argues that before Homer the Greeks distinguished between two types of soul, both identified with the individual: the free soul, which possessed no psychological attributes and was active only outside the body, as in dreams, swoons, and the afterlife; and the body soul, which endowed a person with life and consciousness. Gr…
Manteis, Magic, Mysteries and Mythography: Messy Margins of Polis Religion
Ces dernières décennies, il est devenu habituel de considérer que la polis de la période classique contrôlait la religion sous tous ces aspects. Ce n'est que récemment que ce point de vue a été mis en question. Même si les aspects plus marginaux de la religion de la polis ont déjà reçu l'attention nécessaire, leur étude reste marquée, dans une certaine mesure, par les préjugés des savants des générations antérieures, eux-mêmes nourris des préjugé…
Interpretations of Greek Mythology
This collection of original studies offers new interpretations of some of the best known characters and themes of Greek mythology, reflecting the complexity and fascination of the Greek imagination. Following analyses of the concept of myth and the influence of the Orient on Greek mythology, the succeeding chapters shed new light on the threatening appearance of wolf and werewolf and on such familiar figures as Oedipus, Orpheus and Narcissus. The…
Notiunculae Martyrologicae II
martyrdom in earlier times
Eς Kynoσapγeς
The Legend of Cybele’s Arrival in Rome
Two Notes On Callimachus' Hymn To Apollo
Gelon's Wife and the Carthaginian Ambassadors
MaΛXoΣ 'King' and Trimalchio
Notiunculae Martyrologicae
We continue our series of notes on some of the Acta Martyrum with observations on two Smyrnean martyria, viz. of Polycarp and Pionius.' Again we follow the order of Musurillo's edition.Martyrium Polycarpi 11-12.In these paragraphs the proconsul continues his interrogation of Polycarp.Having first appealed to the bishop's old age, he now proceeds to the use of more threatening language: "I have wild animals, and I shall expose you to them if you d…
Notiunculae Martyrologicae II
martyrdom in earlier times
The Early Greek Concept of the Soul
Jan Bremmer presents a provocative picture of the historical development of beliefs regarding the soul in ancient Greece. He argues that before Homer the Greeks distinguished between two types of soul, both identified with the individual: the free soul, which possessed no psychological attributes and was active only outside the body, as in dreams, swoons, and the afterlife; and the body soul, which endowed a person with life and consciousness. Gr…
Notiunculae Martyrologicae III
Interpretations of Greek Mythology
Interpretations of Greek Mythology
This collection of original studies offers new interpretations of some of the best known characters and themes of Greek mythology, reflecting the complexity and fascination of the Greek imagination. Following analyses of the concept of myth and the influence of the Orient on Greek mythology, the succeeding chapters shed new light on the threatening appearance of wolf and werewolf and on such familiar figures as Oedipus, Orpheus and Narcissus. The…
Notiunculae Martyrologicae Iv
Le martyre chretien continue a poser de nombreuses questions aux chercheurs; c'est pourquoi les auteurs s'interessent a quatre publications recentes qui permettent d'envisager la poursuite des etudes. S. Ronchey s'est attache a la chronologie du recit du martyre de Polycarpe (debut du III e siecle). Th. Baumesteir analyse la theologie du martyre dans le Martyrium Lugdunensium. F. Ruggiero propose une nouvelle edition des Acta Scillitanorum et un …
La mémoire des religions. Philippe Borgeaud
From Sappho to De Sade: Moments in the History of Sexuality
Why was a homosexual relationship between two adults unacceptable in ancient Greece? Why did the prohibition of incest extend to the limits of kinship in the Middle Ages? Why was the nineteenth century terrified of masturbation? Why have the brothels with their madams virtually disappeared-in-western Europe? Psychiatrists like Freud and biologists like Kinsey would have been taken aback by these kinds of intriguing questions. Surely, people do 'i…
Tibullus’ Colonus and His ‘Ambarvalia’
A Cultural History of Gesture
Notiunculae Martyrologicae V
Why Did Medea Kill Her Brother Apsyrtus
Medea: Essays on Medea in Myth, Literature, Philosophy, and Art
Aëtius, Arius Didymus and the Transmission of Doxography
A Cultural History of Humour. From Antiquity to the Present Day
List of illustrations. Notes on contributors. Preface. Introduction: Humour and History: Jan Bremmer and Herman Roodenburg. 1. Jokes, Jokers and Jokebooks in Ancient Greek Culture: Jan Bremmer. 2. Cicero, Plautus and Roman Laughter: Fritz Graf. 3. Laughter in the Middle Ages: Jacques Le Goff. 4. Bakhtin and his Theory of Carnival: Aaron Gurevich. 5. Frontiers of the Comic in Early Modern Italy, c1350--1750: Peter Burke. 6. The Comic and the Count…
Rationalization and Disenchantment in Ancient Greece: Max Weber among the Pythagoreans and Orphics?
Every attempt at periodization in history carries the danger of dividing the flow of time into a strict before and after. Naturally, we would all claim to be aware of this problem, but experience teaches that it is hard to escape such easy categorizations. In any case, a certain truth can hardly be denied to important distinctions such as that represented by the concept of the Renaissance or, even more clearly, that of the Enlightenment. The oppo…
Don’t Look Back: From the Wife of Lot to Orpheus and Eurydice
Ancient Religions
Greek Religion and Culture, the Bible and the Ancient Near East
In the last decades there has been an increasing interest in the relationship between Greek religion & culture and the Ancient Near East. This challenging book contributes greatly to this interest by studying the Near Eastern background of important Greek myths, such as those of the creation of the world and the first woman, the Flood, the Golden Fleece, the Titans and travelling seers, but also of the births of Attis and Asclepius as well as the…
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