Andrej Petrović
Biographic Data
| ID | 5628943 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Andrej Petrović |
| GIVEN NAMES | Andrej |
| FAMILY NAME | Petrović |
| SIGNATURE | PETROVIC A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Virginia |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 21 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Hesiod’s Religious Norms in Context
We analyze the section from Hesiod’s Works and Days (724–760) that equips the farmer with the expertise necessary to facilitate the household’s harmonious relationship with the gods. We propose that this section with its tabular ordinances represents the earliest collection of Greek religious norms, and we contextualize it both within the structure of the W&D and within the wider framework of Greek religion. The section is carefully developed and…
Scapegoat rituals (Greece and Rome)
The article is concerned with the ritual scapegoating in the Graeco‐Roman world. After an introduction to the issues of terminology and definition, the article turns to the matter of classification of such rituals, then to their geographical and historical spread. Following this, the focus turns to the extant evidence for scapegoat rituals in Greek and Roman religions, lays out complexities associated with the nature of the evidence and reconstru…
The Materiality of Text – Placement, Perception, and Presence of Inscribed Texts in Classical Antiquity
Written by an international cast of experts, The Materiality of Text showcases a wide range of innovative methodologies from ancient history, literary studies, epigraphy, and art history and provides a multi-disciplinary perspective on the physicality of writing in antiquity. The contributions focus on epigraphic texts in order to gauge questions of their placement, presence, and perception: starting with an analysis of the forms of writing and i…
The materiality of text
Divine Bondage and Katabaseis in Hesiod’s Theogony
Inner Purity and Pollution in Greek Religion
This book takes a radically new look at the ancient Greek notions of purity and pollution. Its main concern is the inner state of individual worshippers as they approach the gods and interact with the divine realm in a ritual context. It is a book about Greek worshippers’ inner attitudes towards the gods and rituals, and about what kind of inner attitude the Greek gods were envisaged to expect from their worshippers. In the wider sense, it is a b…
Inner Purity and Pollution in Greek Religion
Aeschylus on Mental Pollution
Chapter 8 discusses issues of mental pollution in the Oresteia and the Suppliants. Aeschylus’ Oresteia trilogy depicts a chain of retributive kin-killings, resulting in pollution of the body and the mind of homicides. The chapter first discusses Agamemnon’s sacrifice of Iphigenia, focusing on Aeschylus’ characterization of Agamemnon’s mind as a polluted, sacrilegious, and unholy ritual agent (Ag. 219–21). Agamemnon’s fatal misinterpretation of di…
Casualty Lists in Performance. Name Catalogues and Greek Verse-Inscriptions
Archaic Funerary Epigram and Hector’s Imagined Epitymbia
‘Sacred Law’
Inscribed Epigrams in Orators and Epigrammatic Collections
The aim of this chapter is to investigate possible references to the earliest epigrammatic collections, 1 and, taking into account their structural principles, 2 to throw more light on their early reception. 3To do this, I will address three related issues: first, I will discuss the problems relating to inscribed epigrams quoted by classical orators in order to determine whether one can plausibly suggest that it is among them we find the first us…
An Epigram and a Treasury
Κίμων ἔγραψε τὴν θύραν τὴν δεξιάν, τὴν δ’ ἐξιόντων δεξιὰν Διονύσιος. Cimon painted the door to the right, and the right door as one goes out, Dionysius. ( Anth. Pal. 9.758) Denys Page correctly classified this epigram, which comes from a series of Simonidea in the ninth book of the Palatine Anthology , as a signature epigram. The Cimon mentioned in the first line of the epigram is regularly identified as Cimon of Cleonae, a late sixth-century B.C…
Laws, sacred (Greece)
The term “sacred law” was derived from the Greek term hieros nomos by nineteenth‐century students of Greek religion, whereupon it was applied to a much broader group of texts and regulations.
Miscellanea
Epigrammatic contests, poeti vaganti and local history
This paper addresses the role of wandering poets as local historians. There will be two principal limitations to my enquiry: first, the enquiry will be restricted to the period up to the end of the Hellenistic epoch, and secondly, I will examine only the activity of wandering poets as authors of poems written for public monuments. The first section discusses the fact that composing public epigrams, i.e. epigrams set up in public spaces by groups,…
Wandering Poets in Ancient Greek Culture
Although recent scholarship has focused on the city-state as the context for the production of Greek poetry, for poets and performers travel was more the norm than the exception. This book traces this central aspect of ancient culture from its roots in the near Eastern societies which preceded the Greeks, through the way in which early semi-mythical figures such as Orpheus were imagined, the poets who travelled to the brilliant courts of archaic …
Inscribed Epigram in Pre-Hellenistic Literary Sources
Ritual and Communication in the Graeco-Roman World
The analysis of the dynamic nature of rituals has become a heuristic tool for the investigation not only of religious behaviour and beliefs, but also for the study of social practice and communication in ancient and modern societies. From public assembly gatherings and funerals to celebration of cult feasts or the honouring of individuals, rituals mark socially important occasions, define beginnings and endings, and aid social transitions. Thus, …
«Kunstvolle Stimme der Steine sprich!»
Epigramm und KontextV on allen antiken literarischen Gattungen ist die griechische Epigrammdichtung der archai
Under Full Sail
The author argues that the motif of ships cruising in full sail on Trimalchio's tomb, as opposed to the more common images of ships in a sepulchral context of the 1st c. A.D. Italy (typically ships devoid of sails in Berufsdarstellungen) picks on Trimalchio's proclaimed dismissal of philosophical education. Contrary to the eschatological concepts spread among his contemporaries, which were influenced by the Epicurean teaching, Trimalchio does bel…
«Kunstvolle Stimme der Steine sprich!»
Epigramm und KontextV on allen antiken literarischen Gattungen ist die griechische Epigrammdichtung der archai
Under Full Sail
The author argues that the motif of ships cruising in full sail on Trimalchio's tomb, as opposed to the more common images of ships in a sepulchral context of the 1st c. A.D. Italy (typically ships devoid of sails in Berufsdarstellungen) picks on Trimalchio's proclaimed dismissal of philosophical education. Contrary to the eschatological concepts spread among his contemporaries, which were influenced by the Epicurean teaching, Trimalchio does bel…
Ritual and Communication in the Graeco-Roman World
The analysis of the dynamic nature of rituals has become a heuristic tool for the investigation not only of religious behaviour and beliefs, but also for the study of social practice and communication in ancient and modern societies. From public assembly gatherings and funerals to celebration of cult feasts or the honouring of individuals, rituals mark socially important occasions, define beginnings and endings, and aid social transitions. Thus, …
Inscribed Epigram in Pre-Hellenistic Literary Sources
Epigrammatic contests, poeti vaganti and local history
This paper addresses the role of wandering poets as local historians. There will be two principal limitations to my enquiry: first, the enquiry will be restricted to the period up to the end of the Hellenistic epoch, and secondly, I will examine only the activity of wandering poets as authors of poems written for public monuments. The first section discusses the fact that composing public epigrams, i.e. epigrams set up in public spaces by groups,…
Wandering Poets in Ancient Greek Culture
Although recent scholarship has focused on the city-state as the context for the production of Greek poetry, for poets and performers travel was more the norm than the exception. This book traces this central aspect of ancient culture from its roots in the near Eastern societies which preceded the Greeks, through the way in which early semi-mythical figures such as Orpheus were imagined, the poets who travelled to the brilliant courts of archaic …
Miscellanea
Laws, sacred (Greece)
The term “sacred law” was derived from the Greek term hieros nomos by nineteenth‐century students of Greek religion, whereupon it was applied to a much broader group of texts and regulations.
Inscribed Epigrams in Orators and Epigrammatic Collections
The aim of this chapter is to investigate possible references to the earliest epigrammatic collections, 1 and, taking into account their structural principles, 2 to throw more light on their early reception. 3To do this, I will address three related issues: first, I will discuss the problems relating to inscribed epigrams quoted by classical orators in order to determine whether one can plausibly suggest that it is among them we find the first us…
An Epigram and a Treasury
Κίμων ἔγραψε τὴν θύραν τὴν δεξιάν, τὴν δ’ ἐξιόντων δεξιὰν Διονύσιος. Cimon painted the door to the right, and the right door as one goes out, Dionysius. ( Anth. Pal. 9.758) Denys Page correctly classified this epigram, which comes from a series of Simonidea in the ninth book of the Palatine Anthology , as a signature epigram. The Cimon mentioned in the first line of the epigram is regularly identified as Cimon of Cleonae, a late sixth-century B.C…
‘Sacred Law’
Inner Purity and Pollution in Greek Religion
This book takes a radically new look at the ancient Greek notions of purity and pollution. Its main concern is the inner state of individual worshippers as they approach the gods and interact with the divine realm in a ritual context. It is a book about Greek worshippers’ inner attitudes towards the gods and rituals, and about what kind of inner attitude the Greek gods were envisaged to expect from their worshippers. In the wider sense, it is a b…
Inner Purity and Pollution in Greek Religion
Aeschylus on Mental Pollution
Chapter 8 discusses issues of mental pollution in the Oresteia and the Suppliants. Aeschylus’ Oresteia trilogy depicts a chain of retributive kin-killings, resulting in pollution of the body and the mind of homicides. The chapter first discusses Agamemnon’s sacrifice of Iphigenia, focusing on Aeschylus’ characterization of Agamemnon’s mind as a polluted, sacrilegious, and unholy ritual agent (Ag. 219–21). Agamemnon’s fatal misinterpretation of di…
Casualty Lists in Performance. Name Catalogues and Greek Verse-Inscriptions
Archaic Funerary Epigram and Hector’s Imagined Epitymbia
Divine Bondage and Katabaseis in Hesiod’s Theogony
The Materiality of Text – Placement, Perception, and Presence of Inscribed Texts in Classical Antiquity
Written by an international cast of experts, The Materiality of Text showcases a wide range of innovative methodologies from ancient history, literary studies, epigraphy, and art history and provides a multi-disciplinary perspective on the physicality of writing in antiquity. The contributions focus on epigraphic texts in order to gauge questions of their placement, presence, and perception: starting with an analysis of the forms of writing and i…
The materiality of text
Scapegoat rituals (Greece and Rome)
The article is concerned with the ritual scapegoating in the Graeco‐Roman world. After an introduction to the issues of terminology and definition, the article turns to the matter of classification of such rituals, then to their geographical and historical spread. Following this, the focus turns to the extant evidence for scapegoat rituals in Greek and Roman religions, lays out complexities associated with the nature of the evidence and reconstru…
Hesiod’s Religious Norms in Context
We analyze the section from Hesiod’s Works and Days (724–760) that equips the farmer with the expertise necessary to facilitate the household’s harmonious relationship with the gods. We propose that this section with its tabular ordinances represents the earliest collection of Greek religious norms, and we contextualize it both within the structure of the W&D and within the wider framework of Greek religion. The section is carefully developed and…
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