Martin P Nilsson
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 171514 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Martin P Nilsson |
| PRENOMES | Martin P |
| SOBRENOME | Nilsson |
| ASSINATURA | NILSSON M P |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 33 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 232 |
| OBRAS COMO AUTOR | 33 |
| OBRAS COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1926 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1995 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
Griechische Feste von religiöser Bedeutung mit Ausschluss der Attischen
The High God and the Mediator
God is the Creator of the Universe, the Ruler of the Universe and of the Fate of man. He enjoins his commandments upon man, which man must keep. He is the High God, elevated above man and not to be reached by man. In antiquity he had no cult and no sacrifices, nor were prayers directed to him. Man believes in this God and fears him. But man needs also a God who is his helper, who cares for him in his sorrows and his anxiety. Man believes in this …
Krater
The word κρατήρ, the great mixing vessel in which the wine was mixed with water and from which it was drawn, is not seldom used metaphorically in religious literature. To begin with, it may be useful to quote a few examples showing how the metaphor is used in secular literature. Pindar calls the messenger who brings his ode a sweet krater of loud-sounding songs and Aristophanes calls the sycophant a vessel of evils. Plutarch speaks of a krater , …
Die hellenistische Schule
Royal Mysteries in Egypt
A small scrap of papyrus from Antinoopolis has been edited and commented on by C. H. Roberts and treated in a very learned paper by A. Delatte. I print the text with a few remarks due to these scholars
Die Griechengötter und die Gerechtigkeit
Das Fehlen eines rechten Verhältnisses zwischen den Göttern und der Gerechtigkeit ist ein Hauptproblem in der Geschichte der griechischen Religion. Es trug in hohem Mass zu ihrer Auflösung bei. Die Griechen setzten sich mit wahrer Leidenschaft für die Gerechtigkeit ein, meistens in der Form der vergeltenden Gerechtigkeit, παθέῖν τὸν ἔρξαντα. Das kommt auch zum Ausdruck in dem zuerst von Solon ausgesprochenen und seitdem oft wiederholten Wunsch: “…
The Dionysiac mysteries of the Hellenistic and Roman age
The mysteries of Dionysos appealed to well-to-do people who loved a pleasant and luxurious life. The banquet of the blessed Dead appealed to the taste of a public that was fond of the pleasures of life and did not take religion too seriously. The mysteries of Dionysos appealed to people who from education and conservatism kept to the old culture and religion and yielded less easily to the lure of the more demanding foreign religions, but who stil…
Der pflugbau
Geschichte der griechischen Religion
Die Astrale Unsterblichkeit Und Die Kosmische Mystik
The Bacchic Mysteries of the Roman Age
Some years ago mysteries were a favorite subject of research in the religion of the Hellenistic and Roman age. Scholars were almost exclusively concerned with the mysteries originating in the Near East and Egypt and the mysteries of Dionysos were mentioned only in passing. This is understandable, for the literary sources are scarce and widely scattered, the monuments are, though numerous, dispersed and very often difficult to interpret. Father Fe…
Geschichte der griechischen Religion. Zweiter Band
Geschichte der griechischen Religion. Vol. 2
Cults, myths, oracles and politics in ancient Greece
This little book is an outcome of some leisure hours, spared from more exacting work. It does not pretend to offer anything new, but as the facts have never been collected and as some unwarranted opinions on the interrelation of Greek mythology and cults and the social and political life of the Greeks have been put forward, a comprehensive survey may be of some use. Oracles were also part of Greek religion and were extensively used for influencin…
Second Letter to Professor Nock on the Positive Gains in the Science of Greek Religion
You ask me to list the positive gains in the science of Greek and Roman religion during my lifetime. As I was born in 1874 this time covers three-quarters of a century, or if you count from my first publication on Greek religion in 1900, half a century
The Anguipede of the Magical Amulets
With his Studies in Magical Amulets Professor Campbell Bonner has rendered a great service not only to collectors and museums, but also to the history of religion in Late Antiquity. His sound criticism has removed over-hasty interpretations, especially those which have given the name of “gnostic gems” to those amulets of which he writes. He says somewhere that his criticism will lessen the religious interest in the gems. But there is a great trut…
A History of Greek Religion
The Sickle of Kronos
The sickle, as attribute of Kronos, was considered by certain scholars to be the sickle with which the corn is reaped, and this would be a reliable argument for the opinion that Kronos was from of old a god of the harvest. Recently W. Staudacher has advanced the opinion that the harpe , as the Greek word is, is a sickle-shaped sword of Oriental origin, and uses this as an argument for deriving the myth of the separation of Heaven and Earth from t…
Letter to Professor Arthur D. Nock on Some Fundamental Concepts in the Science of Religion
Prefatory Note. This letter has a lengthy history. More than thirty years ago I felt the necessity of a knowledge of and clearing up of the modes and lines of thought of unlettered people and wrote down a draft of a lecture upon which I have drawn here. Later on I applied my views to a special field, the concept, or to speak more justly the concepts of the soul, in a lecture delivered to the Fifth Congress for the History of Religions at Lund in …
Greek Mysteries in the Confession of St. Cyprian
Precisely a hundred years ago Preller called attention to a curious passage in the Confession of St. Cyprian describing certain Greek mysteries and printed the text adding a few brief notes. This Cyprian was a famous magician who was converted to Christianity, the prototype of Dr. Faust, and is often confused with his namesake, the bishop of Carthage. His legend became very popular, there are Greek, Latin, Syriac, Coptic, and Arabic versions, and…
Pagan Divine Service in Late Antiquity
Sometimes it is said that it would not have mattered much whether Christianity had won or not, the result would have been much the same, for the spiritual background of the time was the same. I leave this opinion to be judged on its own merits and turn to a side of religion in which the difference between Paganism and Christianity is thought to be thoroughgoing, the cult. That is to say, the cult of the gods, for the similarities between the cult…
Problems of the History of Greek Religion in the Hellenistic and Roman Age
Facing as I do the great and difficult task of writing the second part of my History of Greek Religion, I should like beforehand to state some of the main problems and to bring out some dominant ideas. The subject is so vast that I can offer but a subjective selection; yet let me remark that my standpoint is not that of syncretism as a whole but that of Greek religion, which seems to me to be a factor of syncretism at times neglected
A Note on the Epitaph of Terentius
In this Journal, Vol. XXXIV, 1941, page 79, Mr. Welles published with a scholarly commentary the interesting epitaph of the tribune Terentius from Dura. The place in which it was found, in a private house, presents difficulties to him. He supposes that the stone was set into the epistyle and smashed when falling down from it and takes great pains to prove that Terentius was not buried in the house. This is evident. I think the solution is very si…
Greek Popular Religion
Greek Popular Religion
Geschichte der griechischen Religion
The Dionysiac mysteries of the Hellenistic and Roman age
The mysteries of Dionysos appealed to well-to-do people who loved a pleasant and luxurious life. The banquet of the blessed Dead appealed to the taste of a public that was fond of the pleasures of life and did not take religion too seriously. The mysteries of Dionysos appealed to people who from education and conservatism kept to the old culture and religion and yielded less easily to the lure of the more demanding foreign religions, but who stil…
Cults, myths, oracles and politics in ancient Greece
This little book is an outcome of some leisure hours, spared from more exacting work. It does not pretend to offer anything new, but as the facts have never been collected and as some unwarranted opinions on the interrelation of Greek mythology and cults and the social and political life of the Greeks have been put forward, a comprehensive survey may be of some use. Oracles were also part of Greek religion and were extensively used for influencin…
The Minoan-Mycenaean religion and its survival in Greek religion
Griechische Feste von religiöser Bedeutung mit Ausschluss der Attischen
Pagan Divine Service in Late Antiquity
Sometimes it is said that it would not have mattered much whether Christianity had won or not, the result would have been much the same, for the spiritual background of the time was the same. I leave this opinion to be judged on its own merits and turn to a side of religion in which the difference between Paganism and Christianity is thought to be thoroughgoing, the cult. That is to say, the cult of the gods, for the similarities between the cult…
A History of Greek Religion
Greek Popular Religion
The Introduction of Hoplite Tactics at Rome
That the close connection between military organization and state-organization has received little attention in this country is less to be wondered at, because this country is an exception to the rule. Being protected by its insular situation, it has had no need of a large standing army within its boundaries. On the Continent the connection appears clearly. Feudal organization was bound up with the art of fighting by knights, and was upset as muc…
Krater
The word κρατήρ, the great mixing vessel in which the wine was mixed with water and from which it was drawn, is not seldom used metaphorically in religious literature. To begin with, it may be useful to quote a few examples showing how the metaphor is used in secular literature. Pindar calls the messenger who brings his ode a sweet krater of loud-sounding songs and Aristophanes calls the sycophant a vessel of evils. Plutarch speaks of a krater , …
Problems of the History of Greek Religion in the Hellenistic and Roman Age
Facing as I do the great and difficult task of writing the second part of my History of Greek Religion, I should like beforehand to state some of the main problems and to bring out some dominant ideas. The subject is so vast that I can offer but a subjective selection; yet let me remark that my standpoint is not that of syncretism as a whole but that of Greek religion, which seems to me to be a factor of syncretism at times neglected
Greek Popular Religion
A History of Greek Religion
The Minoan-Mycenaean religion and its survival in Greek religion
The Introduction of Hoplite Tactics at Rome
That the close connection between military organization and state-organization has received little attention in this country is less to be wondered at, because this country is an exception to the rule. Being protected by its insular situation, it has had no need of a large standing army within its boundaries. On the Continent the connection appears clearly. Feudal organization was bound up with the art of fighting by knights, and was upset as muc…
Early Orphism and Kindred Religious Movements
Orphism is more famous and more debated than any other phenomenon of Greek religion. A central place in the stream of religious ideas is assigned to it, and it is regarded as the source of conceptions of the greatest importance in later times. A vast Orphic literature has existed since early times. Orphism was the first Greek religion to have sacred books, and this is perhaps the ultimate, if unconscious, reason why the scientific treatment of Or…
The New Inscription of the Salaminioi
The Origin of Belief among the Greeks in the Divinity of the Heavenly Bodies
It is a fact which is not justly appreciated that the Sun and the Moon had almost no cult in the early and classical age of Greece except for the Sun at Rhodes, a cult which is reasonably suspected to be of foreign origin. Helios and Selene were, of course, considered to be gods, but in mythology. Those scholars who have eagerly tried to find evidence for their cult ought to remember the statements of Aristophanes and Plato that Helios and Selene…
Greek Popular Religion
Greek Popular Religion
Greek Popular Religion
Greek Popular Religion
A Note on the Epitaph of Terentius
In this Journal, Vol. XXXIV, 1941, page 79, Mr. Welles published with a scholarly commentary the interesting epitaph of the tribune Terentius from Dura. The place in which it was found, in a private house, presents difficulties to him. He supposes that the stone was set into the epistyle and smashed when falling down from it and takes great pains to prove that Terentius was not buried in the house. This is evident. I think the solution is very si…
Problems of the History of Greek Religion in the Hellenistic and Roman Age
Facing as I do the great and difficult task of writing the second part of my History of Greek Religion, I should like beforehand to state some of the main problems and to bring out some dominant ideas. The subject is so vast that I can offer but a subjective selection; yet let me remark that my standpoint is not that of syncretism as a whole but that of Greek religion, which seems to me to be a factor of syncretism at times neglected
Pagan Divine Service in Late Antiquity
Sometimes it is said that it would not have mattered much whether Christianity had won or not, the result would have been much the same, for the spiritual background of the time was the same. I leave this opinion to be judged on its own merits and turn to a side of religion in which the difference between Paganism and Christianity is thought to be thoroughgoing, the cult. That is to say, the cult of the gods, for the similarities between the cult…
Greek Mysteries in the Confession of St. Cyprian
Precisely a hundred years ago Preller called attention to a curious passage in the Confession of St. Cyprian describing certain Greek mysteries and printed the text adding a few brief notes. This Cyprian was a famous magician who was converted to Christianity, the prototype of Dr. Faust, and is often confused with his namesake, the bishop of Carthage. His legend became very popular, there are Greek, Latin, Syriac, Coptic, and Arabic versions, and…
Letter to Professor Arthur D. Nock on Some Fundamental Concepts in the Science of Religion
Prefatory Note. This letter has a lengthy history. More than thirty years ago I felt the necessity of a knowledge of and clearing up of the modes and lines of thought of unlettered people and wrote down a draft of a lecture upon which I have drawn here. Later on I applied my views to a special field, the concept, or to speak more justly the concepts of the soul, in a lecture delivered to the Fifth Congress for the History of Religions at Lund in …
Cults, myths, oracles and politics in ancient Greece
This little book is an outcome of some leisure hours, spared from more exacting work. It does not pretend to offer anything new, but as the facts have never been collected and as some unwarranted opinions on the interrelation of Greek mythology and cults and the social and political life of the Greeks have been put forward, a comprehensive survey may be of some use. Oracles were also part of Greek religion and were extensively used for influencin…
Second Letter to Professor Nock on the Positive Gains in the Science of Greek Religion
You ask me to list the positive gains in the science of Greek and Roman religion during my lifetime. As I was born in 1874 this time covers three-quarters of a century, or if you count from my first publication on Greek religion in 1900, half a century
The Anguipede of the Magical Amulets
With his Studies in Magical Amulets Professor Campbell Bonner has rendered a great service not only to collectors and museums, but also to the history of religion in Late Antiquity. His sound criticism has removed over-hasty interpretations, especially those which have given the name of “gnostic gems” to those amulets of which he writes. He says somewhere that his criticism will lessen the religious interest in the gems. But there is a great trut…
A History of Greek Religion
The Sickle of Kronos
The sickle, as attribute of Kronos, was considered by certain scholars to be the sickle with which the corn is reaped, and this would be a reliable argument for the opinion that Kronos was from of old a god of the harvest. Recently W. Staudacher has advanced the opinion that the harpe , as the Greek word is, is a sickle-shaped sword of Oriental origin, and uses this as an argument for deriving the myth of the separation of Heaven and Earth from t…
Geschichte der griechischen Religion. Vol. 2
The Bacchic Mysteries of the Roman Age
Some years ago mysteries were a favorite subject of research in the religion of the Hellenistic and Roman age. Scholars were almost exclusively concerned with the mysteries originating in the Near East and Egypt and the mysteries of Dionysos were mentioned only in passing. This is understandable, for the literary sources are scarce and widely scattered, the monuments are, though numerous, dispersed and very often difficult to interpret. Father Fe…
Geschichte der griechischen Religion. Zweiter Band
Die Astrale Unsterblichkeit Und Die Kosmische Mystik
Geschichte der griechischen Religion
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