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Conversations: Can You Smell the God In the Air?! Epiphanies in Antiquity w/ Gillian Glass

Let's Talk About Myths, Baby! | Greek Mythology & the Ancient Mediterranean

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What Comes First, the Story or the Cult?

Theepiphany is a rhetorical strategy that justifies all kinds of things. In the homeric amtidemeter, we have real hstorical political context. This justifying epiphenic story wherein demeter herself ordered the now mythic king and queen to found a cult. So what comes first, the story or the cult?

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