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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The Epiphany of Eleusus
The interplay between image or object in epiphony is really fascinating. There's a steely image of demeter and persephone appearing to, oh, i've forgotten his name, one of the sons of medanira at eleusus. And we know from the ancient world that objects or statues were used in epiphanic rituals. We also know that the statues of the deoscuro were used during war to inspire the troops. Those are called pars prototo epiphanes, which means basically a part of the whole.
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