I-Thou-Nymph: a relational approach to ancient Greek religious devotion

Cults of the nymphs were both popular and extremely widespread in the ancient Greek countryside and it was possible for individuals to build significantly close relationships with local nymphs. The term used to describe such people was ‘nympholept’ (‘one captured by the nymphs’) and we know some of...

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Main Author: Eidinow, Esther 1970- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Routledge 2023
In: Religion
Year: 2023, Volume: 53, Issue: 1, Pages: 24-42
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Greece (Antiquity) / Nymphs / Cult / Devotion / Meeting / History 600 BC-200 BC
RelBib Classification:AE Psychology of religion
AG Religious life; material religion
BE Greco-Roman religions
KBK Europe (East)
TB Antiquity
Further subjects:B nympholept
B Nymph
B Relationality
B ecological cognition
B Identity
B Martin Buber
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