Caves and the Ancient Greek Mind - Descending Underground in the Search for Ultimate Truth

Zusatztext Yulia Ustinova weaves together neuropsychological, archaeological and literary evidence to scrutinize the unsetlling and altering gifts of caves as understood by what she refers to as the "Ancient Greek Mind". Informationen zum Autor Yulia Ustinova is Senior Lecturer, Department of General History, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel. Klappentext A study of the way in which poets, priests, and sages sought for wisdom in ancient Greece by descending into caves or underground chambers. Yulia Ustinova offers a novel approach by juxtaposing ancient testimonies with the results of modern neuropsychological research. Zusammenfassung A study of the way in which poets, priests, and sages sought for wisdom in ancient Greece by descending into caves or underground chambers. Yulia Ustinova offers a novel approach by juxtaposing ancient testimonies with the results of modern neuropsychological research.

Product details

• Authors: Yulia Ustinova, Yulia (Senior Lecturer Ustinova, Ustinova Yulia
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.04.2009
• EAN: 9780199548569
• ISBN: 978-0-19-954856-9
• No. of pages: 328
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Antiquity; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Miscellaneous; RELIGION / Spirituality, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology of Religion, Ancient Greece, Anthropology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Ancient & Classical, HISTORY / Ancient / Greece, RELIGION / Ancient, Spirituality & religious experience, Ancient History, Ancient history: to c 500 CE, Spirituality and religious experience, Ancient Greek and Roman philosophy, Western philosophy: Ancient, to c 500, Ancient religions & mythologies, Ancient religions and Mythologies