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The Most Precious Possession The Ring Of Polycrates In Ancient Religious Narratives Eliezer Segal

Name: The Most Precious Possession The Ring Of Polycrates In Ancient Religious Narratives Eliezer Segal
SKU: BELL-40671764
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The Most Precious Possession The Ring Of Polycrates In Ancient Religious Narratives Eliezer Segal instant download after payment.

Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers

File Extension: PDF

File size: 1.78 MB

Pages: 191

Author: Eliezer Segal

ISBN: 9781433126147, 1433126141

Language: English

Year: 2014

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The Most Precious Possession The Ring Of Polycrates In Ancient Religious Narratives Eliezer Segal by Eliezer Segal 9781433126147, 1433126141 instant download after payment.

Finding a precious object – a gem, a ring or a coin – inside the belly of a fish is a favorite motif in western literatures that can be traced back to the Greek historian Herodotus. In Herodotus’ account of the rise and fall of the tyrant Polycrates of Samos, the hero cast his beloved ring, his «most precious possession», into the sea in order to appease or fend off the gods’ envy of his unstoppable successes, but was ultimately disappointed to discover that same ring inside a serving of fish that was placed before him to eat, thereby signaling the beginning of his tragic downfall. The Most Precious Possession: The Ring of Polycrates in Ancient Religious Narratives examines variations on this motif as they appear in ancient religious texts, including the Gospel of Matthew, Jewish Midrash and Talmud, and Augustine’s City of God. It explores how the theme functions in relation to the authors’ respective religious outlooks and literary objectives and what we can learn from these examples about the processes of transmission, interaction and cultural adaptation that occurred among the diverse religious communities of the ancient Mediterranean basin.