Apollo and the Shadow of Greekness
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216208%3A11210%2F22%3A10452072" target="_blank" >RIV/00216208:11210/22:10452072 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=hqzGQOVovP" target="_blank" >https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=hqzGQOVovP</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
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Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Apollo and the Shadow of Greekness
Original language description
The paper tries to shed light on the "symbolic core" of the god Apollo, in the sense of a dynamic complex of structural themes loosely guiding the logic of local and historical developments of the god's myths and cults. Starting from three 20th-century accounts of Apollo by Otto, Detienne, and Versnel, I will try to show that it is precisely by taking them into account all together that the symbolic structural core of Apollo may be grasped in an interesting manner which takes into account both his brighter and his darker aspects. I further relate this pattern to a general theory which sees polytheistic gods as the symbolic focal points that embody the basic norms of a given sociocultural system, but at the same time transgress these categories themselves, expressing the various tensions any ordering of reality is bound to generate and offering a cultural mechanism that allows to turn these tensions into a source of power with which the norms may be supported in turn.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60304 - Religious studies
Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/EF16_019%2F0000734" target="_blank" >EF16_019/0000734: Creativity and Adaptability as Conditions of the Success of Europe in an Interrelated World</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)<br>I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2022
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Eirene
ISSN
0046-1628
e-ISSN
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Volume of the periodical
58
Issue of the periodical within the volume
1-2
Country of publishing house
CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC
Number of pages
51
Pages from-to
173-223
UT code for WoS article
000988593200007
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85170080514